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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

The physical consequences of sperm gigantism.

Jasmin Imran Alsous, Brato Chakrabarti, Bryce Palmer, Michael J Shelley

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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.

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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

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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

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.

Jasmin Imran AlsousCenter for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY, USA.
Brato ChakrabartiInternational Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560089, India.
Bryce PalmerCenter for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY, USA.
Michael J ShelleyCenter for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

Vaccine FacilityP30CA016087 · NCI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI ANIRBAN MAITRA · 1985 to 2026
$83.1M
Scanning Electron Microscope with 3ViewS10OD019974 · OD · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI LIANG, FENGXIA · 2016 to 2016
$1.1M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016087NIH HHS S10 OD019974
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The male fruit fly produces ~1.8 mm long sperm, thousands of which can be stored until mating in a ~200

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PMID40777405
PMCPMC12330500

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