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ArticleNature ecology & evolution2017

Young Genes are Highly Disordered as Predicted by the Preadaptation Hypothesis of

Benjamin A Wilson, Scott G Foy, Rafik Neme, Joanna Masel

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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 97 papers.

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97citing papers in PubMed
7.6field-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

97 citing papers in PubMed, 180 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Orphan genes are not a distinct biological entity.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  17. Chromoanagenesis and Beyond: Catastrophic Events Shaping the Genome.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  18. Chromothripsis.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  20. De Novo Genes.Annual review of genetics · 2024
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37 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Benjamin A Wilson *Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.
Scott G Foy *Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.
Rafik NemeDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.
Joanna MaselDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.
University of Arizona · USMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology · DE

Funding

THE CONVERSION OF NONCODING SEQUENCES INTO PROTEINSR01GM104040 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI CORDES, MATTHEW HJ, MASEL, JOANNA · 2013 to 2016
$839k
European Research Council 322564NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM104040
6 · The paper itself

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