Injury-dependent wound care behavior in the desert ant Cataglyphis nodus
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-024-03511-1#citeas" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-024-03511-1#citeas</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-024-03511-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00265-024-03511-1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Injury-dependent wound care behavior in the desert ant Cataglyphis nodus
Original language description
Ants often face injuries during foraging, or interspecific competition, elevating infection risk and mortality among the wounded. To avoid this, ants engage in wound care on injured nestmates as a form of social immunity. In this study, we show that Cataglyphis nodus desert ants perform differentiated wound care behavior, depending on wound location and state. Leg-injured ants received significantly more wound care than antenna-injured ants. However, leg wounds with induced infections received barely any wound care from nestmates, leading to similar levels of mortality in isolation and inside the nest. Instead, such leg-infected ants were mainly found outside of the nest. Infections of antennal wounds showed no change in the level of wound care, nor increased mortality. Our results suggest that the level of wound care in ants can be flexibly adjusted to the perceived mortality risk of injuries. Leg injuries pose a greater risk of infection and mortality compared to antennal injuries, likely because of the larger wound area and increased vascular circulation, necessitating intensive prophylactic care to prevent infection. This study is the first to show wound care in Cataglyphis ants, despite their short lifespan, and offers significant insights into social immunity mechanisms.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
ISSN
0340-5443
e-ISSN
1432-0762
Volume of the periodical
78
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1-10
UT code for WoS article
001298018100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85201981350