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Keep the nest clean: survival advantages of corpse removal in ants
Sociality increases exposure to pathogens. Therefore, social insects have developed a wide range of behavioural defences, known as ‘social immunity’. However, the benefits of these behaviours in terms of colony survival have been scarcely investigated. We tested the survival advantage of prophylaxis...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4126623/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25009241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0306 |