ReviewBiology letters2018
Getting somewhere with the Red Queen: chasing a biologically modern definition of the hypothesis.
Review in Biology letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed.
- Curve-fitting alone cannot validate neutral theory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Polymorphism and the Red Queen: the selective maintenance of allelic variation in a deteriorating environment.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Late Cretaceous ammonoids show that drivers of diversification are regionally heterogeneous.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Building Synthetic Cells─From the Technology Infrastructure to Cellular Entities.ACS synthetic biology · 2024Review
- Regulation of the PFK1 gene on the interspecies microbial competition behavior of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Age-dependent extinction and the neutral theory of biodiversity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Suitability of red fox (Current research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2024Article
- Connecting the ruminant microbiome to climate change: insights from current ecological and evolutionary concepts.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Review
- Decoupling speciation and extinction reveals both abiotic and biotic drivers shaped 250 million years of diversity in crocodile-line archosaurs.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Article
- The end of the line: competitive exclusion and the extinction of historical entities.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Being the Alice of academia: lessons from the Red Queen hypothesis.Pathogens and disease · 2022Article
- Should we hail the Red King? Evolutionary consequences of a mutualistic lifestyle in genomes of lichenized ascomycetes.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Genomic anatomy of male-specific microchromosomes in a gynogenetic fish.PLoS genetics · 2021Article
- Genotypic Males Play an Important Role in the Creation of Genetic Diversity in Gynogenetic Gibel Carp.Frontiers in genetics · 2021Article
- Experimental Evolution in Plant-Microbe Systems: A Tool for Deciphering the Functioning and Evolution of Plant-Associated Microbial Communities.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Review
- Article
- How long do Red Queen dynamics survive under genetic drift? A comparative analysis of evolutionary and eco-evolutionary models.BMC evolutionary biology · 2020Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The Red Queen hypothesis (RQH) is both familiar and murky, with a scope and range that has broadened beyond its original focus. Although originally developed in the palaeontological arena, it now encompasses many evolutionary theories that champion biotic interactions as significant mechanisms for evolutionary change. As such it de-emphasizes the important role of abiotic drivers in evolution, even though such a role is frequently posited to be pivotal. Concomitant with this shift in focus, several studies challenged the validity of the RQH and downplayed its propriety. Herein, we examine in detail the assumptions that underpin the RQH in the hopes of furthering conceptual understanding and promoting appropriate application of the hypothesis. We identify issues and inconsistencies with the assumptions of the RQH, and propose a redefinition where the Red Queen's reign is restricted to certain types of biotic interactions and evolutionary patterns occurring at the population level.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.