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DOI | 10.1111/ele.13907 |
Early queen infection shapes developmental dynamics and induces long-term disease protection in incipient ant colonies | |
Barbara Casillas-Pé; rez; Christopher D. Pull; Filip Naiser; Elisabeth Naderlinger; Jiri Matas; Sylvia Cremer | |
2021-11-01 | |
发表期刊 | Ecology Letters |
出版年 | 2021 |
英文摘要 | Infections early in life can have enduring effects on an organism's development and immunity. In this study, we show that this equally applies to developing ‘superorganisms’––incipient social insect colonies. When we exposed newly mated Lasius niger ant queens to a low pathogen dose, their colonies grew more slowly than controls before winter, but reached similar sizes afterwards. Independent of exposure, queen hibernation survival improved when the ratio of pupae to workers was small. Queens that reared fewer pupae before worker emergence exhibited lower pathogen levels, indicating that high brood rearing efforts interfere with the ability of the queen's immune system to suppress pathogen proliferation. Early-life queen pathogen exposure also improved the immunocompetence of her worker offspring, as demonstrated by challenging the workers to the same pathogen a year later. Transgenerational transfer of the queen's pathogen experience to her workforce can hence durably reduce the disease susceptibility of the whole superorganism. |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/340931 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Barbara Casillas-Pé,rez,Christopher D. Pull,et al. Early queen infection shapes developmental dynamics and induces long-term disease protection in incipient ant colonies[J]. Ecology Letters,2021. |
APA | Barbara Casillas-Pé.,rez.,Christopher D. Pull.,Filip Naiser.,Elisabeth Naderlinger.,...&Sylvia Cremer.(2021).Early queen infection shapes developmental dynamics and induces long-term disease protection in incipient ant colonies.Ecology Letters. |
MLA | Barbara Casillas-Pé,et al."Early queen infection shapes developmental dynamics and induces long-term disease protection in incipient ant colonies".Ecology Letters (2021). |
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