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M. Contreras-Serrano

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A domesticated fungal cultivar recycles its cytoplasmic contents as nutritional rewards for its leafcutter ant farmers

C. A. Leal-Dutra, L. M. Yuen, P. E. Marques, B. A. M. Guedes, M. Contreras-Serrano, J. Z. Shik

This study investigates how the fungal cultivar Leucoagaricus gongylophorus forms gongylidia, specialized cells that provide nutritional rewards to leafcutter ants, revealing autophagy as the mechanism for recycling cellular contents.

bioRxiv · Mar 3, 2022Microbiology