ArticleRoyal Society open science2017
Ant queens increase their reproductive efforts after pathogen infection.
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- Altruistic disease signalling in ant colonies.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Age, caste, and social context shape ovarian morphology and transcriptomic profiles in red harvester ants.npj aging · 2025Article
- Amphibian Chytrid Fungus Infection Influences Calling Investment in Male Brown Toadlets.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Juvenile responses to immune challenges are not carried through to subsequent life stages in an insect.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Early queen infection shapes developmental dynamics and induces long-term disease protection in incipient ant colonies.Ecology letters · 2022Article
- Faster life history strategy manifests itself by lower age at menarche, higher sexual desire, and earlier reproduction in people with worse health.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Red Wood Ants Display Natural Aversive Learning Differently Depending on Their Task Specialization.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Queens stay, workers leave: caste-specific responses to fatal infections in an ant.BMC evolutionary biology · 2018Article
- A dynamic threshold model for terminal investment.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2017Article
- Navigating infection risk during oviposition and cannibalistic foraging in a holometabolous insect.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Infections with potentially lethal pathogens may negatively affect an individual's lifespan and decrease its reproductive value. The terminal investment hypothesis predicts that individuals faced with a reduced survival should invest more into reproduction instead of maintenance and growth. Several studies suggest that individuals are indeed able to estimate their body condition and to increase their reproductive effort with approaching death, while other studies gave ambiguous results. We investigate whether queens of a perennial social insect (ant) are able to boost their reproduction following infection with an obligate killing pathogen. Social insect queens are special with regard to reproduction and aging, as they outlive conspecific non-reproductive workers. Moreover, in the ant
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