Study sheds light on how leafcutter ants use chemical secretions to prevent fungal infections
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working in Panama has learned more about how leafcutter ants use chemical secretions to ward of fungal infections. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the team, made up of researchers from Panama and Denmark, describe how they set up multiple ant colonies and subjected them to various fungal infections, and watched how the ants warded them off.