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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2010-04-03
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Check Hayden, Erika -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 1;464(7289):664-7. doi: 10.1038/464664a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20360709" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Data Mining ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genes/genetics ; Genome, Human/*genetics ; Genomics/history/trends ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Human Genome Project/history ; Humans ; *Models, Biological ; Molecular Biology/*history ; Neoplasms/genetics/therapy ; RNA, Untranslated/genetics/metabolism ; Sea Urchins/embryology/genetics ; Systems Biology/*trends ; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; *Uncertainty
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    Publication Date: 2010-06-26
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 24;465(7301):985-6. doi: 10.1038/465985b.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20577163" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Disasters/*economics ; *Ecosystem ; Federal Government ; Industry/*economics ; Insurance/economics/*trends/utilization ; Petroleum/*adverse effects ; Risk ; United States
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    Publication Date: 2010-12-15
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pincock, Stephen -- England -- Nature. 2010 Dec 9;468(7325):744. doi: 10.1038/468744a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21150966" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Agriculture/methods ; Animals ; Australia ; *Conservation of Natural Resources/economics ; *Ecosystem ; Endangered Species ; Environmental Policy ; *Leadership ; *Rivers/chemistry ; *Water Supply/analysis/economics
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    Publication Date: 2010-01-08
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Janvier, Philippe -- Clement, Gael -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 7;463(7277):40-1. doi: 10.1038/463040a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20054387" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biological Evolution ; Chordata/anatomy & histology/classification/*physiology ; Extremities/anatomy & histology/physiology ; Fishes/anatomy & histology/physiology ; *Fossils ; Gait/physiology ; History, Ancient ; Models, Biological ; Phylogeny ; Poland
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    Publication Date: 2010-02-09
    Description: Although the notion of an early origin and diversification of life on Earth during the Archaean eon has received increasing support in geochemical, sedimentological and palaeontological evidence, ambiguities and controversies persist regarding the biogenicity and syngeneity of the record older than Late Archaean. Non-biological processes are known to produce morphologies similar to some microfossils, and hydrothermal fluids have the potential to produce abiotic organic compounds with depleted carbon isotope values, making it difficult to establish unambiguous traces of life. Here we report the discovery of a population of large (up to about 300 mum in diameter) carbonaceous spheroidal microstructures in Mesoarchaean shales and siltstones of the Moodies Group, South Africa, the Earth's oldest siliciclastic alluvial to tidal-estuarine deposits. These microstructures are interpreted as organic-walled microfossils on the basis of petrographic and geochemical evidence for their endogenicity and syngeneity, their carbonaceous composition, cellular morphology and ultrastructure, occurrence in populations, taphonomic features of soft wall deformation, and the geological context plausible for life, as well as a lack of abiotic explanation falsifying a biological origin. These are the oldest and largest Archaean organic-walled spheroidal microfossils reported so far. Our observations suggest that relatively large microorganisms cohabited with earlier reported benthic microbial mats in the photic zone of marginal marine siliciclastic environments 3.2 billion years ago.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Javaux, Emmanuelle J -- Marshall, Craig P -- Bekker, Andrey -- England -- Nature. 2010 Feb 18;463(7283):934-8. doi: 10.1038/nature08793. Epub 2010 Feb 7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Geology, University of Liege, 17 allee du 6 Aout B18, Liege 4000, Belgium. ej.javaux@ulg.ac.be〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20139963" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acids ; Bacteria/chemistry/cytology/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Carbon/analysis/chemistry ; Carbon Isotopes ; *Ecosystem ; Eukaryotic Cells/chemistry/cytology ; *Fossils ; Geologic Sediments/*microbiology ; History, Ancient ; Oceans and Seas ; Organic Chemicals/*analysis/chemistry ; *Phylogeny ; Reproducibility of Results ; Seawater/*microbiology ; South Africa ; Spectrum Analysis, Raman ; Sunlight
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    Publication Date: 2010-11-05
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Olby, Robert -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 4;468(7320):37. doi: 10.1038/468037e.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21048750" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Correspondence as Topic ; History, 20th Century
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    Publication Date: 2010-06-04
    Description: Large amounts (estimates range from 70 Tg per year to 300 Tg per year) of the potent greenhouse gas methane are oxidized to carbon dioxide in marine sediments by communities of methanotrophic archaea and sulphate-reducing bacteria, and thus are prevented from escaping into the atmosphere. Indirect evidence indicates that the anaerobic oxidation of methane might proceed as the reverse of archaeal methanogenesis from carbon dioxide with the nickel-containing methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR) as the methane-activating enzyme. However, experiments showing that MCR can catalyse the endergonic back reaction have been lacking. Here we report that purified MCR from Methanothermobacter marburgensis converts methane into methyl-coenzyme M under equilibrium conditions with apparent V(max) (maximum rate) and K(m) (Michaelis constant) values consistent with the observed in vivo kinetics of the anaerobic oxidation of methane with sulphate. This result supports the hypothesis of 'reverse methanogenesis' and is paramount to understanding the still-unknown mechanism of the last step of methanogenesis. The ability of MCR to cleave the particularly strong C-H bond of methane without the involvement of highly reactive oxygen-derived intermediates is directly relevant to catalytic C-H activation, currently an area of great interest in chemistry.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Scheller, Silvan -- Goenrich, Meike -- Boecher, Reinhard -- Thauer, Rudolf K -- Jaun, Bernhard -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 3;465(7298):606-8. doi: 10.1038/nature09015.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20520712" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Anaerobiosis ; *Biocatalysis ; Gases/metabolism ; Kinetics ; Mesna/analogs & derivatives/metabolism ; Methane/*biosynthesis/*metabolism ; Methanobacteriaceae/*enzymology ; Methylation ; Models, Biological ; Nickel/*metabolism ; Oxidation-Reduction ; Oxidoreductases/*metabolism ; Temperature
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    Publication Date: 2010-05-27
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chi, Kelly Rae -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 15;464(7291):1090-1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20503480" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Breast Neoplasms/genetics/metabolism/pathology/therapy ; Computational Biology/education/manpower/trends ; Female ; Genetic Heterogeneity ; Humans ; Models, Biological ; Neoplasms/genetics/*metabolism/*pathology/therapy ; Research Personnel/education ; Systems Biology/education/manpower/*trends
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    Publication Date: 2010-05-21
    Description: Malaria is a devastating infection caused by protozoa of the genus Plasmodium. Drug resistance is widespread, no new chemical class of antimalarials has been introduced into clinical practice since 1996 and there is a recent rise of parasite strains with reduced sensitivity to the newest drugs. We screened nearly 2 million compounds in GlaxoSmithKline's chemical library for inhibitors of P. falciparum, of which 13,533 were confirmed to inhibit parasite growth by at least 80% at 2 microM concentration. More than 8,000 also showed potent activity against the multidrug resistant strain Dd2. Most (82%) compounds originate from internal company projects and are new to the malaria community. Analyses using historic assay data suggest several novel mechanisms of antimalarial action, such as inhibition of protein kinases and host-pathogen interaction related targets. Chemical structures and associated data are hereby made public to encourage additional drug lead identification efforts and further research into this disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gamo, Francisco-Javier -- Sanz, Laura M -- Vidal, Jaume -- de Cozar, Cristina -- Alvarez, Emilio -- Lavandera, Jose-Luis -- Vanderwall, Dana E -- Green, Darren V S -- Kumar, Vinod -- Hasan, Samiul -- Brown, James R -- Peishoff, Catherine E -- Cardon, Lon R -- Garcia-Bustos, Jose F -- England -- Nature. 2010 May 20;465(7296):305-10. doi: 10.1038/nature09107.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Tres Cantos Medicines Development Campus, GlaxoSmithKline, Severo Ochoa 2, 28760 Tres Cantos, Spain.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20485427" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antimalarials/*analysis/chemistry/*pharmacology/toxicity ; Cell Line, Tumor ; *Drug Discovery ; Drug Resistance, Multiple/drug effects ; Humans ; Malaria, Falciparum/*drug therapy/parasitology ; Models, Biological ; Phylogeny ; Plasmodium falciparum/*drug effects/enzymology/genetics/growth & development ; Small Molecule Libraries/*analysis/chemistry/*pharmacology/toxicity
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-29
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Luebeck, E Georg -- England -- Nature. 2010 Oct 28;467(7319):1053-5. doi: 10.1038/4671053a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20981088" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cell Lineage/genetics ; Clone Cells/metabolism/pathology ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; Disease Progression ; Early Detection of Cancer ; *Evolution, Molecular ; Genomic Instability/*genetics ; Humans ; Models, Biological ; Mutagenesis/*genetics ; Neoplasm Metastasis/*genetics/pathology ; Pancreatic Neoplasms/classification/*genetics/*pathology ; Time Factors
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-01
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 30;467(7315):499-500. doi: 10.1038/467499b.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20881967" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: European Union ; Financing, Organized/economics ; Germany ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Internationality ; Politics ; Research Support as Topic/economics/history ; Science/economics/history/*standards/*trends
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    Publication Date: 2010-04-03
    Description: Jasmonoyl-isoleucine (JA-Ile) is a plant hormone that regulates a broad array of plant defence and developmental processes. JA-Ile-responsive gene expression is regulated by the transcriptional activator MYC2 that interacts physically with the jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) repressor proteins. On perception of JA-Ile, JAZ proteins are degraded and JA-Ile-dependent gene expression is activated. The molecular mechanisms by which JAZ proteins repress gene expression remain unknown. Here we show that the Arabidopsis JAZ proteins recruit the Groucho/Tup1-type co-repressor TOPLESS (TPL) and TPL-related proteins (TPRs) through a previously uncharacterized adaptor protein, designated Novel Interactor of JAZ (NINJA). NINJA acts as a transcriptional repressor whose activity is mediated by a functional TPL-binding EAR repression motif. Accordingly, both NINJA and TPL proteins function as negative regulators of jasmonate responses. Our results point to TPL proteins as general co-repressors that affect multiple signalling pathways through the interaction with specific adaptor proteins. This new insight reveals how stress-related and growth-related signalling cascades use common molecular mechanisms to regulate gene expression in plants.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2849182/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2849182/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pauwels, Laurens -- Barbero, Gemma Fernandez -- Geerinck, Jan -- Tilleman, Sofie -- Grunewald, Wim -- Perez, Amparo Cuellar -- Chico, Jose Manuel -- Bossche, Robin Vanden -- Sewell, Jared -- Gil, Eduardo -- Garcia-Casado, Gloria -- Witters, Erwin -- Inze, Dirk -- Long, Jeff A -- De Jaeger, Geert -- Solano, Roberto -- Goossens, Alain -- R01 GM072764/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM072764-06/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 1;464(7289):788-91. doi: 10.1038/nature08854.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Gent, Belgium.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20360743" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Arabidopsis/cytology/*drug effects/*metabolism ; Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Cyclopentanes/antagonists & inhibitors/*pharmacology ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ; Models, Biological ; Oxylipins/antagonists & inhibitors/*pharmacology ; Plants, Genetically Modified ; Protein Binding ; Repressor Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Signal Transduction/*drug effects ; Two-Hybrid System Techniques
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    Publication Date: 2010-08-21
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cockburn, Andrew -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 19;466(7309):930-1. doi: 10.1038/466930a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20725030" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biological Evolution ; Birds/classification/genetics/*physiology ; *Cooperative Behavior ; Fathers ; Female ; Male ; Models, Biological ; Mothers ; Phylogeny ; Reproduction/genetics/physiology ; Sexual Behavior, Animal/*physiology ; *Siblings
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    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
    Description: Soil respiration, R(S), the flux of microbially and plant-respired carbon dioxide (CO(2)) from the soil surface to the atmosphere, is the second-largest terrestrial carbon flux. However, the dynamics of R(S) are not well understood and the global flux remains poorly constrained. Ecosystem warming experiments, modelling analyses and fundamental biokinetics all suggest that R(S) should change with climate. This has been difficult to confirm observationally because of the high spatial variability of R(S), inaccessibility of the soil medium and the inability of remote-sensing instruments to measure R(S) on large scales. Despite these constraints, it may be possible to discern climate-driven changes in regional or global R(S) values in the extant four-decade record of R(S) chamber measurements. Here we construct a database of worldwide R(S) observations matched with high-resolution historical climate data and find a previously unknown temporal trend in the R(S) record after accounting for mean annual climate, leaf area, nitrogen deposition and changes in CO(2) measurement technique. We find that the air temperature anomaly (the deviation from the 1961-1990 mean) is significantly and positively correlated with changes in R(S). We estimate that the global R(S) in 2008 (that is, the flux integrated over the Earth's land surface over 2008) was 98 +/- 12 Pg C and that it increased by 0.1 Pg C yr(-1) between 1989 and 2008, implying a global R(S) response to air temperature (Q(10)) of 1.5. An increasing global R(S) value does not necessarily constitute a positive feedback to the atmosphere, as it could be driven by higher carbon inputs to soil rather than by mobilization of stored older carbon. The available data are, however, consistent with an acceleration of the terrestrial carbon cycle in response to global climate change.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bond-Lamberty, Ben -- Thomson, Allison -- England -- Nature. 2010 Mar 25;464(7288):579-82. doi: 10.1038/nature08930.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland-College Park, 5825 University Research Court, Suite 3500, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA. bondlamberty@pnl.gov〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20336143" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Ecosystem ; Models, Theoretical ; Soil/*analysis ; *Temperature
