Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Identification of multiple independent horizontal gene transfers into poxviruses using a comparative genomics approach.

  PMID 18304319 · PMC2268676 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Comparative synteny conservation around a horizontally transferred gene (HTgene) can distinguish single versus multiple independent HGT events even without a robust phylogenetic tree.

  poxvirus core psi-blast comparative molecular

• The post-genomic era for a select few.

  PMID 14759254 · PMC395745 · Genome biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Exofish comparative-genomics tool identifies protein-coding DNA segments by comparing two genome sequences and was used to compare pufferfish (Takifugu, Tetraodon) genomes with mammalian genomes, improving annotation of the human and mouse genomes.

  takifugu physcomitrella coli vibrio comparative genetic dna-microarray

• Evolution and codon usage bias of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in Aspergillus section Flavi.

  PMID 36305682 · PMC9836360 · G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  18 new mitochondrial genomes were assembled for Aspergillus section Flavi species, complementing 3 existing reference mitogenomes, for a total of 20 species analyzed.

  aspergillus circularized core orthologous mitogenome read organellar

• Genome-wide insights into population structure and host specificity of Campylobacter jejuni.

  PMID 33990625 · PMC8121833 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  Both core and accessory genome characteristics show strong association with distinct host animal species, indicating multiple independent adaptive trajectories rather than a single common evolutionary path

  jejuni core whole-genome core k-mer

• Evolutionary Genomics of Sex-Related Chromosomes at the Base of the Green Lineage.

  PMID 34599324 · PMC8557840 · Genome biology and evolution · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  The divergence of the MT+ and MT- alleles predates speciation events within the Ostreococcus genus

  mamiellales ostreococcus tauri shared comparative orthology synteny

• Sequence-based pangenomic core detection.

  PMID 35663029 · PMC9160775 · iScience · 2022 · 7 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 98

  Sequence-based pangenomic core detection can be performed directly on unannotated genome sequences using a colored de Bruijn graph, avoiding bias from error-prone gene annotations

  prokaryotic gene-based sequence-based synteny-based

• Recombination Facilitates Adaptive Evolution in Rhizobial Soil Bacteria.

  PMID 34410427 · PMC8662638 · Molecular biology and evolution · 2021 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 80

  α varies from 0.07 to 0.39 across five Rhizobium species and is positively correlated with the level of recombination

  rhizobium core same site intragenic nucleotide

• Reconstruction of 2,965 Microbial Genomes from Mangrove Sediments across Guangxi, China.

  PMID 41419779 · PMC12858935 · Scientific data · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  A standardized assembly, binning, and dereplication pipeline was used to reconstruct 2,965 non-redundant MAGs from 38 mangrove sediment samples across six sites in Guangxi

  mangrove sediment quality-filtered bacterial whole-genome physicochemical laser

• Evaluation of core genome and whole genome multilocus sequence typing schemes for Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli outbreak detection in the USA.

  PMID 37133905 · PMC10272873 · Microbial genomics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 92

  cgMLST, wgMLST and hqSNP WGS-based analysis methods clustered C. jejuni and C. coli isolates in concordance with epidemiological data.

  jejuni same subset isolate cgmlst hqsnp genome

• A role for ColV plasmids in the evolution of pathogenic Escherichia coli ST58.

  PMID 35115531 · PMC8813906 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 95

  ST58 contains a major sub-lineage (BAP2, n=363) characterized by near-ubiquitous carriage of ColV plasmids

  coli st58 novo draft whole-genome pan-genome-wide plasmid

• Large-Scale Phylogenomics of the Lactobacillus casei Group Highlights Taxonomic Inconsistencies and Reveals Novel Clade-Associated Features.

  PMID 28845461 · PMC5566788 · mSystems · 2017 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 94

  The L. casei group resolves into three distinct clades (A, B, C) supported by phylogeny, GC content, ANI, and TETRA, and many strains are misclassified relative to their nearest type strain.

  casei orthogroups unclassified selected whole-genome comparative pairwise

• Plasmid transmission dynamics and evolution of partner quality in a natural population of Rhizobium leguminosarum.

  PMID 41212030 · PMC12691615 · mBio · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 86

  Of the four most frequent plasmid types, types II and III have more stable size, larger core genomes, and track the chromosomal phylogeny (more vertical transmission), while types I and IV (pSym) vary in size and gene content with phylogenies consistent with frequent horizontal transmission.

  clover-associated plasmids plasmidome replicons long-read k-mer genome

• A naturally occurring human RPA subunit homolog does not support DNA replication or cell-cycle progression.

  PMID 19942684 · PMC2817474 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Exogenous RPA4 expression does not support chromosomal DNA replication and causes cell-cycle arrest in G2/M

  hela mammalian rpa4 western flow immunofluorescence

• Comparative Genomics of Listeria monocytogenes Isolates from Ruminant Listeriosis Cases in the Midwest United States.

  PMID 36314928 · PMC9769944 · Microbiology spectrum · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 91

  73 ruminant listeriosis isolates classified by WGS/cgMLST fall into three lineages: 31.5% lineage 1, 53.4% lineage 2, 15.1% lineage 3

  monocytogenes isolate whole-genome core minimum

• Identification of genes influencing the evolution of Escherichia coli ST372 in dogs and humans.

  PMID 36752777 · PMC9997745 · Microbial genomics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 89

  Dogs are the dominant host of E. coli ST372, and clusters within the ST372 population structure exhibit distinctive O:H types.

  coli st372 core draft whole-genome core population

• TRED: a Transcriptional Regulatory Element Database and a platform for in silico gene regulation studies.

  PMID 15608156 · PMC539958 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  TRED is a database collecting both cis-regulatory elements (promoters) and trans-regulatory elements (transcription factor binding/regulation data) with linked access.

  promoter tred-retrieved computational literature relational

• Population genomics: diversity and virulence in the Neisseria.

  PMID 18822386 · PMC2612085 · Current opinion in microbiology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Horizontal genetic exchange (recombination) plays a central role in shaping bacterial speciation and population structure in Neisseria

  neisseria meningitidis meningococcal multi-locus microarray genome

• Genomics of Environmental Salmonella: Engaging Students in the Microbiology and Bioinformatics of Foodborne Pathogens.

  PMID 33967968 · PMC8100199 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 73

  An undergraduate CURE combining field sampling, wet-lab microbiology, and genomic bioinformatics can be used to isolate and characterize environmental S. enterica strains.

  putative enterica selected assembled endpoint genome long-read

• Complete Genome Sequencing of Lactobacillus plantarum ZLP001, a Potential Probiotic That Enhances Intestinal Epithelial Barrier Function and Defense Against Pathogens in Pigs.

  PMID 30542296 · PMC6277807 · Frontiers in physiology · 2018 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 68

  The complete genome of L. plantarum ZLP001 comprises a single 3,164,369 bp circular chromosome (GC 44.65%) plus seven plasmids (A–G), encoding 3,264 protein-coding sequences.

  lactobacillus plantarum whole-genome novo gene

• Population structure analysis of Salmonella serovar Muenchen to redefine geno-serotyping using genome indexing approaches.

  PMID 41743541 · PMC12929376 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2025 · 6 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 54

  Integrating genome-indexing (bettercallsal, DNA sketching + genome proximity) with SeqSero2 yields complementary serovar calls that improve discrimination of genomically distinct but antigenically similar serovars while retaining historical nomenclature

  salmonella megahit-assembled genome genome-indexing in-silico cgmlst