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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Toll ligand Spätzle3 controls melanization in the stripe pattern formation in caterpillars.

Yûsuke KonDo, Shinichi Yoda, Takayuki Mizoguchi, Toshiya Ando, Junichi Yamaguchi, Kimiko Yamamoto, Yutaka Banno, Haruhiko Fujiwara

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yûsuke KonDoDepartment of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan.
Shinichi YodaDepartment of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan.
Takayuki MizoguchiDepartment of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan.
Toshiya AndoDepartment of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan.
Junichi YamaguchiDepartment of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan.
Kimiko YamamotoDivision of Applied Genetics, Institute of Agrobiological Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8634, Japan.
Yutaka BannoInstitute of Genetic Resources, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
Haruhiko FujiwaraDepartment of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8562, Japan; haruh@edu.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
The University of Tokyo · JPKyushu University · JPNational Agriculture and Food Research Organization · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A stripe pattern is an aposematic or camouflage coloration often observed among various caterpillars. However, how this ecologically important pattern is formed is largely unknown. The silkworm dominant mutant

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsBombyxChromosome MappingInsect ProteinsLarvaMelaninsPhenotypeRNA InterferenceRNA, Small InterferingSkin PigmentationToll-Like Receptor 8Insect ProteinsMelaninsRNA, Small InterferingToll-Like Receptor 8Bombyx morimelanizationSpätzle3striped patternToll signaling pathway

Identifiers

PMID28716921
PMCPMC5547650
OpenAlexW2735403632

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