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This project studies the effects of the bacterial parasite Wolbachia on leaf-cutting ants, exploring its impact on fitness and social behavior. It aims to enhance understanding of the relationship between social insects and their parasites.
Social insects include some of the most ecologically dominant species in both temperate and tropical areas, and represent a major evolutionary transition in the development of complexity.
Insect societies are consequently of considerable interest for biologists and the general public.
One emergent field of special interest is the interaction between social insects and their parasites both because of the role these are likely to have played in the evolution of sociality in insects and the paralle…
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
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