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External immunity in ant societies: sociality and colony size do not predict investment in antimicrobials [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Social insects live in dense groups with a high probability of disease transmission and have therefore faced strong pressures to develop defences against pathogens.
Clint A. Penick +6 more
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Defensive Symbioses in Social Insects Can Inform Human Health and Agriculture
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Social animals are among the most successful organisms on the planet and derive many benefits from living in groups, including facilitating the evolution of agriculture.
Jennifer R. Bratburd +2 more
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Prospects for Using RNAi as Control for Ants
Frontiers in Agronomy, 2021 RNA interference (RNAi) has inspired insect scientists to aim toward the development of this technology for protection against insect pests. The RNAi mechanism works at the intracellular level by exploiting a mode of action specific to the expression of ...
Margaret L. Allen
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Social Immune Mechanisms: Luhmann and Potentialization Technologies [PDF]
Theory, Culture & Society, 2019 Contemporary discourses of management are full of encouragements to ‘expect the unexpected’ and to celebrate ‘the future of the future’. Many new public managerial technologies of change – such as steering labs, future games, and managerial performance arts – promise the co-creative ‘potentialization’ of employees, citizens and organizations.
Andersen, Niels Åkerstrøm +1 more
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The dual strategy: resisting and tolerating pathogens in ant colonies [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceAnt colonies are vulnerable to disease outbreaks due to their dense, genetically related populations and confined living conditions. To mitigate the impact of entomopathogens such as Beauveria bassiana, ants employ resistance strategies to reduce ...
Quentin Avanzi, Claire Detrain
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Insects, 2021 The ability of ants to detect and remove conidia-contaminated aphids, aimed at limiting contacts with potentially dangerous entities, is an effective antifungal mechanism to prevent the spread of infection among both their nestmates and aphids, their ...
Tatiana Novgorodova
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Social immunity in insects [PDF]
Current Biology, 2019 When animals become sick, infected cells and an armada of activated immune cells attempt to eliminate the pathogen from the body. Once infectious particles have breached the body's physical barriers of the skin or gut lining, an initially local response quickly escalates into a systemic response, attracting mobile immune cells to the site of infection.
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Veterinary Sciences, 2020 The ectoparasite Varroa destructor is the greatest biotic threat of honey bees Apis mellifera in vast regions of the world. Recently, the study of natural mite-resistant populations has gained much interest to understand the action of natural selection ...
Yamandú Mendoza +6 more
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Prophylactic Avoidance of Hazardous Prey by the Ant Host Myrmica rubra
Insects, 2020 Ants are the hosts of many microorganisms, including pathogens that are incidentally brought inside the nest by foragers. This is particularly true for scavenging species, which collect hazardous food such as dead insects.
Hugo Pereira, Claire Detrain
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Social Immunity: The Disposable Individual [PDF]
Current Biology, 2018 Workers in an ant colony can kill fungus-infected brood, thereby protecting the rest of the colony from fungal infection. This form of social immunity is analogous to the immune system of multicellular organisms where immune cells kill infected cells.
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