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Research Article

Fire ants self-assemble into waterproof rafts to survive floods

Nathan J. Mlot, Craig A. Tovey, and David L. Hu
  1. aSchools of Mechanical Engineering,
  2. bIndustrial and Systems Engineering, and
  3. cBiology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30318

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PNAS first published April 25, 2011; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1016658108
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  • For correspondence: hu@me.gatech.edu

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