Social transfer of pathogenic fungus promotes active immunisation in ant colonies.
Due to the omnipresent risk of epidemics, insect societies have evolved sophisticated disease defences at the individual and colony level. An intriguing yet little understood phenomenon is that social contact to pathogen-exposed individuals reduces susceptibility of previously naive nestmates to thi...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012
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