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ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): 6520A Quadrupole Time-of-Flight LC/MS, LTQ Velos ETD, LTQ Orbitrap Velos
ORGANISM(S): Environmental Samples <bacteria> (ncbitaxon:48479)
SUBMITTER: Kristin E. Burnum-Johnson
PROVIDER: MSV000084520 | MassIVE | Wed Oct 30 22:05:00 GMT 2019
REPOSITORIES: MassIVE
mSystems 20210323 2
Lipids are essential to all living organisms, as an energy source, as an important cellular structural component, and as a communication tool. In this study, we used global lipidomic methods to evaluate the lipids in leaf-cutter ant fungal gardens. Leaf-cutter ants and their coevolved fungal cultivar, <i>Leucoagaricus gongylophorus</i>, are a model mutualistic system. The fungus enzymatically digests fresh plant material that the ants cut and deliver, converting energy and nutrients from plants ...[more]