Quality and quantity: transitions in antimicrobial gland use for parasite defense
Parasites are a major force in evolution, and understanding how host life history affects parasite pressure and investment in disease resistance is a general problem in evolutionary biology. The threat of disease may be especially strong in social animals, and ants have evolved the unique metapleura...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2015
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717345/ |