Inbreeding and caste-specific variation in immune defence in the ant Formica exsecta

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  2011

• Venue

  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

• Publication date

  2011-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00265-010-1090-1
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