Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome.

abstract：:Exaggerated cranial structures such as crests and horns, hereafter referred to collectively as ornaments, are pervasive across animal species. These structures perform vital roles in visual communication and physical interactions within and between species. Yet the origin and influence of ornamentation on speciation a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gates TA,Organ C,Zanno LE

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged cell survival occurs through the expression of specific protein isoforms generated by alternate splicing of mRNA precursors in cancer cells. How alternate splicing regulates tumor development and resistance to targeted therapies in cancer remain poorly understood. Here we show that RNF113A, whose loss-of-fun...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shostak K,Jiang Z,Charloteaux B,Mayer A,Habraken Y,Tharun L,Klein S,Xu X,Duong HQ,Vislovukh A,Close P,Florin A,Rambow F,Marine JC,Büttner R,Chariot A

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The dominant dipolar component of the Earth's magnetic field has been steadily weakening for at least the last 170 years. Prior to these direct measurements, archaeomagnetic records show short periods of significantly elevated geomagnetic intensity. These striking phenomena are not captured by current field models and...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： de Groot LV,Biggin AJ,Dekkers MJ,Langereis CG,Herrero-Bervera E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-sugar diet has been associated with reduced lifespan in organisms ranging from worms to mammals. However, the mechanisms underlying the harmful effects of glucose are poorly understood. Here we establish a causative relationship between endogenous glucose storage in the form of glycogen, resistance to oxidative...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gusarov I,Pani B,Gautier L,Smolentseva O,Eremina S,Shamovsky I,Katkova-Zhukotskaya O,Mironov A,Nudler E

更新日期：2017-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the evolutionary arms race between microbes, their parasites, and their neighbours, the capacity for rapid protein diversification is a potent weapon. Diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) use mutagenic reverse transcription and retrohoming to generate myriad variants of a target gene. Originally discovered in ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Paul BG,Bagby SC,Czornyj E,Arambula D,Handa S,Sczyrba A,Ghosh P,Miller JF,Valentine DL

更新日期：2015-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 causing COVID-19 has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. In search for key targets of effective therapeutics, robust animal models mimicking COVID-19 in humans are urgently needed. Here, we show that Syrian hamsters, in contrast to mice, are highly permissive to SARS-CoV-2 and develop ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Boudewijns R,Thibaut HJ,Kaptein SJF,Li R,Vergote V,Seldeslachts L,Van Weyenbergh J,De Keyzer C,Bervoets L,Sharma S,Liesenborghs L,Ma J,Jansen S,Van Looveren D,Vercruysse T,Wang X,Jochmans D,Martens E,Roose K,De Vlie

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPGs) are deadly paediatric brain tumours where needle biopsies help guide diagnosis and targeted therapies. To address spatial heterogeneity, here we analyse 134 specimens from various neuroanatomical structures of whole autopsy brains from nine DIPG patients. Evolutionary reconstr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Nikbakht H,Panditharatna E,Mikael LG,Li R,Gayden T,Osmond M,Ho CY,Kambhampati M,Hwang EI,Faury D,Siu A,Papillon-Cavanagh S,Bechet D,Ligon KL,Ellezam B,Ingram WJ,Stinson C,Moore AS,Warren KE,Karamchandani J,Packer

更新日期：2016-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Martensitic transition is a solid-state phase transition involving cooperative movement of atoms, mostly studied in metallurgy. The main characteristics are low transition barrier, ultrafast kinetics, and structural reversibility. They are rarely observed in molecular crystals, and hence the origin and mechanism are l...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chung H,Dudenko D,Zhang F,D'Avino G,Ruzié C,Richard A,Schweicher G,Cornil J,Beljonne D,Geerts Y,Diao Y

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Planar neural networks and interfaces serve as versatile in vitro models of central nervous system physiology, but adaptations of related methods to three dimensions (3D) have met with limited success. Here, we demonstrate for the first time volumetric functional imaging in a bioengineered neural tissue growing in a t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dana H,Marom A,Paluch S,Dvorkin R,Brosh I,Shoham S

更新日期：2014-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Distal appendages (DAPs) are nanoscale, pinwheel-like structures protruding from the distal end of the centriole that mediate membrane docking during ciliogenesis, marking the cilia base around the ciliary gate. Here we determine a super-resolved multiplex of 16 centriole-distal-end components. Surprisingly, rather th...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yang TT,Chong WM,Wang WJ,Mazo G,Tanos B,Chen Z,Tran TMN,Chen YD,Weng RR,Huang CE,Jane WN,Tsou MB,Liao JC

