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ArticleThe New phytologist2025

How evolution repeatedly builds complexity: a case study with C

Matt Stata, Ming-Ju Amy Lyu, Hongbing Liu, Shifeng Cheng, Xin-Guang Zhu, Tammy L Sage, Rowan F Sage

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Article in The New phytologist, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

7 authors.

Matt StataDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5744-4898
Ming-Ju Amy LyuCenter of Excellence for Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute for Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0845-9767
Hongbing LiuShenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, 518120, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3017-9668
Shifeng ChengShenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, 518120, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1617-1747
Xin-Guang ZhuCenter of Excellence for Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute for Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4435-130X
Tammy L SageDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7061-832X
Rowan F SageDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6183-9246

Funding

Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province 2022A1515110358General program of the National Science Foundation of China 31870214National Natural Science Foundation of China 32300217Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2015-04878Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2017-06476Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2020-05925Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences XDB0630101Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences XDB0630301
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With over 60 parallel origins representing evolutionary replicates, C

Indexed as

AcanthaceaeBiological EvolutionPhotosynthesisMalate DehydrogenasePhenotypePhylogenySpecies SpecificityMalate DehydrogenaseBlepharis phylogenyC3–C4 intermediatesC4 photosynthesisconvergent evolutiongas exchangephotosynthetic evolution

Identifiers

PMID40817682
PMCPMC12529054

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