Added value of autoregulation and multi-step kinetics of transcription initiation.

abstract：:The increasing amount of plastic littered into the sea may provide a new substratum for benthic organisms. These marine fouling communities on plastic have not received much scientific attention. We present, to our knowledge, the first comprehensive analysis of their macroscopic community composition, their primary pr...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Pauli NC,Petermann JS,Lott C,Weber M

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic structure of a hybrid zone can provide insights into the relative roles of the various factors that maintain the zone. Here, we use a multilocus approach to characterize a hybrid zone between two subspecies of killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus, Walbaum 1792) found along the Atlantic coast of North America. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： McKenzie JL,Dhillon RS,Schulte PM

更新日期：2015-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual animals can often move more safely or more efficiently as members of a group. This can be as simple as safety in numbers or as sophisticated as aerodynamic or hydrodynamic cooperation. Here, we show that individual plant-animal worms (Symsagittifera roscoffensis) can move to safety more quickly through floc...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Worley A,Sendova-Franks AB,Franks NR

更新日期：2019-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro-environment policies require public support and engagement, but in countries such as the USA, public support for pro-environment policies remains low. Increasing public scientific literacy is unlikely to solve this, because increased scientific literacy does not guarantee increased acceptance of critical environme...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Drummond A,Palmer MA,Sauer JD

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential disrupting effects of Azo dye on wastewater nutrients removal deserved more analysis. In this study, 15 days exposure experiments were conducted with alizarin yellow R (AYR) as a model dye to determine whether the dye caused adverse effects on biological removal of both the dye and nutrients in acclimate...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chen A,Yang B,Zhou Y,Sun Y,Ding C

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomedical device-associated infection (BAI) and lack of osseointegration are the main causes of implant failure. Therefore, it is imperative for implants not only to depress microbial activity and biofilm colonization but also to prompt osteoblast functions and osseointegration. As part of the coating development for...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Zhang W,Wang S,Ge S,Chen J,Ji P

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181356.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Reader AT,Holmes NP

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomical design of the human foot is considered to facilitate generation of bipedal walking. However, how the morphology and structure of the human foot actually contribute to generation of bipedal walking remains unclear. In the present study, we investigated the three-dimensional kinematics of the foot bones u...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ito K,Hosoda K,Shimizu M,Ikemoto S,Nagura T,Seki H,Kitashiro M,Imanishi N,Aiso S,Jinzaki M,Ogihara N

更新日期：2017-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans subtly synchronize body movement during face-to-face conversation. In this context, bodily synchrony has been linked to affiliation and social bonding, task success and comprehension, and potential conflict. Almost all studies of conversational synchrony involve dyads, and relatively less is known about the str...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dale R,Bryant GA,Manson JH,Gervais MM

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposed limestone karst landscapes, especially in the tropics, are often home to distinctive and specialized biotas. Among vertebrates, a particularly large number of karst-associated lizard taxa have been described, but for the vast majority, evidence of specific adaptions to karst is lacking. A number of studies, ho...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Nielsen SV,Oliver PM

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-pubertal boys and girls speak with acoustically different voices despite the absence of a clear anatomical dimorphism in the vocal apparatus, suggesting that a strong component of the expression of gender through the voice is behavioural. Initial evidence for this hypothesis was found in a previous study showing t...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Cartei V,Garnham A,Oakhill J,Banerjee R,Roberts L,Reby D

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of geolocated information and communication technologies opens the possibility of exploring how people use space in cities, bringing an important new tool for urban scientists and planners, especially for regions where data are scarce or not available. Here we apply a functional network approach to determin...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Lenormand M,Picornell M,Cantú-Ros OG,Louail T,Herranz R,Barthelemy M,Frías-Martínez E,San Miguel M,Ramasco JJ

更新日期：2015-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans regularly cooperate with non-kin, which has been theorized to require reciprocity between repeatedly interacting and trusting individuals. However, the role of repeated interactions has not previously been demonstrated in explaining real-world patterns of hunter-gatherer cooperation. Here we explore cooperation...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Smith D,Dyble M,Thompson J,Major K,Page AE,Chaudhary N,Salali GD,Vinicius L,Migliano AB,Mace R

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:When controlling the assembly of magnetic nanorods and chains of magnetic nanoparticles, it is extremely challenging to bring them together side by side while keeping a desired spacing between their axes. We show that this challenge can be successfully resolved by using a non-uniform magnetic field that defeats an inh...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gu Y,Burtovyy R,Custer J,Luzinov I,Kornev KG

