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ArticleHeredity2018

Evolutionary consequences of epigenetic inheritance.

Martin I Lind, Foteini Spagopoulou

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Article in Heredity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49citing papers in PubMed
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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

49 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance increases trait variation but is not adaptive.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2025
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  2. Intraspecific variation in the duration of epigenetic inheritance.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  3. A Model of Epigenetic Inheritance Accounts for Unexpected Adaptation to Unforeseen Challenges.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  5. The Integrative Life History of Maternal Effects.Integrative and comparative biology · 2024
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  7. Critical Windows: Exploring the Association Between Perinatal Trauma, Epigenetics, and Chronic Pain.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2024
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  11. Thomas S. Kuhn: key to a better understanding of the extended evolutionary synthesis.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 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

2 authors.

Martin I LindDepartment of Ecology and Genetics, Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 752 36, Sweden. martin.i.lind@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5602-1933
Foteini SpagopoulouDepartment of Ecology and Genetics, Animal Ecology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 752 36, Sweden. foteini.spagopoulou@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7876-5685

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionEpigenesis, GeneticHeredityAnimalsHumansInheritance Patterns

Identifiers

PMID29976958
PMCPMC6082883

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