Jan 29, 2021 · A study on herbivorous turtle ants identifies the cuticular components which are nitrogen-enriched by gut bacteria, highlighting the role of symbionts in insect evolution.

Aug 9, 2023 · We address such questions, here, for a specialized nitrogen (N) recycling microbiome of turtle ants, describing a new genus and species of gut symbiont— Ischyrobacter davidsoniae...

Dec 15, 2009 · These commonly harbored bacteria from ant-specific clades within the Burkholderiales, Pseudomonadales, Rhizobiales, Verrucomicrobiales, and Xanthomonadales, and studies of lab-reared Cephalotes varians characterized these microbes as symbiotic residents of …

Here we examined the gut bacterial community of the common small European ant, Temnothorax nylanderi (Foerster, 1850), by high‐throughput 16S rRNA sequencing of the abdomens of individual ants.

Mar 26, 2021 · Gut compartments play an important role in structuring the microbial community within individual ants. The gut chambers of the turtle ant digestive tract differ remarkably in symbiont abundance and diversity. KEYWORDS: gut microbes, turtle ants, localization, host-microbe, symbionts.

Dec 10, 2018 · Workers of the evolutionarily derived Acromyrmex leaf‐cutting ants appear to have microbiomes in their guts and associated abdominal organs of comparable simplicity to those of fungus‐growing termite royal pairs, consistent with all colony members having a specialized fungal diet (Sapountzis et al., 2015 ).

Apr 4, 2021 · Recent studies have shown that huge numbers of bacteria called Mollicutes live in the leafcutter ants’ guts. These bacteria do not make the ants sick, so they were thought to be somehow beneficial.

Jan 18, 2023 · In the recent paper “Low diversity and host specificity in the gut microbiome community of Eciton army ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) in a Costa Rican rainforest” published in Myrmecological News, Mendoza-Guido and colleagues* investigate the gut microbes of six sympatric Eciton species in a single location in Costa Rica.

Apr 17, 2012 · These findings suggest an ecological role of gut symbionts in ants, for example, in metabolism and/or protection, and the comparative approach taken supports a model of co‐evolution between ant species and specific core symbiont microbiomes.

Dec 12, 2009 · Ant-Specific Bacteria Are Symbiotic Residents of Ant Guts. To assess the localization, prevalence, and persistence of ant-specific bacteria, we performed diagnostic PCR screening on DNA extracted from multiple host tissues …