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ArticleeLife2018

A 'devil' of a problem.

Victoria L Hansen, Robert D Miller

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Article in eLife, 2018. 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
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Vive la difference! Self/non-self recognition and the evolution of signatures of identity in arms races with parasites.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Victoria L HansenAnimal Biosciences and Biotechnology Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2653-7231
Robert D MillerCenter for Evolutionary & Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8479-8819
Agricultural Research Service · USUniversity of New Mexico · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The discovery of a second facial tumor disease in the Tasmanian devil has provided insights into the emergence of contagious cancers.

Indexed as

MarsupialiaAnimalscancer biologycontagious cancerimmune escapeimmunologyinflammationMHCMHC-1Sarcophilus harrisiiTasmanian devil

Identifiers

PMID30103857
PMCPMC6092114
OpenAlexW2886507698

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Registered trials

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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.