A domesticated fungal cultivar recycles its cytoplasmic contents as nutritional rewards for its leafcutter ant farmers
C. A. Leal-Dutra, L. M. Yuen, P. E. Marques…·J. Z. Shik
This study investigates how the fungal cultivar Leucoagaricus gongylophorus forms gongylidia, specialized cells that provide nutritional rewards to leafcutter ants, revealing autophagy as the mechanism for recycling cellular contents.