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SUBMITTER: Hu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5840417 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hu Yi Y Sanders Jon G JG Łukasik Piotr P D'Amelio Catherine L CL Millar John S JS Vann David R DR Lan Yemin Y Newton Justin A JA Schotanus Mark M Kronauer Daniel J C DJC Pierce Naomi E NE Moreau Corrie S CS Wertz John T JT Engel Philipp P Russell Jacob A JA
Nature communications 20180306 1
Nitrogen acquisition is a major challenge for herbivorous animals, and the repeated origins of herbivory across the ants have raised expectations that nutritional symbionts have shaped their diversification. Direct evidence for N provisioning by internally housed symbionts is rare in animals; among the ants, it has been documented for just one lineage. In this study we dissect functional contributions by bacteria from a conserved, multi-partite gut symbiosis in herbivorous Cephalotes ants throug ...[more]