Santos, A V and Dillon, R J and Dillon, V M and Reynolds, S E and Samuels, R I (2004) Ocurrence of the antibiotic producing bacterium Burkholderia sp in colonies of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 239 (2). pp. 319-323. ISSN 0378-1097
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Fungus garden material from recently established Atta sexdens rubropilosa colonies (6-12 months old) was sampled to detect antibiotic producing microorganisms that inhibited the growth of pathogens of insects and of the fungus gardens but did not affect their mutualistic fungus. A bacterium with activity against the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana was isolated from 56% of the gardens tested (n = 57) and identified from its biochemical profile and from 16S and 23S ribosomal DNA sequences as a member of the genus Burkholderia. The ant-associated Burkholderia isolates secreted a potent, anti-fungal agent that inhibited germination of conidia of the entomopathogenic fungi B. bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae, of the saprophytic Verticillium lecanii, and also of a specialist fungus garden Escovopsis weberi. Growth of the ant's mutualist fungus was unaffected.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | FEMS Microbiology Letters |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | antibiotic ; pathogenic microorganism ; biological control ; Burkholderia ; entomopathogenic fungi ; leaf-cutting ant ; PSEUDOMONAS-CEPACIA ; BIOLOGICAL-CONTROL ; DNA FRAGMENTS ; RIBOSOMAL-RNA ; DIVERSITY ; RECOVERY ; IDENTIFICATION ; SYMBIOSIS ; COMPLEX ; MEDIA |
| Subjects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Departments: | Faculty of Health and Medicine > Biomedical & Life Sciences |
| ID Code: | 50574 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 28 Oct 2011 13:43 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 19:41 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/50574 |
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