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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021

Snowball Earth, population bottleneck and

Hao Zhang, Ying Sun, Qinglu Zeng, Sean A Crowe, Haiwei Luo

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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 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The chitin raft hypothesis for the colonization of the open ocean by cyanobacteria.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  3. Ecosystem relocation on Snowball Earth: Polar-alpine ancestry of the extant surface biosphere?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. Assessing a Role of Genetic Drift for Deep-Time Evolutionary Events.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  11. Snowball Earth, population bottleneck andProceedings. Biological sciences · 2021
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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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hao ZhangShenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518000, People's Republic of China.
Ying SunSimon F. S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, School of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR.
Qinglu ZengDepartment of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR.
Sean A CroweDepartment of Earth Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, and Swire Institute for Marine Science (SWIMS), University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR.
Haiwei LuoShenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518000, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-8452-6066
Chinese University of Hong Kong · HKHong Kong University of Science and Technology · HKUniversity of Hong Kong · HK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

ProchlorococcusEarth, PlanetGenome, BacterialOceans and SeasPhylogenySeawatergenome reductionmolecular datingNeoproterozoic Snowball EarthProchlorococcus

Identifiers

PMID34784770
PMCPMC8596011
OpenAlexW3214711823

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