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Blade-running: An efficient sanitary behavior against summit disease in ants

2022-05-23

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Social systems are attractive targets for parasites. Once infiltrated they could manipulate the host to contribute to their further dispersal. A wide array of parasites causes summit disease driving their host up on a grass blade from where propagules are then dispersed. In ants, previous observations suggested the existence of a social prophylactic strategy that could help reduce the p...

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Literature Corpus work: d94ca57f-0134-58aa-923d-085b46b987d1
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1623162/v1

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