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ArticleEcology2025

Environmental DNA reveals the Salamander Mussel Simpsonaias ambigua alive in Illinois, USA, after a century in obscurity.

Sarah A Douglass, Savanna Palmer, Ashleigh R McCallum, Olivia P Reves, Hayley A Robinson, Allison J Rutledge, Jordan H Hartman, Eric R Larson, Mark A Davis

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

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1citing papers in PubMed
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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.

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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

9 authors.

Sarah A DouglassIllinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4791-6422
Savanna PalmerIllinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3377-9284
Ashleigh R McCallumIllinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Olivia P RevesDepartment of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Hayley A RobinsonIllinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Allison J RutledgeIllinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Jordan H HartmanIllinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Eric R LarsonDepartment of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9232-5907
Mark A DavisIllinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9034-9430

Funding

Minnesota Department of Natural ResourcesU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Competitive State Wildlife F22AP00527
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

artificial structuresconventional surveysendangered speciesenvironmental DNAfreshwater musselhabitat usesalamander

Identifiers

PMID40605396
PMCPMC12223466

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