Sentence examples for brain of the ant from inspiring English sources

At one point, he suggests that insect colonies will outlive human civilisation: "The collective brain of the ant colony is outside the body of any individual ant.

grown beside the brain of one ant species with it grown beside the brain of another is not the best approach when the aim is to specifically study the fungal secretome.

"There's a fungus that takes over the brain of an ant and forces it to do things it wouldn't ever want to do -- like climb to the top of a tree and clamp onto a leaf with its jaw, where it dies, and then the fungus grows out of its head and rains spores down onto its family," said "Wormhole" supervising producer Megan Parlen.

Rather, another organism has taken charge of the ant's brain and to reproduce it needs the ant to be eaten by a cow.

This so-called zombie or brain-manipulating fungus alters the behaviour of the ant host, causing it to die in an exposed position, typically clinging onto and biting into the adaxial surface of shrub leaves.

To estimate genome sizes, we dissected brains from the ant species under consideration and from the yellow-white strain of Drosophila melanogaster.

They exposed the isolated brains of several ant species to one of the fungi, but only in the target ant did it make the right mind-altering chemicals.

Leaf-cutting ants are the farmers of the ant world.

"Most of the ant specimens belong to a big ant species with a powerful sting.

Boric acid penetrates the ant's body and dissolves inside of the ant.

indeed reacts heterogeneously to the brains of different ant species.