Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29167348›Full record

ArticleBiology letters2017

Pregnancy is detected via odour in a wild cooperative breeder.

J Mitchell, M A Cant, H J Nichols

Open access · bronzeAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Biology letters, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

J MitchellSchool of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK.
M A CantCollege of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1530-3077
H J NicholsSchool of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK h.j.nichols@ljmu.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-4455-6065
Liverpool John Moores University · GBUniversity of Exeter · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among mammals, scent has long been known to encode oestrus; however, in many species, detecting pregnancy may also be important in terms of both competition and mate-choice. Here, we show, through odour presentation experiments, that pregnancy is discernible via scent by both sexes in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose,

Indexed as

BreedingOdorantsReproductionSexual Behavior, AnimalAnimalsDominance-SubordinationFemaleHerpestidaeMaleOlfactory PerceptionPeer GroupPregnancyUgandacooperative breedingpregnancyreproductive competitionscent

Identifiers

PMID29167348
PMCPMC5719375
OpenAlexW2770814531

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.