Evolution of reduced minimum critical size as a response to selection for rapid pre-adult development in Drosophila melanogaster.

abstract：:A major challenge in robotic design is enabling robots to immediately adapt to unexpected physical damage. However, conventional robots require considerable time (more than several tens of seconds) for adaptation because the process entails high computational costs. To overcome this problem, we focus on a brittle star...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Kano T,Sato E,Ono T,Aonuma H,Matsuzaka Y,Ishiguro A

更新日期：2017-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:By 2040, roughly two-thirds of humanity are expected to live in urban areas. As cities expand, humans irreversibly transform natural ecosystems, creating both opportunities and challenges for wildlife. Here, we investigate how the Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) is adjusting to urban environments. We measured a ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Merling de Chapa M,Courtiol A,Engler M,Giese L,Rutz C,Lakermann M,Müskens G,van der Horst Y,Zollinger R,Wirth H,Kenntner N,Krüger O,Chakarov N,Müller AK,Looft V,Grünkorn T,Hallau A,Altenkamp R,Krone O

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Varanopids are a basal clade of small- to medium-sized non-therapsid synapsids, whose range extends from the late Pennsylvanian to the late middle Permian, and are found in North America, Russia, Europe and South Africa. The greatest varanopid diversity is observed at the fossiliferous cave deposits near Richards Spur...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Maho S,Gee BM,Reisz RR

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial gene expression regulation occurs mostly during transcription, which has two main rate-limiting steps: the close complex formation, when the RNA polymerase binds to an active promoter, and the subsequent open complex formation, after which it follows elongation. Tuning these steps' kinetics by the action of ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Prajapat MK,Ribeiro AS

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are often considered egocentric creatures, particularly (and ironically) when we are supposed to take another person's perspective over our own (i.e. when we use our theory of mind). We investigated the underlying causes of this phenomenon. We gave young adult participants a false belief task (Sandbox Task) in ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Samuel S,Legg EW,Lurz R,Clayton NS

更新日期：2018-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive diagnosis of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin and dibenzofuran (PCDD/F) emissions was systematically conducted on three hazardous waste incinerators (HWIs). Results indicated that PCDD/F mainly existed in the solid phase before the bag filter. This was especially true for higher chlorinated dioxin and fu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Cao X,Ji L,Lin X,Stevens WR,Tang M,Shang F,Tang S,Lu S

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has provided evidence that mood can spread over social networks via social contagion, but that, in seeming contradiction to this, depression does not. Here, we investigate whether there is evidence for the individual components of mood (such as appetite, tiredness and sleep) spreading through US adoles...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Eyre RW,House T,Hill EM,Griffiths FE

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the tempo and mode of non-avian dinosaur extinction is one of the most contentious issues in palaeobiology. Extensive disagreements remain over whether their extinction was catastrophic and geologically instantaneous or the culmination of long-term evolutionary trends. These conflicts have arisen due to nu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Bonsor JA,Barrett PM,Raven TJ,Cooper N

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:As top predators, crocodilians have an acute sense of hearing that is useful for their social life and for probing their environment in hunting situations. Although previous studies suggest that crocodilians are able to localize the position of a sound source, how they do this remains largely unknown. In this study, w...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Papet L,Grimault N,Boyer N,Mathevon N

更新日期：2019-07-10 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：:Marine mammals and diving birds face several physiological challenges under water, affecting their thermoregulation and locomotion as well as their sensory systems. Therefore, marine mammals have modified ears for improved underwater hearing. Underwater hearing in birds has been studied in a few species, but for the r...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sørensen K,Neumann C,Dähne M,Hansen KA,Wahlberg M

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient-specific modelling of haemodynamics in arterial networks has so far relied on parameter estimation for inexpensive or small-scale models. We describe here a Bayesian uncertainty quantification framework which makes two major advances: an efficient parallel implementation, allowing parameter estimation for more...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Larson K,Bowman C,Papadimitriou C,Koumoutsakos P,Matzavinos A

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:How do animals in groups organize their work? Division of labour, i.e. the process by which individuals within a group choose which tasks to perform, has been extensively studied in social insects. Variability among individuals within a colony seems to underpin both the decision over which tasks to perform and the amo...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Doran C,Stumpe MC,Sendova-Franks A,Franks NR

