Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33202242›Full record

ArticleCurrent biology : CB2020

Evolution: The Legacy of Endosymbiosis in Ants.

Raphaella Jackson, Lee M Henry, Yannick Wurm

Abstract readComment
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Current biology : CB, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Evidence of phylosymbiosis inFrontiers in microbiology · 2023
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Raphaella JacksonSchool of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK.
Lee M HenrySchool of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK.
Yannick WurmSchool of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK; Alan Turing Institute, London NW1 2DB, UK. Electronic address: y.wurm@qmul.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A symbiotic partnership with Blochmannia bacteria is thought to underpin the ecological success of carpenter ants. Disentangling the molecular interactions between the mutualistic partners supports an old hypothesis that many other ants also had similar symbioses and lost them.

Indexed as

AntsAnimalsBacteriaBiological EvolutionEnterobacteriaceaeSymbiosis

Identifiers

PMID33202242

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.