Current Biology
Volume 28, Issue 7, 2 April 2018, Pages R322-R324
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Social Immunity: The Disposable Individual

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Workers in an ant colony can kill fungus-infected brood, thereby protecting the rest of the colony from fungal infection. This form of social immunity is analogous to the immune system of multicellular organisms where immune cells kill infected cells.

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