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Tolerance toward foreigners in ants requires chronic exposure for establishment but only sporadic exposure for maintenance.
Current biology : CB - 6 Apr 2026
Bailly Tiphaine P M, Rossi Matteo, Valdés-Rodríguez Stephany, Schmitt Thomas, Frank Erik T, Kronauer Daniel J C
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Social insects discriminate between foreigners and members of their own colony via complex olfactory cues. Although it is known that genetically distinct individuals can sometimes be accepted as nestmates, the conditions that facilitate the acquisition, maintenance, and loss of tolerance, as well as the timescales of these processes, remain incompletely understood. Here, we address this gap by studying...
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