Social life and sanitary risks: evolutionary and current ecological conditions determine waste management in leaf-cutting ants

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2016-05-25

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2016.0625PMID 27226469PMCID PMC4892804
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