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ArticleMicrobiome2018

Stable isotope informed genome-resolved metagenomics reveals that Saccharibacteria utilize microbially-processed plant-derived carbon.

Evan P Starr, Shengjing Shi, Steven J Blazewicz, Alexander J Probst, Donald J Herman, Mary K Firestone, Jillian F Banfield

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Article in Microbiome, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers.

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72citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

72 citing papers in PubMed, 145 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

7 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Evan P StarrDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Shengjing ShiLincoln Science Centre, AgResearch Ltd, Christchurch, 8140, New Zealand.
Steven J BlazewiczNuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, 94550, USA.
Alexander J ProbstBiofilm Center, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141, Essen, Germany.
Donald J HermanDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Mary K FirestoneDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA. mkfstone@berkeley.edu.
Jillian F BanfieldDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA. jbanfield@berkeley.edu.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · USAgResearch · NZLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · USPlanetary Science Institute · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · USUniversity of Duisburg-Essen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe transformation of plant photosynthate into soil organic carbon and its recycling to CO

resultsWe conducted an experiment in which common wild oats (Avena fatua) were grown in a

conclusionsRhizosphere Saccharibacteria likely depend on other bacteria for basic cellular building blocks. We propose that isotopically labeled CO

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AvenaBacteriaCarbonCarbon DioxideDNA, BacterialEnergy MetabolismGenome, BacterialIsotope LabelingMetagenomicsPlant RootsRhizosphereRNA, BacterialSoil MicrobiologySymbiosisCarbonCarbon DioxideDNA, BacterialRNA, BacterialComplete genomeMetagenomicsRhizosphereSaccharibacteriaStable isotope probing

Identifiers

PMID29970182
PMCPMC6031116
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