An integrative approach to phylogeny reveals patterns of environmental distribution and novel evolutionary relationships in a major group of ciliates.

abstract：:The realization of reliable quantum channels, able to transfer a quantum state with high fidelity, is a fundamental step in the construction of scalable quantum devices. In this paper we describe a transmission scheme based on the genuinely quantum effect known as Bloch oscillations. The proposed protocol makes it pos...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tamascelli D,Olivares S,Rossotti S,Osellame R,Paris MG

更新日期：2016-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Foliar fungi of silver birch (Betula pendula) in an experimental Finnish forest were investigated across a gradient of tree species richness using molecular high-throughput sequencing and visual macroscopic assessment. We hypothesized that the molecular approach detects more fungal taxa than visual assessment, and tha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nguyen D,Boberg J,Cleary M,Bruelheide H,Hönig L,Koricheva J,Stenlid J

更新日期：2017-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal obesity is associated with lower basal plasma cortisol levels and increased risk of postpartum psychiatric disorders. Given that both obesity and the peripartum period are characterized by an imbalance between adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and cortisol, we hypothesized that the adrenal glands undergo per...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Perani CV,Neumann ID,Reber SO,Slattery DA

更新日期：2015-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial biofilms are particularly problematic since they become resistant to most available antibiotics. Hence, novel potential antagonists to inhibit biofilm formation are urgent. Here the influences of two natural products, ursolic acid and resveratrol, on biofilm of the clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Qin N,Tan X,Jiao Y,Liu L,Zhao W,Yang S,Jia A

更新日期：2014-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing attention to the luminescent nanocarriers is strongly stimulated by their potential application as drug delivery systems and by the necessity to monitor their distribution in cells and tissues. In this communication we report on the synthesis of amphiphilic polypeptides bearing C-terminal phosphorescent la...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vlakh EG,Grachova EV,Zhukovsky DD,Hubina AV,Mikhailova AS,Shakirova JR,Sharoyko VV,Tunik SP,Tennikova TB

更新日期：2017-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell and animal studies have demonstrated that circadian rhythm is governed by autonomous rhythmicity of clock genes. Although disturbances in circadian rhythm have been implicated in metabolic disease development, it remains unknown whether muscle circadian rhythm is altered in human models of type 2 diabetes. Here w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hansen J,Timmers S,Moonen-Kornips E,Duez H,Staels B,Hesselink MK,Schrauwen P

更新日期：2016-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Apparently mundane, amorphous nanostructures of carbon have optical properties which are as exotic as their crystalline counterparts. In this work we demonstrate a simple and inexpensive mechano-chemical method to prepare bulk quantities of self-passivated, amorphous carbon dots. Like the graphene quantum dots, the wa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Siddique AB,Pramanick AK,Chatterjee S,Ray M

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Food webs in high-latitude oceans are dominated by relatively few species. Future ocean and sea-ice changes affecting the distribution of such species will impact the structure and functioning of whole ecosystems. Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a key species in Southern Ocean food webs, but there is little und...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Murphy EJ,Thorpe SE,Tarling GA,Watkins JL,Fielding S,Underwood P

更新日期：2017-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of nodal metastasis and tumor extranodal extension (ENE) is crucial for head and neck cancer management, but currently only can be diagnosed via postoperative pathology. Pretreatment, radiographic identification of ENE, in particular, has proven extremely difficult for clinicians, but would be greatly i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kann BH,Aneja S,Loganadane GV,Kelly JR,Smith SM,Decker RH,Yu JB,Park HS,Yarbrough WG,Malhotra A,Burtness BA,Husain ZA

更新日期：2018-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioactive nanosilicates are emerging prominent next generation biomaterials due to their intrinsic functional properties such as advanced biochemical and biophysical cues. Recent studies show interesting dose-dependent effect of fluoride ions on the stem cells. Despite of interesting properties of fluoride ions as wel...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Veernala I,Giri J,Pradhan A,Polley P,Singh R,Yadava SK

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance, a consequence of antibiotic use, is a threat to health, with severe consequences for resource constrained settings. If determinants for human antibiotic use in India, a lower middle income country, with one of the highest antibiotic consumption in the world could be understood, interventions cou...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tamhankar AJ,Karnik SS,Stålsby Lundborg C

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have applied a combined computational procedure based on inverse and direct docking in order to identify putative protein targets of a panel of mycotoxins and xenobiotic compounds that can contaminate food and that are known to have several detrimental effects on human health. This procedure allowed us to identify ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Scafuri B,Varriale A,Facchiano A,D'Auria S,Raggi ME,Marabotti A

更新日期：2017-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingobium sp. strain TCM1 can degrade tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP) to inorganic phosphate and 2-chloroethanol. A phosphotriesterase (PTE), phosphodiesterase (PDE) and phosphomonoesterase (PME) are believed to be involved in the degradation of TCEP. The PTE and PME that respectively catalyze the first and thi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Abe K,Mukai N,Morooka Y,Makino T,Oshima K,Takahashi S,Kera Y

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of hot spots, a small portion of protein-protein interface residues that contribute the majority of the binding free energy, can provide crucial information for understanding the function of proteins and studying their interactions. Based on our previous method (PredHS), we propose a new computational a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang H,Liu C,Deng L

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of milk as a healthy food has opened the way for studies on milk components, from nutrients to microRNAs, molecules with broad regulatory properties present in large quantities in milk. Characterization of these components has been performed in several species, such as humans and bovine, depending on the s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Le Guillou S,Leduc A,Laubier J,Barbey S,Rossignol MN,Lefebvre R,Marthey S,Laloë D,Le Provost F

