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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, we introduced the idea that the cooperative anti-parasite defences of social insect colonies follow the same organisational principle – across biological levels – as the organismal immune… Read more
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(Anim Behav, 2007) Plasticity in antiparasite behaviours and its suggested role in invasion biology
We reviewed antiparasite behaviours and suggest that the success of invasive species may, in part, be attributed to a flexible expression of these costly behaviors. Read more
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(Current Biology, 2007) Social Immunity
This review describes the collective and cooperative disease defenses expressed by social insects and how they provide ‘social immunity’ to the colony. Social insect colonies thus show multiple layers of… Read more