Thursday, August 28, 2014

Species-specific ant brain manipulation by a specialized fungal parasite

Manipulated dead ant collection and species verification Previous work on Ophiocordyceps in ants has focused on tropical habitats with the consensus that these fungi are uncommon in temperate biomes 26]. However, we discovered a large population of Carpenter ants infected…

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