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Tomb evaders: house-hunting hygiene in ants

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BIOLOGY LETTERS
卷 1, 期 2, 页码 190-192

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ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0302

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decision making; disease; pathogen; social insects; Temnothorax albipennis

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  1. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [E19832] Funding Source: researchfish
  2. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [E19832] Funding Source: Medline

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House-hunting ants avoid otherwise excellent potential nest sites that contain dead ants which may pose risks from poor hygiene. This discovery adds another category to the exceptionally long list of nest site attributes that ants evaluate. It further indicates the importance of disease as a selection pressure on social insects.

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