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

  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

• Genome microevolution of chikungunya viruses causing the Indian Ocean outbreak.

  PMID 16700631 · PMC1463904 · PLoS medicine · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The Indian Ocean outbreak was initiated by a strain related to East African CHIKV isolates, which subsequently evolved via a traceable microevolution history

  chikv partial pseudoscutellaris mosquito nucleotide phylogenetic focus

• Co-circulation and evolution of polioviruses and species C enteroviruses in a district of Madagascar.

  PMID 18085822 · PMC2134956 · PLoS pathogens · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Madagascar VDPVs are intertypic/interspecies recombinants with Sabin 2-derived sequence in the 5'-half of the genome and HEV-C-derived sequence in the 3'-half

  vdpv mad04 pvr-tg21 hep-2c rt-pcr monoclonal plaque

• TccP2-mediated subversion of actin dynamics by EPEC 2 - a distinct evolutionary lineage of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli.

  PMID 17526832 · PMC2884950 · Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2007 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  tccP2 is present in 26 of 27 (96.2%) EPEC 2 lineage strains and absent from all 34 EPEC 1 strains tested

  clinical pcr-negative representative whole-cell conventional colony locus-specific

• Population diversity and antibody selective pressure to Plasmodium falciparum MSP1 block2 locus in an African malaria-endemic setting.

  PMID 19832989 · PMC2770483 · BMC microbiology · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The relative proportion of the three Pfmsp1 block2 allelic families (K1, Mad20, RO33) in Dielmo showed no significant temporal fluctuation over a 10-year period (1990-99).

  plasmodium dielmo semi-nested direct cross-sectional

• The first single-stranded DNA virus targeting Pectobacterium belongs to the family Microviridae and demonstrates a broad host range to Pectobacterium brasiliense soft rot pathogens.

  PMID 41739249 · PMC12935840 · Archives of virology · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

  Has reproduction · 90

  Phage Mimer is the first described single-stranded DNA phage targeting Pectobacterium and belongs to the family Microviridae, subfamily Bullavirinae.

  pectobacterium phage cscl-purified pbr phage whole-genome genome

• Comparative Genomics of Borderline Oxacillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Detected during a Pseudo-outbreak of Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

  PMID 35038924 · PMC8764539 · mBio · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 63

  Of 42 isolates flagged as MRSA by screening agar, only 9 were PBP2a- and mecA-positive true MRSA, while the remaining 33 were mecA-negative and largely met criteria for BORSA

  clinical nicu genomic maldi-tof pbp2a cefoxitin

• Four genomic islands that mark post-1995 pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates.

  PMID 16672049 · PMC1464126 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Seven genomic islands (VPaI-1 to VPaI-7, 10-81 kb) were identified in V. parahaemolyticus RIMD2210633 by aberrant GC content, presence of integrases/transposases, flanking direct repeats, and absence from related Vibrionaceae genomes.

  parahaemolyticus vulnificus clinical ecori-digested bioinformatic comparative pcr

• Whole genome sequencing reveals possible host species adaptation of Streptococcus dysgalactiae.

  PMID 34462475 · PMC8405622 · Scientific reports · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SDSD constitutes a distinct taxonomic entity within S. dysgalactiae, with a mean intra-subspecies average nucleotide identity of 99%.

  dysgalactiae sdse sdsd isolates genome multilocus pangenome

• Initial characterization of Chlamydophila (Chlamydia) pneumoniae cultured from the late-onset Alzheimer brain.

  PMID 18829386 · PMC2730674 · International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM · 2009 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  C. pneumoniae was cultured from two late-onset AD brain tissue samples (Tor-1 from hippocampus, Phi-1 from temporal cortex) from different North American regions.

  tor-1 brain hep-2 pcr culture immunofluorescence

• Profiling Selective Packaging of Host RNA and Viral RNA Modification in SARS-CoV-2 Viral Preparations.

  PMID 35186917 · PMC8851031 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 3 setups

  Has reproduction · 56

  SARS-CoV-2 viral preparations show selective enrichment of specific host tRNAs, tRNA fragments, and SRP RNA compared to uninfected VeroE6 cells

  veroe6 cell-free small large trna

• Draft Genome Sequences of Antimicrobial-Resistant Shigella Clinical Isolates from Pakistan.

  PMID 31346012 · PMC6658682 · Microbiology resource announcements · 2019 · 6 claims · 6 setups

  Has reproduction · 92

  Draft genome sequences are reported for three multidrug-resistant Shigella clinical isolates from Pakistan (two S. flexneri and one S. sonnei).

  shigella mdr flexneri antimicrobial whole-genome multilocus

• 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

• Genetic variability of the P120' surface protein gene of Mycoplasma hominis isolates recovered from Tunisian patients with uro-genital and infertility disorders.

  PMID 18053243 · PMC2225410 · BMC infectious diseases · 2007 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  The P120' surface-exposed N-terminal region undergoes substantial genetic variability among Tunisian M. hominis clinical isolates

  cloned clinical hominis pcr culture sanger

• Evaluation of the genetic polymorphism of Plasmodium falciparum P126 protein (SERA or SERP) and its influence on naturally acquired specific antibody responses in malaria-infected individuals living in the Brazilian Amazon.

  PMID 18667071 · PMC2515332 · Malaria journal · 2008 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Only two OR fragment types were identified in P. falciparum isolates from the Brazilian Amazon: OR-I (175 bp) and OR-II (199 bp)

  falciparum pcr-amplified p126 sera nested agarose sequencing

• Comparative genomic profiling of Dutch clinical Bordetella pertussis isolates using DNA microarrays: identification of genes absent from epidemic strains.

  PMID 18590534 · PMC2481270 · BMC genomics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  B. pertussis strains carrying the ptxP3 allele gradually replaced ptxP1 strains and became predominant from 1998, coinciding with the Dutch pertussis resurgence

  dutch additional pertussis ptxp3 multi-locus multiple-locus microarray-based

• 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

• Shifts from cooperative to individual-based predation defense determine microbial predator-prey dynamics.

  PMID 36854789 · PMC10119117 · The ISME journal · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  Across all 16 replicate co-cultures of P. putida and P. lacustris, bacteria show a consistent succession of defense strategies over five weeks (~35 predator generations).

  pseudomonas filamentous axenically semi-continuous morphometric whole-genome

• An accurate method for identifying recent recombinants from unaligned sequences.

  PMID 35025988 · PMC8963311 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2022 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 84

  A novel algorithm combining the JHMM (Zilversmit et al. 2013) mosaic representation with a distance-based triple comparison can identify recombinant sequences and their parents from unaligned, gene-length sequences without a reference panel.

  simulated dblα coalescent comparative recombinant

• Genetic microheterogeneity and phenotypic variation of Helicobacter pylori arginase in clinical isolates.

  PMID 17408487 · PMC1853099 · BMC microbiology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Arginase activity varies more than 100-fold among H. pylori clinical isolates and laboratory-adapted strains

  minimally-passaged pylori coli arginase urease heterologous