PHYLOGENY OF THE ATTINE ANT FUNGI BASED ON ANALYSIS OF SMALL-SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL-RNA GENE-SEQUENCES

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作者
HINKLE, G
WETTERER, JK
SCHULTZ, TR
SOGIN, ML
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[1] MARINE BIOL LAB, WOODS HOLE, MA 02543 USA
[2] HARVARD UNIV, MUSEUM COMPARAT ZOOL, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138 USA
[3] CORNELL UNIV, DEPT ENTOMOL, ITHACA, NY 14853 USA
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10.1126/science.7992052
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Complete 16S-like ribosomal RNA coding regions were obtained from the fungal symbiont of five genera of attine (leaf-cutting) ants and two free-living fungi. Phylogenetic analyses with distance matrix, maximum likelihood, and parsimony methods revealed that the attine fungal symbionts are homobasidiomycetes in the order Agaricales. Comparison of the topology of the attine fungal symbiont phylogenetic tree with a tree based on attine ant morphology revealed a congruent branching pattern of the more derived attine ants and their fungal symbionts. The parallel branching pattern suggests a long-term coevolution of derived leaf-cutting attine ants and their fungal symbionts.
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