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clock | February 2, 2010Just checking in on a few of the new PLoS titles.... As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Why We Conform:
What makes us human, what sets us apart from other animal species, and which traits do we share with our closest living relatives? Ever since Darwin introduced the notion of…
clock | February 1, 2010There are 21 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Drinking and Flying: Does Alcohol Consumption Affect the Flight and Echolocation Performance of Phyllostomid Bats?:
In the wild, frugivorous and nectarivorous bats often eat fermenting fruits and nectar,…
clock | January 29, 2010Friday morning, let's see what is new in various PLoS titles. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Live Coverage of Scientific Conferences Using Web Technologies:
Conferences are important hubs of scientific communication, facilitating networking in ways that traditional methods of remote…
clock | January 28, 2010There are 26 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Development and Field Evaluation of a Synthetic Mosquito Lure That Is More Attractive than Humans:
Disease transmitting mosquitoes locate humans and other blood hosts by identifying their characteristic…
clock | January 27, 2010There are 27 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Altruism in Forest Chimpanzees: The Case of Adoption:
In recent years, extended altruism towards unrelated group members has been proposed to be a unique characteristic of human societies. Support for this…
clock | January 26, 2010Catching up on articles published over the past few days in various PLoS titles.... As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection:
Ever since Cicero's De Natura Deorum ii.34., humans have been intrigued by the origin and…
clock | January 22, 2010There are 18 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Innovative Individuals Are Not Always the Best Demonstrators: Feeding Innovation and Social Transmission in Serinus canaria:
Feeding innovation occurs when individuals choose a novel, unknown type of food…
clock | January 14, 2010There are 20 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Spiny Mice Modulate Eumelanin to Pheomelanin Ratio to Achieve Cryptic Coloration in 'Evolution Canyon,' Israel:
Coat coloration in mammals is an explicit adaptation through natural selection. Camouflaging…
clock | January 13, 2010There are 42 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
DNA from the Past Informs Ex Situ Conservation for the Future: An "Extinct" Species of Galápagos Tortoise Identified in Captivity:
Although not unusual to find captive relicts of species lost in the wild…
clock | January 12, 2010Evolving Towards Mutualism:
Plants, and all other living things, require nitrogen for growth; it is an essential component of nucleic acids and proteins. Although air is mostly nitrogen, this gaseous form is inaccessible to plants and must be fixed into ammonium to render it biologically relevant. Soil bacteria called rhizobia fix nitrogen, but to do this they must first take up residence inside the roots of legumes like pea, alfalfa, clover, and soybean.
Experimental Evolution of a Plant Pathogen into a Legume Symbiont:
Most leguminous plants can form a symbiosis with members of a group of…
clock | January 11, 2010Two more 3-D articles were published in PLoS ONE today, as a part of our Structural Biology and Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGC Collection. Check them out:
Structural Biology of Human H3K9 Methyltransferases:
SET domain methyltransferases deposit methyl marks on specific histone tail lysine residues and play a major role in epigenetic regulation of gene transcription. We solved the structures of the catalytic domains of GLP, G9a, Suv39H2 and PRDM2, four of the eight known human H3K9 methyltransferases in their apo conformation or in complex with the methyl donating…
clock | January 8, 2010There are 20 new articles in PLoS ONE today (and there were 14 yesterday). As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Role of the Amygdala in Antidepressant Effects on Hippocampal Cell Proliferation and Survival and on Depression-like Behavior in the Rat:
The stimulation of adult hippocampal…
clock | January 6, 2010There are 27 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Global versus Local Conservation Focus of U.S. State Agency Endangered Bird Species Lists:
The development of species priorities for conservation at local or regional scales (for example, within a state or…
clock | January 5, 2010Picks from PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and PLoS ONE:
Preserving a Space for Science in an Age of Democracy:
How should scientific advice be incorporated into the political decisionmaking process? Even experts can't keep up with the torrent of studies published in their own field, and, supposedly, scientific issues--from climate change to biodiversity loss--have obvious political components. How is advice treated in an age when experts are increasingly viewed with suspicion and distrust?
The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in…
clock | January 1, 2010That is, among 20 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Distinct Functions of Period2 and Period3 in the Mouse Circadian System Revealed by In Vitro Analysis:
The mammalian circadian system, which is composed of a master pacemaker in the suprachiasmatic…
clock | December 29, 2009There are 19 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Explaining the Imperfection of the Molecular Clock of Hominid Mitochondria:
The molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA has been extensively used to date various genetic events. However, its substitution rate…
clock | December 24, 2009Is Our Self Nothing but Reward? Neuronal Overlap and Distinction between Reward and Personal Relevance and Its Relation to Human Personality:
The attribution of personal relevance, i.e. relating internal and external stimuli to establish a sense of belonging, is a common phenomenon in daily life. Although previous research demonstrated a relationship between reward and personal relevance, their exact neuronal relationship including the impact of personality traits remains unclear. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we applied an experimental paradigm that allowed us to explore the…
clock | December 23, 2009There are 21 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Universal Behavior of Extreme Price Movements in Stock Markets:
Many studies assume stock prices follow a random process known as geometric Brownian motion. Although approximately correct, this model fails…
clock | December 22, 2009As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Crawling to Collapse: Ecologically Unsound Ornamental Invertebrate Fisheries:
Fishery management has historically been an inexact and reactionary discipline, often taking action only after a critical stock suffers overfishing or collapse. The…
clock | December 21, 2009There are 25 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
VitisNet: 'Omics' Integration through Grapevine Molecular Networks:
Genomic data release for the grapevine has increased exponentially in the last five years. The Vitis vinifera genome has been sequenced…