Differential gene expression is not required for facultative sex allocation: a transcriptome analysis of brain tissue in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis.

abstract：:Four kinds of functional ionic liquids (ILs) ([C3SO3Hnmp]HSO4), 1-(3-sulfopropyl)-1-methylpyrrolidone phosphate ([C3SO3Hnmp]H2PO4), 1-(3-sulfopropyl)-1-methylpyrrolidone p-toluene sulfonate ([C3SO3Hnmp]CH3SO3H) and 1-(3-sulfopropyl)-1-methylpyrrolidone methyl sulfonate ([C3SO3Hnmp]C6H6SO3H)) were prepared and the cata...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Liu R,Zhang K,Liu C,Hu Y,Zhou L,Zhang J

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies investigating micromechanical properties in mouse cortical bone often solely focus on the mechanical behaviour along the long axis of the bone. Therefore, data on the anisotropy of mouse cortical bone is scarce. The aim of this study is the first-time evaluation of the anisotropy ratio between the longitudinal...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Casanova M,Balmelli A,Carnelli D,Courty D,Schneider P,Müller R

更新日期：2017-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel polyamine-type starch/glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) copolymer with a high capacity for the adsorption of heavy metal ions was prepared via graft copolymerization of GMA and corn starch and a subsequent amination reaction between amino group of diethylenetriamine and epoxy group in GMA. The copolymers were charac...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chen Y,Zhao W,Wang H,Meng X,Zhang L

更新日期：2018-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical properties of any substance are essential facts to understand its behaviour and make the maximum use of the particular substance. Rocks are indeed an important substance, as they are of significant use in the energy industry, specifically for fossil fuels and geothermal energy. Attenuation of seismic wa...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wanniarachchi WAM,Ranjith PG,Perera MSA,Rathnaweera TD,Lyu Q,Mahanta B

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is a severe complication of allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. There is a growing understanding of cGVHD, and several effective therapies for cGVHD have been reported. However, pancreatic cGVHD is a potentially untapped study field. Our thought-provoking stud...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Mukai S,Ogawa Y,Urano F,Kawakami Y,Tsubota K

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Decision-making, when humans and other animals choose between two options, is not always based on the absolute values of the options but can also depend on their relative values. The present study examines whether decision-making by cuttlefish is dependent on relative values learned from previous experience. Cuttlefis...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kuo TH,Chiao CC

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This article studies correlated two-person games constructed from games with independent players as proposed in Iqbal et al. (2016 R. Soc. open sci.3, 150477. (doi:10.1098/rsos.150477)). The games are played in a collective manner, both in a two-dimensional lattice where the players interact with their neighbours, and...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Alonso-Sanz R

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a stochastic model, we investigate the probability of fixation, and the average time taken to achieve fixation, of a mutant in a population of wild-types. We do this in a context where the environment in which the competition takes place is subject to stochastic change. Our model takes into account interactions ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Baron JW,Galla T

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual signals often compromise camouflage because of their conspicuousness. Pigmentation patterns, on the contrary, aid in camouflage. It was hypothesized that a particular type of pattern-barred plumage in birds, whereby pigmented bars extend across feathers-could simultaneously signal individual quality, because di...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Marques CI,Batalha HR,Cardoso GC

更新日期：2016-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A multi-functional chemosensor 1 as silver and sulfide detector was synthesized by the combination of octopamine and 4-dimethylaminocinnamaldehyde. Sensor 1 exhibited a ratiometric fluorescence emission for Ag+ from blue to sky. The binding mode of 1 and Ag+ turned out to be a 1 : 1 ratio as determined using Job plot ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kang JH,Chae JB,Kim C

更新日期：2018-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitive, simple and green analytical methodology for simultaneous estimation of bambuterol and montelukast as a combined medication based on their native fluorescence character was developed. The method relies on synchronous spectrofluorimetry to solve the problem of the overlapping emission spectra of the studied d...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： El Gamal R,El Abass SA,Elmansi HM

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The influential hypothesis by Markus & Kitayama (Markus, Kitayama 1991. Psychol. Rev.98, 224) postulates that individuals from interdependent cultures place others above self in interpersonal contexts. This led to the prediction and finding that individuals from interdependent cultures are less egocentric than those f...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang JJ,Tseng P,Juan CH,Frisson S,Apperly IA

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:MCM-41 was prepared through the sol-gel method and encapsulated by polydopamine (PDA) before being coordinated with metal ions to form a highly efficient sustained release system (M-PDA-MCM-41) for triazolone delivery. The characterization results confirmed the existence of the coordination bond between the PDA layer ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chen H,Huang G,Zhou H,Zhou X,Xu H

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural selection favours a restricted host breadth in disease vector mosquitoes, indicating that there is an adaptive value associated with maintaining plasticity in host preference. One mechanism to maintain such plasticity is via the detection of generic cues by conserved peripheral olfactory pathways, which when p...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Majeed S,Hill SR,Birgersson G,Ignell R

