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Behavioral mechanisms and morphological symptoms of zombie ants dying from fungal infection

BACKGROUND: Parasites that manipulate host behavior can provide prominent examples of extended phenotypes: parasite genomes controlling host behavior. Here we focus on one of the most dramatic examples of behavioral manipulation, the death grip of ants infected by Ophiocordyceps fungi. We studied th...

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Autors principals: Hughes, David P, Andersen, Sandra B, Hywel-Jones, Nigel L, Himaman, Winanda, Billen, Johan, Boomsma, Jacobus J
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: BioMed Central 2011
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3118224/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21554670
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-11-13
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