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ArticleNature2023

Fossil evidence for a pharyngeal origin of the vertebrate pectoral girdle.

Martin D Brazeau, Marco Castiello, Amin El Fassi El Fehri, Louis Hamilton, Alexander O Ivanov, Zerina Johanson, Matt Friedman

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Article in Nature, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
16.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 20 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 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Martin D BrazeauDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK. m.brazeau@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-0650-1282
Marco CastielloDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9517-1616
Amin El Fassi El FehriDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.ORCID 0009-0006-0100-956X
Louis HamiltonDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.
Alexander O IvanovDepartment of Sedimentary Geology, Institute of Earth Sciences, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-8671-6920
Zerina JohansonThe Natural History Museum, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8444-6776
Matt FriedmanThe Natural History Museum, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0114-7384
Natural History Museum · GBBritish Academy · GBImperial College London · GBImperial War Museum · GBSt Petersburg University · RUUniversity of Zurich · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The origin of vertebrate paired appendages is one of the most investigated and debated examples of evolutionary novelty

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Animal FinsBiological EvolutionFishesFossilsVertebratesAnimalsPaleontologySiberiaTomography, X-Ray Computed

Identifiers

PMID37914937
PMCPMC10651482
OpenAlexW4388126757

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