ArticleDie Naturwissenschaften2024
Passive dispersal potential of medaka eggs by attaching to waterbirds.
Article in Die Naturwissenschaften, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Colonization of new habitats is a key event in forming current distributions in organisms. It has been speculated that freshwater fish eggs can be dispersed passively by attaching to or egestion from waterbirds that arrive in wetland habitats. Recent research showed that some freshwater fish eggs could be excreted alive from birds and then successfully hatch, but scientific evidence of bird-mediated fish dispersal is still limited to endozoochory (internal transport through a bird's digestive tract). Here, we experimentally suggest the dispersal potential in another way or epizoochory (external dispersal by attaching to waterbirds), using medaka Oryzias latipes, which spawns on aquatic plants. Our field experiment showed that waterbirds could carry artificial aquatic plants among waterbodies. Medaka eggs attached to aquatic plants could survive in the air for up to 18 h with a median lethal period of 16.3 h. Those two findings raise the possibility of the epizoochory of medaka in nature.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.