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Larger, more connected societies of ants have a higher prevalence of viruses = Las sociedades de hormigas más grandes y conectadas tienen una mayor prevalencia de virus

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Año de publicación 2021
Idioma Inglés
Publicado por Molecular Ecology

Descripción: Abstract: The benefits of cooperative living for foraging, nesting, defence and buffering envi- ronmental challenges lead animals with the most highly social lifestyles to dominate many ecosystems. However, living in larger, more highly connected groups should also increase the risks of pathogen exposure and transmission. While over long timescales selective responses could buffer the impacts of potential higher pathogen prevalence, similar processes are unlikely over short timescales. The red fire ant Solenopsis in- victa is ideal for measuring the effects of group size on pathogen prevalence because two types of society coexist in this species: smaller single-nest single-queen colonies that are highly aggressive to their neighbours and larger multiple-queen colonies that exchange resources with neighbouring nests. We compare the presence of viruses between these two colony types using metagenomic sequence classification of RNA- sequencing reads. We find that queens from multiple-queen colonies have 8.3-times higher viral load and 1.5-times higher viral diversity than queens from single-queen colonies. This finding characterizes a rarely considered cost of transitions to more highly social living. Furthermore, our results show that highly social invertebrates can harbour many viruses.
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: Anindita; Gray León Brahma, "Larger, more connected societies of ants have a higher prevalence of viruses = Las sociedades de hormigas más grandes y conectadas tienen una mayor prevalencia de virus", Colombia:Molecular Ecology, 2021. Consultado en línea en la Biblioteca Digital de Bogotá (https://www.bibliotecadigitaldebogota.gov.co/resources/3711505/), el día 2025-05-26.

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Larger, more connected societies of ants have a higher prevalence of viruses = Las sociedades de hormigas más grandes y conectadas tienen una mayor prevalencia de virus

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