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Lack of self-medication by fungus infected <i>Lasius platythorax</i> ants in a multitrophic experiment

2022-03-19

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Ants live in dense colonies with low genetic diversity between nestmates, creating favourable conditions for the spread of diseases. Due to the constant pressure by infectious disease, ants have evolved different mechanisms to cope with it. One way to combat pathogens is via consumption of biologically active compounds, which can inhibit the growth of the microbes or eliminate them. Although ants are known to resp...

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Literature Corpus work: c65d3040-8835-59f0-a7ce-33cccb56a616
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.17.484742

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