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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020

Evidence that eye-facing photophores serve as a reference for counterillumination in an order of deep-sea fishes.

Alexander L Davis, Tracey T Sutton, William M Kier, Sönke Johnsen

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Alexander L DavisDepartment of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Tracey T SuttonDepartment of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Dania Beach, FL 33004, USA.
William M KierDepartment of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Sönke JohnsenDepartment of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Duke University · USNova Southeastern University · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Counterillumination, the masking of an animal's silhouette with ventral photophores, is found in a number of mesopelagic taxa but is difficult to employ because it requires that the animal match the intensity of downwelling light without seeing its own ventral photophores. It has been proposed that the myctophid,

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EyeAnimalsFishesLuminescenceVision, Ocularbioluminescencecamouflagedeep-seastomiiformes

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PMID32517614
PMCPMC7341941
OpenAlexW3033697802

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