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Effects of social immunity and unicoloniality on host–parasite interactions in invasive insect societies

2012-12-01

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Social insects have a very high potential to become invasive pest species. Here, we explore how their social lifestyle and their interaction with parasites may contribute to this invasive success. Similar to solitary species, parasite release followed by the evolution of increased competitive ability can promote establishment of introduced social insect hosts in their introduced range. Genetic bottlenecks during i...

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Literature Corpus work: 740e18c9-906e-542f-83b0-323b14c09fde
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12013

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