Cremer

American  

[kree-mer] / ˈkri mər /

noun

1. Sir William Randal, 1838–1908, English union organizer: Nobel Peace Prize 1903.

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Example Sentences

Cremer concludes, "This precise coordination between the individual and colony level is what makes this altruistic disease signaling so effective."

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"We extracted the smell from the signaling pupae and applied it to healthy brood," Cremer says.

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"What appears to be self-sacrifice at first glance is, in fact, also beneficial to the signaler: it safeguards its nestmates, with whom it shares many genes. By warning the colony of their deadly infection, terminally ill ants help the colony remain healthy and produce daughter colonies, which indirectly pass on the signaler's genes to the next generation," explains Erika Dawson, first author of the study and former postdoc in the Social Immunity' research group headed by Sylvia Cremer at ISTA.

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Cremer explains, "Adult ants that approach death leave the nest to die outside the colony. Similarly, workers that have been exposed to fungal spores practice social distancing."

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"The signal must be both sensitive and specific," Cremer adds.

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