From plants to ants: Evaluating lipidomic changes in leaf-cutter ant fungus gardens

ABSTRACT: Leaf-cutter ants use fresh plant material to cultivate an obligate mutualistic fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus in specialized fungus gardens to access and transform nutrients from plant biomass that would otherwise be unavailable to the ants. Here, we evaluated the lipidomic differences between the leaves feeding the gardens, gongylidia produced by the fungus to feed the ants, and spatially-resolve regions of the fungus garden at initial to advanced stages of leaf degradation.

INSTRUMENT(S): 6520A Quadrupole Time-of-Flight LC/MS, LTQ Velos ETD, LTQ Orbitrap Velos

ORGANISM(S): Environmental Samples <bacteria> (ncbitaxon:48479)

SUBMITTER: Kristin E. Burnum-Johnson  

PROVIDER: MSV000084520 | MassIVE | Wed Oct 30 22:05:00 GMT 2019

REPOSITORIES: MassIVE