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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2019

Axenic Biofilm Formation and Aggregation by

Rey Allen, Bruce E Rittmann, Roy Curtiss

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Cyanobacteria and Chloroflexota cooperate to structure light-responsive biofilms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. Chitin utilization by marine picocyanobacteria and the evolution of a planktonic lifestyle.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rey AllenSchool of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA rcallen1@asu.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6663-5568
Bruce E RittmannSchool of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Roy CurtissSchool of Life Sciences, Biodesign Swette Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Arizona State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phototrophic biofilms are key to nutrient cycling in natural environments and bioremediation technologies, but few studies describe biofilm formation by pure (axenic) cultures of a phototrophic microbe. The cyanobacterium

Indexed as

NutrientsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial ProteinsBiofilmsBiofoulingBiofuelsCelluloseCulture MediaDNA, BacterialEscherichia coliFimbriae, BacterialGenes, BacterialMicroscopy, ConfocalPhotobioreactorsPhotosynthesisSynechocystisBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial ProteinsBiofuelsCelluloseCulture MediaDNA, BacterialNutrientsaggregationbiofilmsbiofuelsbiogeochemistrybloomscyanobacteriaexopolysaccharideHABsphotobioreactorSynechocystis

Identifiers

PMID30709828
PMCPMC6585507
OpenAlexW2953158573

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Registered trials

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