Salmon-hurling scientists enrich an ecosystem.

abstract：:The interrelationships between major living vertebrate, and even chordate, groups are now reasonably well resolved thanks to a large amount of generally congruent data derived from molecular sequences, anatomy and physiology. But fossils provide unexpected combinations of characters that help us to understand how the ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Janvier P

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Because their molecular signatures are often prominent in extracts of sediments, bacteria are thought to be important contributors to petroleum source beds. It has been shown recently, however, that abundances of biomarkers do not always reflect relative contributions to sedimentary organic carbon (Corg). The contrib...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hartgers WA,Sinninghe Damste JS,Requejo AG,Allan J,Hayes JM,de Leeuw JW

更新日期：1994-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Smallman M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is ample evidence that the secretion of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) by the pituitary gland is regulated by a nonsteroidal hormone of gonadal origin, termed inhibin. In several species, testicular extracts, gonadal lymph and seminal plasma have been shown to contain proteins which inhibit FSH release; lack...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Scott RS,Burger HG

更新日期：1980-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the progress in human culture has required the exploitation of energy resources. About 100 years ago, the major source of energy shifted from recent solar to fossil hydrocarbons, including liquid and gaseous petroleum. Technology has generally led to a greater use of hydrocarbon fuels for most human activities...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hall C,Tharakan P,Hallock J,Cleveland C,Jefferson M

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The normal cellular form of prion protein (PrPC) is a precursor to the pathogenic protease-resistant forms (PrPSc) believed to cause scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Its amino terminus contains the octapeptide PHGGGWGQ, which is repeated four times and is among the best-pr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Brown DR,Qin K,Herms JW,Madlung A,Manson J,Strome R,Fraser PE,Kruck T,von Bohlen A,Schulz-Schaeffer W,Giese A,Westaway D,Kretzschmar H

更新日期：1997-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum simulation--the use of one quantum system to simulate a less controllable one--may provide an understanding of the many quantum systems which cannot be modelled using classical computers. Considerable progress in control and manipulation has been achieved for various quantum systems, but one of the remaining c...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wilson AC,Colombe Y,Brown KR,Knill E,Leibfried D,Wineland DJ

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA synthetic (S) phase of cell division is about twice as long in human basal cell carcinoma (BCC) as the normal epidermis and several non-malignant skin diseases. A similar increase in S phase duration seems to occur in tumours of the human oesophagus, larynx and recto-colon. At the molecular level, the overall ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Heenen M,Galand P

更新日期：1980-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Close inbreeding is known for a variety of small mammal species for which a high probability of mortality during dispersal makes helping and delayed maturation a relatively secure fitness option. Prolonged inbreeding, however, is usually associated with lowered fitness, and it has been shown that most highly inbred sm...

journal_title：Nature

authors： O'Riain MJ,Jarvis JU,Faulkes CG

更新日期：1996-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of their primary structure, the lysine-rich histones are a unified family of proteins. Each has an amino acid chain which falls into three distinct domains. Only the central domain (approximately 80 residues) is in a folded conformation. It is protected from trypsin digestion in chromatin and corresponds ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Allan J,Hartman PG,Crane-Robinson C,Aviles FX

更新日期：1980-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:When present in single-stranded DNA, palindromic or quasi-palindromic sequences have the potential to form complex secondary structures, including hairpins, which may facilitate interstrand misalignment of direct repeats and be responsible for diverse types of replication-based mutations, including deletions, addition...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Trinh TQ,Sinden RR

更新日期：1991-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden cardiac death is the leading cause of death in the industrialized world, with the majority of such tragedies being due to ventricular fibrillation. Ventricular fibrillation is a frenzied and irregular disturbance of the heart rhythm that quickly renders the heart incapable of sustaining life. Rotors, electrophy...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Witkowski FX,Leon LJ,Penkoske PA,Giles WR,Spano ML,Ditto WL,Winfree AT

更新日期：1998-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not yet clear whether humans are able to learn while they are sleeping. Here we show that full-term human newborns can be taught to discriminate between similar vowel sounds when they are fast asleep. It is possible that such sleep training soon after birth could find application in clinical or educational situa...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cheour M,Martynova O,Näätänen R,Erkkola R,Sillanpää M,Kero P,Raz A,Kaipio ML,Hiltunen J,Aaltonen O,Savela J,Hämäläinen H

更新日期：2002-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological dinitrogen fixation provides the largest input of nitrogen to the oceans, therefore exerting important control on the ocean's nitrogen inventory and primary productivity. Nitrogen-isotope data from ocean sediments suggest that the marine-nitrogen inventory has been balanced for the past 3,000 years (ref. 4)...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Großkopf T,Mohr W,Baustian T,Schunck H,Gill D,Kuypers MM,Lavik G,Schmitz RA,Wallace DW,LaRoche J

更新日期：2012-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:An ongoing challenge in chemical research is to design catalysts that select the outcomes of the reactions of complex molecules. Chemists rely on organocatalysts or transition metal catalysts to control stereoselectivity, regioselectivity and periselectivity (selectivity among possible pericyclic reactions). Nature ac...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ohashi M,Jamieson CS,Cai Y,Tan D,Kanayama D,Tang MC,Anthony SM,Chari JV,Barber JS,Picazo E,Kakule TB,Cao S,Garg NK,Zhou J,Houk KN,Tang Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal cells contribute to the 'stroma' of most normal and malignant tissues, with specific mesenchymal cells participating in the regulatory niches of stem cells. By examining how mesenchymal osteolineage cells modulate haematopoiesis, here we show that deletion of Dicer1 specifically in mouse osteoprogenitors, ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Raaijmakers MH,Mukherjee S,Guo S,Zhang S,Kobayashi T,Schoonmaker JA,Ebert BL,Al-Shahrour F,Hasserjian RP,Scadden EO,Aung Z,Matza M,Merkenschlager M,Lin C,Rommens JM,Scadden DT

