Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34840402›Full record

ArticleBehavioral ecology and sociobiology2021

Brighter is better: bill fluorescence increases social attraction in a colonial seabird and reveals a potential link with foraging.

H D Douglas, I V Ermakov, W Gellermann

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Article in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Efficacy and Underpinnings of the Effigy in Wildlife Management.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
    Article
  2. The function and consequences of fluorescence in tetrapods.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

H D DouglasScience Department, College of Community and Rural Development, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775.ORCID 0000-0003-1368-7078
I V ErmakovDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
W GellermannDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.

Funding

Biomedical Learning and Student Training (BLaST) ProgramUL1GM118991 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS · PI HUEFFER, KARSTEN · 2015 to 2023
$19.0M
Biomedical Learning and Student Training (BLaST) ProgramRL5GM118990 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS · PI HUEFFER, KARSTEN, REYNOLDS, ARLEIGH JAMES · 2015 to 2023
$10.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS RL5 GM118990NIGMS NIH HHS UL1 GM118991
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Crested auklets (

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fluorescenceornamentspigmentsseabirdssocial selectionspectroscopy

Identifiers

PMID34840402
PMCPMC8612468

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