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Theoretical insights into the role of defects in the optimization of the electrochemical capacitance of graphene
(Tsinghua University Press, 2024-08-14)Graphene-based frameworks suffer from a low quantum capacitance due to graphene’s Dirac point at the Fermi level. This theoretical study investigated the effect structural defects, nitrogen and boron doping, and surface ... -
Influence of solution stoichiometry on the thermodynamic stability of prenucleation FeS clusters.
(Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2025-01-15)The significance of iron sulphide (FeS) formation extends to "origin of life" theories, industrial applications, and unwanted scale formation. However, the initial stages of FeS nucleation, particularly the impact of ... -
Proglacial methane emissions driven by meltwater and groundwater flushing in a high-Arctic glacial catchment
(Copernicus Publications, 2025-02-06)Glacial groundwater is a conduit for geologic methane release in areas of glacier retreat on Svalbard, representing a large, climate-sensitive source of the greenhouse gas. Methane emissions from glacial melt rivers are ... -
Simple Executive Function as an endophenotype of autism-ADHD, and differing associations between simple versus complex Executive Functions and autism/ADHD traits.
(2025-02-10)Autism and ADHD are associated with difficulties with Executive Functions (EFs), but the prevalence and nature of these difficulties in early development is not well understood. In this longitudinal study, 107 children ... -
Isotope analysis of birds’ eye lens provides early-life information
(Springer Nature, 2025)Early-life environment has a long-lasting effect on later life, though its estimation is often prevented in the wild because of a lack of available methods. Recently, isotope analysis of eye lenses has attracted considerable ... -
Discovery and biological confirmation of a highly divergent Tacaribe virus in metatranscriptomic data from neotropical bats.
(2024-10-29)UNLABELLED: First isolated from neotropical fruit bats in Trinidad in 1956, Tacaribe virus (TCRV) has rarely been detected since. We searched for New World arenavirus reads in roughly 5.7 million sequencing runs available ... -
Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance.
(2025-01-29)Zoonoses are infectious diseases transmitted from animals to humans. Bats have been suggested to harbour more zoonotic viruses than any other mammalian order1. Infections in bats are largely asymptomatic2,3, indicating ... -
Merging Copper Catalysis with Nitro Allyl and Allyl Sulfone Derivatives: Practical, Straightforward, and Scalable Synthesis of Diversely Functionalized Allyl Boranes
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2025-01-08)We report here the first example of a copper-catalyzed transformation involving nitro allyl derivatives. This borylation reaction, which exploits the high versatility of the aforementioned precursor, tolerates a variety ... -
Glacial retreat driving enhanced methane emissions in the high Arctic
(Copernicus Publications, 2023)Permafrost and glaciers in the high Arctic form an impermeable ‘cryospheric cap’ that traps a large reservoir of sub-surface methane and hinders it from reaching the atmosphere. The vulnerability of the cryosphere to climate ... -
Charge Scaling in Potassium Channel Simulations: Conductance, Ion Occupancy, Voltage Response, and Selectivity
(bioRxiv, 2024)Potassium (K+) channels are widely distributed in many types of organisms. Potassium channels combine high efficiency (K+ ions permeation rates ∼100 pS) and exquisite K+/Na+ selectivity by a conserved selectivity filter ... -
Socially Induced Infertility in Naked and Damaraland Mole-Rats: A Tale of Two Mechanisms of Social Suppression
(MDPI, 2022)The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) and the Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) possess extreme reproductive skew with a single reproductive female responsible for reproduction. In this review, we synthesize ... -
Tissue Oxidative Ecology along an Aridity Gradient in a Mammalian Subterranean Species
(MDPI, 2022)Climate change has caused aridification which can alter habitat vegetation, soil and precipitation profiles potentially affecting resident species. Vegetation and soil profiles are important for subterranean mole-rats as ... -
Patterns of Genetic Diversity and Gene Flow Associated With an Aridity Gradient in Populations of Common Mole-rats, Cryptomys hottentotus hottentotus.
(Oxford University Press, 2024-07-03)Genetic adaptation is the change of a population toward a phenotype that best fits the present ecological conditions of the environment it inhabits. As environmental conditions change, allele frequencies shift, resulting ... -
New insights into morphological adaptation in common mole-rats (Cryptomys hottentotus hottentotus) along an aridity gradient.
(WIley, 2024-04)Morphological adaptation is the change in the form of an organism that benefits the individual in its current habitat. Mole-rats (family Bathyergidae), despite being subterranean, are impacted by both local and broad-scale ... -
Arf6 determines tissue architecture by stabilizing intercellular adhesion.
(Royal Society, 2020-10-12)Correct cell shape is indispensable for tissue architecture, with cell shape being determined by cortical actin and surface adhesion. The role of adhesion in remodelling tissue is to counteract the deformation of cells by ... -
Contemporary morphogenesis.
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Multifaceted control of E-cadherin dynamics by the Adaptor Protein Complex 1 during epithelial morphogenesis
(arXiv, 2021)Intracellular trafficking regulates the distribution of transmembrane proteins including the key determinants of epithelial polarity and adhesion. The Adaptor Protein 1 (AP-1) complex is the key regulator of vesicle sorting, ...
