Global functional diversity of freshwater fish is concentrated in the Neotropics while functional vulnerability is widespread.

abstract：:Despite its intrinsic advantages, translation of laser induced breakdown spectroscopy for material identification has been often impeded by the lack of robustness of developed classification models, often due to the presence of spurious correlations. While a number of classifiers exhibiting high discriminatory power h...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kumar Myakalwar A,Spegazzini N,Zhang C,Kumar Anubham S,Dasari RR,Barman I,Kumar Gundawar M

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Sesquiterpene lactones (STL) are a subclass of isoprenoids with many known bioactivities frequently found in the Asteraceae family. In recent years, remarkable progress has been made regarding the biochemistry of STL, and today the biosynthetic pathway of the core backbones of many STLs has been elucidated. Consequent...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Frey M,Klaiber I,Conrad J,Bersch A,Pateraki I,Ro DK,Spring O

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Taheri S,Abdullah TL,Rafii MY,Harikrishna JA,Werbrouck SPO,Teo CH,Sahebi M,Azizi P

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity affects male fertility and maternal diabetes affects the offspring sperm epigenome. However, the effects of in utero exposure to maternal glucose intolerance in combination with postnatal high fat, high sucrose (HFHS) diet consumption on offspring spermatogenesis is not clear. The present study was designed to...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mao J,Pennington KA,Talton OO,Schulz LC,Sutovsky M,Lin Y,Sutovsky P

更新日期：2018-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we report on a new approach for remote temperature probing that provides accuracy as good as 0.017°C (0.0055% accuracy) by measuring the magnetisation curve of magnetic nanoparticles. We included here the theoretical model construction and the inverse calculation method, and explored the impact caused b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhong J,Liu W,Kong L,Morais PC

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The tricarboxylic acid cycle produces NADH for oxidative phosphorylation and fumarase [EC 4.2.1.2] is a critical enzyme in this cycle, catalysing the reversible conversion of fumarate and L-malate. Fumarase is applied to industrial L-malate production as a biocatalyst. L-malate is used in a wide range of industries su...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Katayama N,Takeya M,Osanai T

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Rivers are an important aquatic conduit that connects terrestrial sources of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and other elements with oceanic reservoirs. The Mekong River, one of the world's largest rivers, is firstly examined to explore inter-annual fluxes of dissolved and particulate constituents during 1923-2011 an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li S,Bush RT

更新日期：2015-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermo-elasticity couples the deformation of an elastic (solid) body to its temperature and vice-versa. It is a solid-like property. Highlighting such property in liquids is a paradigm shift: it requires long-range collective interactions that are not considered in current liquid descriptions. The present microthermal...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kume E,Baroni P,Noirez L

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiexcitonic transitions and emission of several photons per excitation comprise a very attractive feature of semiconductor quantum dots for optoelectronics applications. However, these higher-order radiative processes are usually quenched in colloidal quantum dots by Auger and other nonradiative decay channels. To ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Matsuzaki K,Vassant S,Liu HW,Dutschke A,Hoffmann B,Chen X,Christiansen S,Buck MR,Hollingsworth JA,Götzinger S,Sandoghdar V

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The transition energies and formation energies of N, C, F, Cl, and S as substitutional dopants in Ag3PO4 are studied using first-principles calculations based on the hybrid Hartree-Fock density functional, which correctly reproduces the band gap and thus provides the accurate defect states. Our results show that NO an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang Y,Ma T,Chen QY,Cao C,He Y

更新日期：2015-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Olive (Olea europaea L.) is one of the most economically and historically important fruit crops worldwide. Genetic progress for valuable agronomic traits has been slow in olive despite its importance and benefits. Advances in next generation sequencing technologies provide inexpensive and highly reproducible genotypin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kaya HB,Akdemir D,Lozano R,Cetin O,Sozer Kaya H,Sahin M,Smith JL,Tanyolac B,Jannink JL

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Conserving crop wild relatives (CWR) is critical for maintaining food security. However, CWR-focused conservation plans are lacking, and are often based on the entire genus, even though only a few taxa are useful for crop improvement. We used taxonomic and geographic prioritisation to identify the best locations for i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Moray C,Game ET,Maxted N

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, it has been shown that under pressure, unexpected and counterintuitive chemical compounds become stable. Laser shock experiments (A. Rode, unpublished) on alumina (Al2O3) have shown non-equilibrium decomposition of alumina with the formation of free Al and a mysterious transparent phase. Inspired by these ob...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu Y,Oganov AR,Wang S,Zhu Q,Dong X,Kresse G

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Arntzen JW,van Belkom J

更新日期：2020-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to explore the value of intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted imaging (IVIM-DWI) in differentiating hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) from intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). This study included 65 patients with malignant hepatic nodules (55 with HCC, 10 with ICC), and 17 control pati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Peng J,Zheng J,Yang C,Wang R,Zhou Y,Tao YY,Gong XQ,Wang WC,Zhang XM,Yang L

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanochemical synthesis of Si/Cu3Si-based composite as negative electrode materials for lithium ion battery is investigated. Results indicate that CuO is decomposed and alloyed with Si forming amorphous Cu-Si solid solution due to high energy impacting during high energy mechanical milling (HEMM). Upon carbonization...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hou SC,Chen TY,Wu YH,Chen HY,Lin XD,Chen YQ,Huang JL,Chang CC

