Destructive disinfection of infected brood prevents systemic disease spread in ant colonies

In social groups, infections have the potential to spread rapidly and cause disease outbreaks. Here, we show that in a social insect, the ant Lasius neglectus, the negative consequences of fungal infections (Metarhizium brunneum) can be mitigated by employing an efficient multicomponent behaviour, t...

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Vydáno v:eLife
Hlavní autoři: Pull, Christopher D, Ugelvig, Line V, Wiesenhofer, Florian, Grasse, Anna V, Tragust, Simon, Schmitt, Thomas, Brown, Mark JF, Cremer, Sylvia
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2018
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Evolutionary Biology
On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5760203/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29310753
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32073
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