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External immunity in ant societies: sociality and colony size do not predict investment in antimicrobials
Social insects live in dense groups with a high probability of disease transmission and have therefore faced strong pressures to develop defences against pathogens. For this reason, social insects have been hypothesized to invest in antimicrobial secretions as a mechanism of external immunity to pre...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society Publishing
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5830739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29515850 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171332 |