ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
The non-additive effects of body size on nest architecture in a polymorphic ant.
Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Pooled it
- Colony demographics shape nest construction ineLife · 2026Article
- The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- TManual: Assistant for manually measuring length development in structures built by animals.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Manipulating nest architecture reveals three-dimensional building strategies and colony resilience in honeybees.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Response thresholds alone cannot explain empirical patterns of division of labor in social insects.PLoS biology · 2021Article
- The effect of nest topology on spatial organization and recruitment in the red ant Myrmica rubra.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2020Article
- A new framework for growth curve fitting based on the von Bertalanffy Growth Function.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Interdisciplinary approaches for uncovering the impacts of architecture on collective behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Harvester ant nest architecture is more strongly affected by intrinsic than extrinsic factors.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Like traditional organisms, eusocial insect societies express traits that are the target of natural selection. Variation at the colony level emerges from the combined attributes of thousands of workers and may yield characteristics not predicted from individual phenotypes. By manipulating the ratios of worker types, the basis of complex, colony-level traits can be reduced to the additive and non-additive interactions of their component parts. In this study, we investigated the independent and synergistic effects of body size on nest architecture in a seasonally polymorphic harvester ant,
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.