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Review
Explore our review articles that synthesize current knowledge and trends in social immunity in ants research.
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(Philos Trans R Soc B, 2009) Analogies in the evolution of individual and social immunity
In this review the authors compare anti-parasite defences at the level of multicellular organisms and insect societies. Read more
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(Anim Behav, 2007) Plasticity in antiparasite behaviours and its suggested role in invasion biology
The authors suggest that the success of invasive species may in part lie in a plastic expression of costly antiparasite behaviors. Read more
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(Current Biology, 2007) Social Immunity
In this review, the authors describe how the collective and cooperative disease defenses expressed by social insects provide the colony with social immunity. Therefore, social insect colonies are protected against… Read more