TROPICAL PARABIOTIC ANTS: HIGHLY UNUSUAL CUTICULAR SUBSTANCES AND LOW INTERSPECIFIC DISCRIMINATION

Abstract Background Associations between animal species require that at least one of the species recognizes its partner.Parabioses are associations of two ant species which co-inhabit the same nest.Ants usually possess an elaborate nestmate recognition system, which is based on cuticular hydrocarbons and allows them to distinguish nestmates from no

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) refers to a common ogee skirt disease in orthopaedics, whereas effective treatments have been rarely developed.As indicated from existing studies, chondrocyte death, extracellular matrix degradation and subchondral bone injury are recognized as the pathological basis of KOA.The present study aimed to determine the therapeu