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptive significance of zebra stripes has thus far eluded understanding. Many explanations have been suggested, including social cohesion, thermoregulation, predation evasion and avoidance of biting flies. Identifying the associations between phenotypic and environmental factors is essential for testing these hyp...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Larison B,Harrigan RJ,Thomassen HA,Rubenstein DI,Chan-Golston AM,Li E,Smith TB

更新日期：2015-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce 14 articles published as part of the 'New talent' special collection of invited articles to showcase some of the exciting work being funded by the Royal Society. As Royal Society University Research Fellows or Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship holders, the contributors to this collection are rising stars in thei...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Sanders JKM,Stace A

更新日期：2018-08-15 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 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：:Protein aggregation into amyloid deposits and oxidative stress are key features of many neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. We report here the creation of four highly sensitive bifunctional fluorescent probes, capable of H2O2 and/or amyloid aggregate detection. These bifunctional...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Needham LM,Weber J,Fyfe JWB,Kabia OM,Do DT,Klimont E,Zhang Y,Rodrigues M,Dobson CM,Ghandi S,Bohndiek SE,Snaddon TN,Lee SF

更新日期：2018-02-07 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

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：:This paper develops a closed-form approximate solution for a penny-shaped hydraulic fracture whose behaviour is determined by an interplay of three competing physical processes that are associated with fluid viscosity, fracture toughness and fluid leak-off. The primary assumption that permits one to construct the solu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Dontsov EV

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohyphal growth of the dimorphic yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is analysed using two-dimensional top-down binary images. The colony morphology is characterized using clustered shape primitives (CSPs), which are learned automatically from the data and thus do not require a list of predefined features or a priori k...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gontar A,Bottema MJ,Binder BJ,Tronnolone H

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, photocatalytic experiments of 20 mg l-1 sulfamethazine (SMN) in aqueous solution containing ZnO with different morphologies, tetra-needle-like ZnO (T-ZnO), flower-like ZnO (F-ZnO) and nanoparticles ZnO (P-ZnO), were performed. The results indicated that photocatalytic degradation of SMN was effective an...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Yi Z,Wang J,Jiang T,Tang Q,Cheng Y

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a long-standing interest in behavioural ecology, exploring the causes and correlates of consistent individual differences in mean behavioural traits ('personality') and the response to the environment ('plasticity'). Recently, it has been observed that individuals also consistently differ in their residual in...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Mitchell DJ,Fanson BG,Beckmann C,Biro PA

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bats play important ecological roles in tropical systems, yet how these communities are structured is still poorly understood. Our study explores the structure of African bat communities using morphological characters to define the morphospace occupied by these bats and stable isotope analysis to define their dietary ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Monadjem A,Kane A,Taylor P,Richards LR,Hall G,Woodborne S

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial pathogens continue to attract a great deal of attention to manage the termite population. Every bacterium has its own mode of action and in fact, the mechanisms used by bacteria to attack termites remain elusive at the moment. Hence, the objective of this study was to evaluate the susceptibility of subterran...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Chin KL,H'ng PS,Wong WZ,Lee CL,Khoo PS,Luqman AC,Ashaari Z,Gandaseca S

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater green algae Chlorella vulgaris was selected as an adsorbent, and a simple, rapid, economical and environmentally friendly method for the detection of heavy metal Cd in water samples based on preconcentration with C. vulgaris combined with energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometry was propose...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gan T,Zhao N,Yin G,Chen M,Wang X,Hua H

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are chemotactic cytokines involved in leucocyte trafficking to infected tissue. Growth-related oncogene (GRO) chemokines namely CXCL1, CXCL2 and CXCL3 are neutrophil activating chemokines sharing a conserved three-dimensional structure, but encompassing functional diversity due to gene duplication and evolu...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Gulati K,Jamsandekar M,Poluri KM

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a novel method to simulate soft tissue deformation for virtual surgery applications. The method considers the mechanical properties of soft tissue, such as its viscoelasticity, nonlinearity and incompressibility; its speed, stability and accuracy also meet the requirements for a surgery simulator. Modifying...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Xu L,Lu Y,Liu Q

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170128.]. ...

journal_title：Royal Society open science

authors： Taylor PJ,Larner S,Conchie SM,Menacere T

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00