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ArticleiScience2020

Quorum Sensing Behavior in the Model Unicellular Eukaryote

Alexandra M Folcik, Kirstin Cutshaw, Timothy Haire, Joseph Goode, Pooja Shah, Faizan Zaidi, Brianna Richardson, Andrew Palmer

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Article in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 45% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 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

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alexandra M FolcikDepartment of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA.
Kirstin CutshawDepartment of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA.
Timothy HaireDepartment of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA.
Joseph GoodeDepartment of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA.
Pooja ShahDepartment of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA.
Faizan ZaidiDepartment of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA.
Brianna RichardsonDepartment of Aerospace, Physics, and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA.
Andrew PalmerDepartment of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA.
Florida Institute of Technology · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial communities display behavioral changes in response to variable environmental conditions. In some bacteria, motility increases as a function of cell density, allowing for population dispersal before the onset of nutrient scarcity. Utilizing automated particle tracking, we now report on a population-dependent increase in the swimming speeds of the photosynthetic unicellular eukaryotes

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CellMicrobiologyMolecular Microbiology

Identifiers

PMID33196031
PMCPMC7644740
OpenAlexW3093682069

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Registered trials

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