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A secret weapon in agriculture's climate fight: Ants
That makes ants, in the eyes of Ida Cecilie Jensen, a legion of unlikely warriors—one humans should consider enlisting in the fight to grow food in a warming world. "Ants are a Swiss Army knife," said ...
A social immune system: Leafcutter ants recognize and combat pathogens 30 days post-exposure
A study conducted by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), in Brazil, and collaborators shows that lemon ...
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Leafcutter ants recognize and fight pathogen even 30 days after initial contamination, study shows
Characteristics of social immune memory were observed in colonies of Atta sexdens exposed to four different pathogenic fungi.
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A secret weapon in agriculture’s climate fight: Ants
That makes ants, in the eyes of Ida Cecilie Jensen, a legion of unlikely warriors—one humans should consider enlisting in the fight to grow food in a warming world. “Ants are a Swiss Army ...