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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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Main Authors: Diez, Lise, Lejeune, Philippe, Detrain, Claire
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: The Royal Society 2014
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Online adgang: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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