Table 1.
Fungus growing ants species | Bacteria | Bacterial activity | Compounds isolated | Compounds activity | Reference |
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Apterostigma dentigerum | Pseudonocardia spp. | Escovopsis sp. | dentigerumycin | Escovopsis sp. | 24 |
Pseudonocardia sp. | Not reported | selvamicin | Candida albicans, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Trichoderma harzianum | 33 | |
Pseudonocardia sp. EC080529-01 | Not reported | 6-deoxy-8-O-methylrabelomycin | Bacillus subtilis 3610 and Plasmodium berghei | 23 | |
X-14881 E (8-O-methyltetrangulol) | |||||
pseudonocardones A | Inactive for test organism | ||||
pseudonocardones B | |||||
pseudonocardones C | |||||
A. octospinosus | Pseudonocardia sp. | Candida albicans and E. weberi | nystatin P1 | Not tested | 26 |
Streptomyces sp. | E. weberi | candicidin D | E. weberi | 26, 27, 32, 34 | |
Streptomyces sp. Streptomyces sp. Av25_2 | Not reported | actinomycin D | B. subtilis | ||
Acromyrmex sp. | Streptomyces sp. Av25_2 | Not reported | actinomycin X2 | B. subtilis | 34 |
Streptomyces sp. Av25_3 | Not reported | valinomycin | B. subtilis | ||
Streptomyces sp. Ao10 | E. weberi | antimycin A1 | E. weberi | ||
antimycin A2 | |||||
antimycin A3 | |||||
antimycin A3 | |||||
Trachymyrmex sp. | Streptomyces sp. TD025. | Five Candida species | urauchimycin A | Four Candida species | 35 |
urauchimycin B | Six Candida species |
The table summarizes compounds that are produced by the bacteria associated with fungus growing ant’s species pointing out the activity against the fungal pathogen, Escovopsis.