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).

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

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

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  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

• Evolution of two distinct phylogenetic lineages of the emerging human pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans.

  PMID 17900363 · PMC2098775 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  M. ulcerans has evolved into five InDel haplotypes that separate into two distinct phylogenetic lineages: a 'classical' lineage (Africa, Australia, South East Asia) and an 'ancestral' lineage (Asia, South America, Mexico)

  ulcerans marinum plasmid-based pcr genome

• Whole-genome analysis of a multidrug-resistant Klebsiella michiganensis environmental isolate from an orthopedic ward in Mwanza, Tanzania reveals IncF-family plasmid replicon signatures associated with resistance determinants.

  PMID 41957580 · PMC13173886 · BMC genomics · 2026 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Genome-based taxonomy (GTDB-Tk and ANI) reclassified the isolate A55848, phenotypically identified as K. oxytoca, as Klebsiella michiganensis

  klebsiella isolate a55848 assembled short-read phenotypic genome-based

• Rise of the machines.

  PMID 18670625 · PMC2467494 · PLoS genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  New short-read sequencing platforms (Illumina Genome Analyzer, 454 FLX, ABI SOLiD) enable rapid, scalable whole-genome resequencing that was previously restricted to dedicated sequencing centers using Sanger methods.

  bacillus independent subtilis whole-genome read

• A biomedically enriched collection of 7000 human ORF clones.

  PMID 18231609 · PMC2211400 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Produced and made available over 7000 fully sequence-verified plasmid ORF clones representing over 3400 unique human genes, in both closed (stop codon) and fusion (no stop codon) formats.

  genes mgc plasmid literature pcr sequence

• Genomic diversity and evolution of Mycobacterium ulcerans revealed by next-generation sequencing.

  PMID 19806175 · PMC2736377 · PLoS pathogens · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genome sequencing of three M. ulcerans strains (NM20/02, NM31/04, Jp8756) identified thousands of SNPs relative to reference strain Agy99

  ulcerans collection snp whole-genome comparative read

• Acquisition and loss of CTX-M plasmids in Shigella species associated with MSM transmission in the UK.

  PMID 34427554 · PMC8549364 · Microbial genomics · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  bla_CTX-M-27 is located on IncFII pKSR100-like plasmids, flanked by IS26 and IS903B

  sonnei same shigella assembled illumina oxford novo

• High-throughput sequencing provides insights into genome variation and evolution in Salmonella Typhi.

  PMID 18660809 · PMC2652037 · Nature genetics · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Evolution in the Typhi population is characterized by ongoing loss of gene function (pseudogene accumulation) rather than gain of function or diversifying selection.

  salmonella sequenced typhi whole-genome snp-based selection

• 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

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  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

• Comparative genomics of dairy-associated Staphylococcus aureus from selected sub-Saharan African regions reveals milk as reservoir for human-and animal-derived strains and identifies a putative animal-related clade with presumptive novel siderophore.

  PMID 36046020 · PMC9421002 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Milk serves as a reservoir for both human- and animal-derived S. aureus strains in sub-Saharan Africa

  aureus reduced genome cgmlst comparative

• Replication in mammalian cells recapitulates the locus-specific differences in somatic instability of genomic GAA triplet-repeats.

  PMID 17142224 · PMC1669776 · Nucleic acids research · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Pure (GAA·TTC)44+ alleles at the FXN locus are unstable in human somatic cells in vivo, showing both expansions and contractions.

  blood v34a cos1 cv1 small genome-wide strip

• Genetic diversity of clinical isolates of Bacillus cereus using multilocus sequence typing.

  PMID 18990211 · PMC2585095 · BMC microbiology · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  The 55 clinical B. cereus isolates were phylogenetically diverse, comprising 38 sequence types (STs) distributed across two of three previously described clades.

  clinical concatenated cereus isolates multilocus phylogenetic pcr

• Genomic and phenotypic variation in epidemic-spanning Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis isolates.

  PMID 19922635 · PMC2784474 · BMC microbiology · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  S. Enteritidis isolates show a high degree of genetic homogeneity/uniformity across typing methods and CGH despite geographic, temporal and source differences.

  enteritidis selected uruguayan caco-2 rapd-pcr pfge comparative

• Identification of recombinant human papillomavirus type 16 variants.

  PMID 19758676 · PMC2769496 · Virology · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Concurrent infection with 8 HPV16 variants (1 prototype/European, 6 recombinant clones, plus later African-2) was detected in a single woman via PCR-based cloning and sequencing

  cervical pcr-based recombinant-specific direct

• Symbiosis genes show a unique pattern of introgression and selection within a Rhizobium leguminosarum species complex.

  PMID 32176601 · PMC7276703 · Microbial genomics · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The 196 R. leguminosarum sv. trifolii strains constitute a five-species complex (genospecies gsA-gsE) that occur in sympatry but show little recent between-species gene transfer in core or accessory genomes, except for a few highly mobile regions.

  rhizobium leguminosarum strains orthologous whole-genome long-read 16s

• Essential Genes of Vibrio anguillarum and Other Vibrio spp. Guide the Development of New Drugs and Vaccines.

  PMID 34745063 · PMC8564382 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2021 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 67

  Tn-seq using the TnSC189 mariner transposon identified 329 essential genes in V. anguillarum NB10Sm from a library of 52,662 insertion mutants.

  vibrio coli anguillarum transposon-insertion conjugative functional

• Evaluation of the OPTC gene in primary open angle glaucoma: functional significance of a silent change.

  PMID 17359525 · PMC1838427 · BMC molecular biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  OPTC is a candidate gene involved in POAG pathogenesis

  genomic pcr optc retinal pcr-sscp dhplc sequencing

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

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

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  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