Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38916816›Full record

ArticleDie Naturwissenschaften2024

The long proboscis of the aphid Stomaphis yanonis (Aphididae Lachninae) is advantageous for avoiding predation by tending ants.

Takumi Matsuura, Shunsuke Nakamura, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Tsubasa Toji, Takao Itino

Erratum issuedAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Die Naturwissenschaften, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Takumi MatsuuraGraduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, 3-1-1 Asahi, Nagano, 390-8621, Japan. matsuura016@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3472-8473
Shunsuke NakamuraGraduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, 3-1-1 Asahi, Nagano, 390-8621, Japan.
Tetsuya YamamotoGraduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Science, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Tsubasa TojiDepartment of Biosciences, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan.
Takao ItinoInstitute of Mountain Science, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan.

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 16J09182Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 21K19294
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whether in ant-aphid mutualism the ants exert evolutionary selection pressure on aphid morphology has not yet been fully tested. Here, we tested whether the long proboscises of Stomaphis yanonis (Aphididae Lachninae) aphids confer an advantage in preventing predation by the tending ants. Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that aphids with a shorter proboscis would excrete less honeydew, making them more likely to be preyed upon by ants. Our results showed that aphid individuals with a shorter proboscis took up less phloem sap and excreted less honeydew than individuals with a longer proboscis. In addition, among aphids with a similar body size, those with a shorter proboscis were more susceptible to predation by ants than those with a longer proboscis. These results suggest that predation by tending ants, by exerting selection pressure on aphid proboscis morphology, has caused the aphids to evolve longer proboscises.

Indexed as

AntsAphidsPredatory BehaviorAnimalsSymbiosisAnt-aphid mutualismHoneydewPhloem sapPredationProboscis lengthSelection pressure

Identifiers

PMID38916816
PMCPMC11839873

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.