Gene flow maintains a large genetic difference in clutch size at a small spatial scale.

abstract：:Among the ten subtypes of mammalian voltage-gated calcium (Cav) channels, Cav3.1-Cav3.3 constitute the T-type, or the low-voltage-activated, subfamily, the abnormal activities of which are associated with epilepsy, psychiatric disorders and pain1-5. Here we report the cryo-electron microscopy structures of human Cav3....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhao Y,Huang G,Wu Q,Wu K,Li R,Lei J,Pan X,Yan N

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition and removal of apoptotic cells by professional phagocytes, including dendritic cells and macrophages, preserves immune self-tolerance and prevents chronic inflammation and autoimmune pathologies. The diverse array of phagocytes that reside within different tissues, combined with the necessarily prompt natu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cummings RJ,Barbet G,Bongers G,Hartmann BM,Gettler K,Muniz L,Furtado GC,Cho J,Lira SA,Blander JM

更新日期：2016-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ras proto-oncogene is a central component of mitogenic signal-transduction pathways, and is essential for cells both to leave a quiescent state (G0) and to pass through the G1/S transition of the cell cycle. The mechanism by which Ras signalling regulates cell-cycle progression is unclear, however. Here we report ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Peeper DS,Upton TM,Ladha MH,Neuman E,Zalvide J,Bernards R,DeCaprio JA,Ewen ME

更新日期：1997-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The most severe excursions in the Earth's climatic history are thought to be associated with Proterozoic glaciations. According to the 'Snowball Earth' hypothesis, the Marinoan glaciation, which ended about 635 million years ago, involved global or nearly global ice cover. At the termination of this glacial period, ra...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Allen PA,Hoffman PF

更新日期：2005-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:IN 1969, Murozumi et al.1 demonstrated that the concentration of lead in Greenland snow had increased by a factor of 200 since ancient times, and concluded that most of this increase was a result of the use of alkyl-leaded petrol. Partly because of these findings, the United States and other western countries limited ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rosman KJR,Chisholm W,Boutron CF,Candelone JP,Görlach U

更新日期：1993-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:RecBCD enzyme is a processive DNA helicase and nuclease that participates in the repair of chromosomal DNA through homologous recombination. We have visualized directly the movement of individual RecBCD enzymes on single molecules of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). Detection involves the optical trapping of solitary, flu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bianco PR,Brewer LR,Corzett M,Balhorn R,Yeh Y,Kowalczykowski SC,Baskin RJ

更新日期：2001-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant regulation of RNA stability has an important role in many disease states. Deregulated post-transcriptional modulation, such as that governed by microRNAs targeting linear sequence elements in messenger RNAs, has been implicated in the progression of many cancer types. A defining feature of RNA is its ability ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Goodarzi H,Zhang S,Buss CG,Fish L,Tavazoie S,Tavazoie SF

更新日期：2014-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons expressing luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH), found in the septal-preoptic nuclei and hypothalamus, control the release of gonadotropic hormones from the anterior pituitary gland and facilitate reproductive behaviour. LHRH-expressing neurons are also found in the nervus terminalis, a cranial nerve t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schwanzel-Fukuda M,Pfaff DW

更新日期：1989-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Common fragile sites have long been identified by cytogeneticists as chromosomal regions prone to breakage upon replication stress. They are increasingly recognized to be preferential targets for oncogene-induced DNA damage in pre-neoplastic lesions and hotspots for chromosomal rearrangements in various cancers. Commo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Letessier A,Millot GA,Koundrioukoff S,Lachagès AM,Vogt N,Hansen RS,Malfoy B,Brison O,Debatisse M

更新日期：2011-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly conserved protein gamma-tubulin is required for microtubule nucleation in vivo. When viewed in the electron microscope, a highly purified gamma-tubulin complex from Xenopus consisting of at least seven different proteins is seen to have an open ring structure. This complex acts as an active microtubule-nucl...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zheng Y,Wong ML,Alberts B,Mitchison T

更新日期：1995-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving site selectivity in carbon-hydrogen (C-H) functionalization reactions is a long-standing challenge in organic chemistry. The small differences in intrinsic reactivity of C-H bonds in any given organic molecule can lead to the activation of undesired C-H bonds by a non-selective catalyst. One solution to this...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tang RY,Li G,Yu JQ

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Wetlands are the largest natural source of atmospheric methane, the second most important greenhouse gas. Methane flux to the atmosphere depends strongly on the climate; however, by far the largest part of the methane formed in wetland ecosystems is recycled and does not reach the atmosphere. The biogeochemical contro...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Raghoebarsing AA,Smolders AJ,Schmid MC,Rijpstra WI,Wolters-Arts M,Derksen J,Jetten MS,Schouten S,Sinninghe Damsté JS,Lamers LP,Roelofs JG,Op den Camp HJ,Strous M

更新日期：2005-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental tenet of cerebellar learning theories asserts that climbing fibre afferents from the inferior olive provide a teaching signal that promotes the gradual adaptation of movements. Data from several forms of motor learning provide support for this tenet. In pavlovian eyelid conditioning, for example, where a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Medina JF,Nores WL,Mauk MD

更新日期：2002-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppressor of cytokine signalling-2 (SOCS-2) is a member of the suppressor of cytokine signalling family, a group of related proteins implicated in the negative regulation of cytokine action through inhibition of the Janus kinase (JAK) signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) signal-transduction pathw...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Metcalf D,Greenhalgh CJ,Viney E,Willson TA,Starr R,Nicola NA,Hilton DJ,Alexander WS

更新日期：2000-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Earthquakes radiate from slip on discrete faults, but also commonly involve distributed deformation within a broader fault zone, especially near the surface. Variations in rock strain during an earthquake are caused by heterogeneity in the elastic stress before the earthquake, by variable material properties and geome...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fielding EJ,Lundgren PR,Bürgmann R,Funning GJ

