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Quality and quantity: transitions in antimicrobial gland use for parasite defense

Parasites are a major force in evolution, and understanding how host life history affects parasite pressure and investment in disease resistance is a general problem in evolutionary biology. The threat of disease may be especially strong in social animals, and ants have evolved the unique metapleura...

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Autores principales: Tranter, Christopher, Fernández‐Marín, Hermógenes, Hughes, William O. H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26811760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1827