Human large-scale cooperation as a product of competition between cultural groups.

abstract：:Intensive studies have recently been performed on graphene-based photodetectors, but most of them are based on field effect transistor structures containing mechanically exfoliated graphene, not suitable for practical large-scale device applications. Here we report high-efficient photodetector behaviours of chemical v...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kim CO,Kim S,Shin DH,Kang SS,Kim JM,Jang CW,Joo SS,Lee JS,Kim JH,Choi SH,Hwang E

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cas9 endonuclease can be targeted to genomic sequences by programming the sequence of an associated single guide RNA (sgRNA). For unknown reasons, the activity of these Cas9-sgRNA combinations varies widely at different genomic loci and in different cell types. Thus, disrupting genes in polyploid cell lines or whe...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Richardson CD,Ray GJ,Bray NL,Corn JE

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The flexibility in structural design of organic semiconductors endows organic solar cells (OSCs) not only great function-tunabilities, but also high potential toward practical application. In this work, simple non-fused-ring electron acceptors are developed through two-step synthesis from single aromatic units for con...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Yu ZP,Liu ZX,Chen FX,Qin R,Lau TK,Yin JL,Kong X,Lu X,Shi M,Li CZ,Chen H

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, plant tendrils can produce two fundamental motion modes, bending and chiral twisting (helical curling) distortions, under the stimuli of sunlight, humidity, wetting or other atmospheric conditions. To date, many artificial plant-like mechanical machines have been developed. Although some previously reported...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang M,Lin BP,Yang H

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships of passerines (such as the well-studied zebra finch) with non-passerine birds is one of the great enigmas of avian phylogenetic research, because decades of extensive morphological and molecular studies yielded highly inconsistent results between and within data sets. Here we show the first applicati...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Suh A,Paus M,Kiefmann M,Churakov G,Franke FA,Brosius J,Kriegs JO,Schmitz J

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Anterior pituitary is critical for endocrine systems. Its hormonal responses to positive and negative regulators are indispensable for homeostasis. For this reason, generating human anterior pituitary tissue that retains regulatory hormonal control in vitro is an important step for the development of cell transplantat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ozone C,Suga H,Eiraku M,Kadoshima T,Yonemura S,Takata N,Oiso Y,Tsuji T,Sasai Y

更新日期：2016-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The leaf economics spectrum (LES) describes consistent correlations among a variety of leaf traits that reflect a gradient from conservative to acquisitive plant strategies. So far, whether the LES holds in wetland plants at a global scale has been unclear. Using data on 365 wetland species from 151 studies, we find t...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pan Y,Cieraad E,Armstrong J,Armstrong W,Clarkson BR,Colmer TD,Pedersen O,Visser EJW,Voesenek LACJ,van Bodegom PM

更新日期：2020-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding and reshaping cellular behaviors with synthetic gene networks requires the ability to sense and respond to changes in the intracellular environment. Intracellular proteins are involved in almost all cellular processes, and thus can provide important information about changes in cellular conditions such a...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Siciliano V,DiAndreth B,Monel B,Beal J,Huh J,Clayton KL,Wroblewska L,McKeon A,Walker BD,Weiss R

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Split spawning in coral populations occurs when gamete maturation and mass spawning are split over two consecutive months. While split spawning has been observed at many reefs, little is known about the frequency and significance of these events. Here we show that split spawning occurred frequently and predictably ove...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Foster T,Heyward AJ,Gilmour JP

更新日期：2018-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloride intracellular channel 4 (CLIC4) is a mammalian homologue of EXC-4 whose mutation is associated with cystic excretory canals in nematodes. Here we show that CLIC4-null mouse embryos exhibit impaired renal tubulogenesis. In both developing and developed kidneys, CLIC4 is specifically enriched in the proximal tu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chou SY,Hsu KS,Otsu W,Hsu YC,Luo YC,Yeh C,Shehab SS,Chen J,Shieh V,He GA,Marean MB,Felsen D,Ding A,Poppas DP,Chuang JZ,Sung CH

