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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 21:34, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Lichexanthone

  • ... that lichexanthone, a chemical found in some lichens, enhances human sperm motility and kills mosquito larvae? Source: From PMID 26950106: "Lichexanthone also displays sperm mobility–enhancing properties..." and later "... lichexanthone was found to be effective against the dengue vector Aedes aegypti".

Created by Esculenta (talk). Self-nominated at 16:20, 15 March 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: Yes
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Zeromonk (talk) 15:26, 16 March 2022 (UTC)