Fire ants self-assemble into waterproof rafts to survive floods

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2011-04-25

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1016658108PMID 21518911PMCID PMC3093451
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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