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A fungus infected environment does not alter the behaviour of foraging ants
Eusocial insects are exposed to a wide range of pathogens while foraging outside their nest. We know that opportunistic scavenging ants are able to assess the sanitary state of food and to discriminate a prey which died from infection by the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium brunneum. Here, we inv...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8651729/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34876627 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02817-8 |