Bacterial communities associated with a polydomous arboreal ant: Inter-nest variation and interaction with the phyllosphere of a tropical tree

In this study, we investigated what kind of interactions exist between the bacterial community associated with the culticle of a polydomous arboreal ant and the bacterial community associated with the phyllosphere of a tropical tree, in a non-obligatory ant-plant mutualism in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil.本研究以巴西大西洋雨林中的非专性蚁植共生体系为研究对象，探究了多巢型树栖蚂蚁体表（culticle）相关细菌群落与热带树木叶围（phyllosphere）相关细菌群落之间的相互作用类型。