Wood ants use resin to protect themselves against pathogens

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2007-08-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2007.0531PMID 17535794PMCID PMC2275180
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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