| 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. |
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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% |
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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 | 124 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 17% |
| Researcher | 22 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 30 | 22% |
| Unknown | 16 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 93 | 67% |
| 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% |