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Complementary symbiont contributions to plant decomposition in a fungus-farming termite
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Significance: Old World (sub)tropical fungus-growing termites owe their massive ecological footprints to an advanced symbiosis with Termitomyces fungi. They also have abundant gut bacteria, but the complementarity roles of these symbionts have remained unclear. We analyzed the genomic potential for biomass decomposition in a farming termite, its fungal symbiont, and its bacterial gut communities. We found that plant biomass conversion is mostly a multistage complementary cooperation between Termitomyces and gut bacteria, with termite farmers primarily providing the gut compartments, foraging, and nest building. A mature queen had highly reduced gut microbial diversity for decomposition enzymes, suggesting she had an exclusively fungal diet even though she may have been the source of the gut microbes of the colony’s first workers and soldiers.
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- Authors
- Poulsen, M., Hu, H., Li, C., Chen, Z., Xu, L., Otani, S., Nygaard, S., Nobre, T., Klaubauf, S., Schindler, P. M., Hauser, F., Pan, H., Yang, Z., Sonnenberg, A. S. M., de Beer, Z. W., Zhang, Y., Wingfield, M. J., Grimmelikhuijzen, C. J. P., de Vries, R. P., Korb, J., Aanen, D. K., Wang, J., Boomsma, J. J., & Zhang, G.
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2014-09-22
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 40
- Pages
- 14500-14505
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W2060197260
- Cited by
- 282
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 10.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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