Farming of a defensive fungal mutualist by an attelabid weevil

doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.263

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	Farming of a defensive fungal mutualist by an attelabid weevil
	Stadler, Marc 2; Liu, Xingzhong 1; Che, Yongsheng 4; Wang, Lin 1; Feng, Yu 4; Tian, Jianqing 1; Xiang, Meichun 1; Sun, Jingzu 1; Ding, Jianqing 3; Yin, Wen-Bing 1
刊名	ISME JOURNAL
	2015-08-01
卷号	9 期号:8 页码:1793-1801
ISSN号	1751-7362
DOI	10.1038/ismej.2014.263
英文摘要	The mutualism between fungus-growing animals and fungi is a classic example of a complex interspecies association. A handful of insects, notably the well-recognized fungus-farming ants, termites and beetles, have developed advanced agriculture, which includes seeding new gardens with crop propagules, improving growth conditions and protecting and harvesting the fungal crop. More examples, which could be called 'proto-fungiculture', involve fewer adaptations, as exemplified by marine snails that farm intertidal fungi on marsh grass. Recent work has indicated that the solitary leaf-rolling weevil Euops chinensis (family Attelabidae) has a protofarming symbiosis with the mycangial fungus Penicillium herquei (family Trichocomaceae). In this study, we investigated how the weevils create cradles (leaf-rolls) for their offspring and protect the fungal garden. We describe new specialized structures and behaviors that E. chinensis females use for leaf-rolling and fungus inoculation. The fungus P. herquei produces the antibiotic (+)-scleroderolide in laboratory culture and in leaf-rolls, which can serve to inhibit microbial 'weeds' and pests, thus protecting the fungal garden against potential infection. The fungiculture of E. chinensis differs from other advanced insect fungiculture systems because female weevils do not continuously tend the inoculated microbe and do not depend nutritionally on the fungus. The defensive role of the cultivated fungus makes the attelabid weevils exceptional in 'proto-fungiculture' animals.
资助项目	National Natural Science foundation of China[31270070] ; National Program of Drug Research and Development[2012ZX09301-003]
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Microbiology
语种	英语
出版者	NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
WOS记录号	WOS:000358260100009
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://202.127.146.157/handle/2RYDP1HH/231]
专题	中国科学院武汉植物园
通讯作者	Che, Yongsheng
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Microbiol, State Key Lab Mycol, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Helmholtz Ctr Infect Res, Dept Microbial Drugs, Braunschweig, Germany 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Wuhan Bot Garden, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China 4.Beijing Inst Pharmacol & Toxicol, State Key Lab Toxicol & Med Counter Measures, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Stadler, Marc,Liu, Xingzhong,Che, Yongsheng,et al. Farming of a defensive fungal mutualist by an attelabid weevil[J]. ISME JOURNAL,2015,9(8):1793-1801.
APA	Stadler, Marc.,Liu, Xingzhong.,Che, Yongsheng.,Wang, Lin.,Feng, Yu.,...&Yin, Wen-Bing.(2015).Farming of a defensive fungal mutualist by an attelabid weevil.ISME JOURNAL,9(8),1793-1801.
MLA	Stadler, Marc,et al."Farming of a defensive fungal mutualist by an attelabid weevil".ISME JOURNAL 9.8(2015):1793-1801.