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Topological defects in nematic liquid crystals are ubiquitous. The defects are important in understanding the fundamental properties of the systems, as well as in practical applications, such as colloidal self-assembly, optical vortex generation and templates for molecular self-assembly. Usually, spatially and tempora...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sasaki Y,Jampani VSR,Tanaka C,Sakurai N,Sakane S,Le KV,Araoka F,Orihara H

更新日期：2016-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported progressive change of vegetation activity along elevational gradients has important aesthetic and conservation values. With climate change, cooler locations are suggested to warm faster than warmer ones, raising concerns of a more homogenized landscape along the elevation. Here, we use global satellite da...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gao M,Piao S,Chen A,Yang H,Liu Q,Fu YH,Janssens IA

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabies is a viral zoonosis transmitted by vampire bats across Latin America. Substantial public health and agricultural burdens remain, despite decades of bats culls and livestock vaccinations. Virally vectored vaccines that spread autonomously through bat populations are a theoretically appealing solution to managing...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Griffiths ME,Bergner LM,Broos A,Meza DK,Filipe ADS,Davison A,Tello C,Becker DJ,Streicker DG

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of viruses circulating in small isolated human populations may be reduced by viral extinctions and rare introductions. Here we used viral metagenomics to characterize the eukaryotic virome in feces from healthy children from a large urban center and from three Amerindian villages with minimal outside contac...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Siqueira JD,Dominguez-Bello MG,Contreras M,Lander O,Caballero-Arias H,Xutao D,Noya-Alarcon O,Delwart E

更新日期：2018-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of graphene in electronic devices requires a band gap, which can be achieved by creating nanostructures such as graphene nanoribbons. A wide variety of atomically precise graphene nanoribbons can be prepared through on-surface synthesis, bringing the concept of graphene nanoribbon electronics closer to reality...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Jacobse PH,Kimouche A,Gebraad T,Ervasti MM,Thijssen JM,Liljeroth P,Swart I

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid development of scientific CMOS (sCMOS) technology has greatly advanced optical microscopy for biomedical research with superior sensitivity, resolution, field-of-view, and frame rates. However, for sCMOS sensors, the parallel charge-voltage conversion and different responsivity at each pixel induces extra re...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mandracchia B,Hua X,Guo C,Son J,Urner T,Jia S

更新日期：2020-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in the understanding of percolation theory points to cation-disordered lithium-excess transition metal oxides as high-capacity lithium-ion cathode materials. Nevertheless, the oxygen redox processes required for these materials to deliver high capacity can trigger oxygen loss, which leads to the format...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Lee J,Papp JK,Clément RJ,Sallis S,Kwon DH,Shi T,Yang W,McCloskey BD,Ceder G

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is a bacterial pathogen that utilises a Type IV secretion (T4S) system to inject effector proteins into human macrophages. Essential to the recruitment and delivery of effectors to the T4S machinery is the membrane-embedded T4 coupling complex (T4CC). Here, we purify an intact T4CC from the Legi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Meir A,Macé K,Lukoyanova N,Chetrit D,Hospenthal MK,Redzej A,Roy C,Waksman G

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Two voltage-gated calcium channel subtypes-CaV1.2 and CaV1.3-underlie the major L-type Ca(2+) currents in the mammalian central nervous system. Owing to their high sequence homology, the two channel subtypes share similar pharmacological properties, and at high doses classic calcium channel blockers, such as dihydropy...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Huang H,Ng CY,Yu D,Zhai J,Lam Y,Soong TW

更新日期：2014-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is the main homeostatic pathway guiding cytosolic materials for degradation by the lysosome. Maturation of autophagosomes requires their transport towards the perinuclear region of the cell, with key factors underlying both processes still poorly understood. Here we show that transport and positioning of lat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wijdeven RH,Janssen H,Nahidiazar L,Janssen L,Jalink K,Berlin I,Neefjes J

