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ArticleRoyal Society open science2017

Heritable variation in colour patterns mediating individual recognition.

Michael J Sheehan, Juanita Choo, Elizabeth A Tibbetts

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cryptic Ontogenetic Changes in the Ventral Coloration of a Color Polymorphic Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis).Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2026
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  4. Evolutionary dynamics of recent selection on cognitive abilities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  5. Signal function drives phenotypic and genetic diversity: the effects of signalling individual identity, quality or behavioural strategy.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017
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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 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Michael J SheehanDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca 14853, NY, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48190, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3949-7873
Juanita ChooDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48190, MI, USA; Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan.
Elizabeth A TibbettsDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor 48190, MI , USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5625-892X
Cornell University · USOkinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University · JPUniversity of Michigan · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the developmental and evolutionary processes that generate and maintain variation in natural populations remains a major challenge for modern biology. Populations of

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animal modelcolour patterninggenetic architectureindividual recognitionnegative frequency-dependent selectionpaper wasps

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PMID28386452
PMCPMC5367277
OpenAlexW2589714988

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Registered trials

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