Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30990167›Full record

ArticleeLife2019

A Mesozoic clown beetle myrmecophile (Coleoptera: Histeridae).

Yu-Lingzi Zhou, Adam Ślipiński, Dong Ren, Joseph Parker

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Article in eLife, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
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4citing 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

4 authors.

Yu-Lingzi ZhouKey Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Adam ŚlipińskiAustralian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia.
Dong RenCollege of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China.
Joseph ParkerDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9598-2454

Funding

International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship 20150064National Natural Science Foundation of China 31402008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Complex interspecies relationships are widespread among metazoans, but the evolutionary history of these lifestyles is poorly understood. We describe a fossil beetle in 99-million-year-old Burmese amber that we infer to have been a social impostor of the earliest-known ant colonies.

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FossilsSymbiosisAnimalsAntsBehavior, AnimalColeopteraMyanmarPhylogenyantsclown beetleseusocialityevolutionary biologymyrmecophilypalaeontologysymbiosis

Identifiers

PMID30990167
PMCPMC6467565

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