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Description: Author(s): Lorenz S. Cederbaum, Ying-Chih Chiang, Philipp V. Demekhin, and Nimrod Moiseyev The resonant Auger process is studied in intense x-ray laser fields. It is shown that the dressing of the initial and decaying states by the field leads to coupled complex potential surfaces which, even for diatomic molecules, possess intersections at which the nonadiabatic couplings are singular. H... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 123001] Published Mon Mar 21, 2011

Description: Ancient DNA makes it possible to observe natural selection directly by analysing samples from populations before, during and after adaptation events. Here we report a genome-wide scan for selection using ancient DNA, capitalizing on the largest ancient DNA data set yet assembled: 230 West Eurasians who lived between 6500 and 300 bc, including 163 with newly reported data. The new samples include, to our knowledge, the first genome-wide ancient DNA from Anatolian Neolithic farmers, whose genetic material we obtained by extracting from petrous bones, and who we show were members of the population that was the source of Europe's first farmers. We also report a transect of the steppe region in Samara between 5600 and 300 bc, which allows us to identify admixture into the steppe from at least two external sources. We detect selection at loci associated with diet, pigmentation and immunity, and two independent episodes of selection on height.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mathieson, Iain -- Lazaridis, Iosif -- Rohland, Nadin -- Mallick, Swapan -- Patterson, Nick -- Roodenberg, Songul Alpaslan -- Harney, Eadaoin -- Stewardson, Kristin -- Fernandes, Daniel -- Novak, Mario -- Sirak, Kendra -- Gamba, Cristina -- Jones, Eppie R -- Llamas, Bastien -- Dryomov, Stanislav -- Pickrell, Joseph -- Arsuaga, Juan Luis -- de Castro, Jose Maria Bermudez -- Carbonell, Eudald -- Gerritsen, Fokke -- Khokhlov, Aleksandr -- Kuznetsov, Pavel -- Lozano, Marina -- Meller, Harald -- Mochalov, Oleg -- Moiseyev, Vyacheslav -- Guerra, Manuel A Rojo -- Roodenberg, Jacob -- Verges, Josep Maria -- Krause, Johannes -- Cooper, Alan -- Alt, Kurt W -- Brown, Dorcas -- Anthony, David -- Lalueza-Fox, Carles -- Haak, Wolfgang -- Pinhasi, Ron -- Reich, David -- GM100233/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Dec 24;528(7583):499-503. doi: 10.1038/nature16152. Epub 2015 Nov 23.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. ; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Independent researcher, Santpoort-Noord, The Netherlands. ; School of Archaeology and Earth Institute, Belfield, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland. ; Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb 10000, Croatia. ; Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. ; Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. ; Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Biological Sciences &Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia. ; Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. ; Department of Paleolithic Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. ; Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolucion y Comportamiento Humanos, 28040 Madrid, Spain. ; Departamento de Paleontologia, Facultad Ciencias Geologicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain. ; Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre Evolucion Humana (CENIEH), 09002 Burgos, Spain. ; IPHES. Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Campus Sescelades-URV, 43007 Tarragona, Spain. ; Area de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), 43002 Tarragona, Spain. ; Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Istiklal Caddesi, Nur-i Ziya Sokak 5, Beyog lu 34433, Istanbul, Turkey. ; Volga State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities, Samara 443099, Russia. ; State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and State Museum of Prehistory, D-06114 Halle, Germany. ; Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS, St Petersburg 199034, Russia. ; Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of Valladolid, 47002 Valladolid, Spain. ; The Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden RA-2300, the Netherlands. ; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, D-07745 Jena, Germany. ; Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tubingen, D-72070 Tubingen, Germany. ; Danube Private University, A-3500 Krems, Austria. ; Institute for Prehistory and Archaeological Science, University of Basel, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland. ; Anthropology Department, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York 13820, USA. ; Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), 08003 Barcelona, Spain.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26595274" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000-1000 BC) was a period of major cultural changes. However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the circulation of ideas or from human migrations, potentially also facilitating the spread of languages and certain phenotypic traits. We investigated this by using new, improved methods to sequence low-coverage genomes from 101 ancient humans from across Eurasia. We show that the Bronze Age was a highly dynamic period involving large-scale population migrations and replacements, responsible for shaping major parts of present-day demographic structure in both Europe and Asia. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesized spread of Indo-European languages during the Early Bronze Age. We also demonstrate that light skin pigmentation in Europeans was already present at high frequency in the Bronze Age, but not lactose tolerance, indicating a more recent onset of positive selection on lactose tolerance than previously thought.