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesa structures made of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ high-temperature superconductor represent stacks of atomic scale intrinsic Josephson junctions. They can be used for generation of high-frequency electromagnetic waves. Here we analyze Josephson emission from small-but-high mesas (with a small area, but containing many stacked j...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Borodianskyi EA,Krasnov VM

更新日期：2017-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Band-inverted electron-hole bilayers support quantum spin Hall insulator and exciton condensate phases. Interest in quantum spin Hall effect in these systems has recently put them in the spotlight. We investigate such a bilayer in an external magnetic field. We show that the interlayer correlations lead to formation o...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pikulin DI,Silvestrov PG,Hyart T

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-read sequencing technologies have greatly facilitated assemblies of large eukaryotic genomes. In this paper, Oxford Nanopore sequences generated on a MinION sequencer are combined with Bionano Genomics Direct Label and Stain (DLS) optical maps to generate a chromosome-scale de novo assembly of the repeat-rich Sor...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Deschamps S,Zhang Y,Llaca V,Ye L,Sanyal A,King M,May G,Lin H

更新日期：2018-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional role of adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus remains the subject of intense speculation. One recent hypothesis is that adult-born neurons contribute to the endocrine and behavioural outputs of the stress response. Here we show a genetic model system to ablate neurogenesis by inducibly deleting Tbr2 gen...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tsai CY,Tsai CY,Arnold SJ,Huang GJ

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Acoustic communication is enabled by the evolution of specialised hearing and sound producing organs. In this study, we performed a large-scale macroevolutionary study to understand how both hearing and sound production evolved and affected diversification in the insect order Orthoptera, which includes many familiar s...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Song H,Béthoux O,Shin S,Donath A,Letsch H,Liu S,McKenna DD,Meng G,Misof B,Podsiadlowski L,Zhou X,Wipfler B,Simon S

更新日期：2020-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most dramatic events in river environments is the natural diversion, or avulsion, of a channel across its floodplain. Though rarely witnessed, avulsions can cause massive floods, and over geologic time they create most of the fluvial stratigraphic record. Avulsions exhibit behavior ranging from reoccupying ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Valenza JM,Edmonds DA,Hwang T,Roy S

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A new paradigm for cellulose depolymerization by fungi focuses on an oxidative mechanism involving cellobiose dehydrogenases (CDH) and copper-dependent lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMO); however, mechanistic studies have been hampered by the lack of structural information regarding CDH. CDH contains a haem-bi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Tan TC,Kracher D,Gandini R,Sygmund C,Kittl R,Haltrich D,Hällberg BM,Ludwig R,Divne C

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular parameters that regulate cross-species transmission and host adaptation of potential pathogens is crucial to control emerging infectious disease. Although microbial pathotype diversity is conventionally associated with gene gain or loss, the role of pathoadaptive nonsynonymous single-nucleo...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yue M,Han X,De Masi L,Zhu C,Ma X,Zhang J,Wu R,Schmieder R,Kaushik RS,Fraser GP,Zhao S,McDermott PF,Weill FX,Mainil JG,Arze C,Fricke WF,Edwards RA,Brisson D,Zhang NR,Rankin SC,Schifferli DM

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the inner ear, cochlear and vestibular sensory epithelia utilize grossly similar cell types to transduce different stimuli: sound and acceleration. Each individual sensory epithelium is composed of highly heterogeneous populations of cells based on physiological and anatomical criteria. However, limited numbers of ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Burns JC,Kelly MC,Hoa M,Morell RJ,Kelley MW

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's Disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by poly-glutamine expansion in the Htt protein, resulting in Htt misfolding and cell death. Expression of the cellular protein folding and pro-survival machinery by heat shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1) ameliorates biochemical and neurobiological defec...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gomez-Pastor R,Burchfiel ET,Neef DW,Jaeger AM,Cabiscol E,McKinstry SU,Doss A,Aballay A,Lo DC,Akimov SS,Ross CA,Eroglu C,Thiele DJ

