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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023

Queens control caste allocation in the ant

Eva Schultner, Tobias Wallner, Benjamin Dofka, Jeanne Brülhart, Jürgen Heinze, Dalial Freitak, Tamara Pokorny, Jan Oettler

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2023. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. The pace and shape of ant ageing.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
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  3. Innovation in ant larval feeding facilitated queen-worker divergence and social complexity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Queens control caste allocation in the antProceedings. Biological sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Eva SchultnerZoology/Evolutionary Biology, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5069-9732
Tobias WallnerZoology/Evolutionary Biology, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
Benjamin DofkaZoology/Evolutionary Biology, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
Jeanne BrülhartZoology/Evolutionary Biology, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4120-5622
Jürgen HeinzeZoology/Evolutionary Biology, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
Dalial FreitakInstitute for Biology, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, 8010 Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-8574-0531
Tamara PokornyZoology/Evolutionary Biology, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
Jan OettlerZoology/Evolutionary Biology, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8539-6029
University of Regensburg · DEUniversity of Graz · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social insect queens and workers can engage in conflict over reproductive allocation when they have different fitness optima. Here, we show that queens have control over queen-worker caste allocation in the ant

Indexed as

AntsAnimalsLarvaPhenotypeReproductioncaste determinationconflictcooperationsocial evolutionsuperorganism

Identifiers

PMID36750190
PMCPMC9904955
OpenAlexW4319336899

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