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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2020

Sperm Morphology and Male Age in Black-Throated Blue Warblers, an Ecological Model System.

Emily Cramer, Nicole Krauss, Tricia Rowlison, Pierre Comizzoli

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Emily CramerSmithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC 20008, USA.
Nicole KraussSchool of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA.
Tricia RowlisonSmithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC 20008, USA.
Pierre ComizzoliSmithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC 20008, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extra-pair paternity may drive selection on spermatozoa and ejaculate characteristics through sperm competition and cryptic female choice. Here, we examine sperm morphology in the black-throated blue warbler (

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age effectsbirdsextra-pair paternityParulidaepost-copulatory sexual selectionspermatozoasperm morphologywildlife

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PMID32664407
PMCPMC7401543

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