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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2017

Distinctive fungal communities in an obligate African ant-plant mutualism.

Christopher C M Baker, Dino J Martins, Julianne N Pelaez, Johan P J Billen, Anne Pringle, Megan E Frederickson, Naomi E Pierce

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Microbe Profile:Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2025
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  2. Ant's Nest as a microenvironment: DistinctEcology and evolution · 2024
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  8. Applied and environmental microbiology · 2020
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  12. The interactions of ants with their biotic environment.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Christopher C M BakerDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2675-1078
Dino J MartinsMpala Research Centre, PO Box 555, Nanyuki 10400, Kenya.
Julianne N PelaezDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6110-1794
Johan P J BillenDepartment of Biology, KU Leuven, Naamsestraat 59 - Box 2466, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2392-7293
Anne PringleDepartment of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1526-6739
Megan E FredericksonDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B2.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9058-7137
Naomi E PierceDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA npierce@oeb.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3366-1625

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three ant species nest obligately in the swollen-thorn domatia of the African ant-plant

Indexed as

AntsDNA Barcoding, TaxonomicFungiSymbiosisAnimalsFemaleKenyafungiinsectsmetabarcodingspecies interactionsTetraponeraVachellia (Acacia) drepanolobium

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PMID28298347
PMCPMC5360918

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