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Impact of soil contamination on the growth and shape of ant nests [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 As entomopathogens are detrimental to the development or even survival of insect societies, ant colonies should avoid digging into a substrate that is contaminated by fungal spores.
Jean-Baptiste Leclerc +2 more
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Insects, 2020 Honey bees collect and apply plant resins to the interior of their nest cavity, in order to form a layer around the nest cavity called a propolis envelope.
Hollie Dalenberg +4 more
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Young but not defenceless: antifungal activity during embryonic development of a social insect [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Termites live in environments heavily colonized by diverse microorganisms, including pathogens. Eggs laid within the nest are likely to experience similar pathogenic pressures as those experienced by older nest-mates.
Erin L. Cole +2 more
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How Do Leaf-Cutting Ants Recognize Antagonistic Microbes in Their Fungal Crops?
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Leaf-cutting ants employ diverse behavioral strategies for promoting the growth of fungal cultivars in a structure known as fungus garden. As a nutritionally rich resource for the ants, the fungal crop is threatened by microbial antagonists and pathogens.
Aryel C. Goes +5 more
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Distinct and enhanced hygienic responses of a leaf‐cutting ant toward repeated fungi exposures
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Leaf‐cutting ants and their fungal crops are a textbook example of a long‐term obligatory mutualism. Many microbes continuously enter their nest containing the fungal cultivars, destabilizing the symbiosis and, in some cases, outcompeting the mutualistic
Aryel C. Goes +4 more
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Social Health, Social Pressure, and Social Immunity
Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021 The article addresses the problem of social health as a basic factor of positive sociocultural environment in the context of globalization. The research objective was to define the content of social health as a balance of such categories as social immunity and social pressure.
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Analogies in the evolution of individual and social immunity [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008 We compare anti-parasite defences at the level of multicellular organisms and insect societies, and find that selection by parasites at these two organisational levels is often very similar and has created a number of parallel evolutionary solutions in the host's immune response.
Cremer, S., Sixt, M.
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Tissue Specificity in Social Context-Dependent lysozyme Expression in Bumblebees
Antibiotics, 2020 Group living at high densities may result in the enhanced transmission of pathogens. Social insects are obligate group-living species, which often also exhibit high relatedness and frequent social interactions amongst individuals, resulting in a high ...
H. Michael G. Lattorff
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The effect of social determinants on immunization programs [PDF]
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2012 Vaccine preventable diseases have been responsible for a significant portion of childhood mortality in low-income countries, and have been re-emerging in medium- and high-income countries. The effectiveness of routine childhood immunization programs relies on multiple factors.
Aharona, Glatman-Freedman +1 more
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Rapid Evolution of Immune Proteins in Social Insects [PDF]
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2009 The existence of behavioral traits connected to defense against pathogens manifests the importance of pathogens in the evolution of social insects. However, very little is known about how pathogen pressure has affected the molecular evolution of genes involved in their innate immune system. We have studied the sequence evolution of several immune genes
Lumi, Viljakainen +5 more
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