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… the lab of Cameron Currie. They work primarily within the “fungus growing ant” system where there is a symbiont, a … a cool tripartite situation where the ants are feeding a fungus, they eat the fungus, and that fungus is really susceptible to disease. So …

… susceptible to a fungal infection of rye grain – a specific fungus, Claviceps purpurea, can infect grain. And when it … actually, they discovered that Taxol is also produced by a fungus that happens to grow near this tree and so there was … evolutionary event where the DNA transferred from the fungus into the tree and became incorporated. And because it …

… the same sorts of things. And then, bacteria often live in symbiosis with plants and might actually be producing … same kind of way, where we had– aflatoxin is produced by a fungus called Aspergillus . We were mostly working in …