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ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2022

The Syngameon Enigma.

Ryan Buck, Lluvia Flores-Rentería

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
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Review in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The dynamics of introgression and parallel adaptation across North AmericanProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  5. A trans-species cytoplasmic polymorphism is associated with seed shape and aridity across multiple species of sunflowers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Suturing fragmented landscapes: Mosaic hybrid zones in plants may facilitate ecosystem resiliency.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. A cryptic syngameon withinEvolutionary applications · 2024
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ryan BuckDepartment of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9905-5789
Lluvia Flores-RenteríaDepartment of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA.
San Diego State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite their evolutionary relevance, multispecies networks or syngameons are rarely reported in the literature. Discovering how syngameons form and how they are maintained can give insight into processes such as adaptive radiations, island colonizations, and the creation of new hybrid lineages. Understanding these complex hybridization networks is even more pressing with anthropogenic climate change, as syngameons may have unique synergistic properties that will allow participating species to persist. The formation of a syngameon is not insurmountable, as several ways for a syngameon to form have been proposed, depending mostly on the magnitude and frequency of gene flow events, as well as the relatedness of its participants. Episodic hybridization with small amounts of introgression may keep syngameons stable and protect their participants from any detrimental effects of gene flow. As genomic sequencing becomes cheaper and more species are included in studies, the number of known syngameons is expected to increase. Syngameons must be considered in conservation efforts as the extinction of one participating species may have detrimental effects on the survival of all other species in the network.

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hybridizationmultispeciessyngameon

Identifiers

PMID35406874
PMCPMC9002738
OpenAlexW4220759781

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