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ArticleInsects2018

Veronica M Sinotte, Samantha N Freedman, Line V Ugelvig, Marc A Seid

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Article in Insects, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A bacterial symbiont and a plant virus enhance insect fitness by inducing physical defenses against fungal parasites.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  3. Unraveling the Role of Antimicrobial Peptides in Insects.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  4. Endosymbiosis allowsFrontiers in microbiology · 2023
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  11. Links between metamorphosis and symbiosis in holometabolous insects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Veronica M SinotteDepartment of Biology, Program of Neuroscience, University of Scranton, Loyola Science Center, Scranton, PA 1851-4699, USA. csp839@alumni.ku.dk.
Samantha N FreedmanDepartment of Biology, Program of Neuroscience, University of Scranton, Loyola Science Center, Scranton, PA 1851-4699, USA. samantha-freedman@uiowa.edu.
Line V UgelvigCentre for Social Evolution, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. lvugelvig@bio.ku.dk.ORCID 0000-0003-1832-8883
Marc A SeidDepartment of Biology, Program of Neuroscience, University of Scranton, Loyola Science Center, Scranton, PA 1851-4699, USA. marc.seid@scranton.edu.
University of Copenhagen · DKUniversity of Scranton · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Various insects engage in microbial mutualisms in which the reciprocal benefits exceed the costs. Ants of the genus

Indexed as

Camponotuscaste polymorphismdisease susceptibilitymelanisationMetarhiziumprimary endosymbiont

Identifiers

PMID29857577
PMCPMC6023366
OpenAlexW2805787222

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Registered trials

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