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SUBMITTER: Baranova AA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7763447 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baranova Anna A AA Chistov Alexey A AA Tyurin Anton P AP Prokhorenko Igor A IA Korshun Vladimir A VA Biryukov Mikhail V MV Alferova Vera A VA Zakalyukina Yuliya V YV
Microorganisms 20201209 12
Antibiotics produced by symbiotic microorganisms were previously shown to be of crucial importance for ecological communities, including ants. Previous works on ant-actinobacteria symbiosis are mainly focused on farming ants, which use antifungal microbial secondary metabolites to control pathogens in their fungal gardens. In this work, we studied microorganisms associated with carpenter ant <i>Camponotus vagus</i>. Pronounced antifungal activity of isolated actinobacteria strain A10 was found t ...[more]