更新日期：2016-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum computers are expected to have a dramatic impact on numerous fields due to their anticipated ability to solve classes of mathematical problems much more efficiently than their classical counterparts. This particularly applies to domains involving integer factorization and discrete logarithms, such as public ke...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Stewart I,Ilie D,Zamyatin A,Werner S,Torshizi MF,Knottenbelt WJ

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have been attracting significant attention for their prominent fluorescence, excellent stability and outstanding biocompatibility. Here, we report a facile one-step synthesis of highly fluorescent CQDs by using phthalic acid and triethylenediamine hexahydrate as precursors throu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yu T,Wang H,Guo C,Zhai Y,Yang J,Yuan J

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed examinations of both the movement and muscle activation patterns used by animals and humans to complete complex tasks are difficult to obtain in many environments. Therefore, the ability to infer movement and muscle activation patterns after capture of a single set of easily obtained data is highly sought aft...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sahrom SB,Wilkie JC,Nosaka K,Blazevich AJ

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to attribute intentions to others is a hallmark of human social cognition but is altered in paranoia. Paranoia is the most common positive symptom of psychosis but is also present to varying degrees in the general population. Epidemiological models suggest that psychosis risk is associated with low social ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Saalfeld V,Ramadan Z,Bell V,Raihani NJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objects that are briefly flashed around the time of saccades are mislocalized. Previously, robust interactions between saccadic perceptual distortions and stimulus contrast have been reported. It is also known that crowding depends on the contrast of the target and flankers. Here, we investigated how stimulus contrast...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Agaoglu MN,Chung ST

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some species of criocerine beetles have a hyper-elongated part of the intromittent organ called a flagellum. In resting position, the flagellum is stored in a specialized internal sac in the intromittent organ. This specialized state of the flagellum and internal sac is indispensable during copulation for flagellar in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Matsumura Y,Kubo T

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Language has long been identified as a powerful communicative tool among humans. Yet, pre-linguistic communication, which is common in many species, is also used by human infants prior to the acquisition of language. The potential communicational value of pre-linguistic vocal interactions between human infants and mot...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bourvis N,Singer M,Saint Georges C,Bodeau N,Chetouani M,Cohen D,Feldman R

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistence of homological features in simplicial complex representations of big datasets in R n resulting from Vietoris-Rips or Čech filtrations is commonly used to probe the topological structure of such datasets. In this paper, the notion of homological pers...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Parks AD,Marchette DJ

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Leafcutting bees (Megachile: Megachilidae) cut leaves from various trees, shrubs, wildflowers and grasses to partition and encase brood cells in hollow plant stems, decaying logs or in the ground. The identification of preferred plant species via morphological characters of the leaf fragments is challenging and direct...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： MacIvor JS

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently one small, native population of the culturally and ecologically important Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi, LCT, Federally listed) remains in the Truckee River watershed of northwestern Nevada and northeastern California. The majority of populations in this watershed were extirpated in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Peacock MM,Hekkala ER,Kirchoff VS,Heki LG

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mesoporous silicate molecular sieves were synthesized with polyether F127 as the template by the aerosol-assisted method for loading and release of ibuprofen (IBU). The synthesized samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and N2 adsorption-deso...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Hao L,Li X,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A pleiotropic gene governs multiple traits, which might constrain the evolution of complexity due to conflicting selection on these traits. However, if the pleiotropic effect is modular, then this can facilitate synergistic responses to selection on functionally related traits, thereby leveraging the evolution of comp...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang S,Sokolowski MB

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The current communication signifies the effect of oxygen vacancies (OVs) both qualitatively and quantitatively in multiferroic BiFe0.83Ni0.17O3 by an in-depth atomic-level investigation of its electronic structure and magnetization properties, and these materials have a variety of applications in spintronics, optoelec...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Rajan PI,Mahalakshmi S,Chandra S

更新日期：2017-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Deposition of carbonaceous compounds was used to improve the propylene selectivity of ZSM-5 by deactivating some acid sites meanwhile maintaining the high activity for methanol conversion. The carbonaceous species of pre-coked samples before and after MTP reactions were investigated by elementary analysis and thermogr...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wang L,Qi J,Jiao H,An L,Guan C,Yong X,Jin Z,Zhang A,Liu D

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Many important data types, such as the spike trains recorded from neurons in typical electrophysiological experiments, have a natural notion of distance or similarity between data points, even though there is no obvious coordinate system. Here, a simple Kozachenko-Leonenko estimator is derived for calculating the mutu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Houghton C

更新日期：2015-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, many modification methods have been proposed to improve the performance of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC). In this study, tests on the compressive strength and damping properties of modified RAC with the addition of different proportions of recycled coarse aggregate (RCA) (0, 50, 100%), rubber powder (1...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Lei B,Liu H,Yao Z,Tang Z

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00