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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2018

Phenotypic Divergence along Geographic Gradients Reveals Potential for Rapid Adaptation of the White-Nose Syndrome Pathogen, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, in North America.

Adrian Forsythe, Victoria Giglio, Jonathan Asa, Jianping Xu

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adrian ForsytheDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Victoria GiglioDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Jonathan AsaDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Jianping XuDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada jpxu@mcmaster.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-2915-2780
McMaster University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an ongoing epizootic affecting multiple species of North American bats, caused by epidermal infections of the psychrophilic filamentous fungus

Indexed as

Cold TemperatureEvolution, MolecularAcclimatizationAnimalsAscomycotaChiropteraGeographyNorth AmericaNosePhenotypePhylogenyPolymorphism, GeneticSpores, Fungaladaptationclonal expansioncolony sizefungal pathogengenome sequencingpigmentationpigment diffusionspore germination

Identifiers

PMID29915107
PMCPMC6070747
OpenAlexW2807946826

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Registered trials

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