Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29295915›Full record

ArticlemBio2018

In Nature, There Is Only Diversity.

Michael R McLaren, Benjamin J Callahan

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Article in mBio, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Michael R McLarenDepartment of Population Health & Pathobiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Benjamin J CallahanDepartment of Population Health & Pathobiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA benjamin.j.callahan@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial ecology has been transformed by the advent of high-throughput marker gene and metagenomic sequencing methods. These tools provide expansive descriptions of microbial communities, but the descriptions are framed in terms of molecular objects, such as 97% ribosomal operational taxonomic units (OTUs), rather than biological objects, such as species. A recent study by A. B. Chase and colleagues (mBio 8:e01809-17, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01809-17) explores the so-called microdiversity within the

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MetagenomicsRNA, Ribosomal, 16SRNA, Ribosomal, 16Smetagenomicsmicrobial ecologymicrobiome

Identifiers

PMID29295915
PMCPMC5750404

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