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ArticleCells2022

On the Origin and Evolution of Sperm Cells.

Heidi S Fisher, Eduardo R S Roldan, Tomer Avidor-Reiss, Melissah Rowe

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Article in Cells, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers 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

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. Evolutionary Aspects of Sperm Physiology and Its Assessment.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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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

4 authors.

Heidi S FisherDepartment of Biology, University of Maryland, 1200 Biology-Psychology Building, 4094 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20742, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5622-4335
Eduardo R S RoldanDepartment of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC), c/Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7545-4248
Tomer Avidor-ReissDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43607, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0918-526X
Melissah RoweDepartment of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), 6700 AB Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-9747-041X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sperm cells have intrigued biologists since they were first observed nearly 350 years ago by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Johan Ham [...].

Indexed as

SemenSpermatozoaHumansMale

Identifiers

PMID36611950
PMCPMC9818235

What Socratic holds

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