Symbiotic Association Between Ants and Fungus

IF 3 3区农林科学 Q1 ENTOMOLOGY

Annals of The Entomological Society of America Pub Date : 2022-10-15 DOI:10.1093/aesa/saac019

S. Riaz, F. Farooq, F. Manzoor

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Abstract

Abstract Ants are eusocial insects belong to family Formicidae and live in symbiotic association with different species of the fungus. Fungi serving them as food and others relationship between fungus and ants is fungi increase the durability of the nest ants living in carton nests in the trees. Our goal was to investigate through literature obvious interactions between ants and common fungi, protection of ants' colonies from pathogens and uses of fungal isolates in sustainable agriculture. Fungal bank in the ants colony is their source of food and colonies of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are attacked by numerous parasites, pathogens, and parasitoids that exploit entire colonies and their resources. Symbiotic fungi strains belonging to Penicillium found in ants nests are antibiotic producer. High frequency and high diversity of these colonies suggested that insects preferentially sustained this fungus for their survival. Fungal growing ants evolved a close mutualistic relationship with multiple species of Actinobacteria belonging to the genus Pseudonocardia for protection of colony from various diseases. Fungus-growing ants and Pseudonocardia symbionts are novel and significant source of antibiotic and antifungal agents and used as model system due to experimental tractability and well-studied ecology. Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae and Lecanicillium psalliotae are Entomopathogenic fungi found in mutualistic association with Attine ants used in a much smaller scale. Formulation of entomopathogenic fungi-based pesticides biosynthesis of fungal-based nanoparticles at industrial scale is useful in recent sustainable agriculture. Graphical Abstract

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蚂蚁与真菌的共生关系

摘要蚂蚁是蚁科的真群居昆虫，与不同种类的真菌共生。真菌作为它们的食物，真菌和蚂蚁之间的其他关系是真菌增加了蚁巢的耐久性，蚂蚁生活在树上的纸箱巢中。我们的目标是通过文献调查蚂蚁与常见真菌之间的明显相互作用，蚂蚁群落免受病原体的保护以及真菌分离物在可持续农业中的应用。蚁群中的真菌库是它们的食物来源，蚁群(膜翅目:蚁科)受到许多寄生虫、病原体和类寄生虫的攻击，这些寄生虫会利用整个蚁群及其资源。在蚁巢中发现的青霉菌属的共生真菌菌株是抗生素的生产者。这些菌落的高频率和高多样性表明昆虫优先维持这种真菌的生存。为了保护蚁群免受各种疾病的侵袭，真菌生长蚁与假心菌属的多种放线菌进化出了密切的共生关系。真菌蚂蚁和假心菌共生体是一种新型的、重要的抗生素和抗真菌药物来源，由于其实验的可移植性和生态学研究的深入，被用作模型系统。球孢白僵菌、金龟子绿僵菌和蜡质乳杆菌是与蚂蚁共生的昆虫病原真菌，在较小的范围内使用。以昆虫病原真菌为基础的农药配方，以工业规模生物合成真菌为基础的纳米颗粒，在现代可持续农业中具有重要意义。图形抽象

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Annals of The Entomological Society of America 生物-昆虫学

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4.90

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6-12 weeks

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