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ArticleeLife2017

Regulation of life span by the gut microbiota in the short-lived African turquoise killifish.

Patrick Smith, David Willemsen, Miriam Popkes, Franziska Metge, Edson Gandiwa, Martin Reichard, Dario Riccardo Valenzano

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Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 216 papers.

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216citing papers in PubMed
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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

216 citing papers in PubMed, 411 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Patrick SmithMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.
David WillemsenMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.
Miriam PopkesMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.
Franziska MetgeMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.
Edson GandiwaChinhoyi University of Technology, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe.
Martin ReichardInstitute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-9306-0074
Dario Riccardo ValenzanoMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8761-8289
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing · DEChinhoyi University of Technology · ZWCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Biology · CZUniversity of Cologne · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gut bacteria occupy the interface between the organism and the external environment, contributing to homeostasis and disease. Yet, the causal role of the gut microbiota during host aging is largely unexplored. Here, using the African turquoise killifish (

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AgingGastrointestinal MicrobiomeAnimalsFundulidaeGastrointestinal TractLongevityagingevolutionary biologygenomicsinfectious diseaselife spanlongevitymicrobiologymicrobiomeNothobranchius furzeriTurquoise killifish

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PMID28826469
PMCPMC5566455
OpenAlexW2951096488

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