Differentiation of Multiple Fluorescent Powders, Powder Transfer, and Effect on Mating in

Diana Rojas-Araya, Barry W Alto, Derek A T Cummings, Nathan D Burkett-Cadena

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Article in Insects, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

5citing papers in PubMed

0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Diana Rojas-ArayaFlorida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Department of Entomology and Nematology, IFAS, University of Florida, Vero Beach, FL 32962, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1150-6125

Barry W AltoFlorida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Department of Entomology and Nematology, IFAS, University of Florida, Vero Beach, FL 32962, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7054-2081

Derek A T CummingsDepartment of Biology and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.

Nathan D Burkett-CadenaFlorida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Department of Entomology and Nematology, IFAS, University of Florida, Vero Beach, FL 32962, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6168-1637

University of Florida · US

Funding

CDC HHS U01CK000510

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Five different fluorescent powders (orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet) were tested on

Indexed as

conspecific interactionsmarking techniquesmating process and behaviormosquito

Identifiers

PMID33114300

DOI10.3390/insects11110727

PMCPMC7690904

OpenAlexW3093582126

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