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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020

Landmark navigation in a mantis shrimp.

Rickesh N Patel, Thomas W Cronin

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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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

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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Geometrical preference of anchoring sites in the unicellular organismProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Path integration and optic flow in flying insects: a review of current evidence.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025
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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

2 authors.

Rickesh N PatelUMBC Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
Thomas W CroninUMBC Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mantis shrimp commonly occupy burrows in shallow, tropical waters. These habitats are often structurally complex where many potential landmarks are available. Mantis shrimp of the species

Indexed as

AnimalsCrustaceaCuesOrientationSpatial Navigationanimal behaviourlandmark guidancepath integrationstomatopodvisual landmarks

Identifiers

PMID33023415
PMCPMC7657848

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