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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021

Multi-level social organization and nest-drifting behaviour in a eusocial insect.

Thibault Lengronne, David Mlynski, Solenn Patalano, Richard James, Laurent Keller, Seirian Sumner

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Close encounters of the friendly kind: pacific between-group interactions in primates.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
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  3. Multi-level societies: different tasks at different social levels.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  4. Paper wasps: A model clade for social cognition.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Thibault LengronneDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
David MlynskiDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry (plus CNCB), University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.
Solenn PatalanoInstitute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK.
Richard JamesDepartment of Physics and Centre for Networks and Collective Behaviour, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.
Laurent KellerDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Seirian SumnerInstitute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK.
Zoological Society of London · GBUniversity of Bath · GBUniversity of Lausanne · CH

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stable social groups usually consist of families. However, recent studies have revealed higher level social structure, with interactions between family groups across different levels of social organization in multiple species. The explanations for why this apparently paradoxical behaviour arises appear to be varied and remain untested. Here, we use automated radio-tagging data from over 1000 wasps from 93 nests and social network analyses of over 30 000 nest visitation records to describe and explain interactions across levels of social organization in the eusocial paper wasp

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Nesting BehaviorWaspsAnimalsEcosystemSocial BehaviorSocial Interactionnest driftingPolistes paper waspssocial evolutionsocial network analyses

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PMID33947238
PMCPMC8097211
OpenAlexW3157138708

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