更新日期：2009-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of cytosolic proteins is carried out predominantly by the proteasome, which generates peptides of 7-9 amino acids long. These products need further processing. Recently, a proteolytic system was identified in the model organism Thermoplasma acidophilum that performs this processing. The hexameric core ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Brandstetter H,Kim JS,Groll M,Huber R

更新日期：2001-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Organisms use endogenous clocks to anticipate regular environmental cycles, such as days and tides. Natural variants resulting in differently timed behaviour or physiology, known as chronotypes in humans, have not been well characterized at the molecular level. We sequenced the genome of Clunio marinus, a marine midge...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kaiser TS,Poehn B,Szkiba D,Preussner M,Sedlazeck FJ,Zrim A,Neumann T,Nguyen LT,Betancourt AJ,Hummel T,Vogel H,Dorner S,Heyd F,von Haeseler A,Tessmar-Raible K

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing hypothesis on tumorigenesis is that cell division failure, generating genetically unstable tetraploid cells, facilitates the development of aneuploid malignancies. Here we test this idea by transiently blocking cytokinesis in p53-null (p53-/-) mouse mammary epithelial cells (MMECs), enabling the isolat...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fujiwara T,Bandi M,Nitta M,Ivanova EV,Bronson RT,Pellman D

更新日期：2005-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity in neural circuits can result from alterations in synaptic strength or connectivity, as well as from changes in the excitability of the neurons themselves. To better understand the role of plasticity in the brain, we need to establish how brain circuits work and the kinds of computations that different circ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Destexhe A,Marder E

更新日期：2004-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Seismological observations have revealed the existence of low-velocity and high-attenuation zones above the discontinuity at 410 km depth, at the base of the Earth's upper mantle. It has been suggested that a small amount of melt could be responsible for such anomalies. The density of silicate melt under dry condition...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sakamaki T,Suzuki A,Ohtani E

更新日期：2006-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative disorder of motor neurons in the cortex, brainstem and spinal cord. Its cause is unknown and it is uniformly fatal, typically within five years. About 10% of cases are inherited as an autosomal dominant trait, with high penetrance after the sixth decade. In most in...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rosen DR,Siddique T,Patterson D,Figlewicz DA,Sapp P,Hentati A,Donaldson D,Goto J,O'Regan JP,Deng HX

更新日期：1993-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Caste differentiation and division of labour are the hallmarks of insect societies and at the root of their ecological success. Kin selection predicts that caste determination should result from environmentally induced differences in gene expression, a prediction largely supported by empirical data. However, two excep...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Helms Cahan S,Keller L

更新日期：2003-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to differentiate stimuli predicting positive or negative outcomes is critical for survival, and perturbations of emotional processing underlie many psychiatric disease states. Synaptic plasticity in the basolateral amygdala complex (BLA) mediates the acquisition of associative memories, both positive and n...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Namburi P,Beyeler A,Yorozu S,Calhoon GG,Halbert SA,Wichmann R,Holden SS,Mertens KL,Anahtar M,Felix-Ortiz AC,Wickersham IR,Gray JM,Tye KM

更新日期：2015-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of mutations is central to understanding evolution and of key relevance to health. Variation occurs non-randomly across the genome, and mechanisms for this remain to be defined. Here we report that the 5' ends of Okazaki fragments have significantly increased levels of nucleotide substitution, indicating a ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Reijns MAM,Kemp H,Ding J,de Procé SM,Jackson AP,Taylor MS

更新日期：2015-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Perfusion chromatography is a technique based on fluid dynamics for reducing stagnant mobile phase mass transfer in liquid chromatography. This is achieved by using supports with large pores that allow mobile phase to flow through particles. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Regnier FE

更新日期：1991-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans and other animals must often make decisions on the basis of imperfect evidence. Statisticians use measures such as P values to assign degrees of confidence to propositions, but little is known about how the brain computes confidence estimates about decisions. We explored this issue using behavioural analysis an...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kepecs A,Uchida N,Zariwala HA,Mainen ZF

更新日期：2008-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Men who develop metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) invariably succumb to the disease. Progression to CRPC after androgen ablation therapy is predominantly driven by deregulated androgen receptor (AR) signalling. Despite the success of recently approved therapies targeting AR signalling, such as abi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Asangani IA,Dommeti VL,Wang X,Malik R,Cieslik M,Yang R,Escara-Wilke J,Wilder-Romans K,Dhanireddy S,Engelke C,Iyer MK,Jing X,Wu YM,Cao X,Qin ZS,Wang S,Feng FY,Chinnaiyan AM

更新日期：2014-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system is mediated primarily by the release of glutamate from presynaptic terminals onto postsynaptic channels gated by N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionate (AMPA) receptors. The myriad intracellular responses arisi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wang Y,Small DL,Stanimirovic DB,Morley P,Durkin JP

更新日期：1997-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Enveloped viruses have evolved complex glycoprotein machinery that drives the fusion of viral and cellular membranes, permitting entry of the viral genome into the cell. For the paramyxoviruses, the fusion (F) protein catalyses this membrane merger and entry step, and it has been postulated that the F protein undergoe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yin HS,Wen X,Paterson RG,Lamb RA,Jardetzky TS

更新日期：2006-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution, accumulation and circulation of oxygen and hydrogen in Earth's interior dictate the geochemical evolution of the hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere. The oxygen-rich atmosphere and iron-rich core represent two end-members of the oxygen-iron (O-Fe) system, overlapping with the entire pressure-temper...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hu Q,Kim DY,Yang W,Yang L,Meng Y,Zhang L,Mao HK

更新日期：2016-06-09 00:00:00