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Macroevolutionary patterns of sexual size dimorphism in copepods.
(2014-08)
Major theories compete to explain the macroevolutionary trends observed in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in animals. Quantitative genetic theory suggests that the sex under historically stronger directional selection will ...
Binding loci of RelA-containing nuclear factor-kappaB dimers in promoter regions of PHM1-31 myometrial smooth muscle cells.
(2015-09)
Human parturition is associated with many pro-inflammatory mediators which are regulated by the nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB) family of transcription factors. In the present study, we employed a ChIP-on-chip approach to ...
The Insulin-Like Growth Factor System in the Long-Lived Naked Mole-Rat.
(2015-12-22)
Naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) (NMRs) are the longest living rodents known. They show negligible senescence, and are resistant to cancers and certain damaging effects associated with aging. The insulin-like growth ...
Effects of Genotype and Sleep on Temperament.
(2015-07-16)
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Sleep problems are frequent in young children; however, children vary in the degree to which they are affected by poor sleep quality. We investigated whether a polymorphism in the serotonin ...
Acute hospital service utilization by inpatients in psychiatric hospitals.
(2015-11)
OBJECTIVE: Standardized mortality ratios are twice the population average in the year following a mental health admission, yet there is a relative paucity of research on uptake of general medical care in psychiatric ...
Early-life nutrition modulates the epigenetic state of specific rDNA genetic variants in mice.
(2016-07-07)
A suboptimal early-life environment, due to poor nutrition or stress during pregnancy, can influence lifelong phenotypes in the progeny. Epigenetic factors are thought to be key mediators of these effects. We show that ...
Neither phylogenomic nor palaeontological data support a Palaeogene origin of placental mammals.
(2014-01-15)
O'Leary et al. (O'Leary et al. 2013 Science 339, 662-667. (doi:10.1126/science.1229237)) performed a fossil-only dating analysis of mammals, concluding that the ancestor of placentals post-dated the Cretaceous-Palaeogene ...
Pain is independently associated with reduced health related quality of life in people with psychosis.
(2015-10-09)
The objective was to investigate the relationship between pain and health related quality of life (HRQOL) in people with psychosis. The study utilised a cross-sectional design including individuals with established psychosis ...
Cone of direct gaze as a marker of social anxiety in males.
(2013-05)
The fear of being scrutinised is a core feature of social anxiety disorder and socially anxious individuals overestimate being 'looked at'. A recent development in the vision sciences is a reliable psychophysical index of ...
Dual-route model of the effect of head orientation on perceived gaze direction.
(2014)
Previous studies on gaze perception have identified 2 opposing effects of head orientation on perceived gaze direction-1 repulsive and the other attractive. However, the relationship between these 2 effects has remained ...
