Biol. Lett. 10, 20140419. (Published online 1 August 2014). (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2014.0419)
The authors of the paper Modlmeier et al. [1] ‘Persistent social interactions beget more pronounced personalities in a desert-dwelling spider’ published in Biology Letters recently scrutinized the raw data associated with the paper, after being made aware of problems in the raw data of a related follow-up study. The data were collected in the laboratory of the last author. The authors detected duplicated values that cannot be adequately explained or corrected. As such, results drawn from these data cannot be considered reliable and the authors, therefore, wish to retract the paper in question.
Reference
1. Modlmeier AP, Laskowski KL, DeMarco AE, Coleman A, Zhao K, Brittingham HA, McDermott DR, Pruitt JN. 2014 Persistent social interactions beget more pronounced personalities in a desert-dwelling social spider. Biol. Lett. 10, 20140419. (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2014.0419)