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ArticleInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife2020

"Weight of evidence" as a tool for evaluating disease in wildlife: An example assessing parasitic infection in Northern bobwhite (

Cassandra Henry, Matthew Z Brym, Kalin Skinner, Kendall R Blanchard, Brett J Henry, Alyssa L Hay, Jessica L Herzog, Aravindan Kalyanasundaram, Ronald J Kendall

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Article in International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Response of Northern bobwhite (International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2024
    Review
  2. In Vitro Lethality of Fenbendazole to the EyewormAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024
    Article
  3. 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

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Cassandra HenryWildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Matthew Z BrymWildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Kalin SkinnerWildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Kendall R BlanchardWildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Brett J HenryWildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Alyssa L HayWildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Jessica L HerzogWildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Aravindan KalyanasundaramWildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Ronald J KendallWildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Texas Tech University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The potential of parasites to affect host abundance has been a topic of heated contention within the scientific community for some time, with many maintaining that issues such as habitat loss are more important in regulating wildlife populations than diseases. This is in part due to the difficulty in detecting and quantifying the consequences of disease, such as parasitic infection, within wild systems. An example of this is found in the Northern bobwhite quail (

Indexed as

BobwhiteConservationParasitesWeight of evidenceWildlife disease

Identifiers

PMID32793414
PMCPMC7415643
OpenAlexW3046717343

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Registered trials

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