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

Genetic manipulation of structural color in bacterial colonies.

Villads Egede Johansen, Laura Catón, Raditijo Hamidjaja, Els Oosterink, Bodo D Wilts, Torben Sølbeck Rasmussen, Michael Mario Sherlock, Colin J Ingham, Silvia Vignolini

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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 18 papers.

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18citing 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

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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Living Light 2018: Conference Report.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Villads Egede JohansenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5921-7237
Laura CatónHoekmine Besloten Vennootschap, Kenniscentrum Technologie en Innovatie, Hogeschool Utrecht, 3584 CS, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2905-3045
Raditijo HamidjajaHoekmine Besloten Vennootschap, Kenniscentrum Technologie en Innovatie, Hogeschool Utrecht, 3584 CS, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-5655-2299
Els OosterinkWageningen Food & Biobased Research, 6708 WG, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Bodo D WiltsDepartment of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2727-7128
Torben Sølbeck RasmussenDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine-Infection Microbiology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-9907-8953
Michael Mario SherlockDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
Colin J InghamHoekmine Besloten Vennootschap, Kenniscentrum Technologie en Innovatie, Hogeschool Utrecht, 3584 CS, Utrecht, The Netherlands; sv319@cam.ac.uk colinutrecht@gmail.com.
Silvia VignoliniDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom; sv319@cam.ac.uk colinutrecht@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-0664-1418
University of Applied Sciences Utrecht · NLUniversity of Cambridge · GBTechnical University of Denmark · DKUniversity of Fribourg · CHWageningen University & Research · NL

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/K014617/1European Research Council 639088
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Naturally occurring photonic structures are responsible for the bright and vivid coloration in a large variety of living organisms. Despite efforts to understand their biological functions, development, and complex optical response, little is known of the underlying genes involved in the development of these nanostructures in any domain of life. Here, we used

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Bacterial ProteinsColorFlavobacteriumGenetic EngineeringPhotonsSeaweedBacterial ProteinsdisorderFlavobacteriageneticsself-organizationstructural color

Identifiers

PMID29472451
PMCPMC5856530
OpenAlexW2792666051

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