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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Better safe than sorry: leg amputations as a prophylactic wound care behaviour in carpenter ants.

Seiji Fujimoto, Juan J Lagos-Oviedo, Florian Seibel, Louis Puille, Ronja Hausmann, Eoin Corcoran, Thomas Schmitt, Erik T Frank

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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 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Feeding ecology and behavioral adaptations shape injury patterns in central European ants.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Seiji FujimotoDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, 97074, Germany.
Juan J Lagos-OviedoDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, 97074, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4799-3487
Florian SeibelDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, 97074, Germany.
Louis PuilleDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, 97074, Germany.
Ronja HausmannDepartment of Conservation Biology and Forest Ecology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, 97074, Germany.
Eoin CorcoranDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, 97074, Germany.
Thomas SchmittDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, 97074, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6719-8635
Erik T FrankDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, 97074, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2066-3202

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animals often sustain injuries, which are susceptible to lethal infections. In social insects, wound care behaviours have evolved to reduce these risks. But the limits of wound care behaviours remain unclear. Here we investigated the wound care behaviours of the ant

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AntsBehavior, AnimalAmputation, SurgicalAnimalsExtremitiesPseudomonas aeruginosaSocial BehaviorWound Healingmyrmecologypro social behaviourPseudomonas aeruginosasocial immunitywound infection

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PMID41119996
PMCPMC12539950

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