Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18658256›Full record

ReviewEukaryotic cell2008

What do genic mutations tell us about the structural patterning of a complex single-celled organism?

Joseph Frankel

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Eukaryotic cell, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing 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

25 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Molecular biology of the cell · 2026
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  2. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  7. TheMolecular biology of the cell · 2023
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  10. Anterior-posterior pattern formation in ciliates.The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology · 2022
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  14. Heritable Epigenetic Changes Alter Transgenerational Waveforms Maintained by Cycling Stores of Information.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2020
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  15. Journal of cell science · 2020
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  19. Polarity in Ciliate Models: From Cilia to Cell Architecture.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2019
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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

1 author.

Joseph FrankelDepartment of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. joseph-frankel@uiowa.edu

Funding

ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL PATTERNING IN A UNICELLULAR ORGANISMR01HD008485 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI FRANKEL, JOSEPH · 1985 to 1988
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ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL PATTERNING IN A UNICELLULAR ORGANISMR37HD008485 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI FRANKEL, JOSEPH · 1989 to 1993
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NICHD NIH HHS HD-08485
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MutationAnimalsCell NucleusCiliophoraCytoplasmProtozoan ProteinsProtozoan Proteins

Identifiers

PMID18658256
PMCPMC2568068

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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