Sex Ratio Elasticity Influences the Selection of Sex Ratio Strategy.

abstract：:Macro- and micro-environmental factors modulate parasite loads in fish, determining parasitic abundances, diversity, and interaction dynamics. In this study, seasonal variations in larval ectoparasites on fish larvae in the northern Humboldt Current System (HCS) were evaluated using a delta-gamma generalized linear mo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Paredes LD,Landaeta MF,Molinet C,González MT

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggressive interactions between groups are frequent in human societies and can bear significant fitness costs and benefits (e.g. death or access to resources). During between-group competitive interactions, more cohesive groups (i.e. groups formed by individuals who cooperate in group defence) should out-perform less ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Majolo B,Maréchal L

更新日期：2017-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Upper mantle viscosity plays a key role in understanding plate tectonics and is usually extrapolated from laboratory-based creep measurements of upper mantle conditions or constrained by modeling geodetic and post-seismic observations. At present, an effective method to obtain a high-resolution viscosity structure is ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu Y,Zhang A,Yang B,Bao X,Wang Q,Xia J,Yang W

更新日期：2018-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Pericytes are believed to originate from either mesenchymal or neural crest cells. It has recently been reported that pericytes play important roles in the central nervous system (CNS) by regulating blood-brain barrier homeostasis and blood flow at the capillary level. However, the origin of CNS microvascular pericyte...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yamamoto S,Muramatsu M,Azuma E,Ikutani M,Nagai Y,Sagara H,Koo BN,Kita S,O'Donnell E,Osawa T,Takahashi H,Takano KI,Dohmoto M,Sugimori M,Usui I,Watanabe Y,Hatakeyama N,Iwamoto T,Komuro I,Takatsu K,Tobe K,Niida S,

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been well established that some Armillaria species are symbionts of Polyporus umbellatus, However, little is known about the evolutionary history of P. umbellatus-Armillaria associations. In this research, we used an analysis based on the strength of the phylogenetic signal to investigate P. umbellatus-Armillar...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xing X,Men J,Guo S

更新日期：2017-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomodels made of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) are demanded because they can represent the geometries and mechanical properties of human tissues realistically. Injecting and molding, commonly used in three-dimensional (3D) modeling, help to represent the blood vessels accurately. However, these techniques sometimes requi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shimizu Y,Tanabe T,Yoshida H,Kasuya M,Matsunaga T,Haga Y,Kurihara K,Ohta M

更新日期：2018-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic nanoparticles dissipate heat when exposed to alternating magnetic fields (AMFs), making them suitable for cancer hyperthermia. Therapeutic heating applications demand accurate characterization of the heating power dissipated by the particles. Specific loss power (SLP) generated by magnetic nanoparticles is es...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Soetaert F,Kandala SK,Bakuzis A,Ivkov R

更新日期：2017-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been much interest in understanding collective dynamics in networks of brain regions due to their role in behavior and cognitive function. Here we show that a simple, homogeneous system of densely connected oscillators, representing the aggregate activity of local brain regions, can exhibit a rich variety of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Singh R,Menon SN,Sinha S

更新日期：2016-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrospun gelatin nanofibers attract great interest as a natural biomaterial for cartilage and tendon repair despite their high solubility in aqueous solution, which makes them also difficult to crosslink by means of chemical agents. In this work, we explore the efficiency of non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure pla...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liguori A,Bigi A,Colombo V,Focarete ML,Gherardi M,Gualandi C,Oleari MC,Panzavolta S

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (huMSCs) can treat primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) related to ovarian granulosa cell (OGC) apoptosis caused by cisplatin chemotherapy. Exosomes are a class of membranous vesicles with diameters of 30-200 nm that are constitutively released by eukaryotic cells. Exosomes m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun L,Li D,Song K,Wei J,Yao S,Li Z,Su X,Ju X,Chao L,Deng X,Kong B,Li L

更新日期：2017-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that the Gobi Desert is the dominant source area of the Badain Jaran Desert (BJD) and the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). However, due to the absence of quantitative analyses, there are nearly no exact assessments of its actual contribution. Combinations of field investigations, wind tunnel experiments, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Cai D,Sun J,Lu H,Liu W,Qiang M,Cheng H,Che H,Hua T,Zhang C

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Thomas D,Bagiya MS,Sunil PS,Rolland L,Sunil AS,Mikesell TD,Nayak S,Mangalampalli S,Ramesh DS

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells play an important role on tumor progression. Biomarkers of stem cell property and their relationship to extranodal involvement of malignant lymphocytes are undefined in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Here we showed that junctional adhesion molecule-A (JAM-A) was highly expressed in DLBCL pati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu PP,Sun YF,Fang Y,Song Q,Yan ZX,Chen Y,Jiang XF,Fei XC,Zhao Y,Leboeuf C,Li B,Wang CF,Janin A,Wang L,Zhao WL

更新日期：2017-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical separation has great importance in industrial applications. Separation of xylene isomers still prevails to be one of the most important challenges in chemical industry, due to the large amount of commercial use of p-xylene in the production of beverage bottles, fibers and films. A novel Zn(II)-based dynamic c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mukherjee S,Joarder B,Manna B,Desai AV,Chaudhari AK,Ghosh SK

更新日期：2014-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the role of the spatial evolution of the acoustic field in stimulated Brillouin scattering processes in short high-gain structures. When the gain is strong enough that the gain length becomes comparable to the acoustic wave decay length of order 100 microns, standard approximations treating the acoustic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wolff C,Steel MJ,Eggleton BJ,Poulton CG

