@article{fdi:010088588,
  title = {{F}ungi as mutualistic partners in ant-plant interactions},
  author = {{M}ayer, {V}. {E}. and {V}oglmayr, {H}. and {B}latrix, {R}. and {O}rivel, {J}. and {L}eroy, {C}{\'e}line},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{A}ssociations between fungi and ants living in mutualistic relationship with plants ("plant-ants") have been known for a long time. {H}owever, only in recent years has the mutualistic nature, frequency, and geographical extent of associations between tropical arboreal ants with fungi of the ascomycete order {C}haetothyriales and {C}apnodiales (belonging to the so-called "{B}lack {F}ungi") become clear. {T}wo groups of arboreal ants displaying different nesting strategies are associated with ascomycete fungi: carton-building ants that construct nest walls and galleries on stems, branches or below leaves which are overgrown by fungal hyphae, and plant-ants that make their nests inside living plants (myrmecophytes) in plant provided cavities (domatia) where ants cultivate fungi in small delimited "patches". {I}n this review we summarize the current knowledge about these unsuspected plant-ant-fungus interactions. {T}he data suggest, that at least some of these ant-associated fungi seem to have coevolved with ants over a long period of time and have developed specific adaptations to this lifestyle.},
  keywords = {ants ; {C}haetothyriales ; {C}apnodiales ; specificity ; transmission ; evolutionary history ; function ; {ZONE} {TROPICALE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{F}rontiers in {F}ungal {B}iology},
  volume = {4},
  numero = {},
  pages = {1213997 [14 ]},
  year = {2023},
  DOI = {10.3389/ffunb.2023.1213997},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010088588},
}