Pupal cocoons affect sanitary brood care and limit fungal infections in ant colonies

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tragust, Simon ^a,b,c   Ugelvig, Line V ^a,b   Chapuisat, Michel ^d   Heinze, Jürgen ^b   Cremer, Sylvia ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Formicidae; Grooming; Hygienic behaviour; Metarhizium fungus; Sanitary brood care; Social immunity

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BROOD DESERTION; COLONY STRUCTURE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FUNGAL DISEASE; HONEYBEE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL INSECT;

APIS MELLIFERA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; METARHIZIUM;

ANIMAL; ANT; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; LARVA; METARHIZIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ARTICLE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; LARVA; METARHIZIUM; PUPA;

EID: 84885363808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-225     Document Type: Article

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