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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2021

Why More Leaflets? The Role of Natural Selection in Shaping the Spatial Pattern of Leaf-Shape Variation in

Hui Wang, Pei-Liang Liu, Jian Li, Han Yang, Qin Li, Zhao-Yang Chang

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 13 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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hui WangCollege of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China.
Pei-Liang LiuKey Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
Jian LiCollege of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China.
Han YangCollege of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China.
Qin LiDepartment of Science and Education, Field Museum, Chicago, IL, United States.
Zhao-Yang ChangCollege of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China.
Northwest A&F University · CNField Museum of Natural History · USNorthwest University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leaf shape exhibits tremendous diversity in angiosperms. It has long been argued that leaf shape can affect major physiological and ecological properties of plants and thus is likely to be adaptive, but the evolutionary evidence is still scarce.

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clinegene flowleaf shapenatural selectionOxytropis

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PMID34489992
PMCPMC8416669
OpenAlexW3193560247

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