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ArticlePLoS pathogens2022

Sexual reproduction is the null hypothesis for life cycles of rust fungi.

Alistair R McTaggart, Timothy Y James, Alexander Idnurm, Robert F Park, Louise S Shuey, Michelle N K Demers, M Catherine Aime

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Article in PLoS pathogens, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Alistair R McTaggartCentre for Horticultural Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Ecosciences Precinct, Dutton Park, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0996-1313
Timothy Y JamesDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America.
Alexander IdnurmSchool of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Robert F ParkPlant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia.
Louise S ShueyQueensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Ecosciences Precinct, Dutton Park, Queensland, Australia.
Michelle N K DemersPlant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia.
M Catherine AimeDepartment of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-8742-6685
The University of Sydney · AUPurdue University West Lafayette · USThe University of Melbourne · AUThe University of Queensland · AUUniversity of Michigan · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sexual reproduction, mutation, and reassortment of nuclei increase genotypic diversity in rust fungi. Sexual reproduction is inherent to rust fungi, coupled with their coevolved plant hosts in native pathosystems. Rust fungi are hypothesised to exchange nuclei by somatic hybridisation with an outcome of increased genotypic diversity, independent of sexual reproduction. We provide criteria to demonstrate whether somatic exchange has occurred, including knowledge of parental haplotypes and rejection of fertilisation in normal rust life cycles.

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BasidiomycotaPlant DiseasesAnimalsFungiLife Cycle StagesReproduction

Identifiers

PMID35617196
PMCPMC9135232
OpenAlexW4281783189

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