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2015 ; 28
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Evolutionarily advanced ant farmers rear polyploid fungal crops
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Kooij PW
; Aanen DK
; Schiøtt M
; Boomsma JJ
J Evol Biol
2015[Nov]; 28
(11
): 1911-24
PMID26265100
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Innovative evolutionary developments are often related to gene or genome
duplications. The crop fungi of attine fungus-growing ants are suspected to have
enhanced genetic variation reminiscent of polyploidy, but this has never been
quantified with cytological data and genetic markers. We estimated the number of
nuclei per fungal cell for 42 symbionts reared by 14 species of Panamanian
fungus-growing ants. This showed that domesticated symbionts of higher attine
ants are polykaryotic with 7-17 nuclei per cell, whereas nonspecialized crops of
lower attines are dikaryotic similar to most free-living basidiomycete fungi. We
then investigated how putative higher genetic diversity is distributed across
polykaryotic mycelia, using microsatellite loci and evaluating models assuming
that all nuclei are either heterogeneously haploid or homogeneously polyploid.
Genetic variation in the polykaryotic symbionts of the basal higher attine genera
Trachymyrmex and Sericomyrmex was only slightly enhanced, but the evolutionarily
derived crop fungi of Atta and Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants had much higher
genetic variation. Our opposite ploidy models indicated that the symbionts of
Trachymyrmex and Sericomyrmex are likely to be lowly and facultatively polyploid
(just over two haplotypes on average), whereas Atta and Acromyrmex symbionts are
highly and obligatorily polyploid (ca. 5-7 haplotypes on average). This stepwise
transition appears analogous to ploidy variation in plants and fungi domesticated
by humans and in fungi domesticated by termites and plants, where gene or genome
duplications were typically associated with selection for higher productivity,
but allopolyploid chimerism was incompatible with sexual reproduction.