更新日期：2019-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Fano resonance presents an asymmetric line shape formed by an interference of a continuum coupled with a discrete autoionized state. In this paper, we show several simple circuits for Fano resonances from the stable-input impedance mechanism, where the elements consisting of inductors and capacitors are formulated for...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lv B,Li R,Fu J,Wu Q,Zhang K,Chen W,Wang Z,Ma R

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This work demonstrates the dynamic through-silicon-via (TSV) filling process through staged electrodeposition experiments at different current densities. Different morphologies corresponding to TSV filling results can be obtained by controlling the applied current density. Specifically, a low current density (4 mA/cm2...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang F,Zhao Z,Nie N,Wang F,Zhu W

更新日期：2017-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery that human noroviruses (huNoVs) recognize sialic acids (SAs) in addition to histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs) pointed to a new direction in studying virus-host interactions during calicivirus infection. HuNoVs remain difficult to study due to the lack of an effective cell culture model. In this s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tan M,Wei C,Huang P,Fan Q,Quigley C,Xia M,Fang H,Zhang X,Zhong W,Klassen JS,Jiang X

更新日期：2015-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Baited remote underwater video cameras were deployed in the Eastern Canadian Arctic, for the purpose of estimating local densities of the long-lived Greenland shark within five deep-water, data-poor regions of interest for fisheries development and marine conservation in Nunavut, Canada. A total of 31 camera deploymen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Devine BM,Wheeland LJ,Fisher JAD

更新日期：2018-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We employ nematic liquid crystals as the nonlinear medium to recover noisy images via stochastic resonance, in which nonlinear coupling allows signals to grow at the expense of noise. The process is theoretically analyzed and the cross-correlation is numerically calculated. It is found that the quality of output image...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Feng X,Liu H,Huang N,Wang Z,Zhang Y

更新日期：2019-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells have been discovered as key players in the genesis of different neoplasms including craniopharyngioma (CP), a rare tumour entity in the sellar region. Sox2 and Sox9 are well-known stem cell markers involved in pituitary development. In this study we analysed the expression of both transcription factors usin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Thimsen V,John N,Buchfelder M,Flitsch J,Fahlbusch R,Stefanits H,Knosp E,Losa M,Buslei R,Hölsken A

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was aimed to explore the bidirectional association between depression and peptic ulcers. The ≥20-year-old participants of the Korean National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort from 2002 to 2013 were included in the study. In study I, 30,306 depression patients were 1:4 matched with 121,224 con...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim SY,Min C,Oh DJ,Choi HG

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal microarray (CMA) is now recommended as first tier for the evaluation in individuals with unexplained neurodevelopmental disorders (ND). However, in developing countries such as Brazil, classical cytogenetic tests are still the most used in clinical practice, as reflected by the scarcity of publications of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chaves TF,Baretto N,Oliveira LF,Ocampos M,Barbato IT,Anselmi M,De Luca GR,Barbato Filho JH,Pinto LLC,Bernardi P,Maris AF

更新日期：2019-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory processes have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD), including the development of PD-associated cognitive impairment. Whether genetic variants of inflammatory cytokine genes influence the risk of cognitive impairment in PD is unknown. In this study, we investigated single nucleo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu Z,Guo J,Wang Y,Li K,Kang J,Wei Y,Sun Q,Xu Q,Xu C,Yan X,Tang B

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer (PC), as the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, is one of the deadliest tumors with a very low 5-year survival rate. Therefore, it is urgent to seek new biomarkers of PC for more accurate and reliable treatments. To identify the differentially expressed miRNAs (DEM) in PC tissues, we performed ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang HL,Zhou R,Liu J,Chang Y,Liu S,Wang XB,Huang MF,Zhao Q

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:STRs, scattered throughout the genome with higher mutation rate, are attractive to genetic application like forensic, anthropological and population genetics studies. STR profiling has now been applied in various aspects of human identification in forensic investigations. This work described the developmental validati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Z,Zhou D,Jia Z,Li L,Wu W,Li C,Hou Y

更新日期：2016-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in mice suggest that early life represents a critical time window, where antibiotics may exert profound and lasting effects on the gut microbiota and metabolism. We aimed to test the hypothesis that prenatal antibiotic exposure is associated with increased risk of childhood overweight in a population-based coh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jess T,Morgen CS,Harpsøe MC,Sørensen TIA,Ajslev TA,Antvorskov JC,Allin KH

更新日期：2019-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone tissues have trabecular bone with a high bone turnover and cortical bone with a low turnover. The mechanisms by which the turnover rate of these bone tissues is determined remain unclear. Osteocytes secrete sclerostin, a Wnt/β-catenin signaling antagonist, and inhibit bone formation. We found that sclerostin expr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Koide M,Yamashita T,Murakami K,Uehara S,Nakamura K,Nakamura M,Matsushita M,Ara T,Yasuda H,Penninger JM,Takahashi N,Udagawa N,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：2020-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma phenotypes based on age-of-onset may be differently influenced by the interaction between variation in toll-like receptor (TLR)/CD14 genes and environmental microbes. We examined the associations between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in the TLR/CD14 genes and asthma, and their interaction with proxies o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lau MY,Dharmage SC,Burgess JA,Win AK,Lowe AJ,Lodge C,Perret J,Hui J,Thomas PS,Morrison S,Giles GG,Hopper J,Abramson MJ,Walters EH,Matheson MC

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum bits (qubits) are at the heart of quantum information processing schemes. Currently, solid-state qubits, and in particular the superconducting ones, seem to satisfy the requirements for being the building blocks of viable quantum computers, since they exhibit relatively long coherence times, extremely low diss...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ivić Z,Lazarides N,Tsironis GP

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00