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    Publication Date: 2010-05-28
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chong, Kwek Yan -- Yeo, Chow Khoon -- Koon Yee, Alex Thiam -- England -- Nature. 2010 May 27;465(7297):420. doi: 10.1038/465420b.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20505709" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Biodiversity ; Droughts ; *Ecosystem ; *Global Warming ; Rain ; Trees/classification/*growth & development ; *Tropical Climate
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    Publication Date: 2010-02-25
    Description: Tumours with mutant BRAF are dependent on the RAF-MEK-ERK signalling pathway for their growth. We found that ATP-competitive RAF inhibitors inhibit ERK signalling in cells with mutant BRAF, but unexpectedly enhance signalling in cells with wild-type BRAF. Here we demonstrate the mechanistic basis for these findings. We used chemical genetic methods to show that drug-mediated transactivation of RAF dimers is responsible for paradoxical activation of the enzyme by inhibitors. Induction of ERK signalling requires direct binding of the drug to the ATP-binding site of one kinase of the dimer and is dependent on RAS activity. Drug binding to one member of RAF homodimers (CRAF-CRAF) or heterodimers (CRAF-BRAF) inhibits one protomer, but results in transactivation of the drug-free protomer. In BRAF(V600E) tumours, RAS is not activated, thus transactivation is minimal and ERK signalling is inhibited in cells exposed to RAF inhibitors. These results indicate that RAF inhibitors will be effective in tumours in which BRAF is mutated. Furthermore, because RAF inhibitors do not inhibit ERK signalling in other cells, the model predicts that they would have a higher therapeutic index and greater antitumour activity than mitogen-activated protein kinase (MEK) inhibitors, but could also cause toxicity due to MEK/ERK activation. These predictions have been borne out in a recent clinical trial of the RAF inhibitor PLX4032 (refs 4, 5). The model indicates that promotion of RAF dimerization by elevation of wild-type RAF expression or RAS activity could lead to drug resistance in mutant BRAF tumours. In agreement with this prediction, RAF inhibitors do not inhibit ERK signalling in cells that coexpress BRAF(V600E) and mutant RAS.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178447/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178447/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Poulikakos, Poulikos I -- Zhang, Chao -- Bollag, Gideon -- Shokat, Kevan M -- Rosen, Neal -- 1P01CA129243-02/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- 2R01EB001987/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA129243-010002/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EB001987/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- U01 CA091178/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- U01 CA091178-01/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Mar 18;464(7287):427-30. doi: 10.1038/nature08902.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Program in Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry and Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20179705" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Animals ; Catalytic Domain ; Cell Line ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Enzyme Activation/drug effects ; Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases/*metabolism ; Humans ; Indoles/pharmacology ; MAP Kinase Signaling System/*drug effects ; Mice ; Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinases/metabolism ; Models, Biological ; Neoplasms/drug therapy/enzymology/genetics/metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Protein Binding ; Protein Kinase Inhibitors/metabolism/*pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Protein Multimerization ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf/antagonists & ; inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Sulfonamides/pharmacology ; Transcriptional Activation/*drug effects ; raf Kinases/*antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; ras Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2010-04-24
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Glausiusz, Josie -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 22;464(7292):1118-20. doi: 10.1038/4641118a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414284" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Altitude ; Animals ; Desert Climate ; *Ecosystem ; Eutrophication ; Fresh Water/*analysis/chemistry/microbiology ; Indian Ocean ; International Cooperation ; Middle East ; Salinity ; Volatilization ; *Water Supply/analysis/economics/statistics & numerical data
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-15
    Description: The evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction has puzzled biologists for decades. Although this field is rich in hypotheses, experimental evidence is scarce. Some important experiments have demonstrated differences in evolutionary rates between sexual and asexual populations; other experiments have documented evolutionary changes in phenomena related to genetic mixing, such as recombination and selfing. However, direct experiments of the evolution of sex within populations are extremely rare (but see ref. 12). Here we use the rotifer, Brachionus calyciflorus, which is capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction, to test recent theory predicting that there is more opportunity for sex to evolve in spatially heterogeneous environments. Replicated experimental populations of rotifers were maintained in homogeneous environments, composed of either high- or low-quality food habitats, or in heterogeneous environments that consisted of a mix of the two habitats. For populations maintained in either type of homogeneous environment, the rate of sex evolves rapidly towards zero. In contrast, higher rates of sex evolve in populations experiencing spatially heterogeneous environments. The data indicate that the higher level of sex observed under heterogeneity is not due to sex being less costly or selection against sex being less efficient; rather sex is sufficiently advantageous in heterogeneous environments to overwhelm its inherent costs. Counter to some alternative theories for the evolution of sex, there is no evidence that genetic drift plays any part in the evolution of sex in these populations.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Becks, Lutz -- Agrawal, Aneil F -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 4;468(7320):89-92. doi: 10.1038/nature09449. Epub 2010 Oct 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada. lutz.becks@utoronto.ca〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20944628" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animal Migration/physiology ; Animals ; *Biological Evolution ; Diet/veterinary ; *Ecosystem ; Female ; *Food ; Genetic Drift ; Male ; Meiosis/genetics ; Models, Biological ; Ovum/physiology ; Population Density ; Reproduction/physiology ; Reproduction, Asexual/physiology ; Rotifera/cytology/genetics/*physiology ; Selection, Genetic ; *Sex
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    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schiermeier, Quirin -- England -- Nature. 2010 Mar 25;464(7288):472-3. doi: 10.1038/464472b.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20336100" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antarctic Regions ; *Ecosystem ; *Fresh Water/analysis/microbiology ; Ice Cover
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-15
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Simmons, John Galbraith -- England -- Nature. 2010 Oct 14;467(7317):S14-5. doi: 10.1038/467S14a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20944614" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Age Factors ; Blogging ; Congresses as Topic/*history/*trends ; Conservation of Natural Resources/trends ; Germany ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; *Nobel Prize ; Nuclear Warfare ; *Research Personnel/history/trends ; Science/*history/*trends
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    Publication Date: 2010-11-19
    Description: Biodiversity indicators provide a vital window on the state of the planet, guiding policy development and management. The most widely adopted marine indicator is mean trophic level (MTL) from catches, intended to detect shifts from high-trophic-level predators to low-trophic-level invertebrates and plankton-feeders. This indicator underpins reported trends in human impacts, declining when predators collapse ("fishing down marine food webs") and when low-trophic-level fisheries expand ("fishing through marine food webs"). The assumption is that catch MTL measures changes in ecosystem MTL and biodiversity. Here we combine model predictions with global assessments of MTL from catches, trawl surveys and fisheries stock assessments and find that catch MTL does not reliably predict changes in marine ecosystems. Instead, catch MTL trends often diverge from ecosystem MTL trends obtained from surveys and assessments. In contrast to previous findings of rapid declines in catch MTL, we observe recent increases in catch, survey and assessment MTL. However, catches from most trophic levels are rising, which can intensify fishery collapses even when MTL trends are stable or increasing. To detect fishing impacts on marine biodiversity, we recommend greater efforts to measure true abundance trends for marine species, especially those most vulnerable to fishing.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Branch, Trevor A -- Watson, Reg -- Fulton, Elizabeth A -- Jennings, Simon -- McGilliard, Carey R -- Pablico, Grace T -- Ricard, Daniel -- Tracey, Sean R -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 18;468(7322):431-5. doi: 10.1038/nature09528.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Box 355020, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-5020, USA. tbranch@uw.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21085178" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Aquatic Organisms/*isolation & purification/*metabolism ; Biodiversity ; Biomass ; Databases, Factual ; *Ecosystem ; Environmental Policy ; *Fisheries ; *Fishes/metabolism ; Food Chain ; Human Activities ; Invertebrates/metabolism ; Models, Biological ; Plankton/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2010-06-04
    Description: Ecological interactions are crucial to understanding both the ecology and the evolution of organisms. Because the phenotypic traits regulating species interactions are largely a legacy of their ancestors, it is widely assumed that ecological interactions are phylogenetically conserved, with closely related species interacting with similar partners. However, the existing empirical evidence is inadequate to appropriately evaluate the hypothesis of phylogenetic conservatism in ecological interactions, because it is both ecologically and taxonomically biased. In fact, most studies on the evolution of ecological interactions have focused on specialized organisms, such as some parasites or insect herbivores, belonging to a limited subset of the overall tree of life. Here we study the evolution of host use in a large and diverse group of interactions comprising both specialist and generalist acellular, unicellular and multicellular organisms. We show that, as previously found for specialized interactions, generalized interactions can be evolutionarily conserved. Significant phylogenetic conservatism of interaction patterns was equally likely to occur in symbiotic and non-symbiotic interactions, as well as in mutualistic and antagonistic interactions. Host-use differentiation among species was higher in phylogenetically conserved clades, irrespective of their generalization degree and taxonomic position within the tree of life. Our findings strongly suggest a shared pattern in the organization of biological systems through evolutionary time, mediated by marked conservatism of ecological interactions among taxa.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gomez, Jose M -- Verdu, Miguel -- Perfectti, Francisco -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 17;465(7300):918-21. doi: 10.1038/nature09113. Epub 2010 Jun 2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Departamento de Ecologia, Universidad de Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain. jmgreyes@ugr.es〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20520609" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Biological Evolution ; *Ecosystem ; Host-Parasite Interactions ; *Phylogeny ; Symbiosis/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 2010-08-13
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wadman, Meredith -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 12;466(7308):808-10. doi: 10.1038/466808a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703281" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act/economics ; Biomedical Research/economics/organization & administration/trends ; Budgets/trends ; Comparative Effectiveness Research ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Human Genome Project/history ; Humans ; National Institutes of Health (U.S.)/*economics/*organization & ; administration/trends ; Religion and Science ; Translational Medical Research ; United States
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    Publication Date: 2010-08-21
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mastrandrea, Michael D -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 19;466(7309):933. doi: 10.1038/466933a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. mikemas@stanford.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20725032" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aerosols ; Climate Change/*history ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Policy Making ; United States
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    Publication Date: 2010-01-22
    Description: In the lowermost layer of the atmosphere-the troposphere-ozone is an important source of the hydroxyl radical, an oxidant that breaks down most pollutants and some greenhouse gases. High concentrations of tropospheric ozone are toxic, however, and have a detrimental effect on human health and ecosystem productivity. Moreover, tropospheric ozone itself acts as an effective greenhouse gas. Much of the present tropospheric ozone burden is a consequence of anthropogenic emissions of ozone precursors resulting in widespread increases in ozone concentrations since the late 1800s. At present, east Asia has the fastest-growing ozone precursor emissions. Much of the springtime east Asian pollution is exported eastwards towards western North America. Despite evidence that the exported Asian pollution produces ozone, no previous study has found a significant increase in free tropospheric ozone concentrations above the western USA since measurements began in the late 1970s. Here we compile springtime ozone measurements from many different platforms across western North America. We show a strong increase in springtime ozone mixing ratios during 1995-2008 and we have some additional evidence that a similar rate of increase in ozone mixing ratio has occurred since 1984. We find that the rate of increase in ozone mixing ratio is greatest when measurements are more heavily influenced by direct transport from Asia. Our result agrees with previous modelling studies, which indicate that global ozone concentrations should be increasing during the early part of the twenty-first century as a result of increasing precursor emissions, especially at northern mid-latitudes, with western North America being particularly sensitive to rising Asian emissions. We suggest that the observed increase in springtime background ozone mixing ratio may hinder the USA's compliance with its ozone air quality standard.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cooper, O R -- Parrish, D D -- Stohl, A -- Trainer, M -- Nedelec, P -- Thouret, V -- Cammas, J P -- Oltmans, S J -- Johnson, B J -- Tarasick, D -- Leblanc, T -- McDermid, I S -- Jaffe, D -- Gao, R -- Stith, J -- Ryerson, T -- Aikin, K -- Campos, T -- Weinheimer, A -- Avery, M A -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 21;463(7279):344-8. doi: 10.1038/nature08708.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA. owen.r.cooper@noaa.gov〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20090751" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Air Pollutants/analysis/chemistry ; Asia ; Atmosphere/*chemistry ; Ecosystem ; Greenhouse Effect ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; North America ; Ozone/*analysis/chemical synthesis/chemistry ; Sample Size ; Seasons
