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Blade-running: An efficient yet simple behavior to potentially combat summit disease in ants

2025-12-15

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> Background Social systems are attractive targets for parasites. Once infiltrated they are able to manipulate the host to contribute to their further dispersal. A wide array of parasites causes summit disease: driving their host up on elevated points on plants from where propagules are then dispersed. In ants, previous observations suggested the existence of a simple social prophylact...

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Literature Corpus work: cfdaad7f-9669-5160-857c-eabde4f06371
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8202305/v1

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