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ArticleGenome biology and evolution2017

Biological species are universal across Life's domains.

Louis-Marie Bobay, Howard Ochman

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Article in Genome biology and evolution, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Meta-analysis of theMicrobial genomics · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Louis-Marie BobayDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Howard OchmanDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

Funding

Elucidating the Evolution of Microbial Genes, Genomes and CommunitiesR35GM118038 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI OCHMAN, HOWARD · 2016 to 2025
$4.0M
Elucidating a newly discovered selective agent operating in bacterial genomesR01GM108657 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI OCHMAN, HOWARD · 2014 to 2016
$824k
Dynamics of Microbes Infecting the Guts of Great ApesR01GM101209 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI OCHMAN, HOWARD · 2012 to 2014
$714k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM101209NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM108657NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118038
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID28186559
PMCPMC5381558

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