Phase-coding memories in mind.

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journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Di Biase S,Shim HS,Kim KH,Vinciguerra M,Rappa F,Wei M,Brandhorst S,Cappello F,Mirzaei H,Lee C,Longo VD

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Amazonian tropical forests, recent studies have reported increases in aboveground biomass and in primary productivity, as well as shifts in plant species composition favouring fast-growing species over slow-growing ones. This pervasive alteration of mature tropical forests was attributed to global environmental cha...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chave J,Condit R,Muller-Landau HC,Thomas SC,Ashton PS,Bunyavejchewin S,Co LL,Dattaraja HS,Davies SJ,Esufali S,Ewango CE,Feeley KJ,Foster RB,Gunatilleke N,Gunatilleke S,Hall P,Hart TB,Hernández C,Hubbell SP,Itoh A,

更新日期：2008-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Although compound heterozygosity, or the presence of two different mutant alleles of the same gene, is common in human recessive disease, its potential to impact disease outcome has not been well documented. This is most likely because of the inherent difficulty in distinguishing specific biallelic effects from differ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Andressoo JO,Jans J,de Wit J,Coin F,Hoogstraten D,van de Ven M,Toussaint W,Huijmans J,Thio HB,van Leeuwen WJ,de Boer J,Egly JM,Hoeijmakers JH,van der Horst GT,Mitchell JR

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent United States measles epidemic has sparked another contentious national discussion about childhood vaccination. A growing number of parents are expressing concerns about the safety of vaccines, often fueled by misinformation from the internet, books, and other nonmedical sources. Many of these concerned par...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Glanz JM,Kraus CR,Daley MF

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral cortex performs complex cognitive functions at the expense of tremendous energy consumption. Blood vessels in the brain are known to form stereotypic patterns that facilitate efficient oxygen and nutrient delivery. Yet little is known about how vessel development in the brain is normally regulated. Radial...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ma S,Kwon HJ,Johng H,Zang K,Huang Z

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global warming is significantly altering arctic marine ecosystems. Specifically, the precipitous loss of sea ice is creating a dichotomy between ice-dependent polar bears and pinnipeds that are losing habitat and some cetaceans that are gaining habitat. While final outcomes are hard to predict for the many and varied ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Moore SE,Reeves RR

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The F-type ATP synthase complex is a rotary nano-motor driven by proton motive force to synthesize ATP. Its F(1) sector catalyzes ATP synthesis, whereas the F(o) sector conducts the protons and provides a stator for the rotary action of the complex. Components of both F(1) and F(o) sectors are highly conserved across ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Balabaskaran Nina P,Dudkina NV,Kane LA,van Eyk JE,Boekema EJ,Mather MW,Vaidya AB

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although amyloid fibrillation is generally believed to be a nucleation-dependent process, the nuclei are largely structurally uncharacterized. This is in part due to the inherent experimental challenge associated with structural descriptions of individual components in a dynamic multi-component equilibrium. There are ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Vestergaard B,Groenning M,Roessle M,Kastrup JS,van de Weert M,Flink JM,Frokjaer S,Gajhede M,Svergun DI

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterned spontaneous activity in the developing retina is necessary to drive synaptic refinement in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). Using perforated patch recordings from neurons in LGN slices during the period of eye segregation, we examine how such burst-based activity can instruct this refinement. Retinogeni...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Butts DA,Kanold PO,Shatz CJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription rate of a gene is often controlled by several regulators that bind specific sites in the gene's cis-regulatory region. The combined effect of these regulators is described by a cis-regulatory input function. What determines the form of an input function, and how variable is it with respect to mutatio...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Mayo AE,Setty Y,Shavit S,Zaslaver A,Alon U

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes and mechanisms of evolutionary diversification are central issues in biology. Geographic isolation is the traditional explanation for diversification, but recent theoretical and empirical studies have shown that frequency-dependent selection can drive diversification without isolation and that adaptive dive...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Herron MD,Doebeli M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood-brain barrier (BBB) defects and cerebrovascular dysfunction contribute to amyloid-β (Aβ) brain accumulation and drive Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology. By regulating vascular functions and inflammation in the microvasculature, a disintegrin and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type I motif, member 13 (ADAMTS1...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Cao Y,Xu H,Zhu Y,Shi MJ,Wei L,Zhang J,Cheng S,Shi Y,Tong H,Kang L,Lu L,Luo H,Yang X,Bai X,Wang R,Ma Y,Wang Y,Wang Z,Zhong K,Zhao BQ,Fan W

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The segmentation gene network of Drosophila consists of maternal and zygotic factors that generate, by transcriptional (cross-) regulation, expression patterns of increasing complexity along the anterior-posterior axis of the embryo. Using known binding site information for maternal and zygotic gap transcription facto...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Schroeder MD,Pearce M,Fak J,Fan H,Unnerstall U,Emberly E,Rajewsky N,Siggia ED,Gaul U

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary science thrives on collaborative networks, but these can also be found elsewhere in the history of science in unexpected places. When Mendel turned his attention to inheritance in peas he was not an isolated monk, but rather the latest in a line of Moravian researchers and agriculturalists who had been th...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Poczai P,Bell N,Hyvönen J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc is an essential mineral, but our understanding of its uses in the body is limited. Capitalizing on approaches available in the model system Caenorhabditis elegans, Zhao and colleagues show that zinc transduces a signal that induces sperm to become motile. This is an enigmatic process because sperm in all sexually...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chu DS

