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ArticlemBio2021

Microbial Ecology and Evolution Are Essential for Understanding Pandemics.

Megan E Frederickson, Aspen T Reese

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Article in mBio, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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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

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

1 citing paper 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

2 authors.

Megan E FredericksonDepartment of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9058-7137
Aspen T ReeseDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diegogrid.266100.3, San Diego, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9004-9470

Funding

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative GBMF9356Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) RGPIN-2021-03711Harvard University | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ecology and evolution, especially of microbes, have never been more relevant than in our global fight against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Understanding how populations of SARS-CoV-2 grow, disperse, and evolve is of critical importance to managing the COVID-19 pandemic, and these questions are fundamentally ecological and evolutionary in nature. We compiled data from

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionEcologyCOVID-19HumansMicrobiotaPandemicsCOVID-19microbial ecologymicrobial evolutionmicrobiome

Identifiers

PMID34579579
PMCPMC8546628

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