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ArticleNature communications2021

Re-evaluating the evidence for a universal genetic boundary among microbial species.

Connor S Murray, Yingnan Gao, Martin Wu

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 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

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Connor S MurrayDepartment of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8302-6585
Yingnan GaoDepartment of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Martin WuDepartment of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA. mw4yv@virginia.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3093-4077

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID34234129
PMCPMC8263626

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