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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2022

Predation Strategies of the Bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus Result in Overexploitation and Bottlenecks.

J Kimberley Summers, Jan-Ulrich Kreft

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Breakdown of clonal cooperative architecture in multispecies biofilms and the spatial ecology of predation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  13. Dual Predation by Bacteriophage andJournal of bacteriology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

J Kimberley SummersInstitute of Microbiology and Infection & Centre for Computational Biology & School of Biosciences, University of Birminghamgrid.6572.6, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-0092-7848
Jan-Ulrich KreftInstitute of Microbiology and Infection & Centre for Computational Biology & School of Biosciences, University of Birminghamgrid.6572.6, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2351-224X
University of Birmingham · GB

Funding

UKRI | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With increasing antimicrobial resistance, alternatives for treating infections or removing resistant bacteria are urgently needed, such as the bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus or bacteriophage. Therefore, we need to better understand microbial predator-prey dynamics. We developed mass-action mathematical models of predation for chemostats, which capture the low substrate concentration and slow growth typical for intended application areas of the predators such as wastewater treatment, aquaculture, or the gut. Our model predicted that predator survival required a minimal prey cell size, explaining why

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BacteriophagesBdellovibrioBdellovibrio bacteriovorusAnimalsEcologyPredatory Behaviorcompetitionfitnessgeneralist versus specialistmathematical modelingordinary differential equationspredator–prey interactionsprey cell sizerobust permanence

Identifiers

PMID34669451
PMCPMC8752146
OpenAlexW3205446002

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