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ArticleCurrent zoology2018

25 Years of sensory drive: the evidence and its watery bias.

Molly E Cummings, John A Endler, Handling editor: Rebecca C. Fuller

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Article in Current zoology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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

  1. Pooled it
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  9. Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  16. Evolution of Sensory Receptors.Annual review of cell and developmental biology · 2024
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  18. Selection drives divergence of eye morphology in sympatric Heliconius butterflies.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2024
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  20. The Sensory Ecology of Speciation.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024
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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

3 authors.

Molly E CummingsDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
John A EndlerSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, VIC, Australia.
Handling editor: Rebecca C. Fuller

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been 25 years since the formalization of the Sensory Drive hypothesis was published in the

Indexed as

animal communicationsensory drivesensory ecologysexual selection

Identifiers

PMID30108628
PMCPMC6084598

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