Schultz has been studying fungus-farming ants ... have benefited both the ants and the fungi in what’s called mutualism. The ants get food, and the fungi get room and board, plus careful ...
But other ant species cooperate with fungi—in some cases strains of fungus that are also found growing in their environment. Genetic studies have shown that these symbiotic relationships are ...
Specialists in the mutualism between fungi and ants have ... After this founding event, fungus-farming ants, which had previously lived in humid forests, experienced a second selective pressure ...