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ReviewJournal of bacteriology2025

Milestones in the development of

Lee Kroos, Daniel Wall, Salim T Islam, David E Whitworth, José Muñoz-Dorado, Penelope I Higgs, Mitchell Singer, Emilia M F Mauriello, Anke Treuner-Lange, Lotte Søgaard-Andersen and 7 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of bacteriology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
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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

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

18 citing papers 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

17 authors.

Lee KroosDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4294-948X
Daniel WallDepartment of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0273-1371
Salim T IslamInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Institut Pasteur International Network, Laval, Québec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6853-8446
David E WhitworthDepartment of Life Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-0302-7722
José Muñoz-DoradoDepartamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Andalusia, Spain.
Penelope I HiggsDepartment of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4726-3329
Mitchell SingerDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.
Emilia M F MaurielloLaboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, CNRS, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9770-6138
Anke Treuner-LangeDepartment of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Hesse, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6435-5642
Lotte Søgaard-AndersenDepartment of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Hesse, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0674-0013
Christine KaimerDepartment of Biology and Biotechnology, Microbiology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5541-5703
Montserrat Elías-ArnanzDepartamento de Genética y Microbiología, Área de Genética (Unidad Asociada al IQF CSIC), Facultad de Biologia, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Region of Murcia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1980-3092
Emina A StojkovićDepartment of Biology, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4971-5213
Rolf MüllerDepartment of Microbial Natural Products (MINS), Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Department of Pharmacy at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1042-5665
Carsten VolzDepartment of Microbial Natural Products (MINS), Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Department of Pharmacy at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany.
Gregory J VelicerInstitute for Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Beiyan NanDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0326-9529

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

From the humblest of beginnings (i.e. a pile of dry cow dung) over 80 years ago, the Gram-negative bacterium

Indexed as

Myxococcus xanthusHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyModels, Biologicalcell divisioncell polarityevolutiongliding motilitykin recognitionmicrobial ecologymulticellularitymyxobacteriapeptidoglycanphotoreceptionpolysaccharidespredationsecondary metabolitessignal transductionsporulationtype 4 pilus

Identifiers

PMID40525847
PMCPMC12288465

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