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    Publication Date: 2010-12-15
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gates, John B -- England -- Nature. 2010 Dec 9;468(7325):765. doi: 10.1038/468765a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21150980" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Canada ; Chemical Hazard Release ; Disclosure ; *Ecosystem ; Environmental Pollutants/adverse effects ; *Mining ; Petroleum/*adverse effects ; *Public Opinion ; *Research Personnel ; Risk Assessment ; United States ; Water Supply
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    Publication Date: 2010-08-27
    Description: Eusociality, in which some individuals reduce their own lifetime reproductive potential to raise the offspring of others, underlies the most advanced forms of social organization and the ecologically dominant role of social insects and humans. For the past four decades kin selection theory, based on the concept of inclusive fitness, has been the major theoretical attempt to explain the evolution of eusociality. Here we show the limitations of this approach. We argue that standard natural selection theory in the context of precise models of population structure represents a simpler and superior approach, allows the evaluation of multiple competing hypotheses, and provides an exact framework for interpreting empirical observations.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279739/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279739/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nowak, Martin A -- Tarnita, Corina E -- Wilson, Edward O -- R01 GM078986/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM078986-04/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM078986/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 26;466(7310):1057-62. doi: 10.1038/nature09205.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. martin_nowak@harvard.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20740005" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Behavior, Animal/*physiology ; *Biological Evolution ; Female ; Humans ; Insects/physiology ; Male ; Models, Biological ; Selection, Genetic ; *Social Behavior
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    Publication Date: 2010-02-26
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ferry, Georgina -- England -- Nature. 2010 Feb 25;463(7284):1025. doi: 10.1038/4631025a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20182497" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Archives ; *Biography as Topic ; Electronic Mail ; History, 20th Century ; Nobel Prize ; Research Personnel/history ; Science/history ; *Writing
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    Publication Date: 2010-09-25
    Description: Gram-negative bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, frequently use tripartite efflux complexes in the resistance-nodulation-cell division (RND) family to expel various toxic compounds from the cell. The efflux system CusCBA is responsible for extruding biocidal Cu(I) and Ag(I) ions. No previous structural information was available for the heavy-metal efflux (HME) subfamily of the RND efflux pumps. Here we describe the crystal structures of the inner-membrane transporter CusA in the absence and presence of bound Cu(I) or Ag(I). These CusA structures provide new structural information about the HME subfamily of RND efflux pumps. The structures suggest that the metal-binding sites, formed by a three-methionine cluster, are located within the cleft region of the periplasmic domain. This cleft is closed in the apo-CusA form but open in the CusA-Cu(I) and CusA-Ag(I) structures, which directly suggests a plausible pathway for ion export. Binding of Cu(I) and Ag(I) triggers significant conformational changes in both the periplasmic and transmembrane domains. The crystal structure indicates that CusA has, in addition to the three-methionine metal-binding site, four methionine pairs-three located in the transmembrane region and one in the periplasmic domain. Genetic analysis and transport assays suggest that CusA is capable of actively picking up metal ions from the cytosol, using these methionine pairs or clusters to bind and export metal ions. These structures suggest a stepwise shuttle mechanism for transport between these sites.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946090/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946090/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Long, Feng -- Su, Chih-Chia -- Zimmermann, Michael T -- Boyken, Scott E -- Rajashankar, Kanagalaghatta R -- Jernigan, Robert L -- Yu, Edward W -- GM 072014/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 074027/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 081680/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 086431/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM072014/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM074027/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM074027-05/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM086431/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM086431-01A2/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- RR-15301/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 23;467(7314):484-8. doi: 10.1038/nature09395.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Interdepartmental Graduate Program, Iowa State University, Iowa 50011, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20865003" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Apoproteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Cell Membrane/metabolism ; Copper/chemistry/*metabolism ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Cytosol/metabolism ; Escherichia coli/*chemistry ; Escherichia coli Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Ion Transport ; Membrane Transport Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Methionine/*metabolism ; Models, Biological ; Models, Molecular ; Periplasm/metabolism ; Protein Structure, Quaternary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Silver/chemistry/*metabolism ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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    Publication Date: 2010-11-26
    Description: Sugar efflux transporters are essential for the maintenance of animal blood glucose levels, plant nectar production, and plant seed and pollen development. Despite broad biological importance, the identity of sugar efflux transporters has remained elusive. Using optical glucose sensors, we identified a new class of sugar transporters, named SWEETs, and show that at least six out of seventeen Arabidopsis, two out of over twenty rice and two out of seven homologues in Caenorhabditis elegans, and the single copy human protein, mediate glucose transport. Arabidopsis SWEET8 is essential for pollen viability, and the rice homologues SWEET11 and SWEET14 are specifically exploited by bacterial pathogens for virulence by means of direct binding of a bacterial effector to the SWEET promoter. Bacterial symbionts and fungal and bacterial pathogens induce the expression of different SWEET genes, indicating that the sugar efflux function of SWEET transporters is probably targeted by pathogens and symbionts for nutritional gain. The metazoan homologues may be involved in sugar efflux from intestinal, liver, epididymis and mammary cells.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000469/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000469/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chen, Li-Qing -- Hou, Bi-Huei -- Lalonde, Sylvie -- Takanaga, Hitomi -- Hartung, Mara L -- Qu, Xiao-Qing -- Guo, Woei-Jiun -- Kim, Jung-Gun -- Underwood, William -- Chaudhuri, Bhavna -- Chermak, Diane -- Antony, Ginny -- White, Frank F -- Somerville, Shauna C -- Mudgett, Mary Beth -- Frommer, Wolf B -- 1R01DK079109/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- F32GM083439-02/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK079109/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK079109-01/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK079109-02/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK079109-03/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK079109-03S1/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK079109-04/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM068886/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- ZR01GM06886-06A1/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 25;468(7323):527-32. doi: 10.1038/nature09606.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama St, Stanford, California 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21107422" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Arabidopsis/genetics/*metabolism/microbiology ; Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Biological Transport/genetics ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ; Glucose/*metabolism ; HEK293 Cells ; Host-Pathogen Interactions/*physiology ; Humans ; Membrane Transport Proteins/*metabolism ; Models, Biological ; Oryza/genetics/metabolism/microbiology ; RNA, Messenger/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics ; Xenopus/genetics
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Okasha, Samir -- England -- Nature. 2010 Oct 7;467(7316):653-5. doi: 10.1038/467653a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TB, UK. Samir.Okasha@bristol.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20930821" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Altruism ; Animals ; Biological Evolution ; *Cooperative Behavior ; Female ; Group Processes ; Male ; Models, Biological ; *Research Personnel ; Selection, Genetic ; Social Behavior
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vedral, Vlatko -- England -- Nature. 2010 Dec 9;468(7325):769-70. doi: 10.1038/468769a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21150986" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Hot Temperature ; Models, Biological ; Photosynthesis ; *Quantum Theory ; *Thermodynamics
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    Publication Date: 2010-09-14
    Description: Messenger RNA lacking stop codons ('non-stop mRNA') can arise from errors in gene expression, and encode aberrant proteins whose accumulation could be deleterious to cellular function. In bacteria, these 'non-stop proteins' become co-translationally tagged with a peptide encoded by ssrA/tmRNA (transfer-messenger RNA), which signals their degradation by energy-dependent proteases. How eukaryotic cells eliminate non-stop proteins has remained unknown. Here we show that the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ltn1 RING-domain-type E3 ubiquitin ligase acts in the quality control of non-stop proteins, in a process that is mechanistically distinct but conceptually analogous to that performed by ssrA: Ltn1 is predominantly associated with ribosomes, and it marks nascent non-stop proteins with ubiquitin to signal their proteasomal degradation. Ltn1-mediated ubiquitylation of non-stop proteins seems to be triggered by their stalling in ribosomes on translation through the poly(A) tail. The biological relevance of this process is underscored by the finding that loss of Ltn1 function confers sensitivity to stress caused by increased non-stop protein production. We speculate that defective protein quality control may underlie the neurodegenerative phenotype that results from mutation of the mouse Ltn1 homologue Listerin.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988496/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988496/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bengtson, Mario H -- Joazeiro, Claudio A P -- R01 GM083060/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM083060-03/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM083060/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 23;467(7314):470-3. doi: 10.1038/nature09371. Epub 2010 Sep 12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, CB168, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20835226" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Codon, Terminator/genetics ; Mice ; Models, Biological ; Peptide Chain Termination, Translational ; Polylysine/biosynthesis/metabolism ; Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex/metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Protein Biosynthesis/*physiology ; Ribosomes/*enzymology/*metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/cytology/enzymology/genetics/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Stress, Physiological ; Ubiquitin/metabolism ; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; *Ubiquitination
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
    Description: Interconversion between conductive and non-conductive forms of the K(+) channel selectivity filter underlies a variety of gating events, from flicker transitions (at the microsecond timescale) to C-type inactivation (millisecond to second timescale). Here we report the crystal structure of the Streptomyces lividans K(+) channel KcsA in its open-inactivated conformation and investigate the mechanism of C-type inactivation gating at the selectivity filter from channels 'trapped' in a series of partially open conformations. Five conformer classes were identified with openings ranging from 12 A in closed KcsA (Calpha-Calpha distances at Thr 112) to 32 A when fully open. They revealed a remarkable correlation between the degree of gate opening and the conformation and ion occupancy of the selectivity filter. We show that a gradual filter backbone reorientation leads first to a loss of the S2 ion binding site and a subsequent loss of the S3 binding site, presumably abrogating ion conduction. These structures indicate a molecular basis for C-type inactivation in K(+) channels.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3033749/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3033749/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cuello, Luis G -- Jogini, Vishwanath -- Cortes, D Marien -- Perozo, Eduardo -- R01 GM057846/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM057846-15/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01-GM57846/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 8;466(7303):203-8. doi: 10.1038/nature09153.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20613835" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Bacterial Proteins/*antagonists & inhibitors/*chemistry/metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Electrons ; *Ion Channel Gating ; Kinetics ; Models, Biological ; Models, Molecular ; Potassium/metabolism ; Potassium Channels/*chemistry/metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Streptomyces lividans/*chemistry ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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    Publication Date: 2010-06-24
