Adult and larval traits as determinants of geographic range size among tropical reef fishes.

abstract：:The Eemian (last interglacial, 130-115 ka) was likely the warmest of all interglacials of the last 800 ka, with summer Arctic temperatures 3-5 °C above present. Here, we present improved Eemian climate records from central Greenland, reconstructed from the base of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) ice core. Ou...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Yau AM,Bender ML,Robinson A,Brook EJ

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans routinely formulate plans in domains so complex that even the most powerful computers are taxed. To do so, they seem to avail themselves of many strategies and heuristics that efficiently simplify, approximate, and hierarchically decompose hard tasks into simpler subtasks. Theoretical and cognitive research has...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Huys QJ,Lally N,Faulkner P,Eshel N,Seifritz E,Gershman SJ,Dayan P,Roiser JP

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we used PCR analysis with arbitrary primers (AP-PCR) to screen for overlapping bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones and assembly of contigs. A rice BAC library with three genome equivalents was used to prepare pooled BAC DNA. Twenty-two arbitrary primers were used to survey the pooled BAC DNAs...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Xu J,Yang D,Domingo J,Ni J,Huang N

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their overall accuracy, errors in macromolecular processes, such as rRNA synthesis and ribosome assembly, inevitably occur. However, whether these errors are remediated and how this might be accomplished is not known. In previous work, we showed that a double mutant strain lacking both polynucleotide phosphory...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Cheng ZF,Deutscher MP

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual awareness has been proposed to depend on recurrent processing in early visual cortex areas including the primary visual cortex (V1). Here, we address this hypothesis with high spatiotemporal resolution magnetoencephalographic recordings in subjects performing a substitution masking paradigm. Neural activity ref...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Boehler CN,Schoenfeld MA,Heinze HJ,Hopf JM

更新日期：2008-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:English and Russian color terms divide the color spectrum differently. Unlike English, Russian makes an obligatory distinction between lighter blues ("goluboy") and darker blues ("siniy"). We investigated whether this linguistic difference leads to differences in color discrimination. We tested English and Russian spe...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Winawer J,Witthoft N,Frank MC,Wu L,Wade AR,Boroditsky L

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophins (NTs) have recently been found to regulate synaptic transmission in the hippocampus. Whole-cell and single-channel recordings from cultured hippocampal neurons revealed a mechanism responsible for enhanced synaptic strength. Specifically, brain-derived neurotrophic factor augmented glutamate-evoked, but ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Levine ES,Crozier RA,Black IB,Plummer MR

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Facilitation of social attraction and bonding by the evolutionarily conserved neuropeptide oxytocin is well-established in female mammals. However, accumulating behavioral evidence suggests that oxytocin may have evolved sex-specific functional roles in the domain of human social cognition. A critical question is how ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Gao S,Becker B,Luo L,Geng Y,Zhao W,Yin Y,Hu J,Gao Z,Gong Q,Hurlemann R,Yao D,Kendrick KM

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:d-amino acids are present in some peptides from amphibian skin. These residues are derived from the corresponding L-amino acids present in the respective precursors. From skin secretions of Bombinae, we have isolated an enzyme that catalyzes the isomerization of an L-Ile in position 2 of a model peptide to D-allo-Ile....

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Jilek A,Mollay C,Tippelt C,Grassi J,Mignogna G,Müllegger J,Sander V,Fehrer C,Barra D,Kreil G

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral stimulation of human peripheral nerves activates the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) contralaterally and the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) bilaterally. We aimed at characterizing phase locking between SI and SII in response to electric stimuli applied once every 3 s to the right median nerve at the...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Simões C,Jensen O,Parkkonen L,Hari R

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza virus neuraminidase (NA; EC 3.2.1.18) possesses a signal-anchor hydrophobic domain at the amino terminus. To characterize the nature of this signal-anchor domain we have introduced single amino acid changes in this domain by oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis. Three mutant NA proteins that were synthesized...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Sivasubramanian N,Nayak DP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV type 1 (HIV-1) virion infectivity factor (Vif) protein blocks the action of the host defense factor APOBEC3G in human cells, thereby allowing release of infectious virions, but fails to inhibit similar APOBEC3G proteins present in some simian cells. Conversely, the Vif protein encoded by the African green monk...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Bogerd HP,Doehle BP,Wiegand HL,Cullen BR

更新日期：2004-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Many neurotransmitters are known to regulate neuronal cell function by means of activation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) and phosphorylation of neuronal substrate proteins, including transcription factors and ion channels. Here, we have characterized the gene expression of two isoforms of a protein kinase inh...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Seasholtz AF,Gamm DM,Ballestero RP,Scarpetta MA,Uhler MD

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Early B cell factor (EBF)1 is essential for B lineage specification. Previously, we demonstrated the synergistic activation of Cd79a (mb-1) genes by EBF1 and its functional partner, RUNX1. Here, we identified consequences of Ebf1 haploinsufficiency together with haploinsufficiency of Runx1 genes in mice. Although numb...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lukin K,Fields S,Lopez D,Cherrier M,Ternyak K,Ramírez J,Feeney AJ,Hagman J

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout occurred, releasing more oil than any accidental spill in history. Oil release continued for 87 d and much of the oil and gas remained in, or returned to, the deep sea. A coral community significantly impacted by the spill was discovered in late 2010 at 1,370 m de...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Fisher CR,Hsing PY,Kaiser CL,Yoerger DR,Roberts HH,Shedd WW,Cordes EE,Shank TM,Berlet SP,Saunders MG,Larcom EA,Brooks JM

