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Healthy workers of the invasive garden ant (Lasius neglectus) remove an infectious fungal pathogen

Healthy workers of the invasive garden ant (Lasius neglectus) remove an infectious fungal pathogen
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Description: Healthy workers of the invasive garden ant (Lasius neglectus) remove an infectious fungal pathogen (Metarhizium anisopliae) from an exposed nestmate by allogrooming. The pathogen-exposed individual was color-marked in order to distinguish it from the healthy ants.
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