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

Recombination: the good, the bad and the variable.

Jessica Stapley, Philine G D Feulner, Susan E Johnston, Anna W Santure, Carole M Smadja

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Article 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 39 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Molecular mechanisms and regulation of recombination frequency and distribution in plants.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 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

5 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Jessica StapleyCentre for Adaptation to a Changing Environment, IBZ, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland jessica.stapley@env.ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9138-5684
Philine G D FeulnerDepartment of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Centre of Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 6047 Kastanienbaum, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8078-1788
Susan E JohnstonInstitute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JY, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5623-8902
Anna W SantureSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8965-1042
Carole M SmadjaInstitut des Sciences de l'Evolution UMR 5554, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Université de Montpellier, 3095 Montpellier cedex 05, France.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRETH Zurich · CHUniversity of Auckland · NZUniversity of Bern · CHUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recombination, the process by which DNA strands are broken and repaired, producing new combinations of alleles, occurs in nearly all multicellular organisms and has important implications for many evolutionary processes. The effects of recombination can be

Indexed as

GenomeRecombination, GeneticReproductionadaptationcrossing overevolutiongenetic linkagegenomicsmeiosis

Identifiers

PMID29109232
PMCPMC5698631
OpenAlexW2767408858

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