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ArticleThe ISME journal2018

Build your own soil: exploring microfluidics to create microbial habitat structures.

Kristin Aleklett, E Toby Kiers, Pelle Ohlsson, Thomas S Shimizu, Victor Ea Caldas, Edith C Hammer

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Article in The ISME journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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67citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Kristin AleklettDepartment of Microbial Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
E Toby KiersDepartment of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Pelle OhlssonDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Thomas S ShimizuAMOLF Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Victor Ea CaldasDepartment of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Edith C HammerDepartment of Microbial Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

Funding

European Research Council 335542
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soil is likely the most complex ecosystem on earth. Despite the global importance and extraordinary diversity of soils, they have been notoriously challenging to study. We show how pioneering microfluidic techniques provide new ways of studying soil microbial ecology by allowing simulation and manipulation of chemical conditions and physical structures at the microscale in soil model habitats.

Indexed as

EcosystemImaging, Three-DimensionalLab-On-A-Chip DevicesMicrobiotaSoil MicrobiologyBiodiversityComputer SimulationDimethylpolysiloxanesElectrochemical TechniquesMicrofluidicsOptics and PhotonicsSoilbaysilonDimethylpolysiloxanesSoil

Identifiers

PMID29135971
PMCPMC5776464

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