Correction to: The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches

Ugelvig, Line V.; Drijfhout, Falko P.; Kronauer, Daniel J. C.; Boomsma, Jacobus J.; Pedersen, Jes S.; Cremer, Sylvia

Abstract

Reinvestigation of the raw data revealed an unfortunate error in Ugelvig et al. 2008 [1]. Our estimates of the area over which ant populations occurred erroneously entered diameters rather than radii in the ellipse area equation, which implied that population sizes were 4-fold overestimated except for one case (Warsaw) where we used a direct record of estimated area.

We here provide the corrected estimates in a new version of Table 1 and a new version of Fig. 5 in which relative population sizes were presented as diameters of the circles plotted. Moreover, we report the corrected statistical outcomes of the Pearson correlation tests between population size and age, chemical variation and allelic richness of populations. None of the conclusions in our paper is affected by this mistake, but correcting a 4-fold estimation error is important for future use of our data, because the new areas, for example, indicate that invasive populations of Lasius neglectus are detectable at smaller sizes than our previous estimates suggested.

Citation

Ugelvig, L. V., Drijfhout, F. P., Kronauer, D. J. C., Boomsma, J. J., Pedersen, J. S., & Cremer, S. (2018). Correction to: The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches. BMC Biology, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0604-6

• Journal Article Type: Addendum
• Online Publication Date: Oct 30, 2018
• Publication Date: 2018-12
• Deposit Date: Jun 15, 2023
• Journal: BMC Biology
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0604-6
• Keywords: Cell Biology; Developmental Biology; Plant Science; General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Biotechnology
• Additional Information: Received: 16 October 2018; Accepted: 16 October 2018; First Online: 30 October 2018