Social Transfer of Pathogenic Fungus Promotes Active Immunisation in Ant Colonies
Matthias Konrad; Meghan L. Vyleta; Fabian J. Theis; Miriam Stock; Simon Tragust; Martina Klatt; Verena Drescher; Carsten Marr · 2012 · PLoS Biology
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Abstract
Due to the omnipresent risk of epidemics, insect societies have evolved sophisticated disease defences at the individual and colony level. An intriguing yet little understood phenomenon is that social contact to pathogen-exposed individuals reduces susceptibility of previously naive nestmates to this pathogen. We tested whether such social immunisation in Lasius ants against the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae is based on active upregulation of the immune system of nestmates following contact to an infectious individual or passive protection via transfer of immune effectors amon
Abstract by Matthias Konrad; Meghan L. Vyleta; Fabian J. Theis; Miriam Stock; Simon Tragust; Martina Klatt; Verena Drescher; Carsten Marr, PLoS Biology (2012) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001300