Immune challenge reduces gut microbial diversity and triggers fertility-dependent gene expression changes in a social insect

BACKGROUND: The gut microbiome can influence life history traits associated with host fitness such as fecundity and longevity. In most organisms, these two life history traits are traded-off, while they are positively linked in social insects. In ants, highly fecund queens can live for decades, whil...

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Autores principales: Negroni, Matteo Antoine, Segers, Francisca H. I. D., Vogelweith, Fanny, Foitzik, Susanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33225893
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-07191-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33225893
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-07191-9

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