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The Evolution of Agriculture in Ants
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Cultivation of fungi for food by fungus-growing ants (Attini: Formicidae) originated about 50 million years ago. The subsequent evolutionary history of this agricultural symbiosis was inferred from phylogenetic and population-genetic patterns of 553 cultivars isolated from gardens of “primitive” fungus-growing ants. These patterns indicate that fungus-growing ants succeeded at domesticating multiple cultivars, that the ants are capable of switching to novel cultivars, that single ant species farm a diversity of cultivars, and that cultivars are shared occasionally between distantly related ant species, probably by lateral transfer between ant colonies.
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- Authors
- Mueller, U. G., Rehner, S. A., & Schultz, T. R.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1998-09-25
- Volume
- 281
- Issue
- 5385
- Pages
- 2034-2038
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2131241741
- Cited by
- 423
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 6.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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