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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2024

Late-instar monarch caterpillars sabotage milkweed to acquire toxins, not to disarm plant defence.

Anja Betz, Robert Bischoff, Georg Petschenka

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2024. 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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6citing 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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. The lepidopteran analyst: how caterpillars, moths and butterflies encode taste identity and valence.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026
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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

3 authors.

Anja BetzDepartment of Applied Entomology, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9263-6035
Robert BischoffDepartment of Applied Entomology, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6773-375X
Georg PetschenkaDepartment of Applied Entomology, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9639-3042

Funding

German Research Foundation (DFG)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sabotaging milkweed by monarch caterpillars (

Indexed as

AsclepiasButterfliesAnimalsCardenolidesLarvaLatexCardenolidesLatexcardenolidescoevolutionDanaus plexippuslatexsabotagingsequestration

Identifiers

PMID38378155
PMCPMC10878802

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