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ArticleInsects2021

Cuticle Hydrocarbons Show Plastic Variation under Desiccation in Saline Aquatic Beetles.

María Botella-Cruz, Josefa Velasco, Andrés Millán, Stefan Hetz, Susana Pallarés

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Article in Insects, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

María Botella-CruzDepartamento de Ecología e Hidrología, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9804-4479
Josefa VelascoDepartamento de Ecología e Hidrología, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
Andrés MillánDepartamento de Ecología e Hidrología, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0036-363X
Stefan HetzDepartment of Animal Physiology/Systems Neurobiology and Neural computation, Humboldt University, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
Susana PallarésDepartamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
Universidad de Murcia · ESHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DEMuseo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales · ES

Funding

Juan de la Cierva-Formación program FJC2018-035577-ISpanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness), co-financed by FEDER funds R&D&I Project CGL2013-48950-C2-2-PUniversidad de Murcia PhD student
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the context of aridification in Mediterranean regions, desiccation resistance and physiological plasticity will be key traits for the persistence of aquatic insects exposed to increasing desiccation stress. Control of cuticular transpiration through changes in the quantity and composition of epicuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) is one of the main mechanisms of desiccation resistance in insects, but it remains largely unexplored in aquatic ones. We studied acclimation responses to desiccation in adults of two endemic water beetles from distant lineages living in Mediterranean intermittent saline streams:

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aquatic insectsaridificationCHC profilescuticle permeabilitydesiccationphysiological plasticity

Identifiers

PMID33806018
PMCPMC8064485
OpenAlexW3139472764

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