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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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Autores principales: Pereira, Hugo, Detrain, Claire
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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