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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018

Fluid flows shaping organism morphology.

Karen Alim

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing 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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Persistent pseudopod splitting is an effective chemotaxis strategy in shallow gradients.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. Self-organization in amoeboid motility.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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  8. Adaptive behaviour and learning in slime moulds: the role of oscillations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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  9. Stress signalling in acellular slime moulds and its detection by conspecifics.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
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  10. A brief history of liquid computers.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
    Review
  11. Self-organization: the fundament of cell biology.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018
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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.

Karen AlimMax Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Am Fassberg 17, 37077 Göttingen, Germany karen.alim@ds.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-2527-5831

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A dynamic self-organized morphology is the hallmark of network-shaped organisms like slime moulds and fungi. Organisms continuously reorganize their flexible, undifferentiated body plans to forage for food. Among these organisms the slime mould

Indexed as

CytoplasmHydrodynamicsPhysarum polycephalumfluid flowsmorphogenesistransport

Identifiers

PMID29632264
PMCPMC5904298

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