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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020

Skeletal ageing in Virunga mountain gorillas.

Christopher B Ruff, Juho-Antti Junno, Winnie Eckardt, Kirsten Gilardi, Antoine Mudakikwa, Shannon C McFarlin

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 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.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Evolutionary Approaches in Aging Research.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2022
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  3. Insights from evolutionarily relevant models for human ageing.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
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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

6 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Christopher B RuffCenter for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Juho-Antti JunnoDepartment of Archaeology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Winnie EckardtDian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Musanze, Rwanda.
Kirsten GilardiMountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, USA.
Antoine MudakikwaDepartment of Tourism and Conservation, Rwanda Development Board, Kigali, Rwanda.
Shannon C McFarlinDepartment of Anthropology, Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
George Washington University · USGorilla Doctors · USInternational Gorilla Conservation Programme · RWJohns Hopkins University · USRwanda Development Board · RWUniversity of Oulu · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bone loss and heightened fracture risk are common conditions associated with ageing in modern human populations and have been attributed to both hormonal and other metabolic and behavioural changes. To what extent these age-related trends are specific to modern humans or generally characteristic of natural populations of other taxa is not clear. In this study, we use computed tomography to examine age changes in long bone and vertebral structural properties of 34 wild-adult Virunga mountain gorillas (

Indexed as

AgingAnimalsBone and BonesBone RemodelingFemaleGorilla gorillaHumansMaleModels, AnimalOsteoporosisSex Factorsbone mineral densitybone strengthgorillaosteoporosisskeletal ageing

Identifiers

PMID32951549
PMCPMC7540956
OpenAlexW3087711111

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