Data and code to reproduce all analyses in the manuscript "Dramatic differences in gut bacterial densities correlate with diet and habitat in rainforest ants" Abundance is a key parameter in microbial ecology, and important to estimates of potential metabolite flux, impacts of dispersal, and sensitivity of samples to technical biases such as laboratory contamination. However, modern amplicon-based sequencing techniques by themselves typically provide no information about the absolute abundance of microbes. Here, we use fluorescence microscopy and quantitative PCR as independent estimates of microbial abundance to test the hypothesis that microbial symbionts have enabled ants to dominate tropical rainforest canopies by facilitating herbiv...
The stability of mutualistic interactions is likely to be affected by the genetic diversity of symbi...
Like all fungus-growing ants, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis engages in an obligate mutualism with a B...
Microbial life is ubiquitous, yet we are just beginning to understand how microbial communities are ...
Studies of ant biodiversity are important to understand their group better, as well as to extend our...
Ants have long been renowned for their intimate mutualisms with trophobionts and plants and more rec...
Ants have long been renowned for their intimate mutualisms with trophobionts and plants and more rec...
The attine ants are a monophyletic lineage that switched to fungus-farming ca. 55-60 MYA. They have ...
Neotropical army ants of the genus Eciton are top arthropod predators in tropical rainforests. Micro...
Correlation between gut microbiota and host phylogeny could reflect codiversification over shared ev...
Acacia-ant mutualists in the genus Pseudomyrmex nest obligately in acacia plants and, as we show thr...
The microbiome of built structures has considerable influence over an inhabitant's well-being, yet t...
The gut microbiome of the army ant species Eciton burchellii is relatively species-poor when compare...
Social animals, such as primates and some insects, have been shown to exchange symbiotic microbes am...
Gut bacteria aid their host in digestion and pathogen defense, and bacterial communities that differ...
Bacteria living on the cuticle of ants are generally studied for their protective role against patho...
The stability of mutualistic interactions is likely to be affected by the genetic diversity of symbi...
Like all fungus-growing ants, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis engages in an obligate mutualism with a B...
Microbial life is ubiquitous, yet we are just beginning to understand how microbial communities are ...
Studies of ant biodiversity are important to understand their group better, as well as to extend our...
Ants have long been renowned for their intimate mutualisms with trophobionts and plants and more rec...
Ants have long been renowned for their intimate mutualisms with trophobionts and plants and more rec...
The attine ants are a monophyletic lineage that switched to fungus-farming ca. 55-60 MYA. They have ...
Neotropical army ants of the genus Eciton are top arthropod predators in tropical rainforests. Micro...
Correlation between gut microbiota and host phylogeny could reflect codiversification over shared ev...
Acacia-ant mutualists in the genus Pseudomyrmex nest obligately in acacia plants and, as we show thr...
The microbiome of built structures has considerable influence over an inhabitant's well-being, yet t...
The gut microbiome of the army ant species Eciton burchellii is relatively species-poor when compare...
Social animals, such as primates and some insects, have been shown to exchange symbiotic microbes am...
Gut bacteria aid their host in digestion and pathogen defense, and bacterial communities that differ...
Bacteria living on the cuticle of ants are generally studied for their protective role against patho...
The stability of mutualistic interactions is likely to be affected by the genetic diversity of symbi...
Like all fungus-growing ants, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis engages in an obligate mutualism with a B...
Microbial life is ubiquitous, yet we are just beginning to understand how microbial communities are ...