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ArticleNature communications2018

Oxygen minimum zone cryptic sulfur cycling sustained by offshore transport of key sulfur oxidizing bacteria.

Cameron M Callbeck, Gaute Lavik, Timothy G Ferdelman, Bernhard Fuchs, Harald R Gruber-Vodicka, Philipp F Hach, Sten Littmann, Niels J Schoffelen, Tim Kalvelage, Sören Thomsen and 4 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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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

49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

14 authors.

Cameron M CallbeckMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, D-28359, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7602-3338
Gaute LavikMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, D-28359, Germany.
Timothy G FerdelmanMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, D-28359, Germany. tferdelm@mpi-bremen.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9701-3793
Bernhard FuchsMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, D-28359, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9828-1290
Harald R Gruber-VodickaMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, D-28359, Germany.
Philipp F HachMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, D-28359, Germany.
Sten LittmannMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, D-28359, Germany.
Niels J SchoffelenMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, D-28359, Germany.
Tim KalvelageMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, D-28359, Germany.
Sören ThomsenGEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, D-24148, Germany.
Harald SchunckInstitute for General Microbiology, University of Kiel, Kiel, D-24418, Germany.
Carolin R LöscherInstitute for General Microbiology, University of Kiel, Kiel, D-24418, Germany.
Ruth A SchmitzInstitute for General Microbiology, University of Kiel, Kiel, D-24418, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6788-0829
Marcel M M KuypersMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, D-28359, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Members of the gammaproteobacterial clade SUP05 couple water column sulfide oxidation to nitrate reduction in sulfidic oxygen minimum zones (OMZs). Their abundance in offshore OMZ waters devoid of detectable sulfide has led to the suggestion that local sulfate reduction fuels SUP05-mediated sulfide oxidation in a so-called "cryptic sulfur cycle". We examined the distribution and metabolic capacity of SUP05 in Peru Upwelling waters, using a combination of oceanographic, molecular, biogeochemical and single-cell techniques. A single SUP05 species,

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Aquatic OrganismsChemoautotrophic GrowthGammaproteobacteriaMetabolic Networks and PathwaysNitrogenOxidation-ReductionOxygenPeruPhylogenySeawaterSulfurNitrogenOxygenSulfur

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PMCPMC5928099

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