Acid, silk and grooming: alternative strategies in social immunity in ants?
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Title
Acid, silk and grooming: alternative strategies in social immunity in ants?
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Keywords
Venom, Disease resistance, <em class=EmphasisTypeItalic >Metarhizium</em>, Weaver ant, <em class=EmphasisTypeItalic >Oecophylla</em>, <em class=EmphasisTypeItalic >Polyrhachis</em>
Journal
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
Volume 69, Issue 10, Pages 1687-1699
Publisher
Springer Nature
Online
2015-07-28
DOI
10.1007/s00265-015-1980-3
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