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Metabolic Profiles of Obesity in American Indians: The Strong Heart Family Study
(PLos One, 2016-07-19)
Obesity is a typical metabolic disorder resulting from the imbalance between energy intake and expenditure. American Indians suffer disproportionately high rates of obesity and diabetes. The goal of this study is to identify ...
Sequence Evolution and Expression of the Androgen Receptor and Other Pathway-Related Genes in a Unisexual Fish, the Amazon Molly, Poecilia formosa, and Its Bisexual Ancestors
(PLos One, 2016-06-01)
The all-female Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) originated from a single hybridization of two bisexual ancestors, Atlantic molly (Poecilia mexicana) and sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna). As a gynogenetic species, the ...
Kin recognition in a clonal fish, Poecilia formosa
(2016-08-16)
Relatedness strongly influences social behaviors in a wide variety of species. For most species, the highest typical degree of relatedness is between full siblings with 50% shared genes. However, this is poorly understood ...
"Social Science and Civil Rights," Oxford Bibliographies
(2016-06-28)
Considered from within the prism of American history, the terms social science and civil rights, when combined, have a particular meaning bound up in the nation’s continuing struggle over whether to treat a certain native-born ...
Precipitation and carbon-water coupling jointly control the interannual variability of global land gross primary production
(2016-12-23)
Carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems is increasing along with the rising of atmospheric CO2 concentration. Embedded in this trend, recent studies suggested that the interannual variability (IAV) of global carbon fluxes ...
Opportunistic Sampling of Roadkill as an Entry Point to Accessing Natural Products Assembled by Bacteria Associated with Non-anthropoidal Mammalian Microbiomes
(2016-11-21)
Few secondary metabolites have been reported from mammalian microbiome bacteria despite the large numbers of diverse taxa that inhabit warm-blooded higher vertebrates. As a means to investigate natural products from these ...
XRN2 Links Transcription Termination to DNA Damage and Replication Stress
(PLos Genetics, 2016-07-20)
Author Summary Genomic instability is one of the primary causes of disease states, in particular cancer. One major cause of genomic instability is the formation of DNA double strand breaks (DSBs), which are one of the most ...
Thermal History Effects on Moisture Absorption of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites
(2016)
Fiber-reinforced polymer composites may offer numerous attractive features such as low cost, high specific performance, and ease of production. However, there are concerns about the overall durability of these materials, ...
Supporting a Passion for New Ideas through Open APIs
(2016)
Despite the many technological advances that the information industry has witnessed over the past decades, barriers to the full use of information remain. Part of this problem is due to the volume of content and data that ...
sFlt Multivalent Conjugates Inhibit Angiogenesis and Improve Half-Life In Vivo
(PLos One, 2016-06-03)
Current anti-VEGF drugs for patients with diabetic retinopathy suffer from short residence time in the vitreous of the eye. In order to maintain biologically effective doses of drug for inhibiting retinal neovascularization, ...