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Genetic diversity confers colony-level benefits due to individual immunity.

Biology letters - 1 Mar 2016

Simone-Finstrom Michael, Walz Megan, Tarpy David R

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Several costs and benefits arise as a consequence of eusociality and group-living. With increasing group size, spread of disease among nest-mates poses selective pressure on both individual immunity and group-level mechanisms of disease resistance (social immunity). Another factor known to influence colony-level expression of disease is intracolony genetic diversity, which in honeybees (Apis mellifera) is a...

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PMID: 26961896
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.1007
PMCID: PMC4843219

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