Ants detect but do not discriminate diseased workers within their nest

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  SCIENCE NATURE

• Publication date

  2016-07-30

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00114-016-1394-8PMID 27475810
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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