Possible rewrite: Study indicates curious methods employed by fungus farming ants to maintain garden vitality
Molecular evidence, supported by HTML tags, suggests the presence of Trichoderma spp. in wild T. septentrionalis fungus gardens. Through relative abundance analysis using ITS2 community amplicon sequencing, Trichoderma was found to be the most prevalent and abundant fungus in these gardens, second only to the cultivar fungus. The data presented in boxplot format demonstrate the …