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ArticleCells2021

Sperm Cyst "Looping": A Developmental Novelty Enabling Extreme Male Ornament Evolution.

Zeeshan A Syed, Romano Dallai, Negar Nasirzadeh, Julie A Brill, Patrick M O'Grady, Siyuan Cong, Ethan M Leef, Sarah Rice, Amaar Asif, Stephanie Nguyen and 3 more

Abstract read
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Article in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

13 authors.

Zeeshan A SyedCenter for Reproductive Evolution, Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.
Romano DallaiDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Siena, via Aldo Moro 2, 53100 Siena, Italy.
Negar NasirzadehCell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada.
Julie A BrillCell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5925-9901
Patrick M O'GradyDepartment of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Siyuan CongCenter for Reproductive Evolution, Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.
Ethan M LeefCenter for Reproductive Evolution, Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.
Sarah RiceCenter for Reproductive Evolution, Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.
Amaar AsifCenter for Reproductive Evolution, Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.
Stephanie NguyenCenter for Reproductive Evolution, Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.
Matthew M HansenCenter for Reproductive Evolution, Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.
Steve DorusCenter for Reproductive Evolution, Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.
Scott PitnickCenter for Reproductive Evolution, Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.

Funding

Sperm Motility and Molecular Interactions in the Reproductive Tract R21HD088910 · NICHD · SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY · PI DORUS, STEPHEN · 2017 to 2018
$433k
CIHR PJT-173465NICHD NIH HHS R21 HD088910
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Postcopulatory sexual selection is credited as a principal force behind the rapid evolution of reproductive characters, often generating a pattern of correlated evolution between interacting, sex-specific traits. Because the female reproductive tract is the selective environment for sperm, one taxonomically widespread example of this pattern is the co-diversification of sperm length and female sperm-storage organ dimension. In

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AnimalsAnimal StructuresBiological EvolutionDrosophilaMalePhylogenySexual MaturationSpecies SpecificitySpermatozoaTestisenergetic constraintfemale reproductive tractheterochronylife-historypostcopulatory sexual selectionsaltansspermatogenesistrait diversificationwillistoni

Identifiers

PMID34685746
PMCPMC8534658

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