Pith Number

pith:DNMQRA7P

pith:2012:DNMQRA7P3L2KUTIUMHIO3H2DTG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Lateral Gene Transfer from the Dead

Eric Tannier, Gergely J Sz\"oll\"osi, Nicolas Lartillot, Vincent Daubin

arxiv:1211.4606 v5 · 2012-11-19 · q-bio.PE · q-bio.GN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DNMQRA7P3L2KUTIUMHIO3H2DTG}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:19:43.977014Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1b590883efdaf4aa4d1461d0ed9f4399b1168d1983c742a012bbea529a0d8185

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.4606 · arxiv_version: 1211.4606v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.4606 · pith_short_12: DNMQRA7P3L2K · pith_short_16: DNMQRA7P3L2KUTIU · pith_short_8: DNMQRA7P

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DNMQRA7P3L2KUTIUMHIO3H2DTG \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 1b590883efdaf4aa4d1461d0ed9f4399b1168d1983c742a012bbea529a0d8185

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c29b2ff1ef30a6e500629887d519693995013601455bc50b8a851efa8ac9cfdc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.GN"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-19T22:06:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3bc90a2b53462fbb2cbac629229adc58d372aa6b1b8b0587d6e53a1f88bff1ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.4606",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}