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ArticleEcology and evolution2018

Symbiont-conferred reproduction and fitness benefits can favour their host occurrence.

Yan-Kai Zhang, Kun Yang, Yu-Xi Zhu, Xiao-Yue Hong

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Yan-Kai ZhangDepartment of Entomology Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China.
Kun YangDepartment of Entomology Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China.
Yu-Xi ZhuDepartment of Entomology Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China.
Xiao-Yue HongDepartment of Entomology Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing China.ORCID 0000-0002-5209-3961
Nanjing Agricultural University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Double infections of

Indexed as

double infectionfitnessreproductionsymbiontTetranychus truncatus

Identifiers

PMID29435238
PMCPMC5792590
OpenAlexW2781798325

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