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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2010

Evolutionary microbial genomics: insights into bacterial host adaptation.

Christina Toft, Siv G E Andersson

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 233 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

233 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

2 authors.

Christina ToftDepartment of Molecular Evolution, Uppsala University, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden. christina.toft@ebc.uu.se
Siv G E Andersson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Host-adapted bacteria include mutualists and pathogens of animals, plants and insects. Their study is therefore important for biotechnology, biodiversity and human health. The recent rapid expansion in bacterial genome data has provided insights into the adaptive, diversifying and reductive evolutionary processes that occur during host adaptation. The results have challenged many pre-existing concepts built from studies of laboratory bacterial strains. Furthermore, recent studies have revealed genetic changes associated with transitions from parasitism to mutualism and opened new research avenues to understand the functional reshaping of bacteria as they adapt to growth in the cytoplasm of a eukaryotic host.

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionAdaptation, BiologicalAnimalsBacteriaGene Transfer, HorizontalGenome, BacterialHumansSymbiosis

Identifiers

PMID20517341

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