Tolerating an infection: an indirect benefit of co-founding queen associations in the ant Lasius niger

Christopher D. Pull, William O. H. Hughes, Mark J. F. Brown

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1125-1136
Number of pages12
JournalNaturwissenschaften
Volume100
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2013

Keywords

  • Lasius niger
  • Life-history trade-offs
  • Metarhizium
  • Allogrooming
  • Social immunity
  • Pleometrosis
  • LEAF-CUTTING ANTS
  • TERMITE ZOOTERMOPSIS-ANGUSTICOLLIS
  • DISEASE RESISTANCE
  • METARHIZIUM-ANISOPLIAE
  • DAMPWOOD TERMITE
  • TRADE-OFFS
  • GENETIC-VARIABILITY
  • SOCIAL-ORGANIZATION
  • SOLENOPSIS-INVICTA
  • GROUP FACILITATION

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