A carbohydrate-rich diet increases social immunity in ants

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Adaptive social immunity in leaf-cutting ants

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Socialized medicine: Individual and communal disease barriers in honey bees

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Caste-specific expression of genetic variation in the size of antibiotic-producing glands of leaf-cutting ants

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The Role of Anorexia in Resistance and Tolerance to Infections in Drosophila

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Genetic, Individual, and Group Facilitation of Disease Resistance in Insect Societies

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Description of a simple synthetic diet for studying nutritional responses in ants

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Can the protein costs of bacterial resistance be offset by altered feeding behaviour?

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