Targeted treatment of injured nestmates with antimicrobial compounds in an ant society

Autor: Erik. T. Frank, Lucie Kesner, Joanito Liberti, Quentin Helleu, Adria C. LeBoeuf, Andrei Dascalu, Douglas B. Sponsler, Fumika Azuma, Evan P. Economo, Patrice Waridel, Philipp Engel, Thomas Schmitt, Laurent Keller

Publikováno v: Nature Communications, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2023)

Abstract Infected wounds pose a major mortality risk in animals. Injuries are common in the ant Megaponera analis, which raids pugnacious prey. Here we show that M. analis can determine when wounds are infected and treat them accordingly. By applying

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Social administration of juvenile hormone to larvae increases body size and nutritional needs for pupation

Autor: Matteo A. Negroni, Adria C. LeBoeuf

Publikováno v: Royal Society Open Science, Vol 10, Iss 12 (2023)

Social insects often display extreme variation in body size and morphology within the same colony. In many species, adult morphology is socially regulated by workers during larval development. While larval nutrition may play a role in this regulation

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Biomarkers in a socially exchanged fluid reflect colony maturity, behavior, and distributed metabolism

Autor: Sanja M Hakala, Marie-Pierre Meurville, Michael Stumpe, Adria C LeBoeuf

Publikováno v: eLife, Vol 10 (2021)

In cooperative systems exhibiting division of labor, such as microbial communities, multicellular organisms, and social insect colonies, individual units share costs and benefits through both task specialization and exchanged materials. Socially exch

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Socially transferred materials:why and how to study them

Autor: Sanja Maria Hakala, Haruna Fujioka, Katharina Gapp, Ornela De Gasperin, Eléonore Genzoni, Rebecca M. Kilner, Joris M. Koene, Barbara König, Timothy A. Linksvayer, Marie-Pierre Meurville, Matteo A. Negroni, Hugo Palejowski, Stuart Wigby, Adria C. LeBoeuf

Publikováno v: Hakala, S M, Fujioka, H, Gapp, K, De Gasperin, O, Genzoni, E, Kilner, R M, Koene, J M, König, B, Linksvayer, T A, Meurville, M P, Negroni, M A, Palejowski, H, Wigby, S & LeBoeuf, A C 2023, ' Socially transferred materials : why and how to study them ', Trends In Ecology and Evolution, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 446-458 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.11.010
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 38 (5)

When biological material is transferred from one individual’s body to another, as in ejaculate, eggs, and milk, secondary donor-produced molecules are often transferred along with the main cargo, and influence the physiology and fitness of the rece

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Hematopoietic ABCA1 deletion promotes monocytosis and worsens diet-induced insulin resistance in mice

Autor: Chongren Tang, Yuhua Liu, Wendy Yang, Carl Storey, Tim S. McMillen, Barbara A. Houston, Jay W. Heinecke, Renee C. LeBoeuf

Publikováno v: Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 57, Iss 1, Pp 100-108 (2016)

Low-grade chronic inflammation plays an important role in the pathogenesis of obesity-induced insulin resistance. ABCA1 is essential for reverse cholesterol transport and HDL synthesis, and protects against macrophage inflammation. In the present stu

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