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ArticleThe New phytologist2021

The maximum growth rate hypothesis is correct for eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms, but not cyanobacteria.

T A V Rees, John A Raven

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Article in The New phytologist, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Latitudinal patterns in ocean C:N:P reflect phytoplankton acclimation and macromolecular composition.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.

T A V ReesLeigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-9688-2591
John A RavenDivision of Plant Science, University of Dundee at the James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee,, DD2 5DA, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2789-3297
University of Auckland · NZUniversity of Technology Sydney · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The (maximum) growth rate (µ

Indexed as

CyanobacteriaPhotosynthesisEukaryotaPhosphorusRibosomesPhosphorusgrowth rate hypothesismaximum growth ratephospholipidsphosphorus productivitypolyphosphateRNArRNA operon copy number

Identifiers

PMID33449358
PMCPMC8048539
OpenAlexW3120100160

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Registered trials

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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.