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ArticleRoyal Society open science2024

Microbial biomarkers as indicators of sperm viability in an insect.

Kathryn B McNamara, Ashley M Dungan, Linda L Blackall, Leigh W Simmons

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kathryn B McNamaraSchool of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6072-3807
Ashley M DunganSchool of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
Linda L BlackallSchool of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
Leigh W SimmonsCentre for Evolutionary Biology & School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0562-1474

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our understanding of microbial variation in male reproductive tissues is poorly understood, both regarding how it varies spatially across different tissues and its ability to affect male sperm and semen quality. To redress this gap, we explored the relationship between male sperm viability and male gut and reproductive tract microbiomes in the Pacific field cricket,

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reproductive microbiomesexual selectionsperm competition

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PMID39309259
PMCPMC11416813

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