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ArticleBiology letters2025

Rodent indent not self-evident: a case of mistaken identity of the 'Chicago Rat Hole'.

Michael C Granatosky, Gabby Guilhon, Noah D Chernik, Stratos J Kantonis, Christine J Lee, Edwin Dickinson

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Article in Biology letters, 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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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

6 authors.

Michael C GranatoskyDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6465-5386
Gabby GuilhonDepartment of Anatomy, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9007-9255
Noah D ChernikDepartment of Anatomy, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY, USA.
Stratos J KantonisDepartment of Anatomy, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY, USA.
Christine J LeeDepartment of Anatomy, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, NY, USA.
Edwin DickinsonDepartment of Anthroplogy and Archaeology, Calgary AB, Calgary, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 'Chicago Rat Hole' is a remarkable full body impression ostensibly created by a brown rat (

Indexed as

RodentiaSciuridaeAnimalsDiscriminant AnalysisRatsSpecies Specificityneoichnologypublic science engagementRodentiascience communicationurban ecology

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PMID41089057
PMCPMC12521980

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