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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Disease from leaves to landscapes: viral hotspots are determined by spatial arrangement and phytochemistry of host plants in specialist caterpillars.

Tara Christensen, Angela M Smilanich, Adrian Carper, Victoria Peechatt, M Deane Bowers, Matthew L Forister, Mike B Teglas, Paul Hurtado, Lee A Dyer

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Tara ChristensenProgram in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3237-9049
Angela M SmilanichProgram in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV, USA.
Adrian CarperDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, 1900 Pleasant St, Boulder, CO, USA.
Victoria PeechattProgram in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV, USA.
M Deane BowersDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, 1900 Pleasant St, Boulder, CO, USA.
Matthew L ForisterProgram in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2765-4779
Mike B TeglasProgram in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV, USA.
Paul HurtadoProgram in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV, USA.
Lee A DyerProgram in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV, USA.

Funding

Directorate for Biological Sciences
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although infectious diseases play a critical role in population regulation, our knowledge of complex drivers of disease for insects is limited. We conducted a field study on Baltimore checkerspot caterpillars (

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MothsPlant DiseasesAnimalsIridoid GlycosidesLarvaPlant LeavesIridoid Glycosideschemical ecologydisease ecologyinsect diseaseplant-insect-pathogen interactionsspatial ecologytritrophic interactions

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PMID39999890
PMCPMC11858745

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