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Keep the nest clean: survival advantages of corpse removal in ants

Sociality increases exposure to pathogens. Therefore, social insects have developed a wide range of behavioural defences, known as ‘social immunity’. However, the benefits of these behaviours in terms of colony survival have been scarcely investigated. We tested the survival advantage of prophylaxis...

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Autors principals: Diez, Lise, Lejeune, Philippe, Detrain, Claire
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: The Royal Society 2014
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4126623/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25009241
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0306
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