Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33459590›Full record

ArticleeLife2021

Repeated outbreaks drive the evolution of bacteriophage communication.

Hilje M Doekes, Glenn A Mulder, Rutger Hermsen

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 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

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

3 authors.

Hilje M DoekesTheoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6360-5176
Glenn A MulderTheoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Rutger HermsenTheoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-4633-4877

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, a small-molecule communication mechanism was discovered in a range of

Indexed as

LysogenyMicrobial InteractionsVirus Physiological PhenomenaBacteriophagesarbitriumbacteriophagescommunicationcomputational biologyevolutionevolutionary biologymodellingsystems biology

Identifiers

PMID33459590
PMCPMC7935489

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