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ArticleNature2021

Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes.

Fabrizia Ronco, Michael Matschiner, Astrid Böhne, Anna Boila, Heinz H Büscher, Athimed El Taher, Adrian Indermaur, Milan Malinsky, Virginie Ricci, Ansgar Kahmen and 2 more

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 136 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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136citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

136 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Physiology mediates transcontinental radiations of freshwater fishes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  6. Decision rules diverge between sympatric Featherfin cichlids despite shared preferences, ecology, and evolutionary history.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  10. Divergence of ontogenetic dietary shifts in adaptive radiation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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76 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

12 authors.

Fabrizia RoncoZoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. fabrizia.ronco@unibas.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1583-8108
Michael MatschinerZoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4741-3884
Astrid BöhneZoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1284-3115
Anna BoilaZoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Heinz H BüscherZoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Athimed El TaherZoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Adrian IndermaurZoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Milan MalinskyZoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1462-6317
Virginie RicciZoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6466-1930
Ansgar KahmenBotany, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Sissel JentoftCentre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8707-531X
Walter SalzburgerZoological Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. walter.salzburger@unibas.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9988-1674

Funding

European Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adaptive radiation is the likely source of much of the ecological and morphological diversity of life

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Biological EvolutionAfricaAnimalsCalibrationCichlidsFemaleGenetic SpeciationGenomicsHeterozygoteJawLakesMalePhenotypeSomatotypesTime Factors

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