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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020

Genotype and sex-based host variation in behaviour and susceptibility drives population disease dynamics.

Lauren A White, Jonathon A Siva-Jothy, Meggan E Craft, Pedro F Vale

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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 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 19 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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Lauren A WhiteNational Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center SESYNC, 1 Park Place, Suite 300, Annapolis, MD 21401, USA.
Jonathon A Siva-JothyInstitute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Labs, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
Meggan E CraftDepartment of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55126, USA.
Pedro F ValeInstitute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Labs, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
University of Edinburgh · GBUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Host heterogeneity in pathogen transmission is widespread and presents a major hurdle to predicting and minimizing disease outbreaks. Using

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Disease OutbreaksPopulation DynamicsAnimalsDrosophila melanogasterFemaleGenotypeMaleSex Factorscontact networksdisease modellingdisease transmissionsocial aggregationtransmission heterogeneityvirus shedding

Identifiers

PMID33171094
PMCPMC7735285
OpenAlexW3101080258

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Registered trials

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