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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017

Time is honey: circadian clocks of bees and flowers and how their interactions may influence ecological communities.

Guy Bloch, Noam Bar-Shai, Yotam Cytter, Rachel Green

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
46citing papers in PubMed
13.1field-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

46 citing papers in PubMed, 127 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Time to start taking time seriously: how to investigate unexpected biological rhythms within infectious disease research.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  13. A versatile recording device for the analysis of continuous daily external activity in colonies of highly eusocial bees.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2024
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  15. Day-night gene expression reveals circadian geneProceedings. Biological sciences · 2024
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  17. Ingeborg Beling and the time memory in honeybees: almost one hundred years of research.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2024
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Guy BlochDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, The A. Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel guy.bloch@mail.huji.ac.il.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1624-4926
Noam Bar-ShaiDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, The A. Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
Yotam CytterDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The A. Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
Rachel GreenDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The A. Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel rgreen@mail.huji.ac.il.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The interactions between flowering plants and insect pollinators shape ecological communities and provide one of the best examples of coevolution. Although these interactions have received much attention in both ecology and evolution, their temporal aspects are little explored. Here we review studies on the circadian organization of pollination-related traits in bees and flowers. Research, mostly with the honeybee,

Indexed as

Circadian ClocksPollinationAnimalsBeesBiotaFeeding BehaviorFlowersLife History TraitsMagnoliopsidabeecircadian rhythmsflowerforaging behaviournetworkpollination

Identifiers

PMID28993499
PMCPMC5647282
OpenAlexW2762607593

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Registered trials

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