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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2020

Stromatolites as Biosignatures of Atmospheric Oxygenation: Carbonate Biomineralization and UV-C Resilience in a

Rabja M Popall, Henk Bolhuis, Gerard Muyzer, Mónica Sánchez-Román

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Biofilms: from the cradle of life to life support.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2026
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  8. Microbially Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation byApplied and environmental microbiology · 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

4 authors.

Rabja M PopallEarth Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Henk BolhuisMarine Microbiology & Biogeochemistry Department, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Utrecht University, Den Hoorn, Netherlands.
Gerard MuyzerMicrobial Systems Ecology, Department of Freshwater and Marine Ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Mónica Sánchez-RománEarth Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern stromatolites are key to the record of past microbial activity preserved in fossil carbonate deposits. Mono-phototrophic cultures dominated by the cyanobacterium

Indexed as

biomineralizationbiosignaturescyanobacteriaGeitlerinema sp.microbial carbonatemicrobial matsstromatoliteUV radiation

Identifiers

PMID32508777
PMCPMC7248245

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