Review of: "A Developmental Table for the Florida Carpenter Ant 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴: Establishing Foundations for Mechanistic Studies of Development and Evolution in Ants"
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The authors present a detailed, image-rich developmental staging table for the Florida carpenter ant Camponotus oridanus, describing 17 embryonic stages, four larval instars, and daily pupal progression using a mix of xed-uorescent and live time-lapse imaging.Strengths include high temporal resolution time-lapses (5-min intervals across 14 days), combined DIC/confocal imaging, careful morphological descriptions (including gut colour staging and mandibular measurements), and practical staging landmarks intended to enable mechanistic work in eco-evo-devo.The manuscript is thorough descriptively and contains many useful operational details (e.g., embryo xation, imaging pipelines, and rearing conditions).However, the work leans heavily on descriptive morphology from a small number of colonies/individuals in some critical assays and occasionally asserts interspeci c "signi cant" differences without documenting the statistical procedure or sample sizes. I enjoyed reading this enriched dataset and the very well-written manuscript.Critical points:The paper reports interspeci c comparisons (e.g., stages "signi cantly longer" or "13 times slower than Drosophila") but does not present the statistical tests, sample sizes per compared stage, con dence intervals, or p-values in the manuscript-there is no statistical analysis protocol in Materials and Methods tied to these claims.
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