Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28062561›Full record

ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2017

Sperm Sensory Signaling.

Dagmar Wachten, Jan F Jikeli, U Benjamin Kaupp

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. From reservoir to rendezvous: the journey of sperm through the oviduct.Reproduction, fertility, and development · 2026
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  19. Reconstruction of the birth of a male sex chromosome present in Atlantic herring.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dagmar WachtenMinerva Max Planck Research Group, Molecular Physiology, Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar), 53175 Bonn, Germany.
Jan F JikeliMinerva Max Planck Research Group, Molecular Physiology, Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar), 53175 Bonn, Germany.
U Benjamin KauppDepartment Molecular Sensory Systems, Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar), 53175 Bonn, Germany.
Center of Advanced European Studies and Research · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fertilization is exceptionally complex and, depending on the species, happens in entirely different environments. External fertilizers in aquatic habitats, like marine invertebrates or fish, release their gametes into the seawater or freshwater, whereas sperm from most internal fertilizers like mammals cross the female genital tract to make their way to the egg. Various chemical and physical cues guide sperm to the egg. Quite generally, these cues enable signaling pathways that ultimately evoke a cellular Ca

Indexed as

FertilizationAnimalsCalcium ChannelsCalcium SignalingChemotaxisFlagellaHumansMaleMiceSea UrchinsSpecies SpecificitySpermatozoaZebrafishCalcium Channels

Identifiers

PMID28062561
PMCPMC5495058
OpenAlexW2566532734

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Registered trials

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