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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Xiaoli Wang, Jingmai K O'Connor, John N Maina, Yanhong Pan, Min Wang, Yan Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Zhonghe Zhou

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The avian respiratory system: implications for anaesthesia.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  5. Insights into the early evolution of modern avian physiology from fossilized soft tissues from the Mesozoic.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  6. Unidirectional airflow, air sacs or the horizontal septum: what does it take to make a bird lung?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  10. Spatiotemporal evolution of the Jehol Biota: Responses to the North China craton destruction in the Early Cretaceous.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  11. A neweLife · 2021
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  14. Respiratory evolution in archosaurs.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
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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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Xiaoli WangInstitute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, Linyi, 276000 Shandong, China.
Jingmai K O'ConnorKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 10010 Beijing, China; jingmai@ivpp.ac.cn zhouzhonghe@ivpp.ac.cn.
John N MainaDepartment of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa.
Yanhong PanKey Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 21008 Nanjing, China.
Min WangKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 10010 Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8506-1213
Yan WangInstitute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, Linyi, 276000 Shandong, China.
Xiaoting ZhengInstitute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, Linyi, 276000 Shandong, China.
Zhonghe ZhouKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 10010 Beijing, China; jingmai@ivpp.ac.cn zhouzhonghe@ivpp.ac.cn.
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNLinyi University · CNUniversity of Johannesburg · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe a specimen of the basal ornithuromorph

Indexed as

RespirationAdaptation, PhysiologicalAnimalsBiological EvolutionBirdsChinaExtinction, BiologicalFeathersFlight, AnimalFossilsHistory, AncientLungOxygenPhylogenyOxygenAvesJehollungsOrnithuromorpharespiration

Identifiers

PMID30348768
PMCPMC6233124
OpenAlexW2896928818

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Registered trials

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