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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Conversion of social organization in fire ants induced by few colony members: Unmasking indirect genetic effects.

Haolin Zeng, Kenneth G Ross, Takao Sasaki

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Conversion of social organization in fire ants induced by few colony members: Unmasking indirect genetic effects.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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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.

Haolin ZengUniversity of Georgia, Department of Entomology, Athens, GA 30602.ORCID 0000-0002-9921-7335
Kenneth G RossUniversity of Georgia, Department of Entomology, Athens, GA 30602.ORCID 0000-0001-9626-2109
Takao SasakiUniversity of Georgia, Odum School of Ecology, Athens, GA 30602.ORCID 0000-0002-4409-7655

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) 1354479National Science Foundation (NSF) 1755130National Science Foundation (NSF) 2310983Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF) 30059
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genes and the environment jointly shape individual traits, but the influence of indirect genetic effects (IGEs), arising from the genetic composition of interacting conspecific individuals, is often ignored or underemphasized. Moreover, because of practical challenges in characterizing IGEs, empirical research has fallen behind theoretical advancement. The fire ant

Indexed as

AntsBehavior, AnimalSocial BehaviorAggressionAnimalsFemaleFire AntsGenotypecollective decisiongreenbeardindirect genetic effectsminority influencesupergene

Identifiers

PMID40327699
PMCPMC12088393

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