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Water Ecosystem Services in Northern Australia—How Much Are They Worth and Who Should Pay for Their Provision?
by Kerstin K. Zander, Rowena Parkes, Anna Straton, Stephen T. Garnett There is ongoing pressure to develop the largely unaltered Daly River catchment in northern Australia for agriculture. However, a choice experiment among people in the region and in Australia’s largest city, Sydney, shows that people are prepared to pay substantial
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VirusFinder: Software for Efficient and Accurate Detection of Viruses and Their Integration Sites in Host Genomes through Next Generation Sequencing Data
by Qingguo Wang, Peilin Jia, Zhongming Zhao Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies allow us to explore virus interactions with host genomes that lead to carcinogenesis or other diseases; however, this effort is largely hindered by the dearth of efficient computational tools. Here, we
Homing Pigeons Respond to Time-Compensated Solar Cues Even in Sight of the Loft
by Chris Armstrong, Helen Wilkinson, Jessica Meade, Dora Biro, Robin Freeman, Tim Guilford The sun has long been thought to guide bird navigation as the second step in a two-stage process, in which determining position using a map is followed by course setting using a compass, both over unfamiliar
Applicability of Different Hydraulic Parameters to Describe Soil Detachment in Eroding Rills
by Stefan Wirtz, Manuel Seeger, Andreas Zell, Christian Wagner, Jean-Frank Wagner, Johannes B. Ries This study presents the comparison of experimental results with assumptions used in numerical models. The aim of the field experiments is to test the linear relationship between different hydraulic parameters
Characterization of the Relationship between APOBEC3B Deletion and ACE Alu Insertion
by Kang Wang, Yuanyuan Li, Chunyan Dai, Kaishi Wang, Jinghua Yu, Yiran Tan, Wenyan Zhang, Xiao-Fang Yu The insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE), commonly associated with many diseases, is believed to have affected human adaptation to environmental changes
Sea Otters Homogenize Mussel Beds and Reduce Habitat Provisioning in a Rocky Intertidal Ecosystem
by Gerald G. Singh, Russell W. Markel, Rebecca G. Martone, Anne K. Salomon, Christopher D. G. Harley, Kai M. A. Chan Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are keystone predators that consume a variety of benthic invertebrates, including the intertidal mussel, Mytilus californianus. By virtue of their competitive
Effects of Gestational Age at Birth on Cognitive Performance: A Function of Cognitive Workload Demands
by Julia Jaekel, Nicole Baumann, Dieter Wolke Objective Cognitive deficits have been inconsistently described for late or moderately preterm children but are consistently found in very preterm children. This study investigates the association between cognitive workload demands of tasks and cognitive
Differences in the Signaling Pathways of α1A- and α1B-Adrenoceptors Are Related to Different Endosomal Targeting
by Vanessa Segura, Miguel Pérez-Aso, Fermí Montó, Elena Carceller, María Antonia Noguera, John Pediani, Graeme Milligan, Ian Christie McGrath, Pilar D’Ocon Aims To compare the constitutive and agonist-dependent endosomal trafficking of α1A- and α1B-adrenoceptors (ARs) and to establish if the
An Analysis of the Sequence Variability of Meningococcal fHbp, NadA and NHBA over a 50-Year Period in the Netherlands
by Stefania Bambini, Jurgen Piet, Alessandro Muzzi, Wendy Keijzers, Sara Comandi, Lisa De Tora, Mariagrazia Pizza, Rino Rappuoli, Diederik van de Beek, Arie van der Ende, Maurizio Comanducci Studies of meningococcal evolution and genetic population structure, including the long-term stability of non-random
Myeloid Clusters Are Associated with a Pro-Metastatic Environment and Poor Prognosis in Smoking-Related Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
by Wang Zhang, Sumanta K. Pal, Xueli Liu, Chunmei Yang, Sachin Allahabadi, Shaira Bhanji, Robert A. Figlin, Hua Yu, Karen L. Reckamp Background This study aimed to understand the role of myeloid cell clusters in uninvolved regional lymph nodes from early stage non-small cell lung cancer patients. Methods Uninvolved