ArticleInsects2019
Subterranean Termite Social Alarm and Hygienic Responses to Fungal Pathogens.
Article in Insects, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- The influence of ergosterol on termites' defenses against Metarhizium infections.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2026Article
- Altruistic disease signalling in ant colonies.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Cross-talk between immunity and behavior: insights from entomopathogenic fungi and their insect hosts.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2024Review
- Subterranean termites raise the alarm when their anti-fungal weapon falters.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2023Article
- Defensive behavior is linked to altered surface chemistry following infection in a termite society.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The effect of ergosterol on the allogrooming behavior of termites in response to the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae.Insect science · 2023Article
- Overcoming Immune Deficiency with Allogrooming.Insects · 2023Article
- The mite Acarus farris inducing defensive behaviors and reducing fitness of termite Coptotermes formosanus: implications for phoresy as a precursor to parasitism.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- A High Soldier Proportion Encouraged the Greater Antifungal Immunity in a Subterranean Termite.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Natural variation in colony inbreeding does not influence susceptibility to a fungal pathogen in a termite.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Prophylactic Avoidance of Hazardous Prey by the Ant HostInsects · 2020Article
- Increased genetic diversity from colony merging in termites does not improve survival against a fungal pathogen.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
In social insects, alerting nestmates to the presence of a pathogen should be critical for limiting its spread and initiating social mechanisms of defense. Here we show that subterranean termites use elevated vibratory alarm behavior to help prevent fatal fungal infections. The elevated alarm leads to elevated social hygiene. This requires that termites coalesce so that they can groom each other's cuticular surfaces of contaminating conidial spores. Groups of 12
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