更新日期：2016-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced 463 presenting cases of myeloma entered into the UK Myeloma XI study using whole exome sequencing. Here we identify mutations induced as a consequence of misdirected AID in the partner oncogenes of IGH translocations, which are activating and associated with impaired clinical outcome. An APOBEC mutat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Walker BA,Wardell CP,Murison A,Boyle EM,Begum DB,Dahir NM,Proszek PZ,Melchor L,Pawlyn C,Kaiser MF,Johnson DC,Qiang YW,Jones JR,Cairns DA,Gregory WM,Owen RG,Cook G,Drayson MT,Jackson GH,Davies FE,Morgan GJ

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Untethered small actuators have various applications in multiple fields. However, existing small-scale actuators are very limited in their intractability with their surroundings, respond to only a single type of stimulus and are unable to achieve programmable structural changes under different stimuli. Here, we presen...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dong Y,Wang J,Guo X,Yang S,Ozen MO,Chen P,Liu X,Du W,Xiao F,Demirci U,Liu BF

更新日期：2019-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern Africa is characterised by unusually elevated topography and abnormal heat flow. This can be explained by thermal perturbation of the mantle, but the origin of this is unclear. Geophysics has not detected a thermal anomaly in the upper mantle and there is no geochemical evidence of an asthenosphere mantle con...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Gilfillan SMV,Györe D,Flude S,Johnson G,Bond CE,Hicks N,Lister R,Jones DG,Kremer Y,Haszeldine RS,Stuart FM

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing and profound problem in astronomy is the difficulty in obtaining deep near-infrared observations due to the extreme brightness and variability of the night sky at these wavelengths. A solution to this problem is crucial if we are to obtain the deepest possible observations of the early Universe, as red...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bland-Hawthorn J,Ellis SC,Leon-Saval SG,Haynes R,Roth MM,Löhmannsröben HG,Horton AJ,Cuby JG,Birks TA,Lawrence JS,Gillingham P,Ryder SD,Trinh C

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase C is a key enzyme in phosphoinositide turnover. Although its functions have been extensively studied at the cellular level, many questions remain concerning its functions at the organ and individual animal levels. Here we demonstrate that mice lacking phospholipase Cδ1 develop granulocytosis associated w...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kanemaru K,Nakamura Y,Sato K,Kojima R,Takahashi S,Yamaguchi M,Ichinohe M,Kiyonari H,Shioi G,Kabashima K,Nakahigashi K,Asagiri M,Jamora C,Yamaguchi H,Fukami K

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic spinal cord injury results in severe and irreversible loss of function. The injury triggers a complex cascade of inflammatory and pathological processes, culminating in formation of a scar. While traditionally referred to as a glial scar, the spinal injury scar in fact comprises multiple cellular and extrace...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Bradbury EJ,Burnside ER

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:High-altitude pulmonary hypertension (HAPH) has heritable features and is a major cause of death in cattle in the Rocky Mountains, USA. Although multiple genes are likely involved in the genesis of HAPH, to date no major gene variant has been identified. Using whole-exome sequencing, we report the high association of ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Newman JH,Holt TN,Cogan JD,Womack B,Phillips JA 3rd,Li C,Kendall Z,Stenmark KR,Thomas MG,Brown RD,Riddle SR,West JD,Hamid R

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian neocortex is subdivided into cytoarchitectural areas with distinct connectivity, gene expression and neural functions. Areal identity is initially specified by rostrocaudal and mediolateral gene expression gradients in neuroepithelial and radial glial progenitors (the 'protomap'). On further differentiat...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Alfano C,Magrinelli E,Harb K,Hevner RF,Studer M

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing physical models of complex dynamic systems showing emergent behaviour is key to informing on persistence and replication in biology, how living matter emerges from chemistry, and how to design systems with new properties. Herein we report a fully synthetic small molecule system in which a surfactant replica...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Colomer I,Morrow SM,Fletcher SP

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding marine environmental change and associated biological turnover across the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM; ~56 Ma)-the most pronounced Cenozoic short-term global warming event-is important because of the potential role of the ocean in atmospheric CO2 drawdown, yet proxies for tracing marine produ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chang L,Harrison RJ,Zeng F,Berndt TA,Roberts AP,Heslop D,Zhao X

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00