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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2017

What shapes the continuum of reproductive isolation? Lessons from

C Mérot, C Salazar, R M Merrill, C D Jiggins, M Joron

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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38citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
14.0field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Speciation through chromosomal fusion and fission in Lepidoptera.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
    Pooled it
  2. Evolutionary dynamics of pre- and postzygotic reproductive isolation in cichlid fishes.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
    Pooled it
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  10. Mutualisms within light microhabitats are associated with sensory convergence in a mimetic butterfly community.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  14. How Important Is Sexual Isolation to Speciation?Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024
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  18. Secondary contact rather than coexistence-Erebia butterflies in the Alps.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022
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  19. What is reproductive isolation?Journal of evolutionary biology · 2022
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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

5 authors at 4 institutions in 5 countries.

C MérotISYEB UMR 7205, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 45 rue Buffon, Paris, France claire.merot@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2607-7818
C SalazarBiology Program, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Universidad del Rosario, Carrera, 24 No 63C-69, Bogota D.C., 111221, Colombia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9217-6588
R M MerrillDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4527-9298
C D JigginsDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7809-062X
M JoronISYEB UMR 7205, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 45 rue Buffon, Paris, France mathieu.joron@cefe.cnrs.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1043-4147
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute · PACentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRInstitut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité · FRUniversidad del Rosario · CO

Funding

European Research Council 243179European Research Council 339873
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The process by which species evolve can be illuminated by investigating barriers that limit gene flow between taxa. Recent radiations, such as

Indexed as

Genetic SpeciationReproductive IsolationWings, AnimalAnimalsButterfliesGene FlowPhylogenyPigmentationhybrid sterilityLepidopteramagic traitmate choicereproductive barriersspeciation

Identifiers

PMID28592669
PMCPMC5474069
OpenAlexW2595733370

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