Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40854139›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Symbiosis with and mimicry of corals were facilitated by immune gene loss and body remodeling in the pygmy seahorse.

Meng Qu, Yingyi Zhang, Joost Woltering, Yali Liu, Zixuan Liu, Shiming Wan, Han Jiang, Haiyan Yu, Zelin Chen, Xin Wang and 5 more

Erratum issuedAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. 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. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Meng Qu *State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.
Yingyi Zhang *State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.
Joost WolteringDepartment of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz 78464, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2630-6572
Yali LiuState Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.
Zixuan LiuState Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.
Shiming WanState Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.
Han JiangState Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.
Haiyan YuState Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.
Zelin ChenState Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.
Xin WangState Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.
Zhixin ZhangState Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3457-2934
Geng QinState Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8955-2201
Ralf SchneiderMarine Evolutionary Ecology, Zoological Institute, Kiel University, Kiel 24118, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6015-7219
Axel MeyerState Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0888-8193
Qiang LinState Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9916-7761

Funding

CAS | BFSE | Key Research Program of Frontier Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences () ZDBS-LY-DQC004CAS president's international fellowship initiative 2024PVA0054Guangdong basic and applied basic research foundation 2023A1515012165MOST | National Key Research and Development Program of China (NKPs) 2022YFC3102403MOST | National Key Research and Development Program of China (NKPs) 2023YFC3108800MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 42006108MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 42106120MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 42230409MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 42376126MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 42425004Strategic priority research program of the CAS XDB42030204
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A remarkable example of symbiosis involves the pygmy seahorse (

Indexed as

AnthozoaSmegmamorphaSymbiosisAnimalsGenomecamouflagegene losspygmy seahorsesymbiosis

Identifiers

PMID40854139
PMCPMC12415253

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.