{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Kooij PW"],"funding":["Danmarks Grundforskningsfond","European Research Council"],"pagination":["10-17"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4705864"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["18"],"pubmed_abstract":["Obligate mutualistic symbioses rely on mechanisms that secure host-symbiont commitments to maximize host benefits and prevent symbiont cheating. Previous studies showed that somatic incompatibilities correlate with neutral-marker-based genetic distances between fungal symbionts of Panamanian <i>Acromyrmex</i> leaf-cutting ants, but the extent to which this relationship applies more generally remained unclear. Here we showed that genetic distances accurately predicted somatic incompatibility for <i>Acromyrmex echinatior</i> symbionts irrespective of whether neutral microsatellites or AFLP markers were used, but that such correlations were weaker or absent in sympatric <i>Atta colombica</i> colonies. Further analysis showed that the symbiont clades maintained by <i>A. echinatior</i> and <i>A"],"journal":["Fungal ecology"],"pubmed_title":["Somatic incompatibility and genetic structure of fungal crops in sympatric <i>Atta colombica</i> and <i>Acromyrmex echinatior</i> leaf-cutting ants."],"pmcid":["PMC4705864"],"funding_grant_id":["323085","DNRF57"],"pubmed_authors":["Schiott M","Kooij PW","Boomsma JJ","Poulsen M"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Somatic incompatibility and genetic structure of fungal crops in sympatric <i>Atta colombica</i> and <i>Acromyrmex echinatior</i> leaf-cutting ants.","description":"Obligate mutualistic symbioses rely on mechanisms that secure host-symbiont commitments to maximize host benefits and prevent symbiont cheating. Previous studies showed that somatic incompatibilities correlate with neutral-marker-based genetic distances between fungal symbionts of Panamanian <i>Acromyrmex</i> leaf-cutting ants, but the extent to which this relationship applies more generally remained unclear. Here we showed that genetic distances accurately predicted somatic incompatibility for <i>Acromyrmex echinatior</i> symbionts irrespective of whether neutral microsatellites or AFLP markers were used, but that such correlations were weaker or absent in sympatric <i>Atta colombica</i> colonies. Further analysis showed that the symbiont clades maintained by <i>A. echinatior</i> and <i>A","dates":{"release":"2015-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2015 Dec","modification":"2025-04-18T16:27:27.706Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:06:33Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4705864","cross_references":{"pubmed":["26865859"],"doi":["10.1016/j.funeco.2015.08.003"]}}