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ArticleJournal of ornithology2024

Melanin-based plumage coloration and melanin content in organs in the barn owl.

Alexandre Roulin, Sylvain Dubey, Shosuke Ito, Kazumasa Wakamatsu

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Article in Journal of ornithology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 30% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Potential Genetic Markers Associated with Coloration in Duck: A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Alexandre RoulinDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore Building, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1940-6927
Sylvain DubeyDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore Building, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Shosuke ItoInstitute for Melanin Chemistry, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi 470-1192 Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9182-5144
Kazumasa WakamatsuInstitute for Melanin Chemistry, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi 470-1192 Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1748-9001
Fujita Health University · JPGlion Institute of Higher Education · CHUniversity of Lausanne · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the evolutionary ecology of melanin pigments and melanin-based coloration has been studied in great details, particularly in birds, little is known about the function of melanin stored inside the body. In the barn owl

Indexed as

Color polymorphismMelaninNatural selectionSexual selectionTyto alba

Identifiers

PMID38496038
PMCPMC10940376
OpenAlexW4390225745

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