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ArticleNature2022

The pupal moulting fluid has evolved social functions in ants.

Orli Snir, Hanan Alwaseem, Søren Heissel, Anurag Sharma, Stephany Valdés-Rodríguez, Thomas S Carroll, Caroline S Jiang, Jacopo Razzauti, Daniel J C Kronauer

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Article in Nature, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Social control drove ant evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. Division of labour in colony defence in a clonal ant.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  7. From Egg to Adult: A Developmental Table of the Ant Monomorium pharaonis.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2024
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  8. Juvenile hormone as a key regulator for asymmetric caste differentiation in ants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  13. Welcome to the nursery.Nature methods · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Orli SnirLaboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA. osnir@rockefeller.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1693-5949
Hanan AlwaseemProteomics Resource Center, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4946-1436
Søren HeisselProteomics Resource Center, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2692-5602
Anurag SharmaElectron Microscopy Resource Center, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5345-8830
Stephany Valdés-RodríguezLaboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
Thomas S CarrollBioinformatics Resource Center, The Rockefeller University Hospital, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
Caroline S JiangDepartment of Biostatistics, The Rockefeller University Hospital, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
Jacopo RazzautiLaboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2866-9641
Daniel J C KronauerLaboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA. dkronauer@rockefeller.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4103-7729
Rockefeller University · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · USRockefeller University Hospital · US

Funding

Developing, Demonstrating, and Disseminating Innovative Programs to Achieve Translational SuccessUL1TR001866 · NCATS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI COLLER, BARRY, KRUEGER, JAMES G · 2016 to 2025
$40.6M
The Molecular Underpinnings of Complex Social BehaviorR35GM127007 · NIGMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI KRONAUER, DANIEL · 2018 to 2022
$2.6M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001866NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM127007
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Insect societies are tightly integrated, complex biological systems in which group-level properties arise from the interactions between individuals

Indexed as

AntsBody FluidsMoltingPupaSocial BehaviorAnimalsLarva

Identifiers

PMID36450990
PMCPMC9750870
OpenAlexW4310438141

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