Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34428943›Full record

ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2021

Biomechanics of pollen pellet removal by the honey bee.

Marguerite Matherne, Caroline Dowell-Esquivel, Oliver Howington, Olivia Lenaghan, Gabi Steinbach, Peter J Yunker, David L Hu

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Within and Between-Leg Oil Transfer in an Oil Bee.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2025
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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.

Marguerite MatherneSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Caroline Dowell-EsquivelSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Oliver HowingtonSchool of Biology, University of North Georgia, Oakwood, GA 30566, USA.
Olivia LenaghanSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Gabi SteinbachSchool of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Peter J YunkerSchool of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
David L HuSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Honey bees (

Indexed as

PollenPollinationAnimalsBeesBiomechanical PhenomenaBiophysicsPlant NectarPlant Nectarhoney beepollenpollinationviscoelastic

Identifiers

PMID34428943
PMCPMC8385348

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