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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2018

Evolutionary divergence of the sex-determining gene

Sa Geng, Ayano Miyagi, James G Umen

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Meiotic cohesin Rec8 imposes fitness costs on fission yeast gametes favoring the evolution of parental bias in gene expression.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. A conserved RWP-RK transcription factor VSR1 controls gametic differentiation in volvocine algae.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  9. UV Chromosomes and Haploid Sexual Systems.Trends in plant science · 2018
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sa GengDonald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 N. Warson Rd., St. Louis, MO 63132, USA.
Ayano MiyagiDonald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 N. Warson Rd., St. Louis, MO 63132, USA.
James G UmenDonald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 N. Warson Rd., St. Louis, MO 63132, USA jumen@danforthcenter.org.ORCID 0000-0003-4094-9045
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center · US

Funding

Evolution of Sexually Dimorphic Germ Cells in Volvox carteriR01GM078376 · NIGMS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI UMEN, JAMES GREG · 2006 to 2014
$3.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM078376
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Volvocine algae constitute a unique comparative model for investigating the evolution of oogamy from isogamous mating types. The sex- or mating type-determining gene

Indexed as

DNA-Binding ProteinsEvolution, MolecularGene Expression RegulationGerm CellsImmunoblottingPolymerase Chain ReactionSex CharacteristicsSex Determination ProcessesSpermatogenesisVolvoxDNA-Binding ProteinsMid protein, Chlamydomonas reinhardtiiChlamydomonasGoniumPleodorinaRWP-RKSex determinationVolvox

Identifiers

PMID29549112
PMCPMC5963870
OpenAlexW2792424811

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Registered trials

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