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ArticleeLife2017

Inter-species population dynamics enhance microbial horizontal gene transfer and spread of antibiotic resistance.

Robert M Cooper, Lev Tsimring, Jeff Hasty

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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 80 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
80citing papers in PubMed
11.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

80 citing papers in PubMed, 149 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Spatial population dynamics of bacterial colonies with social antibiotic resistance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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20 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert M CooperBioCircuits Institute, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2136-0403
Lev TsimringBioCircuits Institute, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States.
Jeff HastyBioCircuits Institute, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States.
University of California San Diego · US

Funding

SYNTHETIC SYSTEMSP50GM085764 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HASTY, JEFF M, IDEKER, TREY · 2010 to 2018
$23.3M
Engineered Gene Circuits for Basic Science and BiotechnologyR01GM069811 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HASTY, JEFF M, TSIMRING, LEV S · 2004 to 2025
$13.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM085764NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM069811
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays a major role in the spread of antibiotic resistance. Of particular concern are

Indexed as

AntibiosisBacteriolysisDrug Resistance, BacterialGene Transfer, HorizontalAcinetobacterEscherichia coliPopulation DynamicsAcinetobacter baylyiantibiotic resistancecomputational biologyE. colihorizontal gene transferinfectious diseasemicrobial population dynamicsmicrobiologymulti-drug resistancenatural competencesystems biology

Identifiers

PMID29091031
PMCPMC5701796
OpenAlexW2766085454

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