ArticlemSphere2025
Evolutionary history and association with seaweeds shape the genomes and metabolisms of marine bacteria.
Article in mSphere, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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.
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.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Effects of the tidal dehydration stress on epiphytic bacterial community of the intertidal macroalgaMicrobiology spectrum · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
16 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Seaweeds harbor a rich diversity of bacteria, providing them with metabolic resources and a surface for attachment and biofilm development. The host's unique environment potentially shapes the bacterial genomes and promotes adaptations for a symbiotic lifestyle. To investigate whether the genomes of seaweed-associated bacteria are genetically and metabolically distinct from their close free-living relatives in seawater, we compared both the seaweed-associated and free-living counterparts of 72 bacterial genera across 16 seaweed hosts using whole-genome sequences or high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes. While taxonomic affiliation strongly influenced genome characteristics such as GC content, gene number, and size, host association had a lower effect overall. A reduced genome size was suggested only in IMPORTANCE: We hypothesized that the unique environment of seaweeds in coastal oceans shapes bacterial genomes and promotes a symbiotic lifestyle. We compared the genomes of bacteria isolated from seaweed with bacteria from the same genus found free-living in seawater. For genome features that included the number of genes, the size of the genome, and the GC content, taxonomy was of greater importance than bacterial lifestyle. When we compared metabolic abilities, we again found a strong effect of taxonomy in determining metabolism. Although several metabolic pathways differed between free-living and host-associated bacteria, this was especially prominent for
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.