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Clayton, Julie -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 24;465(7301):S4-5. doi: 10.1038/nature09220.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20571553" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acute Disease ; Animals ; Carrier State/epidemiology/immunology/parasitology ; *Chagas Disease/drug therapy/epidemiology/parasitology/transmission ; Chronic Disease/drug therapy/epidemiology ; Clinical Trials as Topic ; History, 16th Century ; History, 19th Century ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; History, Ancient ; Humans ; Insect Vectors/parasitology ; Latin America/epidemiology/ethnology ; Neglected Diseases/economics ; Nitroimidazoles/pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Trypanocidal Agents/pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Trypanosoma cruzi/immunology/pathogenicity/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2010-08-13
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Oreskes, Naomi -- Conway, Erik M -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 12;466(7308):815. doi: 10.1038/466815d.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703283" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acid Rain/*statistics & numerical data ; Federal Government ; History, 20th Century ; Peer Review ; United States
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    Publication Date: 2010-04-03
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Venter, J Craig -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 1;464(7289):676-7. doi: 10.1038/464676a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California 92121, USA. jcventer@jcvi.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20360717" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Continental Population Groups/genetics ; Diploidy ; Female ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics ; Genetic Variation/genetics ; Genetics, Medical/*trends ; Genome, Human/*genetics ; Genomics/economics/history/*trends ; Haploidy ; Haplotypes/genetics ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Human Genome Project/economics/history ; Humans ; Male ; Phenotype ; Precision Medicine/*trends ; Sequence Analysis, DNA/economics/history/instrumentation/methods
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    Publication Date: 2010-05-28
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉England -- Nature. 2010 May 27;465(7297):397-8. doi: 10.1038/465397b.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20505686" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Disaster Planning/organization & administration ; *Ecosystem ; Mexico ; Oceans and Seas ; Petroleum/*analysis/poisoning/toxicity ; Relief Work/*organization & administration ; Research/economics/*trends ; Seawater/*chemistry ; United States ; United States Government Agencies/*organization & administration
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-29
    Description: Sex determination is a fundamental biological process, yet its mechanisms are remarkably diverse. In vertebrates, sex can be determined by inherited genetic factors or by the temperature experienced during embryonic development. However, the evolutionary causes of this diversity remain unknown. Here we show that live-bearing lizards at different climatic extremes of the species' distribution differ in their sex-determining mechanisms, with temperature-dependent sex determination in lowlands and genotypic sex determination in highlands. A theoretical model parameterized with field data accurately predicts this divergence in sex-determining systems and the consequence thereof for variation in cohort sex ratios among years. Furthermore, we show that divergent natural selection on sex determination across altitudes is caused by climatic effects on lizard life history and variation in the magnitude of between-year temperature fluctuations. Our results establish an adaptive explanation for intra-specific divergence in sex-determining systems driven by phenotypic plasticity and ecological selection, thereby providing a unifying framework for integrating the developmental, ecological and evolutionary basis for variation in vertebrate sex determination.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pen, Ido -- Uller, Tobias -- Feldmeyer, Barbara -- Harts, Anna -- While, Geoffrey M -- Wapstra, Erik -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 18;468(7322):436-8. doi: 10.1038/nature09512. Epub 2010 Oct 27.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Theoretical Biology Group, University of Groningen, PO Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, the Netherlands. i.r.pen@rug.nl〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20981009" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Altitude ; Animals ; Biological Evolution ; *Climate ; Female ; Genotype ; Lizards/*genetics/*physiology ; Male ; Models, Biological ; Phenotype ; Selection, Genetic ; Sex Chromosomes ; *Sex Determination Processes/genetics/physiology ; *Sex Differentiation/genetics/physiology ; Sex Ratio ; *Temperature ; Time Factors ; Viviparity, Nonmammalian/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2010-12-03
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schofield, Paul N -- Tapio, Soile -- Grosche, Bernd -- England -- Nature. 2010 Dec 2;468(7324):634. doi: 10.1038/468634a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21124436" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Archives/*history ; Databases, Factual/history ; Europe ; History, 20th Century ; Information Storage and Retrieval ; Japan ; Radiobiology/*history ; Time Factors ; United States
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    Publication Date: 2010-04-03
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Collins, Francis -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 1;464(7289):674-5. doi: 10.1038/464674a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. francis.collins@nih.gov〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20360716" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Access to Information ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics ; Genetics, Medical/*trends ; Genome, Human/*genetics ; Genome-Wide Association Study ; Genomics/economics/history/*trends ; Haplotypes/genetics ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Humans ; Precision Medicine/*trends ; Sequence Analysis, DNA/economics/history/trends
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    Publication Date: 2010-08-13
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schrope, Mark -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 12;466(7308):802. doi: 10.1038/466802a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703275" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Disasters/*statistics & numerical data ; Ecology ; *Ecosystem ; Marine Biology ; Oceanography ; Oceans and Seas ; Petroleum/adverse effects/*analysis ; Reproducibility of Results ; Seawater/*chemistry ; *Uncertainty ; Volatilization
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-03
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gaskill, Melissa -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 1;466(7302):14-5. doi: 10.1038/466014a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20595980" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animal Identification Systems/utilization ; Animal Migration ; Animals ; *Disasters ; *Ecosystem ; Female ; Food Chain ; Larva/drug effects/growth & development ; Marine Biology ; Mexico ; Oceans and Seas ; Petroleum/analysis/*poisoning/*toxicity ; Seawater/*chemistry ; Sharks/physiology ; Survival Rate ; Tuna/physiology ; Turtles/physiology ; Whales/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schrope, Mark -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 15;466(7304):304-5. doi: 10.1038/466304a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20631769" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Disasters/history ; *Ecosystem ; Fisheries/history/statistics & numerical data ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Marine Biology/history/trends ; Mexico ; Oceans and Seas ; Ostreidae ; Petroleum/*analysis/*toxicity ; Population Dynamics ; Research/history/*statistics & numerical data/trends ; Seawater/*chemistry
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    Publication Date: 2010-08-06
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Briggs, Derek E G -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 5;466(7307):706. doi: 10.1038/466706a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Geology and Geophysics, and the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. derek.briggs@yale.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20686564" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; British Columbia ; *Fossils ; Geologic Sediments/analysis/chemistry ; Great Britain ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Paleontology/*history ; United States
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dalton, Rex -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 7;463(7277):16. doi: 10.1038/463016a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20054370" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: California ; Disasters/prevention & control/statistics & numerical data ; Earthquakes/history/*statistics & numerical data ; Floods/history/*statistics & numerical data ; Fresh Water ; History, 15th Century ; History, 18th Century ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; History, Ancient ; *Risk Management ; Rivers ; Water Movements
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉White, Craig R -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 1;464(7289):691-3. doi: 10.1038/464691a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20360729" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Basal Metabolism/*physiology ; Body Size/*physiology ; Body Temperature/physiology ; Fractals ; History, 19th Century ; History, 20th Century ; Hot Temperature ; Mammals/*anatomy & histology/*physiology ; *Models, Biological
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Abbott, Alison -- England -- Nature. 2010 Dec 16;468(7326):879. doi: 10.1038/468879a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21164453" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Cooperative Behavior ; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions ; Germany ; Hepatocytes/metabolism ; Humans ; Interdisciplinary Communication ; Liver/*physiology ; Models, Biological ; Pharmaceutical Preparations/metabolism ; Physics ; Research Personnel ; Systems Biology/economics/manpower/*trends
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tollefson, Jeff -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 23;467(7314):386-7. doi: 10.1038/467386a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20864970" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Atmosphere/*chemistry ; Brazil ; Carbon Dioxide/*analysis/metabolism ; *Ecosystem ; Environmental Monitoring/economics/*instrumentation ; Forestry ; Germany ; Global Warming ; *Greenhouse Effect ; Time Factors ; Trees/growth & development/*metabolism ; Tropical Climate
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    Publication Date: 2010-06-29
    Description: The accumulation of species-specific enemies around adults is hypothesized to maintain plant diversity by limiting the recruitment of conspecific seedlings relative to heterospecific seedlings. Although previous studies in forested ecosystems have documented patterns consistent with the process of negative feedback, these studies are unable to address which classes of enemies (for example, pathogens, invertebrates, mammals) exhibit species-specific effects strong enough to generate negative feedback, and whether negative feedback at the level of the individual tree is sufficient to influence community-wide forest composition. Here we use fully reciprocal shade-house and field experiments to test whether the performance of conspecific tree seedlings (relative to heterospecific seedlings) is reduced when grown in the presence of enemies associated with adult trees. Both experiments provide strong evidence for negative plant-soil feedback mediated by soil biota. In contrast, above-ground enemies (mammals, foliar herbivores and foliar pathogens) contributed little to negative feedback observed in the field. In both experiments, we found that tree species that showed stronger negative feedback were less common as adults in the forest community, indicating that susceptibility to soil biota may determine species relative abundance in these tropical forests. Finally, our simulation models confirm that the strength of local negative feedback that we measured is sufficient to produce the observed community-wide patterns in tree-species relative abundance. Our findings indicate that plant-soil feedback is an important mechanism that can maintain species diversity and explain patterns of tree-species relative abundance in tropical forests.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mangan, Scott A -- Schnitzer, Stefan A -- Herre, Edward A -- Mack, Keenan M L -- Valencia, Mariana C -- Sanchez, Evelyn I -- Bever, James D -- R01 GM092660/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 5;466(7307):752-5. doi: 10.1038/nature09273.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA. smangan37@gmail.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20581819" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biodiversity ; Biomass ; Computer Simulation ; Feedback, Physiological ; Food Chain ; Insects/physiology ; Models, Biological ; Panama ; Population Density ; Seedlings/growth & development ; Soil/*analysis ; *Soil Microbiology ; Species Specificity ; Trees/*classification/*growth & development/microbiology/parasitology ; *Tropical Climate ; Vertebrates/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-02
    Description: Protected areas vary enormously in their contribution to conserving biodiversity, and the inefficiency of protected area systems is widely acknowledged. However, conservation plans focus overwhelmingly on adding new sites to current protected area estates. Here we show that the conservation performance of a protected area system can be radically improved, without extra expenditure, by replacing a small number of protected areas with new ones that achieve more for conservation. Replacing the least cost-effective 1% of Australia's 6,990 strictly protected areas could increase the number of vegetation types that have 15% or more of their original extent protected from 18 to 54, of a maximum possible of 58. Moreover, it increases markedly the area that can be protected, with no increase in overall spending. This new paradigm for protected area system expansion could yield huge improvements to global conservation at a time when competition for land is increasingly intense.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fuller, Richard A -- McDonald-Madden, Eve -- Wilson, Kerrie A -- Carwardine, Josie -- Grantham, Hedley S -- Watson, James E M -- Klein, Carissa J -- Green, David C -- Possingham, Hugh P -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 15;466(7304):365-7. doi: 10.1038/nature09180. Epub 2010 Jun 30.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Ecology Centre, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia. r.a.fuller@dunelm.org.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20592729" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Australia ; Biodiversity ; Conservation of Natural Resources/*economics/*methods/statistics & numerical data ; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; *Ecosystem ; Forestry/economics/methods ; Trees/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kareiva, Peter -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 15;466(7304):322-3. doi: 10.1038/466322a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20631786" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Australia ; Biodiversity ; Conservation of Natural Resources/*economics/*methods/statistics & numerical data ; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; *Ecosystem
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    Publication Date: 2010-04-30
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ganellin, Robin -- Duncan, William -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 29;464(7293):1292. doi: 10.1038/4641292a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20428161" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Drug Industry/history ; History, 20th Century ; Nobel Prize ; Pharmacology/*history ; Scotland
