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Explore our review articles that synthesize current knowledge and trends in social immunity in ants research.
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(Trends Parasitol, 2024) Unconditional versus condition-dependent social immunity
In this review, we analyzed how unconditional social immunity in superorganism differs from condition-dependent social immunity in helper associations. Read more
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(Funct Ecol, 2023) Behavioural defences against parasites across host social structures
This review discusses how different types of social organization influence the way how individuals change their behaviour to avoid, resist and tolerate infections, how this benefits themselves, and how it… Read more
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(Nat Rev Immunol, 2022) Principles of disease defence in organisms, superorganisms and societies
This review highlights the common principles of organismal and superorganismal defences against disease. Just like the cells in a body, the members of superorganismal social insect colonies, such as ants,… Read more
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(Curr Biol, 2019) Social immunity in insects
This primer summarises the concept of social immunity and highlights the difference between the complexity of cooperative disease defences between social insects that form a superorganism to other social groups… Read more
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(Curr Opin Insect Sci, 2019) Pathogens and disease defense of invasive ants
This review discusses how pathogens and disease defense of invasive ants lead to competitive advantage over native species. Read more
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(Annu Rev Entomol, 2018) Social immunity: emergence and evolution of colony-level disease protection
In this review we highlighted the disease pressures faced by social insect colonies and their collective and cooperative defence systems, from their mechanisms to their evolution. Read more
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(Phil Trans R Soc B, 2015) Sociality and health: impacts of sociality on disease susceptibility and transmission in animal and human societies
This paper introduces a theme issue presenting the latest developments in research on the impacts of sociality on health and fitness. Read more
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(Trends Immunol, 2014) Individual and social immunisation in insects
This review summarises evidence and mechanisms of immunisation in insects, both at the level of the individual insect and of entire colonies. Read more
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(Funct Ecol, 2012) Effects of social immunity and unicoloniality on host-parasite interactions in invasive insect societies
In this work, we discuss how the parasite release during introduction and their super-colonial social structure may contribute to the success of invasive social insect species. Read more