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ArticleCurrent zoology2022

Masquerading predators deceive prey by aggressively mimicking bird droppings in a crab spider.

Long Yu, Xin Xu, Zengtao Zhang, Christina J Painting, Xiaodong Yang, Daiqin Li

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Article in Current zoology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Long YuState Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering of China & Centre for Behavioural Ecology & Evolution, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5675-1864
Xin XuState Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering of China & Centre for Behavioural Ecology & Evolution, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5632-6622
Zengtao ZhangState Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering of China & Centre for Behavioural Ecology & Evolution, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China.
Christina J PaintingTe Aka Mātuatua School of Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0701-2648
Xiaodong YangCAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan 666303, China.
Daiqin LiDepartment of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, 117543, Singapore.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8269-7734

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In aggressive mimicry, a predator accesses prey by mimicking the appearance and/or behavior of a harmless or beneficial model in order to avoid being correctly identified by its prey. The crab spider genus

Indexed as

aggressive mimicryluremanipulated spidersmasqueradePhrynarachne ceylonicaprey attraction

Identifiers

PMID35592341
PMCPMC9113284

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