更新日期：2015-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraines are a common and undertreated disease and often have psychiatric comorbidities; however, the abnormal mechanism of emotional processing in migraine patients has not been well clarified. This study sought to investigate the different brain functional activation to neutral, positive and negative emotional stim...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang M,Su J,Zhang J,Zhao Y,Yao Q,Zhang Q,Zhang H,Wang S,Li GF,Liu JR,Du X

更新日期：2017-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether the retinal process alone or retinal and cortical processes jointly determine afterimage (AI) formation has long been debated. Based on the retinal rebound responses, recent work proposes that afterimage signals are exclusively generated in the retina, although later modified by cortical mechanisms. We tested ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dong B,Holm L,Bao M

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Desmoid tumors (aggressive fibromatosis) are locally invasive soft tissue tumors that lack the ability to metastasize. There are no directed therapies or standard treatment plan, and chemotherapeutics, radiation, and surgery often have temporary effects. The majority of desmoid tumors are related to T41A and S45F muta...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mercier KA,Al-Jazrawe M,Poon R,Acuff Z,Alman B

更新日期：2018-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The trade of bumble bees started in the early nineties for pollinator-dependent greenhouse plants. Nowadays, its rearing and transport have received public attention, since managed bees can transfer pathogens to wild bee populations. Therefore, guaranteeing pathogen-free bumble bees is fundamental. The major protein s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pereira KS,Meeus I,Smagghe G

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In low-resource hospitals of central Africa, neurological disorders are frequent and etiologies very diverse. The difficulty to identify invasive bacterial infections in this setting results in major antibiotic overuse. Biomarkers such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT) may help discriminate these con...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bottieau E,Mukendi D,Kalo JL,Lutumba P,Barbé B,Ramadan K,Van Esbroeck M,Jacobs J,Yansouni CP,Chappuis F,Boelaert M,Winkler AS,Verdonck K

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the fabrication of spherical Au spheres by pulsed laser treatment using a KrF excimer laser (248 nm, 25 ns) under ambient conditions as a fast and high throughput fabrication technique. The presented experiments were realized using initial Au layers of 100 nm thickness deposited on optically transparent a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schmidl G,Jia G,Gawlik A,Kreusch J,Schmidl F,Dellith J,Dathe A,Lin ZH,Huang JS,Plentz J

更新日期：2018-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Accidental introduction through ballast water and biofouling are currently the main factors responsible for spreading non-indigenous species in the marine realm. In the Southwestern Atlantic, two scleractinian corals, Tubastraea coccinea and T. tagusensis, have been introduced by opportunistic colonization in 1980 and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Capel KCC,Creed J,Kitahara MV,Chen CA,Zilberberg C

更新日期：2019-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to wide-spread neurodegeneration across the neuroaxis. We explored trajectories of surface morphology, demyelination and iron concentration within the basal ganglia-thalamic circuit over 2 years post-SCI. This allowed us to explore the predictive value of neuroimaging biomarkers and dete...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huber E,Patel R,Hupp M,Weiskopf N,Chakravarty MM,Freund P

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous cropping of tomato is increasingly practiced in greenhouse cultivation, leading to several soil-related obstacles. In this study, a type of microbial restoration substrate (MRS) was used to amend soils from the re-cropping of tomato for 8 years under greenhouse-cultivated conditions. Two treatments were est...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zheng X,Wang Z,Zhu Y,Wang J,Liu B

更新日期：2020-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight advanced durum-breeding lines were treated with 5-methyl-azacytidine to test the feasibility of generating sources of Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance. Of the 800 treated seeds, 415 germinated and were advanced up to four (M4) generations by selfing. Thirty-two of the resulting 415 M4 lines were selected fo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kumar J,Rai KM,Pirseyedi S,Elias EM,Xu S,Dill-Macky R,Kianian SF

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. Like other cancers, mammary carcinoma progression involves acidification of the tumor microenvironment, which is an important factor for cancer detection and treatment strategies. However, the effects of acidity on mammary carcinoma cell morphol...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ralph ACL,Valadão IC,Cardoso EC,Martins VR,Oliveira LMS,Bevilacqua EMAF,Geraldo MV,Jaeger RG,Goldberg GS,Freitas VM

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy, one of the most common lethal genetic disorders, is caused by mutations in the DMD gene and a lack of dystrophin protein. In most DMD patients and animal models, sporadic dystrophin-positive muscle fibres, called revertant fibres (RFs), are observed in otherwise dystrophin-negative backgro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rodrigues M,Echigoya Y,Maruyama R,Lim KR,Fukada SI,Yokota T

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress is one of major factors that cause sleep problems. Hypocretin represents a stress-related neuropeptide and is well known in maintaining physiological wakefulness. The hypocretinergic neurons originate in the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) and transmit to several brain regions, including the median raphe nuclei...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hsiao YT,Lo Y,Yi PL,Chang FC

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzed hourly mass concentration observations of PM2.5 (particulate matters with diameter less than 2.5 μm) at 512 stations in China from December 2013 to May 2015. We found that the mean concentrations of PM2.5 during the winter and spring of 2015 Dec. 2014 to Feb. 2015 and Mar. 2015 to May 2015) decreas...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Wang K,Su L

更新日期：2016-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosthesis embodiment, the perception of a prosthesis as part of one's body, may be an important component of functional recovery for individuals with upper limb absence. This work determined whether embodiment differs between body-powered and myoelectric prosthesis users. In a sample of nine individuals with transrad...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Engdahl SM,Meehan SK,Gates DH

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00