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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021

Host-pathogen immune feedbacks can explain widely divergent outcomes from similar infections.

Stephen P Ellner, Nicolas Buchon, Tobias Dörr, Brian P Lazzaro

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Temperature modifies trait-mediated infection outcomes in aPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Stephen P EllnerDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Nicolas BuchonDepartment of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Tobias DörrDepartment of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Brian P LazzaroDepartment of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

Funding

Mechanisms and Evolutionary Consequences of a Reproduction-Immunity TradeoffR01AI141385 · NIAID · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI LAZZARO, BRIAN · 2019 to 2024
$2.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI141385
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A long-standing question in infection biology is why two very similar individuals, with very similar pathogen exposures, may have very different outcomes. Recent experiments have found that even isogenic

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Drosophila melanogasterHost-Pathogen InteractionsAnimalsBacteriaFeedbackImmune Systembistabilitydynamic modelimmune systemopportunistic pathogens

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PMID34034518
PMCPMC8150042

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