Sanitizing the fortress : protection of ant brood and nest material by 1 worker antibiotics
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3 C. TRANTER, P. GRAYSTOCK, C. SHAW, J. F. S. LOPES and W. O. H. HUGHES 4 5 School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK 6 School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton. BN1 9QG, UK 7 3 Pós-Graduação Comportamento e Biologia Animal, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, 8 Campus Universitário de Martelos, 36.036-330, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil 9 10 11 Correspondence: Christopher Tranter, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, 12 Brighton. BN1 9QG, UK; e-mail: [email protected] 13 14
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تاریخ انتشار 2014