Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30782661›Full record

ReviewmBio2019

Alternative Splicing in Apicomplexan Parasites.

Lee M Yeoh, V Vern Lee, Geoffrey I McFadden, Stuart A Ralph

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in mBio, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Deciphering Transcription inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
    Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Unravelling the sexual developmental biology ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023
    Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. The Long and Short of Next Generation Sequencing forFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
    Review
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
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.

Lee M YeohDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
V Vern LeeDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Geoffrey I McFaddenSchool of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Stuart A RalphDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia saralph@unimelb.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0003-0114-7808

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alternative splicing is a widespread, essential, and complex component of gene regulation. Apicomplexan parasites have long been recognized to produce alternatively spliced transcripts for some genes and can produce multiple protein products that are essential for parasite growth. Recent approaches are now providing more wide-ranging surveys of the extent of alternative splicing; some indicate that alternative splicing is less widespread than in other model eukaryotes, whereas others suggest levels comparable to those of previously studied groups. In many cases, apicomplexan alternative splicing events appear not to generate multiple alternative proteins but instead produce aberrant or noncoding transcripts. Nonetheless, appropriate regulation of alternative splicing is clearly essential in

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingAnimalsApicomplexaGene Expression RegulationParasitesapicomplexan parasitesPlasmodiumposttranscriptional control mechanismsRNA splicingToxoplasma

Identifiers

PMID30782661
PMCPMC6381282

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.