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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021

Five hundred million years to mobility: directed locomotion and its ecological function in a turtle barnacle.

Benny K K Chan, Yue Him Wong, Nathan J Robinson, Jr-Chi Lin, Sing-Pei Yu, Niklas Dreyer, I-Jiung Cheng, Jens T Høeg, John D Zardus

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 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
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 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 6 institutions in 5 countries.

Benny K K ChanBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-9479-024X
Yue Him WongInstitute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
Nathan J RobinsonFundación Oceanogràfic, Oceanogràfic de València, Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-7384-3576
Jr-Chi LinBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Sing-Pei YuBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Niklas DreyerBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-1391-1642
I-Jiung ChengInstitute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan.
Jens T HøegMarine Biology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
John D ZardusThe Citadel, Department of Biology, Charleston, SC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3596-1691
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica · TWUniversity of Copenhagen · DKCitadel · USInstituto Español de Oceanografía · ESNational Taiwan Ocean University · TWShenzhen University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Movement is a fundamental characteristic of life, yet some invertebrate taxa, such as barnacles, permanently affix to a substratum as adults. Adult barnacles became 'sessile' over 500 Ma; however, we confirm that the epizoic sea turtle barnacle,

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ThoracicaTurtlesAnimalsLocomotionReproductionadhesive locomotionbehaviourChelonibia testudinariamovement ecologyoptimal foragingsea turtle

Identifiers

PMID34610769
PMCPMC8493200
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