Abdominal microbial communities in ants depend on colony membership rather than caste and are linked to colony productivity
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Summary
This study is the first to find associations between abdominal microbiome characteristics and colony productivity in social insects, and interestingly, colonies with more diverse communities had produced more brood.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2019-11-14
- Cited by
- 27
- References
- 107
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W2984358327
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:209445751
Keywords
Caste, Productivity, Biology, Ecology, Economics
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