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 16;467(7313):251-2. doi: 10.1038/467251b.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20844491" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animal Migration ; Animals ; Conservation of Natural Resources/*methods ; *Ecosystem ; Politics ; Risk Assessment ; Ruminants/physiology ; Tanzania ; Transportation/*instrumentation ; Urbanization/*trends
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    Publication Date: 2010-02-25
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Penders, Bart -- Vermeulen, Niki -- Parker, John N -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 14;463(7278):157. doi: 10.1038/463157d.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20075896" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Government ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; *Learning ; Private Sector ; Public Policy ; Science/*history/*methods/trends ; *Search Engine ; Universities
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    Publication Date: 2010-08-13
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Marin, Victor H -- Delgado, Luisa E -- Tironi, Antonio -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 12;466(7308):815. doi: 10.1038/466815c.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703284" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Chile ; *Ecosystem ; *Fisheries ; *Mass Media ; *Salmon ; Uncertainty
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    Keywords: Data Collection ; Genetic Testing/trends ; Genetics, Medical/*trends ; Genome, Human/*genetics ; Genomics/economics/*history/trends ; Haplotypes/genetics ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Human Genome Project/*history ; Humans ; Time Factors
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    Keywords: *Ecosystem ; *Environment ; Government Regulation ; Oceans and Seas ; *Public Policy/economics ; United States
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mascarelli, Amanda -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 24;465(7301):993. doi: 10.1038/465993b.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20577177" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Disasters ; *Ecosystem ; *Federal Government ; Industry/*economics/*legislation & jurisprudence ; Mexico ; Oceans and Seas ; Petroleum/*adverse effects ; Research/*economics ; Seawater/*chemistry ; United States
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Marris, Emma -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 5;466(7307):784-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20862790" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Anthozoa ; Conservation of Natural Resources/*trends ; Disasters ; *Ecosystem ; Employment/statistics & numerical data/trends ; Fisheries/methods/statistics & numerical data ; Human Activities ; Marine Biology/education/*manpower/*trends ; Petroleum/adverse effects ; Public Policy ; *Research Personnel ; Social Sciences/education
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    Publication Date: 2010-12-18
    Description: Changes in gene regulatory networks are a major source of evolutionary novelty. Here we describe a specific type of network rewiring event, one that intercalates a new level of transcriptional control into an ancient circuit. We deduce that, over evolutionary time, the direct ancestral connections between a regulator and its target genes were broken and replaced by indirect connections, preserving the overall logic of the ancestral circuit but producing a new behaviour. The example was uncovered through a series of experiments in three ascomycete yeasts: the bakers' yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the dairy yeast Kluyveromyces lactis and the human pathogen Candida albicans. All three species have three cell types: two mating-competent cell forms (a and alpha) and the product of their mating (a/alpha), which is mating-incompetent. In the ancestral mating circuit, two homeodomain proteins, Mata1 and Matalpha2, form a heterodimer that directly represses four genes that are expressed only in a and alpha cells and are required for mating. In a relatively recent ancestor of K. lactis, a reorganization occurred. The Mata1-Matalpha2 heterodimer represses the same four genes (known as the core haploid-specific genes) but now does so indirectly through an intermediate regulatory protein, Rme1. The overall logic of the ancestral circuit is preserved (haploid-specific genes ON in a and alpha cells and OFF in a/alpha cells), but a new phenotype was produced by the rewiring: unlike S. cerevisiae and C. albicans, K. lactis integrates nutritional signals, by means of Rme1, into the decision of whether or not to mate.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3254258/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3254258/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Booth, Lauren N -- Tuch, Brian B -- Johnson, Alexander D -- R01 GM037049/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM037049-26/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM037049-27/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Dec 16;468(7326):959-63. doi: 10.1038/nature09560.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21164485" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Candida albicans/cytology/*genetics/metabolism/physiology ; *Evolution, Molecular ; Fungal Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Gene Expression Profiling ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal/genetics ; Genes, Fungal/genetics ; Homeodomain Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Kluyveromyces/cytology/*genetics/physiology ; Models, Biological ; Phenotype ; Protein Precursors/genetics/metabolism ; Repressor Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/cytology/*genetics/metabolism/physiology ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Transcription, Genetic/*genetics
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    Publication Date: 2010-08-21
    Description: Laryngeal echolocation, used by most living bats to form images of their surroundings and to detect and capture flying prey, is considered to be a key innovation for the evolutionary success of bats, and palaeontologists have long sought osteological correlates of echolocation that can be used to infer the behaviour of fossil bats. Veselka et al. argued that the most reliable trait indicating echolocation capabilities in bats is an articulation between the stylohyal bone (part of the hyoid apparatus that supports the throat and larynx) and the tympanic bone, which forms the floor of the middle ear. They examined the oldest and most primitive known bat, Onychonycteris finneyi (early Eocene, USA), and argued that it showed evidence of this stylohyal-tympanic articulation, from which they concluded that O. finneyi may have been capable of echolocation. We disagree with their interpretation of key fossil data and instead argue that O. finneyi was probably not an echolocating bat.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Simmons, Nancy B -- Seymour, Kevin L -- Habersetzer, Jorg -- Gunnell, Gregg F -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 19;466(7309):E8; discussion E9. doi: 10.1038/nature09219.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA. simmons@amnh.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20724993" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animal Structures/physiology ; Animals ; Bone and Bones/physiology ; Chiroptera/anatomy & histology/*physiology ; Echolocation/*physiology ; *Fossils ; Models, Biological ; Reproducibility of Results
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    Publication Date: 2010-11-19
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Powers, Joseph E -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 18;468(7322):385-6. doi: 10.1038/468385a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21085170" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Aquatic Organisms/*isolation & purification ; *Biodiversity ; Databases, Factual ; *Ecosystem ; *Fisheries ; *Fishes ; Food Chain ; Models, Biological
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    Publication Date: 2010-11-19
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gomory, Ralph -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 18;468(7322):378. doi: 10.1038/468378a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21085164" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Fractals/*history ; France ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Mathematics/history ; Nature ; Poland ; United States
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    Publication Date: 2010-06-26
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Viswanathan, Gandhimohan M -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 24;465(7301):1018-9. doi: 10.1038/4651018a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20577199" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Ecosystem ; Fishes/*physiology ; *Food ; Locomotion/*physiology ; Models, Biological ; Predatory Behavior/*physiology ; *Seawater ; Swimming/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2010-12-03
    Description: 〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088109/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088109/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kielian, Margaret -- R01 AI075647/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI075647-17/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM057454/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM057454-11/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R21 AI067931/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R21 AI067931-02/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Dec 2;468(7324):645-6. doi: 10.1038/468645a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21124448" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Chikungunya virus/*chemistry/physiology ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Membrane Fusion ; Membrane Glycoproteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Biological ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Structure, Quaternary ; Receptors, Virus/metabolism ; Sindbis Virus/*chemistry/*physiology ; Viral Envelope Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Viral Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Virion/chemistry/metabolism ; *Virus Internalization
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dalton, Rex -- England -- Nature. 2010 Feb 11;463(7282):724-5. doi: 10.1038/463724a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148008" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Arctic Regions ; Cryopreservation ; DNA/genetics/isolation & purification ; DNA, Mitochondrial/analysis/genetics ; Denmark ; Emigration and Immigration/*history ; Feces ; Fossils ; Genetics, Medical/history ; Genome, Human/*genetics ; Greenland/ethnology ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; History, Ancient ; Humans ; Inuits/*ethnology/*history ; Male ; Paleontology/*history ; Phylogeny ; Reproducibility of Results ; Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Siberia/ethnology
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dalton, Rex -- England -- Nature. 2010 Feb 25;463(7284):1007. doi: 10.1038/4631007a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20182480" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Anthozoa ; Australia ; California ; *Conservation of Natural Resources/economics/methods ; *Ecosystem ; *Fisheries/economics ; Population Density
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    Publication Date: 2010-01-16
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kilner, Rebecca -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 14;463(7278):165-7. doi: 10.1038/463165a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20075907" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Biological Evolution ; Birds/*parasitology/*physiology ; Cues ; Discrimination Learning/*physiology ; Models, Biological ; Nesting Behavior/*physiology ; Pattern Recognition, Visual/physiology ; Survival Rate ; Time Factors
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    Publication Date: 2010-08-21
    Description: Theory predicts that the evolution of cooperative behaviour is favoured by low levels of promiscuity leading to high within-group relatedness. However, in vertebrates, cooperation often occurs between non-relatives and promiscuity rates are among the highest recorded. Here we resolve this apparent inconsistency with a phylogenetic analysis of 267 bird species, demonstrating that cooperative breeding is associated with low promiscuity; that in cooperative species, helping is more common when promiscuity is low; and that intermediate levels of promiscuity favour kin discrimination. Overall, these results suggest that promiscuity is a unifying feature across taxa in explaining transitions to and from cooperative societies.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cornwallis, Charlie K -- West, Stuart A -- Davis, Katie E -- Griffin, Ashleigh S -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 19;466(7309):969-72. doi: 10.1038/nature09335.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20725039" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biological Evolution ; Birds/classification/genetics/*physiology ; *Cooperative Behavior ; Fathers ; Female ; Male ; Models, Biological ; Mothers ; Phylogeny ; Reproduction/genetics/physiology ; Sexual Behavior, Animal/*physiology ; *Siblings
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Marris, Emma -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 17;465(7300):859. doi: 10.1038/465859a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20559360" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biodiversity ; *Ecosystem ; Global Warming ; Humans ; *United Nations/economics
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    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cyranoski, David -- England -- Nature. 2009 Dec 17;462(7275):948.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20108440" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Awards and Prizes ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Japan ; *Mentors/psychology ; Periodicals as Topic ; *Research Personnel/education/standards
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-03
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Munnich, Arnold -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 1;466(7302):20. doi: 10.1038/466020a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20595986" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Biological Science Disciplines/organization & administration ; Biomedical Research/*economics/*organization & administration/standards ; France ; Genetics, Medical ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Hospitals, University/trends ; Research Support as Topic/organization & administration ; Universities/economics/*organization & administration/standards
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    Publication Date: 2010-09-10
    Description: During the decline to extinction, animal populations may present dynamical phenomena not exhibited by robust populations. Some of these phenomena, such as the scaling of demographic variance, are related to small size whereas others result from density-dependent nonlinearities. Although understanding the causes of population extinction has been a central problem in theoretical biology for decades, the ability to anticipate extinction has remained elusive. Here we argue that the causes of a population's decline are central to the predictability of its extinction. Specifically, environmental degradation may cause a tipping point in population dynamics, corresponding to a bifurcation in the underlying population growth equations, beyond which decline to extinction is almost certain. In such cases, imminent extinction will be signalled by critical slowing down (CSD). We conducted an experiment with replicate laboratory populations of Daphnia magna to test this hypothesis. We show that populations crossing a transcritical bifurcation, experimentally induced by the controlled decline in environmental conditions, show statistical signatures of CSD after the onset of environmental deterioration and before the critical transition. Populations in constant environments did not have these patterns. Four statistical indicators all showed evidence of the approaching bifurcation as early as 110 days ( approximately 8 generations) before the transition occurred. Two composite indices improved predictability, and comparative analysis showed that early warning signals based solely on observations in deteriorating environments without reference populations for standardization were hampered by the presence of transient dynamics before the onset of deterioration, pointing to the importance of reliable baseline data before environmental deterioration begins. The universality of bifurcations in models of population dynamics suggests that this phenomenon should be general.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Drake, John M -- Griffen, Blaine D -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 23;467(7314):456-9. doi: 10.1038/nature09389. Epub 2010 Sep 8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA. jdrake@uga.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20827269" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Daphnia/growth & development/*physiology ; *Ecosystem ; *Extinction, Biological ; Forecasting ; *Models, Biological ; Population Density ; Population Dynamics
