Foster carers influence brood pathogen resistance in ants

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1792, 2014, Pages

  Purcell, Jessica ^a   Chapuisat, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beauveria fungi; Development; Formica ants; Pathogen resistance; Social immunity; Social insects

Indexed keywords

ANT; BROOD PARASITISM; COLONY STRUCTURE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNGUS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; SOCIAL INSECT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; BEAUVERIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEAUVERIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85006314381     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1338     Document Type: Article

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