Interannual variability in the lipid and fatty acid profiles of east Australia-migrating humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) across a 10-year timeline.

abstract：:The barnase-barstar complex is one of the most stable protein-protein complexes and has a very wide range of possible applications. Here we report the use of top-down mass spectrometry for the investigation of the structure of this complex, its ionization via ESI, isolation and fragmentation. It was found that the asy...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kostyukevich Y,Shulga AA,Kononikhin A,Popov I,Nikolaev E,Deyev S

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyramidal neurons in the rodent hippocampus exhibit spatial tuning during spatial navigation, and they are reactivated in specific temporal order during sharp-wave ripples observed in quiet wakefulness or slow wave sleep. However, analyzing representations of sleep-associated hippocampal ensemble spike activity remain...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen Z,Grosmark AD,Penagos H,Wilson MA

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate species identification is fundamental when recording ecological data. However, the ability to correctly identify organisms visually is rarely questioned. We investigated how experts and non-experts compared in the identification of bumblebees, a group of insects of considerable conservation concern. Experts a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Austen GE,Bindemann M,Griffiths RA,Roberts DL

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythmically bedded cherts are observed in both pelagic marine and lacustrine deposits, but the formation mechanism in the latter remains highly uncertain. Our study of alternating chert-dolomite beds in the Eocene Green River Formation, Utah, USA reveals dense accumulations of organic-matter spheres (30-50 μm diamete...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kuma R,Hasegawa H,Yamamoto K,Yoshida H,Whiteside JH,Katsuta N,Ikeda M

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite increasing work detailing the presence of foraging specializations across a range of taxa, limited attention so far has been given to the role of spatiotemporal variation in food predictability in shaping individual resource selection. Here, we studied the exploitation of human-provided carrion resources diffe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： van Overveld T,García-Alfonso M,Dingemanse NJ,Bouten W,Gangoso L,de la Riva M,Serrano D,Donázar JA

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Features of sleep were shown to reflect aging, typical sex differences and cognitive abilities of humans. However, these measures are characterized by redundancy and arbitrariness. Our present approach relies on the assumptions that the spontaneous human brain activity as reflected by the scalp-derived electroencephal...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bódizs R,Szalárdy O,Horváth C,Ujma PP,Gombos F,Simor P,Pótári A,Zeising M,Steiger A,Dresler M

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmonic waveguide made of uniform corrugated metallic strip can support and guide spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) with high confinements. Here, we propose periodically-modulated plasmonic waveguide composed of non-uniform corrugated metallic strip to convert SSPPs to radiating waves, in which the main b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kong GS,Ma HF,Cai BG,Cui TJ

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous isopeptide bond formation, a stabilizing posttranslational modification that can be found in gram-positive bacterial cell surface proteins, has previously been used to develop a peptide-peptide ligation technology that enables the polymerization of tagged-proteins catalyzed by SpyLigase. Here we adapted th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Siegmund V,Piater B,Zakeri B,Eichhorn T,Fischer F,Deutsch C,Becker S,Toleikis L,Hock B,Betz UA,Kolmar H

更新日期：2016-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary incontinence of idiopathic nature is a common complication of bladder cancer, yet, the mechanisms underlying changes in bladder contractility associated with cancer are not known. Here by using tensiometry on detrusor smooth muscle (DSM) strips from normal rats and rats with bladder cancer induced by known uro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Philyppov IB,Sotkis GV,Rock A,Roudbaraki M,Bonnal JL,Mauroy B,Prevarskaya N,Shuba YM

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Lepus yarkandensis is a desert hare of the Tarim Basin in western China, and it has strong adaptability to arid environments. Aquaporins (AQPs) are a family of water channel proteins that facilitate transmembrane water transport. Gastrointestinal tract AQPs are involved in fluid absorption in the small intestine and c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang J,Li S,Deng F,Baikeli B,Yu W,Liu G

