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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

A bet-hedging strategy for denitrifying bacteria curtails their release of N

Pawel Lycus, Manuel Jesús Soriano-Laguna, Morten Kjos, David John Richardson, Andrew James Gates, Daniel Aleksanteri Milligan, Åsa Frostegård, Linda Bergaust, Lars Reier Bakken

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
8.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

41 citing papers in PubMed, 115 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

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Pawel LycusDepartment of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1430 Ås, Norway.
Manuel Jesús Soriano-LagunaSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ Norwich, United Kingdom.
Morten KjosDepartment of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1430 Ås, Norway.
David John RichardsonSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ Norwich, United Kingdom.
Andrew James GatesSchool of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ Norwich, United Kingdom.
Daniel Aleksanteri MilliganDepartment of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1430 Ås, Norway.
Åsa FrostegårdDepartment of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1430 Ås, Norway.
Linda BergaustDepartment of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1430 Ås, Norway; linda.bergaust@nmbu.no lars.bakken@nmbu.no.ORCID 0000-0001-5100-6611
Lars Reier BakkenDepartment of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1430 Ås, Norway; linda.bergaust@nmbu.no lars.bakken@nmbu.no.
Norwegian University of Life Sciences · NOUniversity of East Anglia · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When oxygen becomes limiting, denitrifying bacteria must prepare for anaerobic respiration by synthesizing the reductases NAR (NO

Indexed as

BacteriaDenitrificationHypoxiaNitratesNitrous OxideOxidoreductasesOxygenParacoccus denitrificansNitratesNitrous OxideOxidoreductasesOxygenbet hedgingdenitrificationecophysiologynitrous oxide

Identifiers

PMID30385636
PMCPMC6243289
OpenAlexW2899279686

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