Pith Number

pith:QVPMWLGD

pith:2014:QVPMWLGD23HUM5MO2RWC5DKY5R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bistable forespore engulfment in Bacillus subtilis by a zipper mechanism in absence of the cell wall

2), 2) ((1) Department of Life Sciences, (2) Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, (3) Division of Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics, California, Imperial College, Javier L\'opez-Garrido (3), Kit Pogliano (3), La Jolla, London, Nikola Ojkic (1, Robert G. Endres (1, United Kingdom, University of California at San Diego, USA)

arxiv:1410.1406 v1 · 2014-10-06 · q-bio.CB

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\pithnumber{QVPMWLGD23HUM5MO2RWC5DKY5R}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:41:52.174513Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

855ecb2cc3d6cf46758ed46c2e8d58ec7ae8e989f88cfd18bbe0ed71e73245ff

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.1406 · arxiv_version: 1410.1406v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.1406 · pith_short_12: QVPMWLGD23HU · pith_short_16: QVPMWLGD23HUM5MO · pith_short_8: QVPMWLGD

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QVPMWLGD23HUM5MO2RWC5DKY5R \
  | 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: 855ecb2cc3d6cf46758ed46c2e8d58ec7ae8e989f88cfd18bbe0ed71e73245ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3cd30e88f01d60bd60e3cbe717e04cd212d6b746c410bdf3f65a1dd751306852",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.CB",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-06T15:10:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df08b80f6e6b632e12b7c7d722b20a09722a8efaf12d3c573ea5a38997919dbd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.1406",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}