Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40262531›Full record

ArticleCurrent biology : CB2025

Animal senses: The electric attraction of fruit flies.

Sam J England

Abstract readComment
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Current biology : CB, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing 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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Sam J EnglandDepartment of Evolutionary Morphology, Museum für Naturkunde-Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: sam.england@mfn.berlin.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electricity is an omnipresent force in the natural world. A new study shows that the larvae of Drosophila melanogaster respond behaviourally to electric fields and identifies a single pair of neurons that are responsible.

Indexed as

Drosophila melanogasterElectricityAnimalsBehavior, AnimalLarvaNeurons

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
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.