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Immune-priming in ant larvae: social immunity does not undermine individual immunity

(2013) R. B. Rosengaus et al.   Biology Letters

Pupal cocoons affect sanitary brood care and limit fungal infections in ant colonies

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Tracking Individuals Shows Spatial Fidelity Is a Key Regulator of Ant Social Organization

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Behavioural plasticity in the fanning response of bumblebee workers: impact of experience and rate of temperature change

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Ants Disinfect Fungus-Exposed Brood by Oral Uptake and Spread of Their Poison

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Sex at the margins: parthenogenesis vs. facultative and obligate sex in a Neotropical ant

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Social Transfer of Pathogenic Fungus Promotes Active Immunisation in Ant Colonies

(2012) Matthias Konrad et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Disease resistance in a weaver ant, Polyrhachis dives, and the role of antibiotic-producing glands

(2011) Peter Graystock et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Absence of Nepotism in Genetically Heterogeneous Colonies of a Clonal Ant

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The expression and impact of antifungal grooming in ants

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Recognition and Avoidance of Contaminated Flowers by Foraging Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)

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(2011) Raymond J. St. Leger et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Genetic polyethism in leaf-cutting ants

(2010) Sarah J. Waddington et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Trophallaxis and prophylaxis: social immunity in the carpenter ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus

(2010) C. Hamilton et al.   Biology Letters

Ant farmers practice proactive personal hygiene to protect their fungus crop

(2010) Citlalli Morelos-Juárez et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Learning and Task Interference by Corpse-removal Specialists in Honey Bee Colonies

(2010) Stephen T. Trumbo et al.   ETHOLOGY

Rapid anti-pathogen response in ant societies relies on high genetic diversity

(2010) L. V. Ugelvig et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Colony fusion causes within-colony variation in a parthenogenetic ant

(2009) Katrin Kellner et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Adaptive social immunity in leaf-cutting ants

(2009) T. N. Walker et al.   Biology Letters

Preimaginal and Adult Experience Modulates the Thermal Response Behavior of Ants

(2009) Anja Weidenmüller et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A multilocus phylogeny of the Metarhizium anisopliae lineage

(2009) Joseph F. Bischoff et al.   MYCOLOGIA

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

(2008) Noah Wilson-Rich et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Evolutionary Biology of Insect Learning

(2007) Reuven Dukas   Annual Review of Entomology

Defense mechanism of the termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, to entomopathogenic fungi

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