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Adaptive social immunity in leaf-cutting ants
Social insects have evolved a suite of sophisticated defences against parasites. In addition to the individual physiological immune response, social insects also express ‘social immunity’ consisting of group-level defences and behaviours that include allogrooming. Here we investigate whether the soc...
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The Royal Society
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781909/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19411266 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0107 |