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Abstracts: On misanthropy. Nonviolence or nothing. Illusory purity
Abstracts: On oestrus advertisement, spite and sexual harassment. Sexual selection and oestrus advertisement: a reply to Radwan
Abstracts: On prisoners and cells. Phage-lift for game theory. Merging lines and emerging levels
Abstracts: Onset of permanent stratification in the subarctic Pacific Ocean. Polar ocean stratification in a cold climate
Abstracts: On the decline of the Rusty Blackbird and the use of ornithological literature to document long-term population trends
Abstracts: On the likelihood of habitable worlds. The first two billion years. Developmental circuits rewired
Abstracts: On the meaning of alarm calls: functional reference in an avian vocal system. Detection of a looming stimulus by the Jacky dragon: selective sensitivity to characteristics of an aerial predator
Abstracts: On the node of a wave. Cool vibes. Time for Japan to shine?
Abstracts: On the origin of species by sympatric speciation. Unmatched tempo of evolution in Southern African semi-desert ice plants
Abstracts: On the points of melting. New age crystals: sensors. Vortex rings in a constant electric field
Abstracts: On the right scent. Innate versus learned odour processing in the mouse olfactory bulb. Timing is everything
Abstracts: On the road to Myanmar. Turning over a new leaf: Muntjac discovered in Myanmar. Tiger traces: after training in big-cat identification, a talented team sets out to count tigers in Myanmar
Abstracts: On the spurious occurrence of Tit for Tat in pairs of predator-approaching fish. Fractal time in animal behaviour: the movement activity of Drosophila
Abstracts: On the use of surrogate species in conservation biology. Reliability of conservation actions based on elasticity analysis of matrix models
Abstracts: On the USFWS settlement regarding federal listing of endangered species. (US Fish and Wildlife Service). New legislation aids the recovery of endangered fish and refuge wetlands in Nevada
Abstracts: On thin ice. Arctic lake promises hot data on past climate. Arctic rockets give glimpse of the atmosphere's top layers
Abstracts: Ontogeny of nestmate brood recognition in a primitive ant, Ectatomma tubercalutum Olivier (Ponerinae). Acquired chemical camouflage in a tropical ant
Abstracts: On to molecular mechanisms. Theories on the brain. Strengths and weaknesses in memory
Abstracts: Opal analogue discovered in a weevil. Aphrodite's iridescence
Abstracts: Open for business: California's stem-cell institute is already transparent enough. Towards a German elite
Abstracts: Opening the gap. Quantum criticality. Turn up the temperature
Abstracts: Opening up Ca2+ stores with InsP3. Molecular characterization of a neuronal low-voltage-activated T-type calcium channel
Abstracts: Operative temperature reduces habitat space for Northern bobwhites. Quantifying usable space for wildlife with use-availability data
Abstracts: Opioids block long-term potentiation of inhibitory synapses. Oleylethanolamide regulates feeding and body weight through activation of the nuclear receptor PPAR-alpha
Abstracts: Opponent recognition in male green anoles, Anolis carolinensis. Assessment in contests of male lizards (Anolis carolinensis): How should smaller males respond when size matters?
Abstracts: Opposing LSD1 complexes function in developmental gene activation and repression programmes. Distribution and three-dimensional structure of AIDS virus envelop spikes
Abstracts: Optical afterglow of the gamma-ray burst of 14 December 1997. Photonic-bandgap microcavities in optical waveguides
Abstracts: Optical alignment and spinning of laser-trapped microscopic particles. Dynamical tunnelling of ultracold atoms
Abstracts: Optical control of reactions. Atomically defined mechanism for proton transfer to a buried redox centre in a protein
Abstracts: Optical detection of a quantal presynaptic membrane turnover. Beta-arrestin acts as a clathrin adaptor in endocytosis of the beta(sub-2)-adrenergic receptor
Abstracts: Optical detection of liquid-state NMR. The mass of the missing baryons in the X-ray forest of the warm-hot intergalactic medium
Abstracts: Optical detection of magnetic resonance in a single molecule. Structural distortion in Rb3C60 revealed by 87Rb NMR
Abstracts: Optical fibres in an Antarctic sponge. Electrical recording from a glass sponge. Quartz dissolution by the sponge Chondrosia reniformis (Porifera, Demospongiae)
Abstracts: Optical frequency comb generation from a monolithic microresonator. Rings of excitement
Abstracts: Optical imaging of epileptiform and functional activity in human cerebral cortex. Optical clocks coming of age
Abstracts: Optical isotropy and iridescence in a smectic 'blue phase'. Routing of antisotropic spatial solitons and modulational instability in liquid crystals