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    Publication Date: 2010-06-22
    Description: Networks have become a key approach to understanding systems of interacting objects, unifying the study of diverse phenomena including biological organisms and human society. One crucial step when studying the structure and dynamics of networks is to identify communities: groups of related nodes that correspond to functional subunits such as protein complexes or social spheres. Communities in networks often overlap such that nodes simultaneously belong to several groups. Meanwhile, many networks are known to possess hierarchical organization, where communities are recursively grouped into a hierarchical structure. However, the fact that many real networks have communities with pervasive overlap, where each and every node belongs to more than one group, has the consequence that a global hierarchy of nodes cannot capture the relationships between overlapping groups. Here we reinvent communities as groups of links rather than nodes and show that this unorthodox approach successfully reconciles the antagonistic organizing principles of overlapping communities and hierarchy. In contrast to the existing literature, which has entirely focused on grouping nodes, link communities naturally incorporate overlap while revealing hierarchical organization. We find relevant link communities in many networks, including major biological networks such as protein-protein interaction and metabolic networks, and show that a large social network contains hierarchically organized community structures spanning inner-city to regional scales while maintaining pervasive overlap. Our results imply that link communities are fundamental building blocks that reveal overlap and hierarchical organization in networks to be two aspects of the same phenomenon.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ahn, Yong-Yeol -- Bagrow, James P -- Lehmann, Sune -- U01 A1070499-01/PHS HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 5;466(7307):761-4. doi: 10.1038/nature09182. Epub 2010 Jun 20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Complex Network Research, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20562860" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Cell Phones/utilization ; Cities ; *Community Networks/statistics & numerical data ; Humans ; *Metabolic Networks and Pathways ; Models, Biological ; *Protein Interaction Mapping
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    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
    Description: Animals that travel together in groups display a variety of fascinating motion patterns thought to be the result of delicate local interactions among group members. Although the most informative way of investigating and interpreting collective movement phenomena would be afforded by the collection of high-resolution spatiotemporal data from moving individuals, such data are scarce and are virtually non-existent for long-distance group motion within a natural setting because of the associated technological difficulties. Here we present results of experiments in which track logs of homing pigeons flying in flocks of up to 10 individuals have been obtained by high-resolution lightweight GPS devices and analysed using a variety of correlation functions inspired by approaches common in statistical physics. We find a well-defined hierarchy among flock members from data concerning leading roles in pairwise interactions, defined on the basis of characteristic delay times between birds' directional choices. The average spatial position of a pigeon within the flock strongly correlates with its place in the hierarchy, and birds respond more quickly to conspecifics perceived primarily through the left eye-both results revealing differential roles for birds that assume different positions with respect to flock-mates. From an evolutionary perspective, our results suggest that hierarchical organization of group flight may be more efficient than an egalitarian one, at least for those flock sizes that permit regular pairwise interactions among group members, during which leader-follower relationships are consistently manifested.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nagy, Mate -- Akos, Zsuzsa -- Biro, Dora -- Vicsek, Tamas -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 8;464(7290):890-3. doi: 10.1038/nature08891.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Physics, Eotvos University, Pazmany Peter setany 1A, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20376149" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Columbidae/*physiology ; Decision Making ; Flight, Animal/*physiology ; Geographic Information Systems ; *Group Processes ; *Hierarchy, Social ; Leadership ; Locomotion/physiology ; Models, Biological
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    Publication Date: 2010-05-14
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Earle, Sylvia -- England -- Nature. 2010 May 13;465(7295):165. doi: 10.1038/465165a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20463723" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Climate ; *Conservation of Natural Resources ; *Ecology ; *Ecosystem ; *Marine Biology ; Meteorology ; *Motion Pictures as Topic ; Oceans and Seas ; Population Density
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    Publication Date: 2010-02-26
    Description: The longstanding concept that corneal epithelial stem cells reside mainly in the limbus is supported by the absence of major corneal epithelial differentiation markers, that is, K3 and K12 keratins, in limbal basal cells (these markers are expressed, however, in corneal basal cells, thus distinguishing the mode of keratin expression in corneal epithelium from that of all other stratified epithelia), the centripetal migration of corneal epithelial cells, the exclusive location of slow-cycling cells in the limbal basal layer, the superior in vitro proliferative potential of limbal epithelial cells, and the transplanted limbal cells' ability to reconstitute corneal epithelium in vivo (reviewed in refs 1-4). Moreover, previous data indicate that corneal and conjunctival epithelia represent two separate cell lineages (reviewed in refs 1-4). Majo et al. suggested, however, that corneal and conjunctival epithelia are equipotent, and that identical oligopotent stem cells are present throughout the corneal, limbal and conjunctival epithelia. We point out here that these suggestions are inconsistent with many known growth, differentiation and cell migration properties of the anterior ocular epithelia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sun, Tung-Tien -- Tseng, Scheffer C -- Lavker, Robert M -- England -- Nature. 2010 Feb 25;463(7284):E10-1; discussion E11. doi: 10.1038/nature08805.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. sunt01@nyumc.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20182462" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cattle ; Cell Differentiation ; Cell Lineage ; *Cell Movement ; Cell Proliferation ; Conjunctiva/cytology ; Epithelium, Corneal/*cytology ; Goblet Cells/cytology ; Humans ; Limbus Corneae/*cytology ; Mice ; Models, Biological ; Rabbits ; Reproducibility of Results ; Sheep ; Stem Cells/*cytology ; Swine
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-29
    Description: Metastasis, the dissemination and growth of neoplastic cells in an organ distinct from that in which they originated, is the most common cause of death in cancer patients. This is particularly true for pancreatic cancers, where most patients are diagnosed with metastatic disease and few show a sustained response to chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Whether the dismal prognosis of patients with pancreatic cancer compared to patients with other types of cancer is a result of late diagnosis or early dissemination of disease to distant organs is not known. Here we rely on data generated by sequencing the genomes of seven pancreatic cancer metastases to evaluate the clonal relationships among primary and metastatic cancers. We find that clonal populations that give rise to distant metastases are represented within the primary carcinoma, but these clones are genetically evolved from the original parental, non-metastatic clone. Thus, genetic heterogeneity of metastases reflects that within the primary carcinoma. A quantitative analysis of the timing of the genetic evolution of pancreatic cancer was performed, indicating at least a decade between the occurrence of the initiating mutation and the birth of the parental, non-metastatic founder cell. At least five more years are required for the acquisition of metastatic ability and patients die an average of two years thereafter. These data provide novel insights into the genetic features underlying pancreatic cancer progression and define a broad time window of opportunity for early detection to prevent deaths from metastatic disease.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3148940/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3148940/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yachida, Shinichi -- Jones, Sian -- Bozic, Ivana -- Antal, Tibor -- Leary, Rebecca -- Fu, Baojin -- Kamiyama, Mihoko -- Hruban, Ralph H -- Eshleman, James R -- Nowak, Martin A -- Velculescu, Victor E -- Kinzler, Kenneth W -- Vogelstein, Bert -- Iacobuzio-Donahue, Christine A -- A62924/PHS HHS/ -- CA106610/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA121113/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA43460/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA57345/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM078986/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- K08 CA106610/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- K08 CA106610-04/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- K08 CA106610-05/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P50 CA062924/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P50 CA062924-10/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P50 CA062924-11/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P50 CA062924-12/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA057345/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA057345-08/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA057345-09/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA057345-10/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA121113/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA121113-03/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA121113-04/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA121113-05/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA140599/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM078986/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM078986-02/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM078986-03/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM078986-04/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R37 CA043460/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R37 CA043460-24/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R37 CA043460-25/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R37 CA043460-26/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R37 CA057345/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Oct 28;467(7319):1114-7. doi: 10.1038/nature09515.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20981102" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenocarcinoma/genetics/pathology ; Autopsy ; Cell Lineage/genetics ; Clone Cells/metabolism/pathology ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; *Disease Progression ; Early Detection of Cancer ; *Evolution, Molecular ; Humans ; Liver Neoplasms/genetics/secondary ; Lung Neoplasms/genetics/secondary ; Models, Biological ; Mutation/*genetics ; Neoplasm Metastasis/*genetics/pathology ; Pancreas/metabolism/pathology ; Pancreatic Neoplasms/*genetics/*pathology ; Peritoneal Neoplasms/genetics/secondary ; Time Factors
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yang, Xiaohui -- Jia, Zhiqing -- Ci, Longjun -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 15;466(7304):315; author reply 315. doi: 10.1038/466315c.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20631778" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: China ; Conservation of Natural Resources/*methods ; *Ecosystem ; Forestry/*methods ; *Program Evaluation ; Rain ; Soil/*analysis ; Trees/*growth & development ; Water Supply/*analysis ; Wind
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-15
    Description: The Ndc80 complex is a key site of regulated kinetochore-microtubule attachment (a process required for cell division), but the molecular mechanism underlying its function remains unknown. Here we present a subnanometre-resolution cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction of the human Ndc80 complex bound to microtubules, sufficient for precise docking of crystal structures of the component proteins. We find that the Ndc80 complex binds the microtubule with a tubulin monomer repeat, recognizing alpha- and beta-tubulin at both intra- and inter-tubulin dimer interfaces in a manner that is sensitive to tubulin conformation. Furthermore, Ndc80 complexes self-associate along protofilaments through interactions mediated by the amino-terminal tail of the NDC80 protein, which is the site of phospho-regulation by Aurora B kinase. The complex's mode of interaction with the microtubule and its oligomerization suggest a mechanism by which Aurora B could regulate the stability of load-bearing kinetochore-microtubule attachments.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957311/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957311/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Alushin, Gregory M -- Ramey, Vincent H -- Pasqualato, Sebastiano -- Ball, David A -- Grigorieff, Nikolaus -- Musacchio, Andrea -- Nogales, Eva -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Oct 14;467(7317):805-10. doi: 10.1038/nature09423.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20944740" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Cryoelectron Microscopy ; Humans ; Kinetochores/*chemistry/ultrastructure ; Microtubules/chemistry/*metabolism/ultrastructure ; Mitosis ; Models, Biological ; Models, Molecular ; Nuclear Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism/ultrastructure ; Protein Conformation ; Tubulin/chemistry/metabolism/ultrastructure
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    Publication Date: 2010-02-26
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nealson, Kenneth H -- England -- Nature. 2010 Feb 25;463(7284):1033-4. doi: 10.1038/4631033a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20182504" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Bacteria/metabolism ; Diffusion ; *Electric Conductivity ; Electron Transport ; Geologic Sediments/*chemistry/*microbiology ; Humans ; Hydrogen Sulfide/analysis/metabolism ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Models, Biological ; Nanowires/microbiology ; Oxygen/analysis/metabolism ; Seawater/microbiology
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    Publication Date: 2010-11-05
