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Co-founding ant queens prevent disease by performing prophylactic undertaking behaviour

BACKGROUND: Social insects form densely crowded societies in environments with high pathogen loads, but have evolved collective defences that mitigate the impact of disease. However, colony-founding queens lack this protection and suffer high rates of mortality. The impact of pathogens may be exacer...

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Pubblicato in:BMC Evol Biol
Autori principali: Pull, Christopher D., Cremer, Sylvia
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2017
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5639488/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29025392
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1062-4
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