Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36416032›Full record

ArticleBiology letters2022

An Eocene army ant.

Christine E Sosiak, Marek L Borowiec, Phillip Barden

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Article in Biology letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Christine E SosiakFederated Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9057-8636
Marek L BorowiecDepartment of Agricultural Biology and C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Colorado State University, CO 80523, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7510-4064
Phillip BardenFederated Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6277-320X
New Jersey Institute of Technology · USColorado State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among social insects, army ants are exceptional in their voracious coordinated predation, nomadic life history and highly specialized wingless queens: the synthesis of these remarkable traits is referred to as the army ant syndrome. Despite molecular evidence that the army ant syndrome evolved twice during the mid-Cenozoic, once in the Neotropics and once in the Afrotropics, fossil army ants are markedly scarce, comprising a single known species from the Caribbean 16 Ma. Here we report the oldest army ant fossil and the first from the Eastern Hemisphere (EH),

Indexed as

AntsAnimalsCaribbean RegionEuropeFossilsPredatory Behaviorarmy antBaltic amberCenozoicpalaeontologysystematics

Identifiers

PMID36416032
PMCPMC9682434
OpenAlexW4309723642

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Registered trials

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