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ArticleeLife2025

Seasonal and comparative evidence of adaptive gene expression in mammalian brain size plasticity.

William R Thomas, Troy Richter, Erin T O'Neil, Cecilia Baldoni, Angelique Corthals, Dominik von Elverfeldt, John D Nieland, Dina Dechmann, Richard Hunter, Liliana M Davalos

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Article in eLife, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 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

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. Genomic-microbial coevolution in human development: chromosome 2 fusion, and human accelerated regions.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2026
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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

10 authors.

William R ThomasDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, New York, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3858-2440
Troy RichterDepartment of Psychology, Developmental and Brain Sciences Program, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4142-7089
Erin T O'NeilDepartment of Psychology, Developmental and Brain Sciences Program, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9307-6915
Cecilia BaldoniMax Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1341-9456
Angelique CorthalsJohn Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, United States.
Dominik von ElverfeldtDivision of Medical Physics, Department of Dignostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6219-3528
John D NielandHealth Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7423-0122
Dina DechmannMax Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0043-8267
Richard HunterDepartment of Psychology, Developmental and Brain Sciences Program, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, United States.
Liliana M DavalosDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, New York, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4327-7697

Funding

Human Frontier Science Program 10.52044/HFSP.RGP00132019.pc.gr.164597Stony Brook University Presidential Innovation and Excellence Award
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Contrasting almost all other mammalian wintering strategies, Eurasian common shrews,

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalBrainHypothalamusSeasonsShrewsAnimalsEnergy MetabolismOrgan Sizedehnel's phenomenonevolutionary biologyhypothalamusRNASorex araneusVEGFA

Identifiers

PMID40310674
PMCPMC12045622

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