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Lizards as Model Organisms of Sex Chromosome Evolution: What We Really Know from a Systematic Distribution of Available Data?

Marcello Mezzasalma, Fabio M Guarino, Gaetano Odierna

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In one paragraph

Review in Genes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. State-of-the-Art Age Determination Methods for Amphibians and Reptiles.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  3. New Insights on Chromosome Diversification in Malagasy Chameleons.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024
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  6. First Cytogenetic Analysis ofLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  9. Sex-Linked Loci on the W Chromosome in the Multi-Ocellated Racerunner (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
    Article
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  12. Evolutionary and Genomic Diversity of True Polyploidy in Tetrapods.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
    Review
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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Marcello MezzasalmaDepartment of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, I-80126 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7246-9831
Fabio M GuarinoDepartment of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, I-80126 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1511-7792
Gaetano OdiernaDepartment of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, I-80126 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1579-7126
University of Naples Federico II · ITUniversidade do Porto · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lizards represent unique model organisms in the study of sex determination and sex chromosome evolution. Among tetrapods, they are characterized by an unparalleled diversity of sex determination systems, including temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) and genetic sex determination (GSD) under either male or female heterogamety. Sex chromosome systems are also extremely variable in lizards. They include simple (XY and ZW) and multiple (X

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularAnimalsCytogenetic AnalysisLizardsModels, AnimalSex ChromosomesSex Determination ProcessesevolutiongenomekaryotypeSauriasex chromosomessex determinationSquamata

Identifiers

PMID34573323
PMCPMC8468487
OpenAlexW3197513004

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