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| Title |
Monoculture of Leafcutter Ant Gardens
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, September 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0012668 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ulrich G. Mueller, Jarrod J. Scott, Heather D. Ishak, Michael Cooper, Andre Rodrigues |
| Abstract |
Leafcutter ants depend on the cultivation of symbiotic Attamyces fungi for food, which are thought to be grown by the ants in single-strain, clonal monoculture throughout the hundreds to thousands of gardens within a leafcutter nest. Monoculture eliminates cultivar-cultivar competition that would select for competitive fungal traits that are detrimental to the ants, whereas polyculture of several fungi could increase nutritional diversity and disease resistance of genetically variable gardens. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 139 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 5% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 125 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 17% |
| Researcher | 22 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 22 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 30 | 22% |
| Unknown | 16 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 94 | 68% |
| Environmental Science | 6 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 2% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 7 | 5% |
| Unknown | 20 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 September 2021.
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#1,960,059
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#25,173
of 193,828 outputs
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#7,366
of 95,106 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#146
of 877 outputs
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