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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2020
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| 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 |