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ReviewApplied and environmental microbiology2021

Degradation and Utilization of Alginate by Marine

Fei Xu, Qian-Qian Cha, Yu-Zhong Zhang, Xiu-Lan Chen

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Review in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
8.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 57 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fei Xu *State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.
Qian-Qian Cha *State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.
Yu-Zhong ZhangCollege of Marine Life Sciences, and Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.
Xiu-Lan ChenState Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.
Shandong University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alginate, which is mainly produced by brown algae and decomposed by heterotrophic bacteria, is an important marine organic carbon source. The genus

Indexed as

AlginatesBacterial ProteinsPhaeophyceaePolysaccharide-LyasesPseudoalteromonasSeawaterAlginatesBacterial Proteinspoly(beta-D-mannuronate) lyasePolysaccharide-Lyasesalginatealginate degradationalginate lyasealginate utilizationalginate utilization pathwayPseudoalteromonas

Identifiers

PMID34160244
PMCPMC8357284
OpenAlexW3174727439

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