Hygienic behavior and antimicrobial peptide expression of the leaf-cutting ant Atta cephalotes (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) to Metharhizium anisopliae
Leaf-cutting ants depend on mutualisticfungi to survive. An infection that massively affects the workers compromising the proper maintenance of the fungus, or that can attack the fungus garden, can be fatal to the colony. Thus, leaf-cutting ants have evolved a complex defense system composed of both...
Main Authors: | Juan Sebastián Gómez-Díaz, Andrea Niño-Castro, Sandra Milena Valencia-Giraldo, Karent Mariana Cotazo-Calambas |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2022-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Hymenoptera Research |
Online Access: | https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/82381/download/pdf/ |
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