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Ants, drugs & aphid slaves

October 18, 2007 | Alison | animal behaviour, nature of science, new science stories

I was browsing SciTech Daily Review (always a good source of breaking science stories) when this headline caught my eye: Ants drug their aphid slaves. What a tantalising title! It led me to a just-published article (T.H.Oliver et al. 2007) looking at how ants control the aphids that they 'farm'.

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