    Description: The understanding of marine microbial ecology and metabolism has been hampered by the paucity of sequenced reference genomes. To this end, we report the sequencing of 137 diverse marine isolates collected from around the world. We analysed these sequences, along with previously published marine prokaryotic genomes, in the context of marine metagenomic data, to gain insights into the ecology of the surface ocean prokaryotic picoplankton (0.1-3.0 mum size range). The results suggest that the sequenced genomes define two microbial groups: one composed of only a few taxa that are nearly always abundant in picoplanktonic communities, and the other consisting of many microbial taxa that are rarely abundant. The genomic content of the second group suggests that these microbes are capable of slow growth and survival in energy-limited environments, and rapid growth in energy-rich environments. By contrast, the abundant and cosmopolitan picoplanktonic prokaryotes for which there is genomic representation have smaller genomes, are probably capable of only slow growth and seem to be relatively unable to sense or rapidly acclimate to energy-rich conditions. Their genomic features also lead us to propose that one method used to avoid predation by viruses and/or bacterivores is by means of slow growth and the maintenance of low biomass.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yooseph, Shibu -- Nealson, Kenneth H -- Rusch, Douglas B -- McCrow, John P -- Dupont, Christopher L -- Kim, Maria -- Johnson, Justin -- Montgomery, Robert -- Ferriera, Steve -- Beeson, Karen -- Williamson, Shannon J -- Tovchigrechko, Andrey -- Allen, Andrew E -- Zeigler, Lisa A -- Sutton, Granger -- Eisenstadt, Eric -- Rogers, Yu-Hui -- Friedman, Robert -- Frazier, Marvin -- Venter, J Craig -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 4;468(7320):60-6. doi: 10.1038/nature09530.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21048761" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aquatic Organisms/classification/*genetics/isolation & purification/virology ; Biodiversity ; Biomass ; Databases, Protein ; Genome, Bacterial/genetics ; *Genomics ; *Metagenome ; Models, Biological ; Oceans and Seas ; Phylogeny ; Plankton/*genetics/growth & development/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Prokaryotic Cells/classification/*metabolism/virology ; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics ; Water Microbiology
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    Publication Date: 2010-05-11
    Description: Field experiments that measure natural selection in response to manipulations of the selective regime are extremely rare, even in systems where the ecological basis of adaptation has been studied extensively. The adaptive radiation of Caribbean Anolis lizards has been studied for decades, leading to precise predictions about the influence of alternative agents of selection in the wild. Here we present experimental evidence for the relative importance of two putative agents of selection in shaping the adaptive landscape for a classic island radiation. We manipulated whole-island populations of the brown anole lizard, Anolis sagrei, to measure the relative importance of predation versus competition as agents of natural selection. We excluded or included bird and snake predators across six islands that ranged from low to high population densities of lizards, then measured subsequent differences in behaviour and natural selection in each population. Predators altered the lizards' perching behaviour and increased mortality, but predation treatments did not alter selection on phenotypic traits. By contrast, experimentally increasing population density dramatically increased the strength of viability selection favouring large body size, long relative limb length and high running stamina. Our results from A. sagrei are consistent with the hypothesis that intraspecific competition is more important than predation in shaping the selective landscape for traits central to the adaptive radiation of Anolis ecomorphs.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Calsbeek, Ryan -- Cox, Robert M -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jun 3;465(7298):613-6. doi: 10.1038/nature09020. Epub 2010 May 9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA. ryan.calsbeek@dartmouth.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20453837" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Bahamas ; Behavior, Animal/physiology ; *Biological Evolution ; Birds/physiology ; Body Size/physiology ; Competitive Behavior/*physiology ; Extremities/anatomy & histology ; Geography ; Lizards/anatomy & histology/*physiology ; Models, Biological ; Organ Size/physiology ; Phenotype ; Population Density ; Predatory Behavior/*physiology ; Running/physiology ; Selection, Genetic/*physiology ; Snakes/physiology ; Survival Rate
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-03
    Description: The evidence for macroscopic life during the Palaeoproterozoic era (2.5-1.6 Gyr ago) is controversial. Except for the nearly 2-Gyr-old coil-shaped fossil Grypania spiralis, which may have been eukaryotic, evidence for morphological and taxonomic biodiversification of macroorganisms only occurs towards the beginning of the Mesoproterozoic era (1.6-1.0 Gyr). Here we report the discovery of centimetre-sized structures from the 2.1-Gyr-old black shales of the Palaeoproterozoic Francevillian B Formation in Gabon, which we interpret as highly organized and spatially discrete populations of colonial organisms. The structures are up to 12 cm in size and have characteristic shapes, with a simple but distinct ground pattern of flexible sheets and, usually, a permeating radial fabric. Geochemical analyses suggest that the sediments were deposited under an oxygenated water column. Carbon and sulphur isotopic data indicate that the structures were distinct biogenic objects, fossilized by pyritization early in the formation of the rock. The growth patterns deduced from the fossil morphologies suggest that the organisms showed cell-to-cell signalling and coordinated responses, as is commonly associated with multicellular organization. The Gabon fossils, occurring after the 2.45-2.32-Gyr increase in atmospheric oxygen concentration, may be seen as ancient representatives of multicellular life, which expanded so rapidly 1.5 Gyr later, in the Cambrian explosion.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉El Albani, Abderrazak -- Bengtson, Stefan -- Canfield, Donald E -- Bekker, Andrey -- Macchiarelli, Roberto -- Mazurier, Arnaud -- Hammarlund, Emma U -- Boulvais, Philippe -- Dupuy, Jean-Jacques -- Fontaine, Claude -- Fursich, Franz T -- Gauthier-Lafaye, Francois -- Janvier, Philippe -- Javaux, Emmanuelle -- Ossa, Frantz Ossa -- Pierson-Wickmann, Anne-Catherine -- Riboulleau, Armelle -- Sardini, Paul -- Vachard, Daniel -- Whitehouse, Martin -- Meunier, Alain -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 1;466(7302):100-4. doi: 10.1038/nature09166.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratoire HYDRASA, UMR 6269 CNRS-INSU, Universite de Poitiers, 86022 Poitiers, France. abder.albani@univ-poitiers.fr〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20596019" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Bacteria/cytology ; *Ecosystem ; Eukaryota/cytology ; *Fossils ; Gabon ; Geologic Sediments/microbiology ; History, Ancient ; Oxygen/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-01
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hilborn, Ray -- Cowan, James H Jr -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 30;467(7315):531. doi: 10.1038/467531c.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20881998" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Certification/economics/*standards ; Conservation of Natural Resources/*legislation & jurisprudence/methods ; *Ecosystem ; Fisheries/economics/*standards ; Fishes/physiology ; Marine Biology/*standards ; Population Dynamics ; *Seafood/economics/standards
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    Publication Date: 2010-12-18
    Description: On the basis of projected losses of their essential sea-ice habitats, a United States Geological Survey research team concluded in 2007 that two-thirds of the world's polar bears (Ursus maritimus) could disappear by mid-century if business-as-usual greenhouse gas emissions continue. That projection, however, did not consider the possible benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation. A key question is whether temperature increases lead to proportional losses of sea-ice habitat, or whether sea-ice cover crosses a tipping point and irreversibly collapses when temperature reaches a critical threshold. Such a tipping point would mean future greenhouse gas mitigation would confer no conservation benefits to polar bears. Here we show, using a general circulation model, that substantially more sea-ice habitat would be retained if greenhouse gas rise is mitigated. We also show, with Bayesian network model outcomes, that increased habitat retention under greenhouse gas mitigation means that polar bears could persist throughout the century in greater numbers and more areas than in the business-as-usual case. Our general circulation model outcomes did not reveal thresholds leading to irreversible loss of ice; instead, a linear relationship between global mean surface air temperature and sea-ice habitat substantiated the hypothesis that sea-ice thermodynamics can overcome albedo feedbacks proposed to cause sea-ice tipping points. Our outcomes indicate that rapid summer ice losses in models and observations represent increased volatility of a thinning sea-ice cover, rather than tipping-point behaviour. Mitigation-driven Bayesian network outcomes show that previously predicted declines in polar bear distribution and numbers are not unavoidable. Because polar bears are sentinels of the Arctic marine ecosystem and trends in their sea-ice habitats foreshadow future global changes, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to improve polar bear status would have conservation benefits throughout and beyond the Arctic.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Amstrup, Steven C -- Deweaver, Eric T -- Douglas, David C -- Marcot, Bruce G -- Durner, George M -- Bitz, Cecilia M -- Bailey, David A -- England -- Nature. 2010 Dec 16;468(7326):955-8. doi: 10.1038/nature09653.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉US Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, 4210 University Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA. samstrup@pbears.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21164484" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Aquatic Organisms ; Arctic Regions ; Bayes Theorem ; Carbon Dioxide/analysis ; *Ecosystem ; Endangered Species/statistics & numerical data/*trends ; Environmental Monitoring ; Gases/analysis ; Global Warming/prevention & control/statistics & numerical data ; Greenhouse Effect/*prevention & control/statistics & numerical data ; *Ice Cover ; Models, Theoretical ; Population Density ; Predatory Behavior ; Seasons ; Seawater/analysis/chemistry ; Temperature ; Thermodynamics ; Time Factors ; Ursidae/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-01
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sambrotto, Raymond N -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 30;467(7315):538-9. doi: 10.1038/467538a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20882003" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Diatoms/genetics/metabolism ; *Ecosystem ; *Geography ; Nitrogen/analysis/metabolism ; Oceans and Seas ; Phosphorus/analysis/metabolism ; Plankton/*metabolism ; Seawater/*chemistry
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  • 89
    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
    Description: Benzodiazepines are widely used in clinics and for recreational purposes, but will lead to addiction in vulnerable individuals. Addictive drugs increase the levels of dopamine and also trigger long-lasting synaptic adaptations in the mesolimbic reward system that ultimately may induce the pathological behaviour. The neural basis for the addictive nature of benzodiazepines, however, remains elusive. Here we show that benzodiazepines increase firing of dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area through the positive modulation of GABA(A) (gamma-aminobutyric acid type A) receptors in nearby interneurons. Such disinhibition, which relies on alpha1-containing GABA(A) receptors expressed in these cells, triggers drug-evoked synaptic plasticity in excitatory afferents onto dopamine neurons and underlies drug reinforcement. Taken together, our data provide evidence that benzodiazepines share defining pharmacological features of addictive drugs through cell-type-specific expression of alpha1-containing GABA(A) receptors in the ventral tegmental area. The data also indicate that subunit-selective benzodiazepines sparing alpha1 may be devoid of addiction liability.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871668/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871668/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tan, Kelly R -- Brown, Matthew -- Labouebe, Gwenael -- Yvon, Cedric -- Creton, Cyril -- Fritschy, Jean-Marc -- Rudolph, Uwe -- Luscher, Christian -- DA019022/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA019022/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA019022-04/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Feb 11;463(7282):769-74. doi: 10.1038/nature08758.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Basic Neurosciences, Medical Faculty, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148031" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials/drug effects ; Administration, Oral ; Animals ; Behavior, Addictive/*chemically induced/pathology/*physiopathology ; Benzodiazepines/administration & dosage/*adverse effects/*pharmacology ; Dopamine/metabolism ; Electric Conductivity ; Glutamic Acid/metabolism ; In Vitro Techniques ; Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potentials/drug effects/physiology ; Interneurons/drug effects/metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Midazolam/administration & dosage/adverse effects/pharmacology ; Models, Biological ; Morphine/pharmacology ; Neuronal Plasticity/drug effects ; Neurons/*drug effects/metabolism ; Organ Specificity ; Receptors, AMPA/metabolism ; Receptors, GABA-A/deficiency/genetics/metabolism ; Substrate Specificity ; Ventral Tegmental Area/cytology/drug effects/metabolism ; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/metabolism
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  • 90
    Publication Date: 2010-05-07
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cao, Shixiong -- Wang, Guosheng -- Chen, Li -- England -- Nature. 2010 May 6;465(7294):31. doi: 10.1038/465031d.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20445606" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: China ; Conservation of Natural Resources/*methods ; Droughts ; *Ecosystem ; Rain ; *Trees
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  • 91
    Publication Date: 2010-02-05
    Description: The mosquito Anopheles gambiae is the major vector of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. It locates its human hosts primarily through olfaction, but little is known about the molecular basis of this process. Here we functionally characterize the Anopheles gambiae odorant receptor (AgOr) repertoire. We identify receptors that respond strongly to components of human odour and that may act in the process of human recognition. Some of these receptors are narrowly tuned, and some salient odorants elicit strong responses from only one or a few receptors, suggesting a central role for specific transmission channels in human host-seeking behaviour. This analysis of the Anopheles gambiae receptors permits a comparison with the corresponding Drosophila melanogaster odorant receptor repertoire. We find that odorants are differentially encoded by the two species in ways consistent with their ecological needs. Our analysis of the Anopheles gambiae repertoire identifies receptors that may be useful targets for controlling the transmission of malaria.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2833235/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2833235/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Carey, Allison F -- Wang, Guirong -- Su, Chih-Ying -- Zwiebel, Laurence J -- Carlson, John R -- 2T32GM07205/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI056402/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI056402-06A2/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI056402-07/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC002174/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC002174-24/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC004729/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC004729-10/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM063364/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM063364-08/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Mar 4;464(7285):66-71. doi: 10.1038/nature08834. Epub 2010 Feb 3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20130575" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Anopheles gambiae/anatomy & histology/genetics/*metabolism ; Drosophila melanogaster/cytology/genetics/metabolism ; Electrophysiology ; Humans ; Insect Bites and Stings/prevention & control ; Insect Vectors/*metabolism ; *Malaria/prevention & control/transmission ; Models, Biological ; Odors/*analysis ; Olfactory Pathways/*metabolism ; Olfactory Receptor Neurons/metabolism ; Receptors, Odorant/genetics/*metabolism ; Time Factors
