Retraction Note to: Prolonged food restriction decreases body condition and reduces repeatability in personality traits in web-building spiders (Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, (2016), 70, 11, (1793-1803), 10.1007/s00265-016-2184-1)

James L.L. Lichtenstein, Nicholas DiRienzo, Karen Knutson, Candice Kuo, Katherine C. Zhao, Hayley A. Brittingham, Sara E. Geary, Sam Ministero, Henry K. Rice, Zachary David, Inon Scharf, Jonathan N. Pruitt

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This article (Lichtenstein et al. 2016) has been retracted by the Editors-in-Chief at the request of authors James Lichtenstein, Nicholas DiRenzo and Zachary David. After publication the authors found anomalies in the raw data that were collected. The conclusions presented based on these data are therefore unreliable. Katherine Zhao, Sara Geary, Sam Ministero and Inon Scharf agree with this retraction. Jonathan Pruitt does not agree with this retraction. Karen Knutson, Candice Kuo, Hayley Brittingham and Henry Rice have not responded to correspondence from the Editors-in-Chief or the Publisher about this retraction.

Original languageAmerican English
Article number63
JournalBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Volume75
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Mar 2021

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Animal Science and Zoology

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