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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

Phages use contingency loci as a bet-hedging strategy.

Jasper B Gomez, Jeffrey E Barrick, Christopher M Waters

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025. 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

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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Review
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

3 authors.

Jasper B GomezDepartment of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Jeffrey E BarrickDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
Christopher M WatersDepartment of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

Funding

The biophysical basis of translational selectionR01GM088344 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI BARRICK, JEFFREY EVAN, WILKE, CLAUS O · 2009 to 2023
$3.5M
Exploring cyclic di-nucleotide signaling across the tree of life (Supplement)R35GM139537 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI WATERS, CHRISTOPHER M · 2021 to 2025
$2.9M
The contribution of novel cytidine deaminase regulatory systems to bacterial evolutionR01AI158433 · NIAID · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI NEIDITCH, MATTHEW B, WATERS, CHRISTOPHER M · 2021 to 2025
$2.9M
Discovery of new phage defense systems in Vibrio choleraeF31AI186463 · NIAID · HENRY FORD HEALTH + MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI GOMEZ, JASPER · 2024 to 2024
$36k
NIAID NIH HHS F31 AI186463NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI158433NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM088344NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM139537
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteriophages are estimated to outnumber bacteria by ~10-fold

Indexed as

contingency lociphagephage defense

Identifiers

PMID41279258
PMCPMC12633550

What Socratic holds

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