| Title |
The fungal symbiont of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants expresses the full spectrum of genes to degrade cellulose and other plant cell wall polysaccharides
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| Published in |
BMC Genomics, December 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-14-928 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Morten N Grell, Tore Linde, Sanne Nygaard, Kåre L Nielsen, Jacobus J Boomsma, Lene Lange |
| Abstract |
The fungus gardens of leaf-cutting ants are natural biomass conversion systems that turn fresh plant forage into fungal biomass to feed the farming ants. However, the decomposition potential of the symbiont Leucocoprinus gongylophorus for processing polysaccharides has remained controversial. We therefore used quantifiable DeepSAGE technology to obtain mRNA expression patterns of genes coding for secreted enzymes from top, middle, and bottom sections of a laboratory fungus-garden of Acromyrmex echinatior leaf-cutting ants. |
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| United States | 7 | 41% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 18% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| Brazil | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Denmark | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 3 | 18% |
Demographic breakdown
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| Members of the public | 9 | 53% |
| Scientists | 6 | 35% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 6% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
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| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 79 | 95% |
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| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 19% |
| Researcher | 14 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 17% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 7 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 11 | 13% |
| Unknown | 16 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 43 | 52% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 13 | 16% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 5% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 1% |
| Chemical Engineering | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Unknown | 17 | 20% |
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