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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2018

Selection for Collective Aggressiveness Favors Social Susceptibility in Social Spiders.

Jonathan N Pruitt, Colin M Wright, James L L Lichtenstein, Gregory T Chism, Brendan L McEwen, Ambika Kamath, Noa Pinter-Wollman

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
10.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Collective behavior and colony persistence of social spiders depends on their physical environment.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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  7. Physical and social cues shape nest-site preference and prey capture behavior in social spiders.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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  8. Task syndromes: linking personality and task allocation in social animal groups.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Jonathan N PruittDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Marne Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA. Electronic address: agelenopsis@gmail.com.
Colin M WrightDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Marne Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
James L L LichtensteinDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Marne Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
Gregory T ChismGraduate Interdisciplinary Program in Entomology and Insect Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Brendan L McEwenDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 37906, USA.
Ambika KamathDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Marne Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
Noa Pinter-WollmanDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
University of California, Santa Barbara · USUniversity of Arizona · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Modeling how keystone individuals emerge and influence disease transmissionR01GM115509 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI PINTER-WOLLMAN, NOA MICHAL · 2016 to 2020
$2.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM115509
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Particularly socially influential individuals are present in many groups [1-8], but it is unclear whether their emergence is determined by their social influence versus the social susceptibility of others [9]. The social spider Stegodyphus dumicola shows regional variation in apparent leader-follower dynamics. We use this variation to evaluate the relative contributions of leader social influence versus follower social susceptibility in driving this social order. Using chimeric colonies that combine potential leaders and followers, we discover that leader-follower dynamics emerge from the site-specific social susceptibility of followers. We further show that the presence of leaders increases colony survival in environments where leader-follower dynamics occur. Thus, leadership is driven by the "social susceptibility" of the population majority, rather than the social influence of key group members.

Indexed as

Behavior, AnimalEcosystemSelection, GeneticAggressionAnimalsFemaleSocial BehaviorSpidersanimal leadershipbehavioral syndromepersonalitysocial evolutionspiderstemperament

Identifiers

PMID29276129
PMCPMC5871622
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