The Evolution of Agriculture in Insects
By U. Mueller, N. Gerardo, D. Aanen, D. Six, T. Schultz. 2005
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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science
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- The Evolution of Multicellularity: A Minor Major Transition? (2007, background): “Attine ants farm a variety of basidiomycete fungi as asexual, multicellular hyphae in their nests (reviewed in Mueller 2002, Mueller et al. 2005).”
- Defensive microbial symbionts in Hymenoptera (2014, background): “The nature of the provisions in social insects ranges from dead arthropods (in many wasps and ants) to pollen and nectar (in most bees) and to actively tended fungal crops that are cultivated by leaf-cutting ants in specialized gardens equivalent to human agriculture (Mueller et al. 2005).”
- Patterns of parental care in invertebrates (2012, background): “Although several additional groups, including thrips and webspinners, are known to consume fungal mycelia and/or spores, true cultivation of fungi is thought to have evolved only among Macrotermininae termites, leaf-cutting ants, and ambrosia beetles (Mueller et al. 2005).”
- Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “…components (e.g. mycorrhizae, rhizobia and even parasitic plants influencing below-ground properties, as those described in Bardgett et al., 2006) and (ii) where a trophic level can be excluded by commensalism (microbial symbionts of leaf cutter ants, ter- mites; cf. Mueller et al., 2005).”
- Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture (2008, background): “The parasite, a fungus in the genus Escovopsis (Ascomycetes) known only from attine fungus gardens, infects those gardens as a ‘‘crop disease’’ and is controlled, at least in part, by an antibiotic produced by the Pseudonocardia bacterial symbiont (4, 10, 11).”
- Use of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in insect trophic ecology (2015, background): “Because the symbiotic relationship with fungi has widely been known in insects, such as fungusgrowing ants (Mueller et al. 2005), this approach would be applicable to them.”
- Evolution and diversity of bark and Ambrosia beetles (2015, background): “, 2002); and (4) the relatively small potential for indirect fitness benefits at the natal nest for beetles that live within their food compared to other social insects that need to forage for their food (Mueller et al., 2005; Biedermann, 2012).”
- Forage collection, substrate preparation, and diet composition in fungus‐growing ants (2010, background): “Behaviourally complex fungus agriculture has evolved independently nine times among the insects (Mueller et al., 2005): once in the fungus-growing termites (Macrotermitinae: Termitidae: Isoptera), which cultivate a single genus of basidiomycete Termitomyces fungi (Rouland-Lefevre, 2000; Aanen et al.”
- Current knowledge of interactions between Drosophila suzukii and microbes, and their potential utility for pest management (2016, background): “Insects disperse free-living microorganisms between external environmental habitats (Douglas 2015) and in special cases even ‘‘farm’’ mutualistic microbes on plant substrates such as leaves or fruit (Mueller et al. 2005; Stamps et al. 2012).”
- Ergosterol Content of Fungi Associated with Dendroctonus ponderosae and Dendroctonus rufipennis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) (2006, background): “These include ambrosia beetles (Scolytinae) that feed solely on fungi they garden in galleries in the sapwood of trees (Norris 1972, Kok 1979, Mueller et al. 2005 ).”