Pathogen Detectors Collective disease defence and pathogen detection abilities in ant societies: a chemo-neuro-immunological approach

Project Period: 2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31

Externally Funded

Acronym

Pathogen Detectors

Principal Investigator

Line V Ugelvig

Department(s)

Cremer Group

Grant Number

302004

Funding Organisation

EC/FP7

2015 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 1830 |

Opposing effects of allogrooming on disease transmission in ant societies
F. Theis, L.V. Ugelvig, C. Marr, S. Cremer, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 370 (2015).

2013 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 2926

Ants disinfect fungus-exposed brood by oral uptake and spread of their poison
S. Tragust, B. Mitteregger, V. Barone, M. Konrad, L.V. Ugelvig, S. Cremer, Current Biology 23 (2013) 76–82.

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2018 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 616 |

Destructive disinfection of infected brood prevents systemic disease spread in ant colonies
C. Pull, L.V. Ugelvig, F. Wiesenhofer, A.V. Grasse, S. Tragust, T. Schmitt, M. Brown, S. Cremer, ELife 7 (2018).

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