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xg15 on April 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Language of fungi derived from their electrical sp...

This is the article I got the info from: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/how-the-z...

This seems to be the referenced paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1711673114

I was wrong about it being from a few months ago though. It was released in 2017 already.

mrtnmcc on April 6, 2022 [–]

It's unclear from that source that the complex fungal network in the ant is in any way important for controlling ant behavior. It's only speculated.

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