Social evolution: sick ants face death alone.


Autoria(s): Chapuisat M.
Data(s)

2010

Resumo

Social insects not only live altruistically, they die so: a new study reveals that moribund ants abandon their nests to die in seclusion, which reduces the risk of transmitting diseases to relatives.

Identificador

http://serval.unil.ch/?id=serval:BIB_39B68C2DF3A4

isbn:1879-0445 (Electronic)

pmid:20144768

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.12.037

isiid:000274574100017

http://my.unil.ch/serval/document/BIB_39B68C2DF3A4.pdf

http://nbn-resolving.org/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:ch:serval-BIB_39B68C2DF3A40

Idioma(s)

en

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Fonte

Current Biology, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. R104-R105

Palavras-Chave #Animals; Ants/microbiology; Ants/physiology; Biological Evolution; Metarhizium/pathogenicity; Social Behavior
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/article

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