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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017

Vision in dim light: highlights and challenges.

David C O'Carroll, Eric J Warrant

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In one paragraph

Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
19citing 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

19 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. The Effects of Light on Vertebrate Welfare: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  4. Nocturnal camouflage through background matching against moonlight.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Artificial light at night: a global disruptor of the night-time environment.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
    Review
  7. Article
  8. NocturnaliScience · 2022
    Article
  9. AInsects · 2021
    Review
  10. Evolutionary constraints on flicker fusion frequency in Lepidoptera.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020
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  18. [Comparative analysis of light sensitivity, depth and motion perception in animals and humans].Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft · 2017
    Review
  19. The remarkable visual capacities of nocturnal insects: vision at the limits with small eyes and tiny brains.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017
    Review
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

2 authors.

David C O'CarrollDepartment of Biology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-2352-4320
Eric J WarrantDepartment of Biology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden eric.warrant@biol.lu.se.ORCID 0000-0001-7480-7016

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

DarknessLightVision, OcularAnimalsInsectaInvertebratesMiceVertebrates

Identifiers

PMID28193807
PMCPMC5312012

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Registered trials

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