Published in Science on January 17, 2003
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Yet more "weeds" in the garden: fungal novelties from nests of leaf-cutting ants. PLoS One (2013) 0.85
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The fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis harbors bacillaene-producing Bacillus sp. that inhibit potentially antagonistic fungi. Sci Rep (2013) 0.82
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Community interactions govern host-switching with implications for host-parasite coevolutionary history. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 0.79
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Preliminary in vitro insights into the use of natural fungal pathogens of leaf-cutting ants as biocontrol agents. Curr Microbiol (2011) 0.79
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The Paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes. Science (2012) 4.93
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An overview of the systematics of the Sordariomycetes based on a four-gene phylogeny. Mycologia (2007) 1.68
Active use of the metapleural glands by ants in controlling fungal infection. Proc Biol Sci (2006) 1.63
Multigene phylogeny reveals new lineage for Stachybotrys chartarum, the indoor air fungus. Mycol Res (2004) 1.61
Identifying the transition between single and multiple mating of queens in fungus-growing ants. Proc Biol Sci (2002) 1.57
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Phylogenomic evidence for a common ancestor of mitochondria and the SAR11 clade. Sci Rep (2011) 1.45
The oldest fossil evidence of animal parasitism by fungi supports a Cretaceous diversification of fungal-arthropod symbioses. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2008) 1.43
A phylogenomic analysis of the Ascomycota. Fungal Genet Biol (2006) 1.42
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Cordyceps bassiana and Production of Stromata in vitro Showing Beauveria Anamorph in Korea. Mycobiology (2006) 1.37
Toward a phylogenetic classification of the leotiomycetes based on rDNA data. Mycologia (2007) 1.33
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Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria. Proc Biol Sci (2010) 1.20
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One fungus, one name: defining the genus Fusarium in a scientifically robust way that preserves longstanding use. Phytopathology (2013) 1.19
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Highly conserved caspase and Bcl-2 homologues from the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida: lower metazoans as models for the study of apoptosis evolution. J Mol Evol (2006) 1.08
Fine-scale genetic pattern and evidence for sex-biased dispersal in the túngara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus. Mol Ecol (2003) 1.07
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Cyatta abscondita: taxonomy, evolution, and natural history of a new fungus-farming ant genus from Brazil. PLoS One (2013) 1.02
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Host jumping onto close relatives and across kingdoms by Tyrannicordyceps (Clavicipitaceae) gen. nov. and Ustilaginoidea_(Clavicipitaceae). Am J Bot (2012) 1.00
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Cryptic sexual populations account for genetic diversity and ecological success in a widely distributed, asexual fungus-growing ant. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 0.96