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Social amoebae trap and kill bacteria by casting DNA nets
Access & Citations
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- 17k
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- 113
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Online attention
- 58 tweeters
- 6 blogs
- 2 Facebook pages
- 2 Google+ users
- 6 news outlets
- 1 Redditors
- 1 F1000
- 194 Mendeley
- 1 Citeulike
This article is in the 97th percentile (ranked 6,597th) of the 317,389 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals and the 85th percentile (ranked 129th) of the 878 tracked articles of a similar age in Nature Communications
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Mentions in news and blogs
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News story from MedicalXpress on Tuesday 01 March 2016
MedicalXpress -
DNA as a weapon of immune defense
EurekAlert! -
Amoebae Have Human-Like Immunity
The Scientist Magazine -
Evolutionary Conservation of An Antimicrobial Net
Popular Science -
March 2, 2016
Microbiome Digest - Bik's Picks -
‘Netting’ bacteria with DNA: strategies of a social amoeba
The Scientific Lens -
ריריות אלטרואיסטיות, חקלאיות ורמאיות
SciPhile
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