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Nature 398, 747-748 (29 April 1999) | doi:10.1038/19619
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Ants, plants and antibiotics
Ted R. Schultz1
The partnership between ants and their fungal gardens has a newly discovered third member — a bacterium, which grows on the ants' bodies and produces antibiotics to kill a parasite that infects their crops.Roughly 50 million years ago in South America, a lone species of ant abandoned its primitive hunter-gatherer ways and, in a unique event in ant evolution, adopted an agrarian lifestyle.
- Ted R. Schultz is in the Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 165, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.
e-mail: Email: schultz@onyx.si.edu
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