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Science 17 January 2003: Vol. 299. no. 5605, pp. 386 - 388 DOI: 10.1126/science.1078155
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Ancient Tripartite Coevolution in the Attine Ant-Microbe Symbiosis
Cameron R. Currie,1234*
Bess Wong,3
Alison E. Stuart,1
Ted R. Schultz,5
Stephen A. Rehner,6
Ulrich G. Mueller,42
Gi-Ho Sung,7
Joseph W. Spatafora,7
Neil A. Straus3
The symbiosis between fungus-growing ants and the
fungi they cultivate for food has been shaped by 50 million years of
coevolution. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that this long
coevolutionary history includes a third symbiont lineage: specialized
microfungal parasites of the ants' fungus gardens. At ancient levels,
the phylogenies of the three symbionts are perfectly congruent,
revealing that the ant-microbe symbiosis is the product of tripartite
coevolution between the farming ants, their cultivars, and the garden
parasites. At recent phylogenetic levels, coevolution has been
punctuated by occasional host-switching by the parasite, thus
intensifying continuous coadaptation between symbionts in a tripartite
arms race.
1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
2 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado
2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama.
3 Department of
Botany, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada.
4 Integrative Biology, University of Texas at
Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
5 National Museum of
Natural History, MRC 188, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
20013-7012, USA.
6 Insect Biocontrol Laboratory,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service,
Building 011A, BARC-W, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA.
7 Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon
State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
*
To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
ccurrie{at}ku.edu
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