↓ Skip to main content

The origin and evolution of lactation

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Biology, April 2009
Altmetric Badge

Mentioned by

news
6 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
25 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
7 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

dimensions_citation
69 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
223 Mendeley
citeulike
3 CiteULike
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
The origin and evolution of lactation
Published in
BMC Biology, April 2009
DOI 10.1186/jbiol139
Pubmed ID
Authors

Anthony V Capuco, R Michael Akers

Abstract

The presence of mammary glands is the defining morphological feature of mammals. The recent assembly of the bovine genome and a report in Genome Biology that links the milk and lactation data of bovine and other mammalian genomes will help biologists investigate this economically and medically important feature.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 25 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 223 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 2%
Belgium 2 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Poland 1 <1%
Unknown 211 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 16%
Researcher 34 15%
Student > Master 31 14%
Student > Bachelor 23 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 6%
Other 47 21%
Unknown 40 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 86 39%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 14 6%
Social Sciences 14 6%
Psychology 8 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 3%
Other 48 22%
Unknown 46 21%