Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29434037›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Changes in the flagellar bundling time account for variations in swimming behavior of flagellated bacteria in viscous media.

Zijie Qu, Fatma Zeynep Temel, Rene Henderikx, Kenneth S Breuer

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 45 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Zijie QuSchool of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912; zijie_qu@brown.edu.
Fatma Zeynep TemelSchool of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.
Rene HenderikxSchool of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.
Kenneth S BreuerSchool of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.
Brown University · USEindhoven University of Technology · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the motility of the flagellated bacteria,

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Escherichia coliFlagellaKineticsModels, BiologicalRotationbacteriabundleflagellafluid mechanicsmotility

Identifiers

PMID29434037
PMCPMC5828589
OpenAlexW2743013760

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