Behaviours indicating cannibalistic necrophagy in ants are modulated by the perception of pathogen infection level

Cannibalistic necrophagy is rarely observed in social hymenopterans, although a lack of food could easily favour such behaviour. One of the main supposed reasons for the rarity of necrophagy is that eating of nestmate corpses carries the risk of rapid spread of pathogens or parasites. Here we presen...

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Autores principales: Maák, István, Tóth, Eszter, Lenda, Magdalena, Lőrinczi, Gábor, Kiss, Anett, Juhász, Orsolya, Czechowski, Wojciech, Torma, Attila
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7578781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33087857
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74870-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7578781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33087857
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74870-8

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