更新日期：2018-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Low reproducibility rates within life science research undermine cumulative knowledge production and contribute to both delays and costs of therapeutic drug development. An analysis of past studies indicates that the cumulative (total) prevalence of irreproducible preclinical research exceeds 50%, resulting in approxi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Freedman LP,Cockburn IM,Simcoe TS

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial shape is determined by fission and fusion reactions catalyzed by large GTPases of the dynamin family, mutation of which can cause neurological dysfunction. While fission-inducing protein phosphatases have been identified, the identity of opposing kinase signaling complexes has remained elusive. We report...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Merrill RA,Dagda RK,Dickey AS,Cribbs JT,Green SH,Usachev YM,Strack S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a research perspective, the interest in biobanking continues to intensify. Governments and industry have invested heavily in biobanks, as exemplified by initiatives like the United Kingdom Biobank and United States' Precision Medicine Initiative. But despite this enthusiasm, many profound legal and ethical challe...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Caulfield T,Murdoch B

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Birds utilize a unique structure, called a syrinx, for the production of their vocalizations. The origins of the syrinx are not well understood. New work, utilizing first principles-based models, suggests that a key element in selection for the early syrinx might be the position of this vocal structure: although the l...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Habib MB

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Creating artificial protein families affords new opportunities to explore the determinants of structure and biological function free from many of the constraints of natural selection. We have created an artificial family comprising 3,000 P450 heme proteins that correctly fold and incorporate a heme cofactor by recombi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Otey CR,Landwehr M,Endelman JB,Hiraga K,Bloom JD,Arnold FH

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long distance migration of differentiating granule cells from the cerebellar upper rhombic lip has been reported in many vertebrates. However, the knowledge about the subcellular dynamics and molecular mechanisms regulating directional neuronal migration in vivo is just beginning to emerge. Here we show by time-lapse ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rieger S,Senghaas N,Walch A,Köster RW

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The striatum plays a fundamental role in motor learning and reward-related behaviors that are synergistically shaped by populations of D1 dopamine receptor (D1R)- and D2 dopamine receptor (D2R)-expressing medium spiny neurons (MSNs). How various neurotransmitter inputs converging on common intracellular pathways are p...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Sutton LP,Muntean BS,Ostrovskaya O,Zucca S,Dao M,Orlandi C,Song C,Xie K,Martemyanov KA

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal welfare requires the adequate housing of animals to ensure health and well-being. The application of environmental enrichment is a way to improve the well-being of laboratory animals. However, it is important to know whether these enrichment items can be incorporated in experimental mouse husbandry without crea...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： André V,Gau C,Scheideler A,Aguilar-Pimentel JA,Amarie OV,Becker L,Garrett L,Hans W,Hölter SM,Janik D,Moreth K,Neff F,Östereicher M,Racz I,Rathkolb B,Rozman J,Bekeredjian R,Graw J,Klingenspor M,Klopstock T,Ollert M

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogen gradients are established by the localized production and subsequent diffusion of signaling molecules. It is generally assumed that cell fates are induced only after morphogen profiles have reached their steady state. Yet, patterning processes during early development occur rapidly, and tissue patterning may...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bergmann S,Sandler O,Sberro H,Shnider S,Schejter E,Shilo BZ,Barkai N

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major challenges of functional genomics is to unravel the connection between genotype and phenotype. So far no global analysis has attempted to explore those connections in the light of the large phenotypic variability seen in nature. Here, we use an unsupervised, systematic approach for associating genes a...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Korbel JO,Doerks T,Jensen LJ,Perez-Iratxeta C,Kaczanowski S,Hooper SD,Andrade MA,Bork P

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome biogenesis is a major energy-consuming process in the cell that has to be rapidly down-regulated in response to stress or nutrient depletion. The target of rapamycin 1 (Tor1) pathway regulates synthesis of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) at the level of transcription initiation. It remains unclear whether ribosome bioge...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Kos-Braun IC,Jung I,Koš M

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common cystic fibrosis (CF) causing mutation, deletion of phenylalanine 508 (ΔF508 or Phe508del), results in functional expression defect of the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) at the apical plasma membrane (PM) of secretory epithelia, which is attributed to the degradation of the misfolded chan...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Veit G,Oliver K,Apaja PM,Perdomo D,Bidaud-Meynard A,Lin ST,Guo J,Icyuz M,Sorscher EJ,Hartman JL IV,Lukacs GL

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Planarians display remarkable plasticity in maintenance of their germline, with the ability to develop or dismantle reproductive tissues in response to systemic and environmental cues. Here, we investigated the role of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in this dynamic germline regulation. By genome-enabled receptor ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Saberi A,Jamal A,Beets I,Schoofs L,Newmark PA

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylosymbiosis was recently proposed to describe the eco-evolutionary pattern, whereby the ecological relatedness of host-associated microbial communities parallels the phylogeny of related host species. Here, we test the prevalence of phylosymbiosis and its functional significance under highly controlled conditions b...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Brooks AW,Kohl KD,Brucker RM,van Opstal EJ,Bordenstein SR

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARC) respond to numerous hormonal and neural signals, resulting in changes in food intake. Here, we demonstrate that ARC POMC neurons express capsaicin-sensitive transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 receptor (TRPV1)-like receptors. To s...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Jeong JH,Lee DK,Liu SM,Chua SC Jr,Schwartz GJ,Jo YH

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00