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ArticleeLife2020

Convergent changes in muscle metabolism depend on duration of high-altitude ancestry across Andean waterfowl.

Neal J Dawson, Luis Alza, Gabriele Nandal, Graham R Scott, Kevin G McCracken

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Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Gas exchange, oxygen transport and metabolism in high-altitude waterfowl.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  8. Evolved changes in phenotype across skeletal muscles in deer mice native to high altitude.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2024
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  15. The Andean Ibis (PeerJ · 2023
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  16. Energetic Lifestyle Drives Size and Shape of Avian Erythrocytes.Integrative and comparative biology · 2022
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  18. Parallel genomic responses to historical climate change and high elevation in East Asian songbirds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Neal J DawsonDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5389-8692
Luis AlzaDepartment of Biology University of Miami, Coral Gables, United States.
Gabriele NandalDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
Graham R ScottDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4225-7475
Kevin G McCrackenDepartment of Biology University of Miami, Coral Gables, United States.
McMaster University · CAUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks · USUniversity of Miami · US

Funding

Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders FundCanada Research Chairs Tier 2 - Comparative and Environmental PhysiologyCanadian Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders FundKushlan Endowment for Waterbird Biology and Conservation Kushlan ChairNational Science Foundation IOS-0949439Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery GrantNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral FellowshipOntario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Award
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-altitude environments require that animals meet the metabolic O

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Biological EvolutionEnergy MetabolismAltitudeAnimal DistributionAnimalsAnseriformesMuscle, SkeletalSouth Americabirdsenergy metabolismevolutionary biologyhigh-altitude adaptationhypoxiamuscle energeticsmyoglobin

Identifiers

PMID32729830
PMCPMC7494360
OpenAlexW3046720009

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