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Gene activity in defenders depends on invading slavemaking ants

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2019-02-27

Temnothorax americanus is a slavemaking ant found in northeastern America. These tiny social insects neither rear their offspring nor search for food themselves. Instead, they raid nests of another ant species, Temnothorax longispinosus, kidnap their larvae and pupae to bring these back to their own nest.

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https://phys.org/news/2019-02-gene-defenders-invading-slavemaking-ants.html