期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
Range expansions are central to two ecological issues reshaping patterns of global biodiversity: biological invasions and climate change. Traditional ......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
Ongoing ocean acidification is widely reported to reduce the ability of calcifying marine organisms to produce their shells and skeletons. Whereas inc......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
Deformation microstructures are widely used for reconstructing tectono-metamorphic events recorded in rocks. In crustal settings deformation is often ......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
The adipokine adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein (A-FABP) has been implicated in obesity-related cardio-metabolic complications. Here we show that A......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
Inflammation is recognized as one of the drivers of cancer. Yet, the individual immune components that possess pro- and anti-tumorigenic functions in ......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
The deterministic generation of non-classical states of light, including squeezed states, Fock states and Bell states, plays an important role in quan......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
Genetic variation in dispersal ability may result in the spatial sorting of alleles during range expansion. Recent theory suggests that spatial sortin......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
Raked linear dunes keep a constant orientation for considerable distances with a marked asymmetry between a periodic pattern of semi-crescentic struct......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
Both land plants and metazoa have the capacity to reprogram differentiated cells to stem cells. Here we show that the moss Physcomitrella patens Cold-......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
The interfaces within bones, teeth and other hybrid biomaterials are of paramount importance but remain particularly difficult to characterize at the ......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
Low-cost shotgun DNA sequencing is transforming the microbial sciences. Sequencing instruments are so effective that sample preparation is now the key......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
Stimulated emission is the process fundamental to laser operation, thereby producing coherent photon output. Despite negatively charged nitrogen-vacan......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
The surrounding microenvironment limits tumour expansion, imposing a compressive stress on the tumour, but little is known how pressure propagates ins......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
Mismatch repair (MMR) is a near ubiquitous pathway, essential for the maintenance of genome stability. Members of the MutS and MutL protein families p......
期刊: Nature Communications, 2017; 8 ( )
Inner-shell ionization of an isolated atom typically leads to Auger decay. In an environment, for example, a liquid or a van der Waals bonded system, ......