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ArticleRoyal Society open science2022

Tail movements by late-term fetal pitvipers resemble caudal luring: prenatal development of an ambush predatory behaviour.

Charles F Smith, Gordon W Schuett

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 40% of its field
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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Charles F SmithDepartment of Biology, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC 29323, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4549-0536
Gordon W SchuettChiricahua Desert Museum, Rodeo, NM 88056, USA.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the advent of powerful imaging instruments, the prenatal behaviour of vertebrates has been discovered to be far more complex than previously believed, especially concerning humans, other mammals and birds. Surprisingly, the fetal behaviour of squamate reptiles (lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians), a group of over 11 000 extant species, are largely understudied. Using ultrasonography, 18 late-term pregnant copperhead snakes (

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caudal luringfetal behaviourluring mimicrypredatory behaviourprenatal developmentsnakes

Identifiers

PMID35582659
PMCPMC9091841
OpenAlexW4280530396

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