Unraveling the evolutionary dynamics of high symbiont diversity in the fungus-farming ant genus Apterostigma: A phylogenomic approach

揭示真菌养殖蚂蚁属Apterostigma高共生生物多样性的进化动力学:一种系统发育学方法

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    1456964
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 75.53万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    美国
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助国家:
    美国
  • 起止时间:
    2015-04-01 至 2017-04-30
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

The best known fungus-farming ants are the leaf-cutting ants of the genera Atta and Acromyrmex, which are the dominant plant harvesting animals of the New World tropics. These ants use plant leaf cuttings in order to cultivate a single, recently evolved fungal species, which they then eat. However, a more poorly known group of fungus-farming ants in the genus Apterostigma, cultivate a greater diversity of fungal species than all other fungus-farming ants combined. Closely related species of Apterostigma cultivate closely related groups of fungi, but major shifts to distantly related fungal groups have occurred multiple times during 40 million years of co-evolution between Apterostigma ants and fungus. This research aims to better understand the co-evolution of leaf-cutting ants and the fungi they cultivate. This includes developing new knowledge about the numbers, diversity and distribution of Apterostigma ant species and their associated fungi, as well as determining the evolutionary relationships among both ants and fungi. Questions to be addressed include: Why do leaf-cutting ants in the genus Apterostigma cultivate a greater diversity of fungal species than all other fungus-farming ants (leaf-cutting and non-leaf-cutting) combined? Why do some Apterostigma ant species cultivate only a few fungi that are closely related to each other, while others cultivate diverse fungi that are only distant relatives? The results from this research may benefit society in general because fungus-farming ants provide a rare non-human model system for the emerging fields of Darwinian agriculture and Darwinian medicine, which aim to improve human agriculture and disease management through the study of analogous natural systems. Recently several antibiotics and antimalarial quinones have been isolated and described from fungi and bacterial species living in association with leaf-cutting ants, making their biology particularly relevant to issues of health. Further, some fungi associated with leaf-cutting ants have become models for more efficient biofuel production.This research will proceed by comprehensive field collecting of ants and fungi from nests throughout their distributions in nature, and documenting the presence or absence of co-speciation patterns in Apterostigma ants and their fungal cultivars, by comparing phylogenetic analyses based on genomic data for both ants and fungi. The researchers will employ targeted enrichment of Ultra-Conserved genetic Elements (UCEs) to infer the species-level phylogenies. These phylogenies will be used in testing hypotheses of co-evolution and fungal species fidelity and mobility among host ant species over time. The genomic UCE data will also be used to resolve species boundaries (identify species) among poorly known species-complexes of Apterostigma ants. This is essential for reconstructing species-specific ant-fungus co-evolutionary interactions as well as for revising ant taxonomy and producing pictorial identification keys to various ant species.
最著名的真菌养殖蚂蚁是Atta属和Acromyrmex属的叶片切割蚂蚁,它们是新世界热带地区的主要植物收获动物。这些蚂蚁使用植物叶片,以种植一种最近进化的真菌物种,然后食用。 然而,与所有其他结合的真菌养殖蚂蚁相比,在焦点属属中,一群更鲜为人知的真菌养殖蚂蚁培养了更大的真菌物种。紧密相关的斑点物种培养了与真菌的密切相关的群体,但是在4000万年的焦旋蚂蚁和真菌之间的共同进化中,已经多次向遥远相关的真菌组发生了重大转变。这项研究旨在更好地了解切叶蚂蚁及其种植的真菌的共同进化。这包括发展有关焦点蚂蚁物种及其相关真菌的数量,多样性和分布的新知识,以及确定蚂蚁和真菌之间的进化关系。待解决的问题包括:为什么与所有其他真菌养殖蚂蚁(叶片切割和非叶片切割)组合在一起,为什么将叶片叶片割叶培养出更大的真菌种类?为什么某些胃静态蚂蚁物种仅培养几种彼此紧密相关的真菌,而另一些则培养了只有遥远亲属的多种真菌?这项研究的结果通常会使社会受益,因为真菌农场蚂蚁为达尔文农业和达尔文医学的新兴领域提供了罕见的非人类模型系统,该系统旨在通过研究类似的自然系统来改善人类农业和疾病管理。最近,已经分离出几种抗生素和抗菌奎因酮,并从与叶叶蚂蚁相关的真菌和细菌物种中分离出来,使其生物学与健康问题特别相关。此外,一些与切叶蚂蚁相关的真菌已成为更有效的生物燃料生产的模型。这项研究将通过在自然界的整个分布中全面地收集蚂蚁和真菌的全面现场收集蚂蚁和真菌,并记录或不存在apterostigma蚂蚁及其真菌群体中的共同分析模式,以对基于基于基因组的养育数据进行比较。 研究人员将采用超保存的遗传元件(UCE)的靶向富集来推断物种水平的系统发育。这些系统发育将用于测试随着时间的推移,宿主蚂蚁物种之间共同进化和真菌物种保真度和活动性的假设。基因组UCE数据还将用于解析垂体蚂蚁的众所周知的物种复合物之间的物种边界(识别物种)。这对于重建特定物种的蚂蚁 - 脉冲共同进化相互作用以及修改蚂蚁分类法和生成各种蚂蚁物种的绘画识别键。

