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ArticleEvolution letters2018

Dramatic evolution of body length due to postembryonic changes in cell size in a newly discovered close relative of

Gavin C Woodruff, John H Willis, Patrick C Phillips

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Article in Evolution letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Gavin C WoodruffForestry and Forest Products Research Institute Forest Pathology Laboratory Tsukuba Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0919-5660
John H WillisDepartment of Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution University of Oregon Eugene Oregon 97403.
Patrick C PhillipsDepartment of Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution University of Oregon Eugene Oregon 97403.ORCID 0000-0001-7271-342X
University of Oregon · US

Funding

Enhancing and expanding the CGC Strain CollectionP40OD010440 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Aric L Daul, Ann E. Rougvie · 2012 to 2026
$7.5M
Systems genetics of natural variation in stress response pathwaysR01GM102511 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI PHILLIPS, PATRICK C. · 2015 to 2018
$1.1M
Behavioral genomics of a newly discovered species of CaenorhabditisF32GM115209 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI WOODRUFF, GAVIN C. · 2015 to 2017
$173k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM115209NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM102511NIH HHS P40 OD010440
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding morphological diversity-and morphological constraint-has been a central question in evolutionary biology since its inception. Nematodes of the genus

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Body sizeC. elegansdevelopmental constraintevo‐devomacroevolution

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PMID30283693
PMCPMC6121821
OpenAlexW2883165990

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