Social evolution: sick ants face death alone.
Social insects not only live altruistically, they die so: a new study reveals that moribund ants abandon their nests to die in seclusion, which reduces the risk of transmitting diseases to relatives.
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, Quartier Sorge, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Michel.Chapuisat@unil.ch <Michel.Chapuisat@unil.ch>
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D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000382:microbiology / Q000502:physiology*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D052981:Metarhizium / Q000472:pathogenicity; D012919:Social Behavior