项目成果

期刊论文数量(15)
专著数量(0)
科研奖励数量(0)
会议论文数量(0)
专利数量(0)
The dacetine ant Strumigenys arizonica, an apparent obligate commensal of the fungus-growing ant Trachymyrmex arizonensis in southwestern North America
  • DOI:
    10.1007/s00040-018-0625-8
  • 发表时间:
    2018-08-01
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    1.3
  • 作者:
    Gray, K. W.;Cover, S. P.;Rabeling, C.
  • 通讯作者:
    Rabeling, C.
Nuevos registros de hormigas Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) para Colombia
哥伦比亚 Nuevos registros de hormigas Myrmicinae(膜翅目,蚁科)
  • DOI:
    10.25100/socolen.v44i2.7115
  • 发表时间:
    2018
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    0
  • 作者:
    Guerrero, Roberto Jose;Fernández, Fernando;Escárraga, Mayron E.;Pérez-Pedraza, Lina;Serna, Francisco;Mackay, William P.;Sandoval, Vivian;Vergara, Valentina;Suárez, Diana;García, Emira I.
  • 通讯作者:
    García, Emira I.
Natural history and nest architecture of the fungus-farming ant genus Sericomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
真菌养殖蚂蚁属 Sericomyrmex(膜翅目:蚁科)的自然历史和巢穴结构
  • DOI:
  • 发表时间:
    2018
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    4.1
  • 作者:
    Jesovnik, Ana;Chaul, Julio;Schultz, Ted R.
  • 通讯作者:
    Schultz, Ted R.
Biology of the relict fungus-farming ant Apterostigma megacephala Lattke, including descriptions of the male, gyne, and larva
孑遗真菌养殖蚂蚁 Apterostigma megacephala Lattke 的生物学,包括雄性、雌性和幼虫的描述
  • DOI:
    10.1007/s00040-017-0550-2
  • 发表时间:
    2017
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    1.3
  • 作者:
    Sosa-Calvo, J.;Ješovnik, A.;Lopes, C. T.;Rodrigues, A.;Rabeling, C.;Bacci, M.;Vasconcelos, H. L.;Schultz, T. R.
  • 通讯作者:
    Schultz, T. R.
Biogeography of mutualistic fungi cultivated by leafcutter ants
切叶蚁培育的共生真菌的生物地理学
  • DOI:
    10.1111/mec.14431
  • 发表时间:
    2017
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    4.9
  • 作者:
    Mueller, Ulrich G.;Ishak, Heather D.;Bruschi, Sofia M.;Smith, Chad C.;Herman, Jacob J.;Solomon, Scott E.;Mikheyev, Alexander S.;Rabeling, Christian;Scott, Jarrod J.;Cooper, Michael
  • 通讯作者:
    Cooper, Michael
{{ item.title }}
{{ item.translation_title }}
  • DOI:
    {{ item.doi }}
  • 发表时间:
    {{ item.publish_year }}
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    {{ item.factor }}
  • 作者:
    {{ item.authors }}
  • 通讯作者:
    {{ item.author }}

