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Extended disease resistance emerging from the faecal nest of a subterranean termite

Social insects nesting in soil environments are in constant contact with entomopathogens but have evolved a range of defence mechanisms, resulting in both individual and social immunity that reduce the chance for epizootics in the colony, as in the case of subterranean termites. Coptotermes formosan...

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Autores principales: Chouvenc, Thomas, Efstathion, Caroline A., Elliott, Monica L., Su, Nan-Yao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3779336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24048157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1885