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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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(Funct Ecol, 2012) Effects of social immunity and unicoloniality on host-parasite interactions in invasive insect societies
In this review the authors explore how the lifestyle of social insects and their interaction with parasites may contribute to their success in becoming an invasive pest species. Read more
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(Philos Trans R Soc B, 2008) 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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(Funct Ecol, 2012) Social Immunity
In this review the authors illustrate how parasites can infect a social insect colony and look at how these routes of infection can predict defence mechanisms of the colony. Read more