Genomic study reveals fungal domestication by leafcutter ants - Peer2Peer

Genomic study reveals fungal domestication by leafcutter ants

Oct 07, 2024

While our human ancestors began domesticating food crops around 10,000 years ago, a lineage of ants called the "attines" became fungus farmers 60 million years earlier. The attine ants and their fungal crop mutually depend on each other for survival.

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-genomic-reveals-fungal-domestication-leafcutter.html

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