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The excluded characters were characters which we suspected to be functionally coupled with temporary social parasitism, either (i) because of direct functional reasoning, or (ii) because they are known to be correlated with social parasitism in other ant genera which contain both parasitic and non-parasitic species.
In particular, the premotor cortex is an interesting candidate because it has been shown to be functionally coupled with the somatosensory cortex in the absence of proprioceptive feedback [15].
To address potential issues of character exclusion [ 58], we explored the effect of excluding those morphological characters suspected to be functionally coupled with social parasitism by repeating the reconstruction when including them.
We also assessed which morphological characters may be functionally coupled with social parasitism [ 15, 54, 55], because similarities in those characters could reflect convergent adaptations to social parasitic life rather than reflect common ancestry [ 56, 57].
This pattern persisted in the MP analysis when using the concatenated data including those morphological characters suspected to be functionally coupled with social parasitism, with one exception: the node connecting Dendrolasius to Lasius sensu stricto was then no longer supported (Fig. 2).
Including those morphological characters suspected to be functionally coupled with social parasitism, which we therefore had excluded before, resulted in an identical topology, with very similar node support values (Fig. 2), but with a decrease of the value for the node connecting Cautolasius to (Dendrolasius + Lasius sensu stricto) from 0.83 to 0.74.
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It is functionally coupled with COX-2 in marked preference to COX-1.
The proteasome-associated deubiquitinating enzyme USP14 on one hand is functionally coupled with proteasomal activity and on the other hand a critical regulator of synaptic plasticity14.
This enzyme is rather constitutively expressed in various cells and tissues and is functionally coupled with both COX-1 and COX-2.
In other words, the OFC region that coded the net subjective value of the option was functionally coupled with the TPJ in a manner that depended on commitment type and predicted generosity.
The pZBD of GluRS is functionally coupled with the glutamylation of tRNAGlu [ 9, 10, 12].
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