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Pathogen avoidance and prey discrimination in ants
Insect societies have developed sanitary strategies, one of which is the avoidance of infectious food resources as a primary line of defence. Using binary choices, we investigated whether Myrmica rubra ants can identify prey that has been artificially infected with the entomopathogenic fungus, Metar...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7062100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191705 |