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Light represents the principal signal driving circadian clock entrainment. However, how light influences the evolution of the clock remains poorly understood. The cavefish Phreatichthys andruzzii represents a fascinating model to explore how evolution under extreme aphotic conditions shapes the circadian clock, since ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ceinos RM,Frigato E,Pagano C,Fröhlich N,Negrini P,Cavallari N,Vallone D,Fuselli S,Bertolucci C,Foulkes NS

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone lysine acetyltransferase (KAT)-catalyzed acetylation of lysine residues in histone tails plays a key role in regulating gene expression in eukaryotes. Here, we examined the role of lysine side chain length in the catalytic activity of human KATs by incorporating shorter and longer lysine analogs into synthetic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Proietti G,Wang Y,Rainone G,Mecinović J

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Anatase TiO2 has been suggested as a potential sodium anode material, but the low electrical conductivity of TiO2 often limits the rate capability, resulting in poor electrochemical properties. To address this limitation, we propose graphene-wrapped anatase TiO2 nanofibers (rGO@TiO2 NFs) through an effective wrapping ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yeo Y,Jung JW,Park K,Kim ID

更新日期：2015-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Capicua (CIC) has been implicated in pathogenesis of spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 and cancer in mammals; however, the in vivo physiological functions of CIC remain largely unknown. Here we show that Cic hypomorphic (Cic-L(-/-)) mice have impaired bile acid (BA) homeostasis associated with induction of proinflammatory...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim E,Park S,Choi N,Lee J,Yoe J,Kim S,Jung HY,Kim KT,Kang H,Fryer JD,Zoghbi HY,Hwang D,Lee Y

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:CDK5 Regulatory Subunit-Associated Protein 1-like 1 (CDKAL1) was identified as a susceptibility gene for type 2 diabetes and body mass index in genome-wide association studies. Although it was reported that CDKAL1 is a methylthiotransferase essential for tRNALys(UUU) and faithful translation of proinsulin generated in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Take K,Waki H,Sun W,Wada T,Yu J,Nakamura M,Aoyama T,Yamauchi T,Kadowaki T

更新日期：2017-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to estimate substitution rate and imprints of natural selection on parvovirus B19 genotype 1. Studied datasets included 137 near complete coding B19 genomes (positions 665 to 4851) for phylogenetic and substitution rate analysis and 146 and 214 partial genomes for selection analyses in open r...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stamenković GG,Ćirković VS,Šiljić MM,Blagojević JV,Knežević AM,Joksić ID,Stanojević MP

更新日期：2016-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is characterized by neuronal loss and cerebral accumulation of amyloid-β protein (Aβ) and lowering the generation of Aβ is a pivotal approach in the strategy of Alzheimer's disease treatment. Midlife hypertension is a major risk factor for the future onset of sporadic Alzheimer's disease and the us...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu J,Liu S,Matsumoto Y,Murakami S,Sugakawa Y,Kami A,Tanabe C,Maeda T,Michikawa M,Komano H,Zou K

更新日期：2015-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluid strategy is the key to the successful management of patients with sepsis. However, previous studies failed to consider individualized treatment strategy, and clinical trials typically included patients with sepsis as a homogeneous study population. We aimed to develop sequential decision rules for managing fluid...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Z,Zheng B,Liu N

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:PageRank is arguably the most popular ranking algorithm which is being applied in real systems ranging from information to biological and infrastructure networks. Despite its outstanding popularity and broad use in different areas of science, the relation between the algorithm's efficacy and properties of the network ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mariani MS,Medo M,Zhang YC

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical carnivorous plant, Nepenthes, locally known as "monkey cup", utilises its pitcher as a passive trap to capture insects. It then secretes enzymes into the pitcher fluid to digest the insects for nutrients acquisition. However, little is known about the microbiota and their activity in its pitcher fluid. Eighte...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chan XY,Hong KW,Yin WF,Chan KG

