Table 1.

Metabolites described for antibiotic producing bacteria associated to the fungus-growing ants.

Fungus growing ants species	Bacteria	Bacterial activity	Compounds isolated	Compounds activity	Reference
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.