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ArticlemBio2018

Robust Mercury Methylation across Diverse Methanogenic Archaea.

Cynthia C Gilmour, Allyson L Bullock, Alyssa McBurney, Mircea Podar, Dwayne A Elias

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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 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 150 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cynthia C GilmourSmithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA gilmourc@si.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1720-9498
Allyson L BullockSmithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA.
Alyssa McBurneySmithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA.
Mircea PodarBiosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
Dwayne A EliasBiosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4469-6391
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center · USOak Ridge National Laboratory · US

Funding

DEVELOPMENT OF IN-SITU MERCURY REMEDIATION APPROACHES BASED ON METHYLMERCURY BIOAR01ES024284 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY · PI GHOSH, UPAL · 2014 to 2019
$870k
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES024284
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Methylmercury (MeHg) production was compared among nine cultured methanogenic archaea that contain

Indexed as

ArchaeaCulture MediaCysteineGenes, ArchaealMercuric ChlorideMethaneMethylationMethylmercury CompoundsSulfidesCulture MediaCysteineMercuric ChlorideMethanemethylmercuric chlorideMethylmercury CompoundsSulfidesArchaeabioavailabilitycomplexationcysteinehgcABmercurymethylationmethylmercurymethyltransferasethiols

Identifiers

PMID29636434
PMCPMC5893877
OpenAlexW2797519057

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