更新日期：2018-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterised wool traits, and skin gene expression profiles of fine wool Super Merino (SM) and coarse wool Small Tail Han (STH) sheep. SM sheep had a significantly higher total density of wool follicles, heavier fleeces, finer fibre diameter, and increased crimp frequency, staple length and wool grease (lanolin) p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Sun F,Jin H,Dalrymple BP,Cao Y,Wei T,Vuocolo T,Zhang M,Piao Q,Ingham AB

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the hypothesis that acquired epileptogenesis is accompanied by DNA methylation changes independent of etiology. We investigated DNA methylation and gene expression in the hippocampal CA3/dentate gyrus fields at 3 months following epileptogenic injury in three experimental models of epilepsy: focal am...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dębski KJ,Pitkanen A,Puhakka N,Bot AM,Khurana I,Harikrishnan KN,Ziemann M,Kaspi A,El-Osta A,Lukasiuk K,Kobow K

更新日期：2016-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The ejection of internal organs, i.e., evisceration, is a well-known phenomenon in sea-cucumbers. We report the ability of a member of the Chordate phyla, the tropical ascidian Polycarpa mytiligera, to eviscerate and regenerate its gut within 12 days, and to rebuild its branchial sac within 19 days. Evisceration occur...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shenkar N,Gordon T

更新日期：2015-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) flares elicit progressive organ damage, leading to disability and early mortality. This study evaluated clinical and immunologic factors associated with impending flare in the Biomarkers of Lupus Disease study. Autoantibodies and 32 soluble mediators were measured by multiplex assays...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lu R,Guthridge JM,Chen H,Bourn RL,Kamp S,Munroe ME,Macwana SR,Bean K,Sridharan S,Merrill JT,James JA

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The black carbon or elemental carbon (EC) content in ice and snow has been a concern in climate change studies, but time-series records have mostly been obtained from glacier ice-core samples in limited geographical locations, such as the Arctic or high mountains. This is the first study to present decade-long records...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kaneyasu N,Matsumoto K,Yamaguchi T,Noguchi I,Murao N,Yasunari TJ,Ikemori F

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the high susceptibility of several clinical isolates of Propionibacterium acnes from different sources (skin, bone, wound exudates, abscess or blood contamination) to the head-to-tail cyclized bacteriocin AS-48. This peptide is a feasible candidate for further pharmacological development against this bacteri...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cebrián R,Arévalo S,Rubiño S,Arias-Santiago S,Rojo MD,Montalbán-López M,Martínez-Bueno M,Valdivia E,Maqueda M

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Sense of body ownership and body representation are fundamental parts of human consciousness, but the contribution of the visual modality to their development remains unclear. We tested congenitally and late blind adults on a somatosensory version of the rubber hand illusion, and on the Aristotle illusion, in which si...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nava E,Steiger T,Röder B

更新日期：2014-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A metal-free three component cyclization reaction with amidation is devised for direct synthesis of DFT-designed amido-phenazine derivative bearing noncovalent gluing interactions to fabricate organic nanomaterials. Composition-dependent organic nanoelectronics for nonvolatile memory devices are discovered using mixed...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Maiti DK,Debnath S,Nawaz SM,Dey B,Dinda E,Roy D,Ray S,Mallik A,Hussain SA

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important effectors in mediating host-pathogen interaction. In this report, coelomocytes miRNA libraries of three Japanese sea cucumbers Apostichopus japonicus were built by Illumina(®) Hiseq2000 from different time points after lipopolysaccharide challenge (at time 0 h, 6 h and 12 h). The clean...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhong L,Zhang F,Zhai Y,Cao Y,Zhang S,Chang Y

更新日期：2015-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we applied transfer learning techniques for image recognition, automatic categorization, and labeling of nanoscience images obtained by scanning electron microscope (SEM). Roughly 20,000 SEM images were manually classified into 10 categories to form a labeled training set, which can be used as a referenc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Modarres MH,Aversa R,Cozzini S,Ciancio R,Leto A,Brandino GP

更新日期：2017-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is an essential mineral required for most forms of life. However, very little is known in relation to the different forms of dietary iron on the development of NAFLD. The aims of this study were to investigate the effects of iron intake from different food types on risk of NAFLD and whether this effect may be mod...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Peng XE,Xu SH,Liu W,Hu Z,Lin Z,Lin X

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Vanadium doped ZnO (VZO) thin films were grown by RF magnetron sputtering, starting from a ZnO:V ceramic target. The crystal structure, chemical composition, electric and piezoelectric properties of the films were investigated either on the as-grown thin films or after a post-deposition rapid thermal annealing (RTA) t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Laurenti M,Castellino M,Perrone D,Asvarov A,Canavese G,Chiolerio A

更新日期：2017-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The two most common techniques for absolute protein quantification are based on either mass spectrometry (MS) or on immunochemical techniques, such as western blotting (WB). Western blotting is most often used for protein identification or relative quantification, but can also be deployed for absolute quantification i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bennett RJ,Simpson DM,Holman SW,Ryan S,Brownridge P,Eyers CE,Colyer J,Beynon RJ

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of the relationship between topology and behaviour in interconnected networks would allow to charac- terise and predict behaviour in many real complex networks since both are usually not simultaneously known. Most previous studies have focused on the relationship between topology and synchronisation....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baptista MS,Szmoski RM,Pereira RF,Pinto SE

更新日期：2016-03-04 00:00:00