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    Publication Date: 2010-09-17
    Description: Every winter, the high-latitude oceans are struck by severe storms that are considerably smaller than the weather-dominating synoptic depressions. Accompanied by strong winds and heavy precipitation, these often explosively developing mesoscale cyclones-termed polar lows-constitute a threat to offshore activities such as shipping or oil and gas exploitation. Yet owing to their small scale, polar lows are poorly represented in the observational and global reanalysis data often used for climatological investigations of atmospheric features and cannot be assessed in coarse-resolution global simulations of possible future climates. Here we show that in a future anthropogenically warmed climate, the frequency of polar lows is projected to decline. We used a series of regional climate model simulations to downscale a set of global climate change scenarios from the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. In this process, we first simulated the formation of polar low systems in the North Atlantic and then counted the individual cases. A previous study using NCEP/NCAR re-analysis data revealed that polar low frequency from 1948 to 2005 did not systematically change. Now, in projections for the end of the twenty-first century, we found a significantly lower number of polar lows and a northward shift of their mean genesis region in response to elevated atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration. This change can be related to changes in the North Atlantic sea surface temperature and mid-troposphere temperature; the latter is found to rise faster than the former so that the resulting stability is increased, hindering the formation or intensification of polar lows. Our results provide a rare example of a climate change effect in which a type of extreme weather is likely to decrease, rather than increase.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zahn, Matthias -- von Storch, Hans -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 16;467(7313):309-12. doi: 10.1038/nature09388.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Environmental Systems Science Centre, University of Reading, 3 Earley Gate, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AL, UK. matthias.zahn@gkss.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20844533" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Atlantic Ocean ; Atmosphere/chemistry ; Cyclonic Storms/*statistics & numerical data ; Global Warming/*statistics & numerical data ; Greenhouse Effect ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Models, Theoretical ; Seasons ; Seawater ; Temperature
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    Publication Date: 2010-06-29
    Description: Cells operate in dynamic environments using extraordinary communication capabilities that emerge from the interactions of genetic circuitry. The mammalian immune response is a striking example of the coordination of different cell types. Cell-to-cell communication is primarily mediated by signalling molecules that form spatiotemporal concentration gradients, requiring cells to respond to a wide range of signal intensities. Here we use high-throughput microfluidic cell culture and fluorescence microscopy, quantitative gene expression analysis and mathematical modelling to investigate how single mammalian cells respond to different concentrations of the signalling molecule tumour-necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, and relay information to the gene expression programs by means of the transcription factor nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB. We measured NF-kappaB activity in thousands of live cells under TNF-alpha doses covering four orders of magnitude. We find, in contrast to population-level studies with bulk assays, that the activation is heterogeneous and is a digital process at the single-cell level with fewer cells responding at lower doses. Cells also encode a subtle set of analogue parameters to modulate the outcome; these parameters include NF-kappaB peak intensity, response time and number of oscillations. We developed a stochastic mathematical model that reproduces both the digital and analogue dynamics as well as most gene expression profiles at all measured conditions, constituting a broadly applicable model for TNF-alpha-induced NF-kappaB signalling in various types of cells. These results highlight the value of high-throughput quantitative measurements with single-cell resolution in understanding how biological systems operate.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105528/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105528/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tay, Savas -- Hughey, Jacob J -- Lee, Timothy K -- Lipniacki, Tomasz -- Quake, Stephen R -- Covert, Markus W -- K99CA125994/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R00 CA125994/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R00 CA125994-05/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01-GM086885/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 8;466(7303):267-71. doi: 10.1038/nature09145. Epub 2010 Jun 27.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20581820" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 3T3 Cells ; Active Transport, Cell Nucleus/drug effects ; Animals ; Cell Culture Techniques ; Cell Nucleus/drug effects/metabolism ; Cell Survival ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Gene Expression Profiling/*methods ; Gene Expression Regulation/*drug effects ; High-Throughput Screening Assays/*methods ; Mice ; Microfluidic Analytical Techniques ; Microscopy, Fluorescence ; Models, Biological ; NF-kappa B/*metabolism ; Signal Transduction/*drug effects/*physiology ; Stochastic Processes ; Substrate Specificity ; Time Factors ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/*pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 2010-02-25
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉England, John -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 14;463(7278):159. doi: 10.1038/463159a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉NSERC Northern Research Chair at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada. john.england@ualberta.ca〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20075900" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Arctic Regions ; Canada ; Ecology/*economics/instrumentation ; *Ecosystem ; Ice Cover ; Leadership ; Research/*economics/instrumentation ; Research Support as Topic/economics/*organization & administration
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    Publication Date: 2010-04-24
    Description: The production of artificial fertilizers, fossil fuel use and leguminous agriculture worldwide has increased the amount of reactive nitrogen in the natural environment by an order of magnitude since the Industrial Revolution. This reorganization of the nitrogen cycle has led to an increase in food production, but increasingly causes a number of environmental problems. One such problem is the accumulation of nitrate in both freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems. Here we establish that ecosystem nitrate accrual exhibits consistent and negative nonlinear correlations with organic carbon availability along a hydrologic continuum from soils, through freshwater systems and coastal margins, to the open ocean. The trend also prevails in ecosystems subject to substantial human alteration. Across this diversity of environments, we find evidence that resource stoichiometry (organic carbon:nitrate) strongly influences nitrate accumulation by regulating a suite of microbial processes that couple dissolved organic carbon and nitrate cycling. With the help of a meta-analysis we show that heterotrophic microbes maintain low nitrate concentrations when organic carbon:nitrate ratios match the stoichiometric demands of microbial anabolism. When resource ratios drop below the minimum carbon:nitrogen ratio of microbial biomass, however, the onset of carbon limitation appears to drive rapid nitrate accrual, which may then be further enhanced by nitrification. At low organic carbon:nitrate ratios, denitrification appears to constrain the extent of nitrate accretion, once organic carbon and nitrate availability approach the 1:1 stoichiometry of this catabolic process. Collectively, these microbial processes express themselves on local to global scales by restricting the threshold ratios underlying nitrate accrual to a constrained stoichiometric window. Our findings indicate that ecological stoichiometry can help explain the fate of nitrate across disparate environments and in the face of human disturbance.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Taylor, Philip G -- Townsend, Alan R -- England -- Nature. 2010 Apr 22;464(7292):1178-81. doi: 10.1038/nature08985.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. philip.taylor@colorado.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414306" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Bacteria/metabolism ; Biomass ; Carbon/analysis/*metabolism ; Climate ; *Ecosystem ; Fresh Water/chemistry ; Freshwater Biology ; Marine Biology ; Nitrates/analysis/*metabolism ; Nitrogen/analysis/metabolism ; Oceans and Seas ; Plankton/metabolism ; Seawater/*chemistry ; Soil/*analysis
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-15
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Homewood, Katherine -- Brockington, Daniel -- Sullivan, Sian -- England -- Nature. 2010 Oct 14;467(7317):788-9. doi: 10.1038/467788e.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20944723" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animal Migration ; Animals ; *Ecosystem ; *Environmental Policy ; Tanzania ; *Transportation
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    Publication Date: 2010-01-08
    Description: The fossil record of the earliest tetrapods (vertebrates with limbs rather than paired fins) consists of body fossils and trackways. The earliest body fossils of tetrapods date to the Late Devonian period (late Frasnian stage) and are preceded by transitional elpistostegids such as Panderichthys and Tiktaalik that still have paired fins. Claims of tetrapod trackways predating these body fossils have remained controversial with regard to both age and the identity of the track makers. Here we present well-preserved and securely dated tetrapod tracks from Polish marine tidal flat sediments of early Middle Devonian (Eifelian stage) age that are approximately 18 million years older than the earliest tetrapod body fossils and 10 million years earlier than the oldest elpistostegids. They force a radical reassessment of the timing, ecology and environmental setting of the fish-tetrapod transition, as well as the completeness of the body fossil record.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Niedzwiedzki, Grzegorz -- Szrek, Piotr -- Narkiewicz, Katarzyna -- Narkiewicz, Marek -- Ahlberg, Per E -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 7;463(7277):43-8. doi: 10.1038/nature08623.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Paleobiology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Warsaw University, 2S. Banacha Street, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20054388" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Chordata/anatomy & histology/*physiology ; Extremities/anatomy & histology/physiology ; Fishes/anatomy & histology/physiology ; *Fossils ; Gait/*physiology ; History, Ancient ; Models, Biological ; Phylogeny ; Poland
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    Publication Date: 2010-03-06
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Caskey, C Thomas -- England -- Nature. 2010 Mar 4;464(7285):44. doi: 10.1038/464044a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20203601" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Genetic Code/*genetics ; History, 20th Century ; Molecular Biology/*history ; National Institutes of Health (U.S.) ; Nobel Prize ; Protein Biosynthesis ; United States
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-24
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nierenberg, Nicolas -- Tschinkel, Walter R -- Tschinkel, Victoria J -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 22;466(7305):435. doi: 10.1038/466435c.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20651671" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acid Rain/*prevention & control ; History, 20th Century ; Peer Review, Research/*standards ; *Truth Disclosure
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    Publication Date: 2010-05-28
    Description: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with non-small-cell lung carcinomas in smokers being the predominant form of the disease. Although previous studies have identified important common somatic mutations in lung cancers, they have primarily focused on a limited set of genes and have thus provided a constrained view of the mutational spectrum. Recent cancer sequencing efforts have used next-generation sequencing technologies to provide a genome-wide view of mutations in leukaemia, breast cancer and cancer cell lines. Here we present the complete sequences of a primary lung tumour (60x coverage) and adjacent normal tissue (46x). Comparing the two genomes, we identify a wide variety of somatic variations, including 〉50,000 high-confidence single nucleotide variants. We validated 530 somatic single nucleotide variants in this tumour, including one in the KRAS proto-oncogene and 391 others in coding regions, as well as 43 large-scale structural variations. These constitute a large set of new somatic mutations and yield an estimated 17.7 per megabase genome-wide somatic mutation rate. Notably, we observe a distinct pattern of selection against mutations within expressed genes compared to non-expressed genes and in promoter regions up to 5 kilobases upstream of all protein-coding genes. Furthermore, we observe a higher rate of amino acid-changing mutations in kinase genes. We present a comprehensive view of somatic alterations in a single lung tumour, and provide the first evidence, to our knowledge, of distinct selective pressures present within the tumour environment.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lee, William -- Jiang, Zhaoshi -- Liu, Jinfeng -- Haverty, Peter M -- Guan, Yinghui -- Stinson, Jeremy -- Yue, Peng -- Zhang, Yan -- Pant, Krishna P -- Bhatt, Deepali -- Ha, Connie -- Johnson, Stephanie -- Kennemer, Michael I -- Mohan, Sankar -- Nazarenko, Igor -- Watanabe, Colin -- Sparks, Andrew B -- Shames, David S -- Gentleman, Robert -- de Sauvage, Frederic J -- Stern, Howard -- Pandita, Ajay -- Ballinger, Dennis G -- Drmanac, Radoje -- Modrusan, Zora -- Seshagiri, Somasekar -- Zhang, Zemin -- England -- Nature. 2010 May 27;465(7297):473-7. doi: 10.1038/nature09004.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20505728" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/*genetics ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; Genome, Human/*genetics ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms/*genetics ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Models, Biological ; Point Mutation/*genetics ; Selection, Genetic/genetics
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