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ArticleNature ecology & evolution2017

Sperm and sex peptide stimulate aggression in female Drosophila.

Eleanor Bath, Samuel Bowden, Carla Peters, Anjali Reddy, Joseph A Tobias, Evan Easton-Calabria, Nathalie Seddon, Stephen F Goodwin, Stuart Wigby

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Article in Nature ecology & evolution, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
16.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Time series transcriptome analysis implicates the circadian clock in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  16. The evolution of sex peptide: sexual conflict, cooperation, and coevolution.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eleanor BathEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3PS.
Samuel BowdenEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3PS.
Carla PetersEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3PS.
Anjali ReddyEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3PS.
Joseph A TobiasEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3PS.
Evan Easton-CalabriaDepartment of International Development, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3TB.
Nathalie SeddonEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3PS.
Stephen F GoodwinCentre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3SR.
Stuart WigbyEdward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3PS.
University of Oxford · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/K014544/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Female aggression towards other females is associated with reproduction in many taxa, and traditionally thought to be related to the protection or provisioning of offspring, such as through increased resource acquisition. However, the underlying reproductive factors causing aggressive behaviour in females remain unknown. Here we show that female aggression in the fruit fly

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PMCPMC5447820
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