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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - Infections early in life can have enduring effects on an organism’s development
    and immunity. In this study, we show that this equally applies to developing “superorganisms”
    – incipient social insect colonies. When we exposed newly mated Lasius niger ant
    queens to a low pathogen dose, their colonies grew more slowly than controls before
    winter, but reached similar sizes afterwards. Independent of exposure, queen hibernation
    survival improved when the ratio of pupae to workers was small. Queens that reared
    fewer pupae before worker emergence exhibited lower pathogen levels, indicating
    that high brood rearing efforts interfere with the ability of the queen’s immune
    system to suppress pathogen proliferation. Early-life queen pathogen-exposure
    also improved the immunocompetence of her worker offspring, as demonstrated by
    challenging the workers to the same pathogen a year later. Transgenerational transfer
    of the queen’s pathogen experience to her workforce can hence durably reduce the
    disease susceptibility of the whole superorganism.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Barbara E
      foaf_name: Casillas Perez, Barbara E
      foaf_surname: Casillas Perez
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=351ED2AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Christopher
      foaf_name: Pull, Christopher
      foaf_surname: Pull
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=3C7F4840-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
    orcid: 0000-0003-1122-3982
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Filip
      foaf_name: Naiser, Filip
      foaf_surname: Naiser
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Elisabeth
      foaf_name: Naderlinger, Elisabeth
      foaf_surname: Naderlinger
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Jiri
      foaf_name: Matas, Jiri
      foaf_surname: Matas
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Sylvia
      foaf_name: Cremer, Sylvia
      foaf_surname: Cremer
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
    orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
  bibo_doi: 10.5061/DRYAD.7PVMCVDTJ
  dct_date: 2021^xs_gYear
  dct_publisher: Dryad@
  dct_title: Early queen infection shapes developmental dynamics and induces long-term
    disease protection in incipient ant colonies@
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