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  • Like cells in a body, social insects cooperate to maintain colony health. This study reveals that ants have evolved a chemical signalling system that alerts nestmates when their own immunity is insufficient to overcome infection, enabling efficient colony-level disease defence.

    • Erika H. Dawson
    • Michaela Hoenigsberger
    • Sylvia Cremer
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-14

  • Social insects often groom nestmates as an anti-pathogen behaviour, providing social immunity. Here the authors show that anti-fungal grooming behaviour by ants selects for the fungus to produce more but less-virulent and less-detectable spores, suggesting pathogen adaptation to social immunity.

    • Miriam Stock
    • Barbara Milutinović
    • Sylvia Cremer
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 7, P: 450-460