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Novel Phialophora species from leaf-cutting ants (tribe Attini) |
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| Authors: | D. Attili-Angelis A. P. M. Duarte F. C. Pagnocca N. S. Nagamoto M. de Vries J. B. Stielow G. S. de Hoog |
| Affiliation: | 1. Center for the Study of Social Insects, UNESP—S?o Paulo State University, S?o Paulo, SP, Brazil 2. Division of Microbial Resources, CPQBA, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil 3. Department of Plant Protection, UNESP—S?o Paulo State University, Botucatu, SP, Brazil 4. Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands 10. King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 5. Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China 7. Research Center for Medical Mycology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China 8. Shanghai Institute of Medical Mycology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China 9. Basic Pathology Department, Federal University of Paraná State, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil |
| Abstract: | Ants in the tribe Attini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) maintain a 50 million-year-old lifestyle of co-evolution with symbiotic basidiomycetous fungi which they cultivate as essential source of nutrition. However, other microorganisms have been reported from ant habitats indicating a higher diversity of consistently associated species than established to date. Recently, black yeast-like fungi have been reported as a possible symbiont, like a competitor of the actinomycete bacteria that grow in the integument of the insects. During the mating season, gynes of Atta capiguara and A. laevigata were collected from nests located in Botucatu, SP, Brazil and sampled using flotation technique. Phylogenetic analysis based on ITS, partial 28S (LSU) and β-tubulin sequences revealed the occurrence of two novel species of Phialophora among the melanized fungi isolated. |
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