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ArticleInsects2021

Sperm Production Is Reduced after a Heatwave at the Pupal Stage in the Males of the Parasitoid Wasp

Ahmed M El-Sabrout, Esmat Hegazi, Wedad Khafagi, Christophe Bressac

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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 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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, 9 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ahmed M El-SabroutInstitut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (IRBI), UMR 7261 CNRS-University of Tours, 37200 Tours, France.ORCID 0000-0003-1139-7907
Esmat HegaziApplied Entomology and Zoology Department, Faculty of Agriculture (El-Shatby), Alexandria University, Alexandria 21526, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-2976-4085
Wedad KhafagiPlant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Alexandria 21526, Egypt.
Christophe BressacInstitut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (IRBI), UMR 7261 CNRS-University of Tours, 37200 Tours, France.ORCID 0000-0001-7609-8970
Université de Tours · FRAlexandria University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding reproduction is essential for controlling pests and supporting beneficial insects. Among the many factors allowing optimal reproduction, sperm availability is key to sex ratio control in hymenopteran parasitoids since males are haploid and only females come from fertilization.

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biocontrolheat stressseminal vesiclesex-ratiotestis

Identifiers

PMID34680631
PMCPMC8539703
OpenAlexW3201361702

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Registered trials

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