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ReviewMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz2018

Introns in Cryptococcus.

Guilhem Janbon

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Review in Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Light controls gene functions through alternative splicing in fungi.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. A Chimeric ORF Fusion Phenotypic Reporter forJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  7. Frontiers in microbiology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Guilhem JanbonUnité Biologie des ARN des Pathogènes Fongiques, Département de Mycologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Institut Pasteur · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Cryptococcus neoformans, nearly all genes are interrupted by small introns. In recent years, genome annotation and genetic analysis have illuminated the major roles these introns play in the biology of this pathogenic yeast. Introns are necessary for gene expression and alternative splicing can regulate gene expression in response to environmental cues. In addition, recent studies have revealed that C. neoformans introns help to prevent transposon dissemination and protect genome integrity. These characteristics of cryptococcal introns are probably not unique to Cryptococcus, and this yeast likely can be considered as a model for intron-related studies in fungi.

Indexed as

CryptococcusDNA, FungalGenome, FungalIntronsSequence Analysis, DNADNA, Fungal

Identifiers

PMID29513783
PMCPMC5851062
OpenAlexW2793472111

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Registered trials

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