Bacterial communities of fungus-growing ant queens are species-specific and suggest vertical transmission

• Victoria A. Sadowski ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: victoriaasadowski@gmail.com (VAS), adams.1970@osu.edu (RMMA)

  Affiliation Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Ecology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United State of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9621-2387

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• Panagiotis Sapountzis,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, UMR 0454 MEDIS, INRAE- UCA, Clermont-Ferrand, France

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• Pepijn W. Kooij,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of General and Applied Biology, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Rio Claro, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2619-0813

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• Jacobus J. Boomsma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon, Panamá, República de Panamá

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• Rachelle M. M. Adams

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: victoriaasadowski@gmail.com (VAS), adams.1970@osu.edu (RMMA)

  Affiliations Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Ecology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United State of America, Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon, Panamá, República de Panamá

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0918-9861

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