数据更新时间:{{ journalArticles.updateTime }}

{{ item.title }}
  • 作者:
    {{ item.author }}

数据更新时间:{{ monograph.updateTime }}

{{ item.title }}
  • 作者:
    {{ item.author }}

数据更新时间:{{ sciAawards.updateTime }}

{{ item.title }}
  • 作者:
    {{ item.author }}

数据更新时间:{{ conferencePapers.updateTime }}

{{ item.title }}
  • 作者:
    {{ item.author }}

数据更新时间:{{ patent.updateTime }}

Christian Rabeling其他文献

Christian Rabeling的其他文献

{{ item.title }}
{{ item.translation_title }}
  • DOI:
    {{ item.doi }}
  • 发表时间:
    {{ item.publish_year }}
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    {{ item.factor }}
  • 作者:
    {{ item.authors }}
  • 通讯作者:
    {{ item.author }}

{{ truncateString('Christian Rabeling', 18)}}的其他基金

CAREER: Exploring the patterns and mechanisms of ant social parasite speciation and evolution: integrating teaching and research to foster biodiversity discovery in organismal evol
职业:探索蚂蚁社会寄生虫物种形成和进化的模式和机制:整合教学和研究以促进生物进化中的生物多样性发现
  • 批准号:
    1943626
  • 财政年份:
    2020
  • 资助金额:
    $ 75.53万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
Speciation patterns and evolutionary history of leaf-cutting ants and their obligate social parasites: an integrative phylogenomic approach
切叶蚁及其专性社会寄生虫的物种形成模式和进化史:综合系统发育学方法
  • 批准号:
    1654829
  • 财政年份:
    2017
  • 资助金额:
    $ 75.53万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Unraveling the evolutionary dynamics of high symbiont diversity in the fungus-farming ant genus Apterostigma: A phylogenomic approach
揭示真菌养殖蚂蚁属Apterostigma高共生生物多样性的进化动力学:一种系统发育学方法
  • 批准号:
    1740940
  • 财政年份:
    2017
  • 资助金额:
    $ 75.53万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant

相似国自然基金

具有环境波动的湖泊浮游生物生长与进化动力学模型研究
  • 批准号:
    12301632
  • 批准年份:
    2023
  • 资助金额:
    30 万元
  • 项目类别:
    青年科学基金项目
基于AlphaFold数据库的蛋白质进化与动力学研究
  • 批准号:
    12305052
  • 批准年份:
    2023
  • 资助金额:
    30.00 万元
  • 项目类别:
    青年科学基金项目
HIV多重感染的病毒持续性及毒株进化的动力学建模与分析
  • 批准号:
  • 批准年份:
    2022
  • 资助金额:
    30 万元
  • 项目类别:
    青年科学基金项目
HIV多重感染的病毒持续性及毒株进化的动力学建模与分析
  • 批准号:
    12201077
  • 批准年份:
    2022
  • 资助金额:
    30.00 万元
  • 项目类别:
    青年科学基金项目
新型冠状病毒的进化适应动力学机制研究
  • 批准号:
    12271308
  • 批准年份:
    2022
  • 资助金额:
    45.00 万元
  • 项目类别:
    面上项目

相似海外基金

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of seasonally mobile systems
季节性移动系统的生态进化动力学
  • 批准号:
    NE/Y000684/1
  • 财政年份:
    2024
  • 资助金额:
    $ 75.53万
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grant
Decoding the evolutionary dynamics of bacterial regulatory sRNAs
解码细菌调节 sRNA 的进化动力学
  • 批准号:
    2315798
  • 财政年份:
    2023
  • 资助金额:
    $ 75.53万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
BoCP-Implementation: Eco-evolutionary dynamics of rewilding: Real-time genetic monitoring of large-mammal community reassembly
BoCP-实施:野化的生态进化动力学:大型哺乳动物群落重组的实时基因监测
  • 批准号:
    2225088
  • 财政年份:
    2023
  • 资助金额:
    $ 75.53万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
The impact of immune escape on the epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic in Yucatan, Mexico
免疫逃逸对墨西哥尤卡坦半岛 COVID-19 大流行的流行病学和进化动态的影响
  • 批准号:
    10741899
  • 财政年份:
    2023
  • 资助金额:
    $ 75.53万
  • 项目类别:
LTREB: Sexual selection over time: evolutionary dynamics and outcomes of intense male competition and female mate choice in a lek mating system
LTREB:随着时间的推移,性选择:lek交配系统中激烈的雄性竞争和雌性择偶的进化动态和结果
  • 批准号:
    2243423
  • 财政年份:
    2023
  • 资助金额:
    $ 75.53万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
{{ showInfoDetail.title }}

作者:{{ showInfoDetail.author }}

知道了