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Social Transfer of Pathogenic Fungus Promotes Active Immunisation in Ant Colonies

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Refining the Roots of the Beewolf-Streptomyces Symbiosis: Antennal Symbionts in the Rare Genus Philanthinus (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

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Secondary Metabolites Released by The Burying Beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides: Chemical Analyses and Possible Ecological Functions

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The expression and impact of antifungal grooming in ants

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The regulation of the secondary metabolism of Streptomyces: new links and experimental advances

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Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

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Avenolide, a Streptomyces hormone controlling antibiotic production in Streptomyces avermitilis

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

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Secondary metabolites and other small molecules as intercellular pathogenic signals

(2010) Nicholas Dufour et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Symbiotic streptomycetes provide antibiotic combination prophylaxis for wasp offspring

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Symbiont Interactions in a Tripartite Mutualism: Exploring the Presence and Impact of Antagonism between Two Fungus-Growing Ant Mutualists

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Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria

(2010) M. J. Cafaro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Blochmannia endosymbionts improve colony growth and immune defence in the ant Camponotus fellah

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A Versatile Transport Network for Sequestering and Excreting Plant Glycosides in Leaf Beetles Provides an Evolutionary Flexible Defense Strategy

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Sexual division of antibacterial resource defence in breeding burying beetles,Nicrophorus vespilloides

(2009) Sheena C. Cotter et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Mycangimycin, a Polyene Peroxide from a MutualistStreptomycessp.

(2009) Dong-Chan Oh et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Candicidin-producing Streptomyces support leaf-cutting ants to protect their fungus garden against the pathogenic fungus Escovopsis

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Symbiont-mediated protection in insect hosts

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Actinobacteria as mutualists: general healthcare for insects?

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The Chemistry of the Postpharyngeal Gland of Female European Beewolves

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Antimicrobial strategies in burying beetles breeding on carrion

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Bacterial Protection of Beetle-Fungus Mutualism

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