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface Ig (sIg) of follicular lymphoma (FL) is vital for tumor cell survival. We found previously that the Ig in FL is unusual, because the variable region genes carry sequence motifs for N-glycan addition. These are introduced by somatic mutation and are tumor specific. Unexpectedly, added glycans terminate at high ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Coelho V,Krysov S,Ghaemmaghami AM,Emara M,Potter KN,Johnson P,Packham G,Martinez-Pomares L,Stevenson FK

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the causes and consequences of wildfires in forests of the western United States requires integrated information about fire, climate changes, and human activity on multiple temporal scales. We use sedimentary charcoal accumulation rates to construct long-term variations in fire during the past 3,000 y in...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Marlon JR,Bartlein PJ,Gavin DG,Long CJ,Anderson RS,Briles CE,Brown KJ,Colombaroli D,Hallett DJ,Power MJ,Scharf EA,Walsh MK

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The seventh cholera pandemic caused by Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor (ET) has been superseded in Asia and Africa by altered ET possessing the cholera toxin (CTX) gene of classical (CL) biotype. The CL biotype of V. cholerae was isolated, along with prototypic and altered ET, during the 1991 cholera epidemic in Mexico and ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Alam M,Rashed SM,Mannan SB,Islam T,Lizarraga-Partida ML,Delgado G,Morales-Espinosa R,Mendez JL,Navarro A,Watanabe H,Ohnishi M,Hasan NA,Huq A,Sack RB,Colwell RR,Cravioto A

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:With global heavy metal contamination increasing, plants that can process heavy metals might provide efficient and ecologically sound approaches to sequestration and removal. Mercuric ion reductase, MerA, converts toxic Hg2+ to the less toxic, relatively inert metallic mercury (Hg0) The bacterial merA sequence is rich...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Rugh CL,Wilde HD,Stack NM,Thompson DM,Summers AO,Meagher RB

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wnts are a family of glycoproteins that regulate cell proliferation, fate decisions, and differentiation. In our study, we examined the contribution of Wnts to the development of ventral midbrain (VM) dopaminergic (DA) neurons. Our results show that beta-catenin is expressed in DA precursor cells and that beta-cat...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Castelo-Branco G,Wagner J,Rodriguez FJ,Kele J,Sousa K,Rawal N,Pasolli HA,Fuchs E,Kitajewski J,Arenas E

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelia in animals are colonized by complex communities of microbes. Although a topic of long-standing interest, understanding the evolution of the microbial communities and their role in triggering innate immune responses has resisted analysis. Cnidaria are among the simplest animals at the tissue grade of organiza...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Fraune S,Bosch TC

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Absorbance changes in untreated intact leaf discs, produced upon excitation with high-intensity red light, were shown to be due to the photooxidation of cytochrome b-559. At low intensities (<100 W/m2), photooxidation was almost undetectable. Photooxidation occurred with a half-time of 4.3 sec and an extent of 0.64 mo...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Canaani O,Havaux M

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant myeloid leukemic cells and normal macrophages and granulocytes have functional beta-adrenergic receptors, which have been quantitated by radioreceptor binding with the beta-adrenergic antagonist [(3)H]dihydroalprenolol and by induction of cyclic AMP by adrenergic hormones. Both the normal and leukemic cells ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Simantov R,Sachs L

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This note answers some questions on holomorphic curves and their distribution in an algebraic surface of positive index. More specifically, we exploit the existence of natural negatively curved "pseudo-Finsler" metrics on a surface S of general type whose Chern numbers satisfy c(2)1>2c2 to show that a holomorphic map ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lu SS,Yau ST

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report direct evidence for the existence of an iron(IV)-hydroxide. Resonance Raman measurements on chloroperoxidase compound II (CPO-II) reveal an isotope ((18)O and (2)H)-sensitive band at nu(Fe-O) = 565 cm(-1). Preparation of CPO-II in H(2)O using H(2)(18)O(2) results in a red-shift of 22 cm(-1), while preparatio...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Stone KL,Behan RK,Green MT

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotonin transporter (SERT) is a major regulator of serotonergic neurotransmission and anxiety-related behaviors. SERT is expressed in two alternative polyadenylation forms that differ by an evolutionarily conserved element in the 3' untranslated region of its mRNA. Expression of SERT mRNA containing the distal p...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Yoon Y,McKenna MC,Rollins DA,Song M,Nuriel T,Gross SS,Xu G,Glatt CE

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural environments can present diverse challenges, but some genotypes remain fit across many environments. Such "generalists" can be hard to evolve, outcompeted by specialists fitter in any particular environment. Here, inspired by the search for broadly neutralizing antibodies during B cell affinity maturation, we ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Sachdeva V,Husain K,Sheng J,Wang S,Murugan A

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural crest cell derivatives have been suggested to be involved in thymus development. We established nonlymphoid thymic stromal cell cultures capable of supporting T-cell differentiation. In these nonlymphoid cell cultures, we identified cells with phenotypic and biochemical markers specific for neuronal cells. Neur...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Screpanti I,Meco D,Scarpa S,Morrone S,Frati L,Gulino A,Modesti A

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Scattering of light from dielectric particles whose size is on the order of an optical wavelength underlies a plethora of visual phenomena in nature and is a foundation for optical coatings and paints. Tailoring the internal nanoscale geometry of such "photonic particles" allows tuning their optical scattering charact...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Tao G,Kaufman JJ,Shabahang S,Rezvani Naraghi R,Sukhov SV,Joannopoulos JD,Fink Y,Dogariu A,Abouraddy AF

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular determinants of specificity in protein-protein interaction is an outstanding challenge of postgenome biology. The availability of large protein databases generated from sequences of hundreds of bacterial genomes enables various statistical approaches to this problem. In this context covaria...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Weigt M,White RA,Szurmant H,Hoch JA,Hwa T

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00