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Ants defend aphids against lethal disease

Social insects defend their own colonies and some species also protect their mutualist partners. In mutualisms with aphids, ants typically feed on honeydew produced by aphids and, in turn guard and shelter aphid colonies from insect natural enemies. Here we report that Formica podzolica ants tending...

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Hauptverfasser: Nielsen, Charlotte, Agrawal, Anurag A., Hajek, Ann E.
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The Royal Society 2010
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865061/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19923138
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0743
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