Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39416209›Full record

ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

A conserved somatic sex determination cascade instructs trait-specific sexual dimorphism in horned dung beetles.

London C Mitchell, Armin P Moczek, Erica M Nadolski

Abstract readPreprint
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

London C MitchellDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 915 East 3 Street, Bloomington IN 47405, USA.
Armin P MoczekDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 915 East 3 Street, Bloomington IN 47405, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3478-9949
Erica M NadolskiDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 915 East 3 Street, Bloomington IN 47405, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3314-5305

Funding

Common Themes in Reproductive DiversityT32HD049336 · NICHD · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI DALE R SENGELAUB · 2005 to 2026
$4.4M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sex-specific trait expression represents a striking dimension of morphological variation within and across species. The mechanisms instructing sex-specific organ development have been well studied in a small number of insect model systems, suggesting striking conservation in some parts of the somatic sex determination pathway while hinting at possible evolutionary lability in others. However, further resolution of this phenomenon necessitates additional taxon sampling, particularly in groups in which sexual dimorphisms have undergone significant elaboration and diversification. Here, we functionally investigate the somatic sex determination pathway in the gazelle dung beetle

Indexed as

DigitonthophagusDoublesexIntersexsexual dimorphismTransformer

Identifiers

PMID39416209
PMCPMC11482913

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.