Ainslie E. Little, Ph.D.
Affiliations: | 2007 | University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI |
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Ecology Biology, Microbiology Biology, Entomology BiologyGoogle:
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Sign in to add mentor| Cameron R. Currie | grad student | 2007 | UW Madison | |
| (Parasitism as a selective force shaping the ecology and evolution of an ancient ant-fungal-bacterial mutualism.) | ||||
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| Cafaro MJ, Poulsen M, Little AE, et al. (2011) Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 278: 1814-22 |
| Poulsen M, Cafaro MJ, Erhardt DP, et al. (2010) Variation in Pseudonocardia antibiotic defence helps govern parasite-induced morbidity in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 2: 534-540 |
| Little AE, Currie CR. (2009) Parasites may help stabilize cooperative relationships. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 9: 124 |
| Little AE, Currie CR. (2008) Black yeast symbionts compromise the efficiency of antibiotic defenses in fungus-growing ants. Ecology. 89: 1216-22 |
| Little AE, Currie CR. (2007) Symbiotic complexity: discovery of a fifth symbiont in the attine ant-microbe symbiosis. Biology Letters. 3: 501-4 |
| Taerum SJ, Cafaro MJ, Little AE, et al. (2007) Low host-pathogen specificity in the leaf-cutting ant-microbe symbiosis. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 274: 1971-8 |
| Little AE, Murakami T, Mueller UG, et al. (2006) Defending against parasites: fungus-growing ants combine specialized behaviours and microbial symbionts to protect their fungus gardens. Biology Letters. 2: 12-6 |
| Little AE, Murakami T, Mueller UG, et al. (2003) The infrabuccal pellet piles of fungus-growing ants. Die Naturwissenschaften. 90: 558-62 |