A colony-level response to disease control in a leaf-cutting ant

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Die Naturwissenschaften

• Publication date

  2002-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s00114-002-0316-0PMID 12146794
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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