更新日期：2014-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Coral Triangle is widely considered the most important centre of marine biodiversity in Asia while areas on its periphery such as the South China Sea, have received much less interest. Here, we demonstrate that a small population of the knobbly sea star Protoreaster nodosus in Singapore has similarly high levels o...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Tay YC,Chng MW,Sew WW,Rheindt FE,Tun KP,Meier R

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Raster image correlation spectroscopy (RICS) measures the diffusion of fluorescently labelled molecules from stacks of confocal microscopy images by analysing correlations within the image. RICS enables the observation of a greater and, thus, more representative area of a biological system as compared to other single ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Nieves DJ,Li Y,Fernig DG,Lévy R

更新日期：2015-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle bulges when it contracts. These three-dimensional (3D) dynamic shape changes play an important role in muscle performance by altering the range of fascicle velocities over which a muscle operates. However traditional muscle models are one-dimensional (1D) and cannot fully explain in vivo shape changes....

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dick TJM,Wakeling JM

更新日期：2018-05-16 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：:Although high status is often considered a desirable quality, this may not always be the case. Different factors may moderate the value of high status along a dimension such as wealth (e.g. gender, perceiver income/education). For example, studies suggest men may value wealth and control over resources more than women...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Mattan BD,Cloutier J

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersal limitation, not just environmental selection, plays an important role in microbial biogeography. The distance-decay relationship is thought to be weak in habitats where dispersal is high, such as in the pelagic environment, where ocean currents facilitate microbial dispersal. Most studies of microbial commun...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Djurhuus A,Boersch-Supan PH,Mikalsen SO,Rogers AD

更新日期：2017-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of characterizing the effects of strain variation and individual/subgroup susceptibility on dose-response outcomes has motivated the search for new approaches beyond the popular use of the exponential dose-response model for listeriosis. While descriptive models can account for such variation, they have li...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Rahman A,Munther D,Fazil A,Smith B,Wu J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial communities are often highly diverse with several closely related species (or strains) coexisting together. These bacteria compete for resources and the competitive exclusion principle predicts that all but the fastest-growing bacteria will go extinct. When exposed to phage, it is predicted that bacterial st...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Eriksen RS,Krishna S

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Conservation management agencies are faced with acute trade-offs when dealing with disturbance from human activities. We show how agencies can respond to permanent ecosystem disruption by managing for Pimm resilience within a conservation budget using a model calibrated to a metapopulation of a coral reef fish species...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Little LR,Grafton RQ

更新日期：2015-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The rigid structure of the mammalian trachea is functional to maintain constant patency and airflow during breathing, but no gas exchange takes place through its walls. The structure of the organ in dolphins shows increased rigidity of the tracheal cartilaginous rings and the presence of vascular lacunae in the submuc...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ballarin C,Bagnoli P,Peruffo A,Cozzi B

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Low levels of heterozygosity can have detrimental effects on life history and growth characteristics of organisms but more subtle effects such as those on trade-offs of expensive tissues and morphological laterality, especially of the brain, have not been explicitly tested. The objective of the current study was to in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Wiper ML,Lehnert SJ,Heath DD,Higgs DM

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:When we represent real-world systems as networks, the directions of links often convey valuable information. Finding module structures that respect link directions is one of the most important tasks for analysing directed networks. Although many notions of a directed module have been proposed, no consensus has been re...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Takaguchi T,Yoshida Y

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Nano-size EVONIK AEROXIDE® P25 titanium dioxide, TiO2, powder was heat-treated at temperatures, 700-900°C, in air. An X-ray diffraction study showed that the P25 powder is composed of approximately 20 and approximately 80 mass% of rutile and anatase phases, respectively. It was also shown that the transformation from ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Ishigaki T,Nakada Y,Tarutani N,Uchikoshi T,Tsujimoto Y,Isobe M,Ogata H,Zhang C,Hao D

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:When mothers continue to support their offspring beyond infancy, they can influence the fitness of those offspring, the strength of social relationships within their groups, and the life-history traits of their species. Using up to 30 years of demographic data from 58 groups of gorillas in two study sites, this study ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Robbins AM,Gray M,Breuer T,Manguette M,Stokes EJ,Uwingeli P,Mburanumwe I,Kagoda E,Robbins MM

更新日期：2016-10-19 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：:The copper-containing nitrite reductases (CuNIRs) are a class of enzymes that mediate the reduction of nitrite to nitric oxide in biological systems. Metal-ligand complexes that reproduce the salient features of the active site of CuNIRs are therefore of fundamental interest, both for elucidating the possible mode of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Roger I,Wilson C,Senn HM,Sproules S,Symes MD

更新日期：2017-08-16 00:00:00