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Abstract
Workers in an ant colony can kill fungus-infected brood, thereby protecting the rest of the colony from fungal infection. This form of social immunity is analogous to the immune system of multicellular organisms where immune cells kill infected cells.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID： 29614293 DOI： 10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.050
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN： 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834