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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2016

Evidence for Ecological Flexibility in the Cosmopolitan Genus

Alexander B Chase, Philip Arevalo, Martin F Polz, Renaud Berlemont, Jennifer B H Martiny

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49citing 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

49 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

5 authors.

Alexander B ChaseDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA, USA.
Philip ArevaloParsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA.
Martin F PolzParsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA.
Renaud BerlemontDepartment of Biological Sciences, California State University Long Beach Long Beach, CA, USA.
Jennifer B H MartinyDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Assigning ecological roles to bacterial taxa remains imperative to understanding how microbial communities will respond to changing environmental conditions. Here we analyze the genus

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Actinobacteriadecompositionglycoside hydrolasesleaf litterMicrobacteriaceae

Identifiers

PMID27920771
PMCPMC5118839

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