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Cortical overexpression of neuronal calcium sensor-1 induces functional plasticity in spinal cord following unilateral pyramidal tract injury in rat.
(2010-06-22)
Following trauma of the adult brain or spinal cord the injured axons of central neurons fail to regenerate or if intact display only limited anatomical plasticity through sprouting. Adult cortical neurons forming the ...
The Insulin-Like Growth Factor System in the Long-Lived Naked Mole-Rat.
(2015)
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 ...
Charting the host adaptation of influenza viruses.
(2011-06)
Four influenza pandemics have struck the human population during the last 100 years causing substantial morbidity and mortality. The pandemics were caused by the introduction of a new virus into the human population from ...
The impact of the rate prior on Bayesian estimation of divergence times with multiple Loci.
(2014-07)
Bayesian methods provide a powerful way to estimate species divergence times by combining information from molecular sequences with information from the fossil record. With the explosive increase of genomic data, divergence ...
Neither phylogenomic nor palaeontological data support a Palaeogene origin of placental mammals.
(2014-01)
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 ...
Estimating the distribution of selection coefficients from phylogenetic data using sitewise mutation-selection models.
(2012-03)
Estimation of the distribution of selection coefficients of mutations is a long-standing issue in molecular evolution. In addition to population-based methods, the distribution can be estimated from DNA sequence data by ...
Benznidazole-resistance in Trypanosoma cruzi is a readily acquired trait that can arise independently in a single population.
(2012-07-15)
Benznidazole is the frontline drug used against Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease. However, treatment failures are often reported. Here, we demonstrate that independently acquired mutations in the ...
Molecular diet analysis of two african free-tailed bats (molossidae) using high throughput sequencing.
(2011)
Given the diversity of prey consumed by insectivorous bats, it is difficult to discern the composition of their diet using morphological or conventional PCR-based analyses of their faeces. We demonstrate the use of a ...
The body size dependence of trophic cascades.
(2015-03)
Trophic cascades are indirect positive effects of predators on resources via control of intermediate consumers. Larger-bodied predators appear to induce stronger trophic cascades (a greater rebound of resource density ...