Social Transfer of Pathogenic Fungus Promotes Active Immunisation in Ant Colonies

Due to the omnipresent risk of epidemics, insect societies have evolved sophisticated disease defences at the individual and colony level. An intriguing yet little understood phenomenon is that social contact to pathogen-exposed individuals reduces susceptibility of previously naive nestmates to thi...

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Autores principales: Konrad, Matthias, Vyleta, Meghan L., Theis, Fabian J., Stock, Miriam, Tragust, Simon, Klatt, Martina, Drescher, Verena, Marr, Carsten, Ugelvig, Line V., Cremer, Sylvia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3317912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22509134
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001300

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