Social complexity and nesting habits are factors in the evolution of antimicrobial defences in wasps

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Hoggard, Stephen J ^a   Wilson, Peter D ^a   Beattie, Andrew J ^a   Stow, Adam J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST RESISTANCE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WASP; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; EVOLUTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

HEXAPODA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WASPS;

EID: 79959926624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021763     Document Type: Article

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