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:8p22-23-rs2254546 was firstly discovered to be associated with Kawasaki disease (KD) susceptibility by a genome-wide association study. However, only one Chinese replication study has been performed so far. To verify this association in another Chinese population, a hospital-based case-control study in Zhejiang provin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang W,Lou J,Lu XZ,Qi YQ,Shen N,Zhong R,Wang YJ,Zou L,Zhang Q,Duan JY,Ke JT,Miao XP,Gong FQ

更新日期：2014-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we measured the degrees to which the Schottky barrier heights (SBHs) are lowered in ZnO nanowire (NW) devices under illumination with UV light. We measured the I-V characteristics of ZnO nanowire devices to confirm that ZnO is an n-type semiconductor and that the on/off ratio is approximately 10(4). From...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lu MY,Lu MP,You SJ,Chen CW,Wang YJ

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) is crucial to the host immune response against fungi, such as Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus and Cryptococcus neoformans, but its importance in Cryptococcus gattii infection is unknown. Our study aimed to understand the role of TLR9 during the course of experimental C. gattii infec...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： da Silva-Junior EB,Firmino-Cruz L,Guimarães-de-Oliveira JC,De-Medeiros JVR,de Oliveira Nascimento D,Freire-de-Lima M,de Brito-Gitirana L,Morrot A,Previato JO,Mendonça-Previato L,Decote-Ricardo D,de Matos Guedes HL,Freire-de-Lima

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellum is a rotary motor that enables bacteria to swim in liquids and swarm over surfaces. Numerous global regulators control flagellar assembly in response to cellular and environmental factors. Previous studies have also shown that flagellar assembly is affected by the growth-rate of the cell. However, a syst...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sim M,Koirala S,Picton D,Strahl H,Hoskisson PA,Rao CV,Gillespie CS,Aldridge PD

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on chemical reactions triggered by core-level ionization of ammonium ([Formula: see text]) cation in aqueous solution. Based on a combination of photoemission experiments from a liquid microjet and high-level ab initio simulations, we identified simultaneous single and double proton transfer occurring on a v...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hollas D,Pohl MN,Seidel R,Aziz EF,Slavíček P,Winter B

更新日期：2017-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Fracture of initially crack-free bodies often occurs due to plastic instabilities known as shear bands. Previous computer simulations advanced a myriad of mechanisms to rationalize shear banding. However, they were restricted to planar geometries. We investigate the relevance of anisotropic plasticity by picking an ax...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Benzerga AA,Thomas N,Herrington JS

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus can cause different types of diseases from mild skin infections to life-threatening sepsis worldwide. Owing to the emergence and transmission of multidrug-resistant strains, developing an impactful immunotherapy especially vaccine control approach against S. aureus infections is increasingly enco...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu W,Yao D,Yu S,Wang X,Li X,Wang M,Liu S,Feng Z,Chen X,Li W,Wang L,Liu W,Ma J,Yu L,Tong C,Song B,Cui Y

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:GPS-derived Total Electron Content (TEC) is an integrated quantity; hence it is difficult to relate the detection of ionospheric perturbations in TEC to a precise altitude. As TEC is weighted by the maximum ionospheric density, the corresponding altitude (hmF2) is, generally, assumed as the perturbation detection alti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Thomas D,Bagiya MS,Sunil PS,Rolland L,Sunil AS,Mikesell TD,Nayak S,Mangalampalli S,Ramesh DS

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is evidence that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) might be able to prevent pancreatic cancer, the findings from epidemiological studies have been inconsistent. In this paper, we conducted a meta-analysis of observational studies to examine this possibility. We searched PubMed and Embase fo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang YP,Wan YD,Sun YL,Li J,Zhu RT

更新日期：2015-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, amorphous Hf-B-Si-C-N coatings found to demonstrate superior high-temperature oxidation resistance. The microstructure evolution of two coatings, Hf7B23Si22C6N40 and Hf6B21Si19C4N47, annealed to 1500 °C in air is investigated to understand their high oxidation resistance. The annealed coatings develop a two-...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shen Y,Jiang JC,Zeman P,Šímová V,Vlček J,Meletis EI

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00