Pith Number

pith:VTY2UXMH

pith:2015:VTY2UXMHYQIQ56BGPQONBI6YMC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stochastic modelling, Bayesian inference, and new in vivo measurements elucidate the debated mtDNA bottleneck mechanism

Gottfried Brem, Iain G. Johnston, Joerg P. Burgstaller, Jo Poulton, Nick S. Jones, Thomas Kolbe, Thomas Rulicke, Vitezslav Havlicek

arxiv:1512.02988 v1 · 2015-12-09 · q-bio.QM · q-bio.SC · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTY2UXMHYQIQ56BGPQONBI6YMC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:24:39.090798Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acf1aa5d87c4110ef8267c1cd0a3d86080016e530fca9463dd084e3aad61aed7

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.02988 · arxiv_version: 1512.02988v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.02988 · pith_short_12: VTY2UXMHYQIQ · pith_short_16: VTY2UXMHYQIQ56BG · pith_short_8: VTY2UXMH

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/VTY2UXMHYQIQ56BGPQONBI6YMC \
  | 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: acf1aa5d87c4110ef8267c1cd0a3d86080016e530fca9463dd084e3aad61aed7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "093194fbfa2c412075f489bafc25258e3c048f7df6bb2c9cb35750c126585de2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.SC",
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-09T18:47:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "49240e183c6682e48f7f267b94bc48191f437d3b64a2e271ad780ef95a11307c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.02988",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}