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ArticlemBio2017

The Source and Evolutionary History of a Microbial Contaminant Identified Through Soil Metagenomic Analysis.

Matthew R Olm, Cristina N Butterfield, Alex Copeland, T Christian Boles, Brian C Thomas, Jillian F Banfield

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Article in mBio, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Matthew R OlmUniversity of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Cristina N ButterfieldUniversity of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Alex CopelandJoint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
T Christian BolesSage Science, Inc., Beverly, Massachusetts, USA.
Brian C ThomasUniversity of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Jillian F BanfieldUniversity of California, Berkeley, California, USA jbanfield@berkeley.edu.
University of California, Berkeley · USJoint Genome Institute · USSage Science (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, strain-resolved metagenomics was used to solve a mystery. A 6.4-Mbp complete closed genome was recovered from a soil metagenome and found to be astonishingly similar to that of

Indexed as

Environmental MicrobiologyMetagenomicsCluster AnalysisDelftia acidovoransGenotypeGermany

Identifiers

PMID28223457
PMCPMC5358914
OpenAlexW2590945262

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Registered trials

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