Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32684956›Full record

ArticleEvolutionary applications2020

Using asexual vertebrates to study genome evolution and animal physiology: Banded (

Anne C Dalziel, Svetlana Tirbhowan, Hayley F Drapeau, Claude Power, Lauren S Jonah, Yayra A Gbotsyo, Anne-Marie Dion-Côté

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Evolutionary applications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Mobile Elements in Ray-Finned Fish Genomes.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
    Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anne C DalzielDepartment of Biology Saint Mary's University Halifax NS Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3032-4714
Svetlana TirbhowanDepartment of Biology Saint Mary's University Halifax NS Canada.
Hayley F DrapeauDepartment of Biology Saint Mary's University Halifax NS Canada.
Claude PowerDépartement de biologie Université de Moncton Moncton NB Canada.
Lauren S JonahDepartment of Biology Saint Mary's University Halifax NS Canada.
Yayra A GbotsyoDepartment of Biology Saint Mary's University Halifax NS Canada.
Anne-Marie Dion-CôtéDépartement de biologie Université de Moncton Moncton NB Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8656-4127
Saint Mary's University · CAUniversité de Moncton · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wild, asexual, vertebrate hybrids have many characteristics that make them good model systems for studying how genomes evolve and epigenetic modifications influence animal physiology. In particular, the formation of asexual hybrid lineages is a form of reproductive incompatibility, but we know little about the genetic and genomic mechanisms by which this mode of reproductive isolation proceeds in animals. Asexual lineages also provide researchers with the ability to produce genetically identical individuals, enabling the study of autonomous epigenetic modifications without the confounds of genetic variation. Here, we briefly review the cellular and molecular mechanisms leading to asexual reproduction in vertebrates and the known genetic and epigenetic consequences of the loss of sex. We then specifically discuss what is known about asexual lineages of

Indexed as

asexual reproductioncytogeneticsepigeneticsgynogenesisphenotypic plasticity

Identifiers

PMID32684956
PMCPMC7359844
OpenAlexW3022900286

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.