Abstract
Attine ants that cultivate fungi carry antibiotic-producing bacteria that suppress parasitic microfungi in those fungal gardens. Specialized structures for maintaining these bacteria apparently developed very early in the history of fungus gardening, at least 50 million years ago, according to Cameron R. Currie of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his collaborators, who report these findings in the January 6, 2006, issue of Science.
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