Within the fortress: A specialized parasite is not discriminated against in a social insect society

Emilia Solá Gracia; Charissa de Bekker; Ephraim M. Hanks; David P. Hughes

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0193536

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Within the fortress: A specialized parasite is not discriminated against in a social insect society

Emilia Solá Gracia ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: exs399@psu.edu (ESG); dph14@psu.edu (DPH)

Affiliations Ecology Program, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Centre for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9566-8895

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Charissa de Bekker,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America
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Ephraim M. Hanks,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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David P. Hughes

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: exs399@psu.edu (ESG); dph14@psu.edu (DPH)

Affiliations Centre for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Within the fortress: A specialized parasite is not discriminated against in a social insect society

Emilia Solá Gracia,
Charissa de Bekker,
Ephraim M. Hanks,
David P. Hughes

Published: February 23, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193536

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