Attina & the Great Fungus Garden

ZOOL 567, Fall 2021

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A children's book that teaches readers about leafcutter ants and their fungus-cultivating behaviours. Join Attina, a student ant, as she goes through career day and observes all of the different roles of workers in the colony.

Abramowski, D., Currie, C.R., & Poulsen, M. (2010). Caste specialization in behavioral defenses against fungus garden parasites in Acromyrmex octospinosus leaf-cutting ants. Insectes Sociaux: International Journal for the Study of Social Arthropods, 58, 65-75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-010-0117-y.

Branstetter, M.G., Jesovnik, A., Sosa-Calvo, J., Lloyd, M.W., Faircloth, B.C., Brady, S.G., & Schultz, T.R. (2017). Dry habitats were crucibles of domestication in the evolution of agriculture in ants. The Royal Society of London Series B, 284, 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0095.

Calheiros, A.C., Ronque, M.U.V., & Oliveira, P.S. (2019). Social organization and subcaste specialization in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex subterraneus (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Journal of Insect Behaviour, 32, 267-280. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10905-019-09729-6.

Currie, C.R., Poulsen, M., Mendenhall, J., Boomsma, J.J., & Billen, J. (2006). Coevolved crypts and exocrine glands support mutualistic bacteria in fungus-growing ants. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 311(5757), 81-83. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1119744.

Currie, C.R., & Stuart, A.E. (2001). Weeding and grooming of pathogens in agriculture by ants. The Royal Society of London Series B, 268, 1033-1039. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2001.1605.

Gerstner, A.T., Poulsen, M., & Currie, C.R. (2010). Recruitment of minor workers for defense against a specialized parasite of Atta leaf-cutting ant fungus gardens. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 23(1), 61-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2010.529828.

Little, A.E.F., Murakami, T., Mueller, U.G., & Currie, C.R. (2006). Defending against parasites: fungus-growing ants combine specialized behaviours and microbial symbionts to protect their fungus gardens. Biology Letters, 2, 12-16. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2005.0371.

Muratore, I.B., & Traniello, J.F.A. (2020). Fungus-growing ants: Models for the integrative analysis of cognition and brain evolution. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience, 14, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.599234.

Richard, F., & Errard, C. (2009). Hygienic behavior, liquid-foraging, and trophallaxis in the leaf-cutting ants, Acromyrmex subterraneus and Acromyrmex octospinosus. Journal of Insect Science, 9(63), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1673/031.009.6301.

Weber, N.A. (1972). The fungus-culturing behavior of ants. American Zoologist, 12(3), 577-587. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/12.3.577.

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