Life histories and parasite pressure across the major groups of social insects.

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Immune pathways and defence mechanisms in honey bees Apis mellifera (2006, background): “Data on parasite and pathogen abundance across social (e.g. Boomsma et al., 2005) and solitary insects could be used as a surrogate for disease loads in different taxa, although field and epidemiological data are most needed to assess the relative fitness impacts of disease and the efficacies of dif”