Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33448263›Full record

ArticleeLife2021

Female-biased upregulation of insulin pathway activity mediates the sex difference in

Jason W Millington, George P Brownrigg, Charlotte Chao, Ziwei Sun, Paige J Basner-Collins, Lianna W Wat, Bruno Hudry, Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Elizabeth J Rideout

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 62 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

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jason W MillingtonDepartment of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4330-2431
George P BrownriggDepartment of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Charlotte ChaoDepartment of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Ziwei SunDepartment of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Paige J Basner-CollinsDepartment of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Lianna W WatDepartment of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Bruno HudryMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, and Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Irene Miguel-AliagaMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, and Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Elizabeth J RideoutDepartment of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Institute, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0012-2828
University of British Columbia · CAHammersmith Hospital · GBMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences · GB

Funding

FLYBASE: A DROSOPHILA RELATIONAL DATABASEP41HG000739 · NHGRI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI GELBART, WILLIAM MARTIN · 1992 to 2014
$56.6M
Resource Project CoreU41HG000739 · NHGRI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI PERRIMON, NORBERT · 2014 to 2022
$32.3M
Resource Component: Acquisition, maintenance and distribution of Drosophila stocksP40OD018537 · OD · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI Annette L. Parks · 2014 to 2026
$13.5M
Drosophila Transgenic RNAi Resource ProjectR01GM084947 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI PERRIMON, NORBERT · 2008 to 2019
$9.8M
CIHR PJT-153072Medical Research Council MC_UP_1102/3Medical Research Council MR/N030117/1NHGRI NIH HHS P41 HG000739NHGRI NIH HHS U41 HG000739NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084947NIH HHS P40 OD018537
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nutrient-dependent body size plasticity differs between the sexes in most species, including mammals. Previous work in

Indexed as

Body SizeSignal TransductionAnimalsDrosophila melanogasterFemaleInsulinMaleSex CharacteristicsSex Determination ProcessesUp-RegulationInsulinbody size plasticitydevelopmental biologyD. melanogastergeneticsgenomicsinsulin pathwaynutritionsex differencesstuntedtransformer

Identifiers

PMID33448263
PMCPMC7864645
OpenAlexW3020798403

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