UW-Madison Dept of Bacteriology
Cameron R. Currie
Associate Professor of Bacteriology
4305 Microbial Sciences Building
1550 Linden Drive
(608) 265-8034
currie@bact.wisc.edu
Select Publications
- Little AE, Currie CR. Symbiotic complexity: discovery of a fifth symbiont in the attine ant-microbe symbiosis. Biol Lett. 2007 3:501-4.
- Poulsen M, Erhardt DP, Molinaro DJ, Lin TL, Currie CR. Antagonistic bacterial interactions help shape host-symbiont dynamics within the fungus-growing ant-microbe mutualism. PLoS ONE. 2007 2:e960.
- Taerum SJ, Cafaro MJ, Little AE, Schultz TR, Currie CR. Low host-pathogen specificity in the leaf-cutting ant-microbe symbiosis. Proc Biol Sci. 2007 274:1971-8.
- Zhang MM, Poulsen M, Currie CR. Symbiont recognition of mutualistic bacteria by Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants. ISME J. 2007 1:313-20.
- Gerardo NM, Mueller UG, Currie CR. Complex host-pathogen coevolution in the Apterostigma fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis. BMC Evol Biol. 2006 6:88.
- Gerardo NM, Jacobs SR, Currie CR, Mueller UG. Ancient host-pathogen associations maintained by specificity of chemotaxis and antibiosis. PLoS Biol. 2006 4:e235.
- Little AE, Murakami T, Mueller UG, Currie CR. Defending against parasites: fungus-growing ants combine specialized behaviours and microbial symbionts to protect their fungus gardens. Biol Lett. 2006 2:12-6.
- Currie CR, Poulsen M, Mendenhall J, Boomsma JJ, Billen J. Coevolved crypts and exocrine glands support mutualistic bacteria in fungus-growing ants. Science. 2006 311:81-3.