A study investigates the evolution of beneficial bacteria that live inside and on the surface of farming ants. Attine ants ...

Research highlights how the meteor impact that ended the dinosaurs helped spawn the mutualistic relationship between ants and ...

Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help them survive and get ...

Some 66 million years ago, the catastrophic event that wiped out the dinosaurs sparked the beginning of a unique relationship ...

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 ...

You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the ...

早在一亿年前的白垩纪，蚂蚁就在地球上出现，彼时，广袤的地球大陆还被恐龙所统治。然而，经历白垩纪-第三纪灭绝事件后，包含恐龙在内的大部分物种都灭亡了，而蚂蚁的祖先们却坚强地存活了下来。 演化至今，种类繁多的蚂蚁已成为地球上进化最完美的 ...

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 ...