Ant colonies prefer infected over uninfected nest sites

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Pontieri, Luigi ^a   Vojvodic, Svjetlana ^b,c   Graham, Riley ^d   Pedersen, Jes Søe ^a   Linksvayer, Timothy A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREEZING; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM BRUNNEUM; METARHIZIUM BRUNNEUM INFECTION; MONOMORIUM PHARAONIS; MYCELIUM; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREDICTION; SPECIES HABITAT; SPOROGENESIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; METARHIZIUM; MYCELIUM;

EID: 84910607763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111961     Document Type: Article

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