Mycetagroicus cerradensis

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The genus Mycetagroicus occupies a critical position in attine phylogeny as the sister group to the higher attines (i.e., Trachymyrmex, Sericomyrmex, Acromyrmex, and Atta). It has been recently determined (Solomon et al. 2011) that M. cerradensis is a lower attine, cultivating a Clade 2 leucocoprineaceous fungal cultivar. Mycetagroicus may be the most poorly known of all fungus-growing ant genera, having been first described in 2001 (Brandão and Mayhé-Nunes 2001) from museum specimens. Nest architecture resembles that of some other lower attines as well as some Trachymyrmex. Comparative genomic data from M. cerradensis will be important for understanding the presumably major changes in genetic architecture underlying the evolutionary transition from lower to higher agriculture. Ted Schultz

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Mycetagroicus cerradensis
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Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Genus: Mycetagroicus
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