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ArticleeLife2020

The skin microbiome facilitates adaptive tetrodotoxin production in poisonous newts.

Patric M Vaelli, Kevin R Theis, Janet E Williams, Lauren A O'Connell, James A Foster, Heather L Eisthen

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Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
44citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

44 citing papers in PubMed, 88 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

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Patric M VaelliDepartment of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3837-4564
Kevin R TheisBEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States.
Janet E WilliamsBEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States.
Lauren A O'ConnellDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2706-4077
James A FosterBEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States.
Heather L EisthenDepartment of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9049-5750
Michigan State University · USUniversity of Idaho · USStanford University · USWayne State University · US

Funding

National Science Foundation 2014165835National Science Foundation DBI-0939454National Science Foundation IOS-0920505National Science Foundation IOS-1354089National Science Foundation IOS-1655392
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rough-skinned newts (

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalMicrobiotaAnimalsAnimals, PoisonousBacteriaCulture MediaMalePredatory BehaviorSalamandridaeSkinSymbiosisTetrodotoxinCulture MediaTetrodotoxinamphibianautoresistanceevolutionary biologyion channelneurotoxintaricha granulosaTTX

Identifiers

PMID32254021
PMCPMC7138609
OpenAlexW3014633109

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