更新日期：2010-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein synthesis takes place on the ribosome, where genetic information carried by messenger RNA is translated into a sequence of amino acids. This process is terminated when a stop codon moves into the ribosomal decoding centre (DC) and is recognized by a class-1 release factor (RF). RFs have a conserved GGQ amino-a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rawat UB,Zavialov AV,Sengupta J,Valle M,Grassucci RA,Linde J,Vestergaard B,Ehrenberg M,Frank J

更新日期：2003-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstellar dust plays a crucial role in the evolution of the Universe by assisting the formation of molecules, by triggering the formation of the first low-mass stars, and by absorbing stellar ultraviolet-optical light and subsequently re-emitting it at infrared/millimetre wavelengths. Dust is thought to be produced...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Maiolino R,Schneider R,Oliva E,Bianchi S,Ferrara A,Mannucci F,Pedani M,Sogorb MR

更新日期：2004-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A key step in the elimination of pathogens from the body is the covalent binding of complement proteins C3 and C4 to their surfaces. Proteolytic activation of these proteins results in a conformational change, and an internal thioester is exposed which reacts with amino or hydroxyl groups on the target surface to form...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dodds AW,Ren XD,Willis AC,Law SK

更新日期：1996-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Males and females share many traits that have a common genetic basis; however, selection on these traits often differs between the sexes, leading to sexual conflict. Under such sexual antagonism, theory predicts the evolution of genetic architectures that resolve this sexual conflict. Yet, despite intense theoretical ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Barson NJ,Aykanat T,Hindar K,Baranski M,Bolstad GH,Fiske P,Jacq C,Jensen AJ,Johnston SE,Karlsson S,Kent M,Moen T,Niemelä E,Nome T,Næsje TF,Orell P,Romakkaniemi A,Sægrov H,Urdal K,Erkinaro J,Lien S,Primmer CR

更新日期：2015-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of a primordial crust is a critical step in the evolution of terrestrial planets but the timing of this process is poorly understood. The mineral zircon is a powerful tool for constraining crust formation because it can be accurately dated with the uranium-to-lead (U-Pb) isotopic decay system and is resi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bouvier LC,Costa MM,Connelly JN,Jensen NK,Wielandt D,Storey M,Nemchin AA,Whitehouse MJ,Snape JF,Bellucci JJ,Moynier F,Agranier A,Gueguen B,Schönbächler M,Bizzarro M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of electron pairs is essential to superconductivity. For conventional superconductors, tunnelling spectroscopy has established that pairing is mediated by bosonic modes (phonons); a peak in the second derivative of tunnel current d2I/dV2 corresponds to each phonon mode. For high-transition-temperature (high-...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lee J,Fujita K,McElroy K,Slezak JA,Wang M,Aiura Y,Bando H,Ishikado M,Masui T,Zhu JX,Balatsky AV,Eisaki H,Uchida S,Davis JC

更新日期：2006-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gewin V

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of the basis of genetic variation has opened inroads to understanding our history as a species. It has revealed the remarkable genetic similarity we share with other individuals as well as with our closest primate relatives. To understand what make us unique, both as individuals and as a species, we need...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pääbo S

更新日期：2003-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Various mechanisms have been proposed for beta-adrenergically mediated relaxation of smooth muscle. All theories suggest the involvement of cyclic AMP as a second messenger: beta-agonists stimulate adenylate cyclase which converts ATP to cyclic AMP and protein kinase, activated by cyclic AMP, is then thought to cataly...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mueller E,van Breemen C

更新日期：1979-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors driving glacial changes in ocean overturning circulation are not well understood. On the basis of a comparison of 20 climate variables over the past four glacial cycles, the SPECMAP project proposed that summer insolation at high northern latitudes (that is, Milankovitch forcing) drives the same sequence o...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lisiecki LE,Raymo ME,Curry WB

更新日期：2008-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified a structurally abnormal insulin in the serum and pancreas of a middle-aged man with diabetes mellitus which arose from a leucine for phenylalanine substitution at position 24 or 25 of the insulin B chain; further analysis of the patient's leukocyte DNA showed that one of the patient's ins...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shoelson S,Haneda M,Blix P,Nanjo A,Sanke T,Inouye K,Steiner D,Rubenstein A,Tager H

更新日期：1983-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The female germ line undergoes a unique sequence of differentiation processes that confers totipotency to the egg. The reconstitution of these events in vitro using pluripotent stem cells is a key achievement in reproductive biology and regenerative medicine. Here we report successful reconstitution in vitro of the en...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hikabe O,Hamazaki N,Nagamatsu G,Obata Y,Hirao Y,Hamada N,Shimamoto S,Imamura T,Nakashima K,Saitou M,Hayashi K

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activator proteins (activators) function, at least in part, by increasing preinitiation complex assembly (for reviews see refs 1-4). Previous studies have shown that an acidic activator forms a contact with the general transcription factor TFIIB (refs 5-7) and recruits it into the preinitiation complex...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Roberts SG,Green MR

更新日期：1994-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of precise connections between retina and lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) involves the activity-dependent elimination of some synapses, with strengthening and retention of others. Here we show that the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecule H2-D(b) is necessary and sufficient for synaps...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lee H,Brott BK,Kirkby LA,Adelson JD,Cheng S,Feller MB,Datwani A,Shatz CJ

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00