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This project investigates the phenomenon of Social Vaccination in ants, where exposure to infected individuals enhances the immune response of nestmates. The research aims to uncover the molecular mechanisms behind this collective defense strategy and its implications for disease dynamics within ant colonies.
Living in social groups leads to a high risk of disease spread.
Insect societies counteracted this threat by evolving sophisticated collective anti-parasite defences, combining the immune systems of all group members and their collective social hygienic behaviours. I recently described a direct link between these social and individual defences, by showing that social contact to an infected individual results in a protective Social Vaccination in its nestmate ants: the latter survived an infectio…
INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA
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Germany, Regensburg
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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