인문학
사회과학
자연과학
공학
의약학
농수해양학
예술체육학
복합학
DBpia AI
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AI 아이디어
AI 리더
AI 뷰어
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지원사업
학술연구/단체지원/교육 등 연구자 활동을 지속하도록 DBpia가 지원하고 있어요.
커뮤니티
연구자들이 자신의 연구와 전문성을 널리 알리고, 새로운 협력의 기회를 만들 수 있는 네트워킹 공간이에요.
초록·키워드
Many social insect species build nests, which differ from the surrounding environment and are often occupied by specific organismal communities. These organisms may interact mutualistically or parasitically with the nest-builders, or simply co-occur, being able to survive in these microenvironments. In temperate forests, red wood ants (e.g. <i>Formica polyctena</i>) are known to create distinct, highly developed nests, which consist of large, above-ground mounds, built primarily out of plant matter collected from the forest litter. The microorganismal communities of such mounds remain understudied. As representatives of <i>Mucoromycota</i> fungi commonly engage in the decomposition process of the forest litter, they would be expected to occur in the mounds. However, it is still not known whether the <i>Mucoromycota</i> community of these ants' nests differ from the one of the surrounding forest litter. In order to distinguish mound-associated taxa, we characterized <i>Mucoromycota</i> communities of <i>Formica polyctena</i> mounds and the surrounding forest litter. We sampled four sites, twice in a season. Sampled material was plated on agar media and emerging <i>Mucoromycota</i> colonies were identified based on their morphology. Fungal identification was further confirmed using DNA barcoding. In order to compare described communities, PERMANOVA test and non-metric multidimensional scaling ordinations were used. To distinguish taxa associated with the mounds, multilevel pattern analysis was performed. Our results show that the <i>Mucoromycota</i> community of <i>Formica polyctena'</i>s mound differs from the community of the surrounding forest litter. While representatives of <i>Entomortierella lignicola</i> and <i>Absidia cylindrospora</i> clade were found to be associated with the mound environment, representatives of <i>Umbelopsis curvata</i> and <i>Podila verticillata-humilis</i> clade were associated with forest litter, and were rarely present in the mounds. Our findings strongly suggest that the red wood ants' nest is a specific microenvironment in the temperate forest floor, which is a preferred microhabitat for the mound-associated <i>Mucoromycota</i>, possibly adapted to live in proximity to ants.
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