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Allentoft, Morten E -- Sikora, Martin -- Sjogren, Karl-Goran -- Rasmussen, Simon -- Rasmussen, Morten -- Stenderup, Jesper -- Damgaard, Peter B -- Schroeder, Hannes -- Ahlstrom, Torbjorn -- Vinner, Lasse -- Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo -- Margaryan, Ashot -- Higham, Tom -- Chivall, David -- Lynnerup, Niels -- Harvig, Lise -- Baron, Justyna -- Della Casa, Philippe -- Dabrowski, Pawel -- Duffy, Paul R -- Ebel, Alexander V -- Epimakhov, Andrey -- Frei, Karin -- Furmanek, Miroslaw -- Gralak, Tomasz -- Gromov, Andrey -- Gronkiewicz, Stanislaw -- Grupe, Gisela -- Hajdu, Tamas -- Jarysz, Radoslaw -- Khartanovich, Valeri -- Khokhlov, Alexandr -- Kiss, Viktoria -- Kolar, Jan -- Kriiska, Aivar -- Lasak, Irena -- Longhi, Cristina -- McGlynn, George -- Merkevicius, Algimantas -- Merkyte, Inga -- Metspalu, Mait -- Mkrtchyan, Ruzan -- Moiseyev, Vyacheslav -- Paja, Laszlo -- Palfi, Gyorgy -- Pokutta, Dalia -- Pospieszny, Lukasz -- Price, T Douglas -- Saag, Lehti -- Sablin, Mikhail -- Shishlina, Natalia -- Smrcka, Vaclav -- Soenov, Vasilii I -- Szeverenyi, Vajk -- Toth, Gusztav -- Trifanova, Synaru V -- Varul, Liivi -- Vicze, Magdolna -- Yepiskoposyan, Levon -- Zhitenev, Vladislav -- Orlando, Ludovic -- Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas -- Brunak, Soren -- Nielsen, Rasmus -- Kristiansen, Kristian -- Willerslev, Eske -- England -- Nature. 2015 Jun 11;522(7555):167-72. doi: 10.1038/nature14507.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. ; Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden. ; Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs Lyngby, Denmark. ; 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2] Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, 2300 Leiden, The Netherlands. ; Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden. ; Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK. ; Unit of Forensic Anthropology, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; Institute of Archaeology, University of Wroclaw, 50-139 Wroclaw, Poland. ; Archaeological Institute, University of Zurich, CH-8006, Zurich, Switzerland. ; Department of Anatomy, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland. ; Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto ONM5S 2S2, Canada. ; Department of Archeology and General History, Gorno-Altaisk State University, 649000 Gorno-Altaisk, Russia. ; Institute of History and Archaeology RAS (South Ural Department), South Ural State University, 454080 Chelyabinsk, Russia. ; Environmental Research and Material Science and Centre for Textile Research, The National Museum of Denmark, 1471 Copenhagen K, Denmark. ; Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS, 199034 St Petersburg, Russia. ; Department of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 50-449 Wroclaw, Poland. ; Biocentre of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munchen, 82152 Munich, Germany. ; 1] Department of Biological Anthropology, Institute of Biology, Eotvos Lorand University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary [2] Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary. ; The Archaeological Museum of Wroclaw, 50-077 Wroclaw, Poland. ; Samara State Academy of Social Science and Humanities, 443099 Samara, Russia. ; Institute of Archaeology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities, H-1250 Budapest, Hungary. ; 1] Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic [2] Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic. ; Department of Archaeology, University of Tartu, 51003 Tartu, Estonia. ; Archaeological Superintendence of Lombardy, 20123 Milano, Italy. ; Department of Archaeology, University of Vilnius, LT-01513 Vilnius, Lithuania. ; The SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. ; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Estonian Biocentre and University of Tartu, 51010 Tartu, Estonia. ; Department of History, Yerevan State University, 0025 Yerevan, Armenia. ; 1] Hungarian National Museum, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary [2] Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Szeged, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary. ; Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Szeged, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary. ; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-612 Poznan, Poland. ; Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. ; Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 St Petersburg, Russia. ; Department of Archaeology, State Historical Museum, 109012 Moscow, Russia. ; Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 121 08 Prague, Czech Republic. ; Research Center for the History and Culture of the Turkic Peoples, Gorno-Altaisk State University, 649000 Gorno-Altaisk, Russia. ; Department of Pre- and Early History, Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos Lorand University, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary. ; Matrica Museum, 2440 Szazhalombatta, Hungary. ; Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, 0014 Yerevan, Armenia. ; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia. ; 1] Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs Lyngby, Denmark [2] Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3140, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26062507" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: Author(s): P. Balanarayan and Nimrod Moiseyev Current trends in laser technology have reached the regime of studying atoms stabilized against ionization, going beyond the perturbation theory. In this work, properties of a laser-dressed sulfur atom are examined in this stabilization regime. The electronic structure of a sulfur atom changes drama... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 253001] Published Tue Jun 18, 2013