Social Fever or General Immune Response? Revisiting an Example of Social Immunity in Honey Bees [PDF]
Insects, 2020 Honey bees use several strategies to protect themselves and the colony from parasites and pathogens. In addition to individual immunity, social immunity involves the cumulative effort of some individuals to limit the spread of parasites and pathogens to ...
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The Mechanisms of Social Immunity Against Fungal Infections in Eusocial Insects [PDF]
Toxins, 2019 Entomopathogenic fungus as well as their toxins is a natural threat surrounding social insect colonies. To defend against them, social insects have evolved a series of unique disease defenses at the colony level, which consists of behavioral and ...
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Pathogen-specific social immunity is associated with erosion of individual immune function in an ant [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsContagious diseases are a major threat to societies in which individuals live in close contact. Social insects have evolved collective defense behaviors, such as social care or isolation of infected workers, that prevent outbreaks of pathogens.
Florent Masson +6 more
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Pathogen evasion of social immunity. [PDF]
Nat Ecol Evol, 2023 AbstractTreating sick group members is a hallmark of collective disease defence in vertebrates and invertebrates alike. Despite substantial effects on pathogen fitness and epidemiology, it is still largely unknown how pathogens react to the selection pressure imposed by care intervention.
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Immune-priming in ant larvae: social immunity does not undermine individual immunity [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2013 Social insects deploy numerous strategies against pathogens including behavioural, biochemical and immunological responses. While past research has revealed that adult social insects can generate immunity, few studies have focused on the immune function during an insect's early life stages.
Rebeca Rosengaus
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Inhibition of a Secreted Immune Molecule Interferes With Termite Social Immunity
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Social immune behaviors are described in a great variety of insect societies and their role in preventing emerging infectious diseases has become a major topic in insect research.
M. Alejandra Esparza-Mora +6 more
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Transitional Complexity of Social Insect Immunity [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Genomic analyses between insects are often conducted by comparing host genomes to that of Drosophila. For honey bees, this led to the claim that the evolutionary transition to eusociality resulted in a reduction of immunity-related genes. Although this claim pervades the literature, contradictory evidence exists.
Nick Bos, Saria Otani, Sze Huei Yek
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Microbial Pressure and Social Immunity: Bumble Bees Increase Brood Hygiene After Exposure to a Bacillus thuringiensis‐Based Biopesticide [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionTo inhibit the spread of potential pathogens and parasites, social insects exhibit hygienic behaviour, the removal of dead or affected brood. Studies on bumble bees performing this behaviour are limited, compared to honey bees, termites, and ants.
Michelle Scheffler +4 more
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Exploring immune memory traits in the social immunity of a fungus-growing ant. [PDF]
Proc Biol SciThe immune system is crucial for organisms to defend against pathogens. Likewise, analogous immune features evolved against similar pressures at the superorganism scale. Upregulating hygiene to the same fungus pathogen is one assumption for convergent immune mechanisms in social insects, although more evidence of immune memory ...
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Social immunity and the evolution of group living in insects. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2015 Meunier J.
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