tailieunhanh - Immune challenge reduces gut microbial diversity and triggers fertility-dependent gene expression changes in a social insect

The gut microbiome can influence life history traits associated with host fitness such as fecundity and longevity. In most organisms, these two life history traits are traded-off, while they are positively linked in social insects. In ants, highly fecund queens can live for decades, while their non-reproducing workers exhibit much shorter lifespans. |

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