更新日期：2017-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficient selection and isolation of individual cells of interest from a mixed population is desired in many biomedical and clinical applications. Here we show the concept of using photoswitchable semiconducting polymer dots (Pdots) as an optical 'painting' tool, which enables the selection of certain adherent cel...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kuo CT,Thompson AM,Gallina ME,Ye F,Johnson ES,Sun W,Zhao M,Yu J,Wu IC,Fujimoto B,DuFort CC,Carlson MA,Hingorani SR,Paguirigan AL,Radich JP,Chiu DT

更新日期：2016-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We report color-selective photodetection from intermediate, monolayered, quantum dots buried in between amorphous-oxide semiconductors. The proposed active channel in phototransistors is a hybrid configuration of oxide-quantum dot-oxide layers, where the gate-tunable electrical property of silicon-doped, indium-zinc-o...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cho KS,Heo K,Baik CW,Choi JY,Jeong H,Hwang S,Lee SY

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruddlesden-Popper halide perovskites are 2D solution-processed quantum wells with a general formula A2A'n-1M n X3n+1, where optoelectronic properties can be tuned by varying the perovskite layer thickness (n-value), and have recently emerged as efficient semiconductors with technologically relevant stability. However,...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Blancon JC,Stier AV,Tsai H,Nie W,Stoumpos CC,Traoré B,Pedesseau L,Kepenekian M,Katsutani F,Noe GT,Kono J,Tretiak S,Crooker SA,Katan C,Kanatzidis MG,Crochet JJ,Even J,Mohite AD

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Nascent polypeptides can induce ribosome stalling, regulating downstream genes. Stalling of ErmBL peptide translation in the presence of the macrolide antibiotic erythromycin leads to resistance in Streptococcus sanguis. To reveal this stalling mechanism we obtained 3.6-Å-resolution cryo-EM structures of ErmBL-stalled...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Arenz S,Bock LV,Graf M,Innis CA,Beckmann R,Grubmüller H,Vaiana AC,Wilson DN

更新日期：2016-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The turnover of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) is a key regulatory step of gene expression in eukaryotic cells. Due to the complexity of the mammalian degradation machinery, the contribution of decay factors to the directionality of mRNA decay is poorly understood. Here we characterize a molecular tool to interrogate mRNA tur...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Boehm V,Gerbracht JV,Marx MC,Gehring NH

更新日期：2016-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tunnel junctions, an established platform for high resolution spectroscopy of superconductors, require defect-free insulating barriers; however, oxides, the most common barrier, can only grow on a limited selection of materials. We show that van der Waals tunnel barriers, fabricated by exfoliation and transfer of laye...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dvir T,Massee F,Attias L,Khodas M,Aprili M,Quay CHL,Steinberg H

更新日期：2018-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cosmic rays interact with the Earth's atmosphere to produce 14C, which can be absorbed by trees. Therefore, rapid increases of 14C in tree rings can be used to probe previous cosmic-ray events. By this method, three 14C rapidly increasing events have been found. Plausible causes of these events include large solar pro...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang FY,Yu H,Zou YC,Dai ZG,Cheng KS

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disorder due to selective loss of motor neurons (MNs). Mutations in the fused in sarcoma (FUS) gene can cause both juvenile and late onset ALS. We generated and characterized induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from ALS patients with dif...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Guo W,Naujock M,Fumagalli L,Vandoorne T,Baatsen P,Boon R,Ordovás L,Patel A,Welters M,Vanwelden T,Geens N,Tricot T,Benoy V,Steyaert J,Lefebvre-Omar C,Boesmans W,Jarpe M,Sterneckert J,Wegner F,Petri S,Bohl D,Vande

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature measurement is critical for many technological applications and scientific experiments, and different types of thermometers have been developed to detect temperature at macroscopic length scales. However, quantitative measurement of the temperature of nanostructures remains a challenge. Here, we show a new...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Guo H,Khan MI,Cheng C,Fan W,Dames C,Wu J,Minor AM

更新日期：2014-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of pseudomembranous colitis in hospitalized patients. C. difficile enterotoxins TcdA and TcdB promote this inflammatory condition via a cytotoxic response on intestinal epithelial cells (IECs), but the underlying mechanisms are incompletely understood. Additionally, TcdA and ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Saavedra PHV,Huang L,Ghazavi F,Kourula S,Vanden Berghe T,Takahashi N,Vandenabeele P,Lamkanfi M

更新日期：2018-11-19 00:00:00