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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2018

Evaluating Established Methods for Rumen 16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing With Mock Microbial Populations.

Emily McGovern, Sinéad M Waters, Gordon Blackshields, Matthew S McCabe

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
10.1field-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

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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 48 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emily McGovernAnimal and Bioscience Research Department, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Carlow, Ireland.
Sinéad M WatersAnimal and Bioscience Research Department, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Carlow, Ireland.
Gordon BlackshieldsAnimal and Bioscience Research Department, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Carlow, Ireland.
Matthew S McCabeAnimal and Bioscience Research Department, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc, Carlow, Ireland.
Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority · IEUniversity College Dublin · IE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rumen microbiome scientific community has utilized amplicon sequencing as an aid in identifying potential community compositional trends that could be used as an estimation of various production and performance traits including methane emission, animal protein production efficiency, and ruminant health status. In order to translate rumen microbiome studies into executable application, there is a need for experimental and analytical concordance within the community. The objective of this study was to assess these factors in relation to selected currently established methods for 16S phylogenetic community analysis on a microbial community standard (MC) and a DNA standard (DS; ZymoBIOMICS

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ampliconmicrobiotamock communityPCRphylogenetic analysisrumen

Identifiers

PMID29988486
PMCPMC6026621
OpenAlexW2810259091

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