Guest-ant social parasites avoid conflict with social hosts using venom signaling

• Matthew R. Boot ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: adams.1970@osu.edu (RMMA), matthew.r.boot@gmail.com (MRB)

  Affiliation Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5939-9610

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• Kyle S. Sozanski,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Mazie Davis,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Tiffin University, Tiffin, Ohio, United States of America

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• Ian M. Hamilton ,

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

  ¶☯These authors contributed equally to this work: IMH and RMMA

  Affiliations Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Rachelle M. M. Adams

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: adams.1970@osu.edu (RMMA), matthew.r.boot@gmail.com (MRB)

  ¶☯These authors contributed equally to this work: IMH and RMMA

  Affiliations Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Ancon, Panamá, República de Panamá, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0918-9861

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