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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2016

Comparative Vision: Can Bacteria Really See?

Dan-Eric Nilsson, Nansi J Colley

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Plant signaling & behavior · 2022
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  2. Numerical Analysis of the Light Modulation by the Frustule ofNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  3. Algal Ocelloids and Plant Ocelli.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  4. Review
  5. Biophotonic probes for bio-detection and imaging.Light, science & applications · 2021
    Review
  6. Origins of eukaryotic excitability.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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  7. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Dan-Eric NilssonLund Vision Group, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, 22362 Lund, Sweden. Electronic address: dan-e.nilsson@biol.lu.se.
Nansi J ColleyDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Department of Genetics, and McPherson Eye Research Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been known for some time that not only animals, but also some advanced unicellular algae possess imaging eyes. Now it seems that even tiny cyanobacteria have what it takes to qualify for the most basic definition of vision.

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Ocular Physiological PhenomenaAnimalsEyeInvertebratesSynechocystis

Identifiers

PMID27166697

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