Abstracts: Optical patterning of multidomain liquid-crystal displays with wide viewing angles. Optical polymer thin films with isotropic and anisotropic nano-corrugated surface topologies
Abstracts: Optimal allocation of sampling effort for monitoring a harvested Mule Deer population. Effect of adult sex ratio on mule deer and elk productivity in Colorado
Abstracts: Optimal clutch size and conspecific brood parasitism. An obligate brood parasite trapped in the intraspecific arms race of its hosts
Abstracts: Optimal foraging and timing processes in the starling, Sturnus Vulgaris: effect of inter-capture interval. Value of food aggregates: parallel versus serial discounting
Abstracts: Optimal group size and northern bobwhite coveys. Winter survival and additive harvest in northern Bobwhite Coveys in Kansas
Abstracts: Optimal isotope labeling for NMR protein structure determinations. Lead isotopes reveal bilateral asymmetry and vertical continuity in the Hawaiian mantle plume
Abstracts: Optimality, mutation and the evolution of ageing. Ageing, fitness and neurocognitive function. New approaches to old age: To truly understand ageing, we must look beyond the diseases of old age
Abstracts: Optimal paths and irreversibiity. Soild information. Robust and optimal use of information in stereo vision
Abstracts: Optimal serum-free Ex Vivo expansion and activation of T lymphocytes using stemline(super TM) T Cell Expansion Medium
Abstracts: Optimizing allocation of monitoring effort under economic and observational constraints. What affects bait uptake by house mice in Australian grain fields?
Abstracts: Optimizing visual landmarks: two- and three-dimensional minimal landscapes. A loft with a view: exposure to a natural landscape during development may encourage adult pigeons to use visual landmarks during homing
Abstracts: Orai1 is an essential pore subunit of the CRAC channel. A genome-wide Drosophila RNAi screen identifies DYRK-family kinases as regulators of NFAT
Abstracts: Orbitally induced oscillations in the East Antarctic ice sheet at the Oligocene/Miocene boundary. Continental ice in Greenland during the Eocene and Oligocene
Abstracts: Orbital modulation of the Earth's magnetic field intensity. Large-scale magnetic fields in the outflow from the young stellar object T Tauri S
Abstracts: Orchestrating ecosystem management: Challenges and lessons from Sequoia National Forest. Transplantation of the suburb Lotus scoparius: testing the home-site advantage hypothesis
Abstracts: Ordered nanoporous arrays of carbon supporting high dispersions of platinum nanoparticles. Direct imaging of the pores and cages of three-dimensional mesoporous materials
Abstracts: Ordering chaos with disorder. A departure from equilibrium. Here be no dragons
Abstracts: Ordering entropy. Colloidal ordering from phase separation in a liquid-crystalline continuous phase. Liquid crystal phase transitions in suspensions of polydisperse plate-like particles
Abstracts: Organic carbon burial forcing of the carbon cycle from Himalayan erosion. Reduced Himalayan sediment production 8 Myr ago despite an intensified monsoon
Abstracts: Organic groups cling to the pores. Tiling by numbers. A high-silica zeolite with a 14-tetrahedral-atom pore opening
Abstracts: Organizational challenges in clinical genomic research. New lease of life for tropical medicine. Sacrifice for the greater good?
Abstracts: Organizing for better synthesis. Organic-functionalized molecular sieves as shape-selective catalysts. Molecular imprinting of bulk, microporous silica
Abstracts: Organochlorine contaminants in sea otters: the sea otter as a bio-indicator. Comparative demography of sea otter populations
Abstracts: Organosilica the conciliator. Observing and the observed. Rotational actuators based on carbon nanotubes
Abstracts: Organ size is limited by the number of embryonic progenitor cells in the pancreas but not the liver. Adult pancreatic beta-cells are formed by self-duplication rather than stem-cell differentiation
Abstracts: Orientation detectors in insects. Speed of processing in the human visual system. Three-dimensional illusory contours and surfaces
Abstracts: Orientation in pied flycatchers: the relative importance of magnetic and visual information at dusk. Magnetic information calibrates celestial cues during migration
Abstracts: Orientation of DNA replication establishes mating-type switching pattern in S. pombe. DNA polymerase-alpha is essential for mating-type switching in fission yeast
Abstracts: Orientation of Polyergus rufescens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) during slave-making raids. Individual and social components of wood ant response to conifer sawfly defence (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Diprionidae)
Abstracts: Orientation response of newborn rabbits to odours of lactating females: relative effectiveness of surface and milk cues
Abstracts: Orientation scatter of free-flying nocturnal passerine migrants: components and causes. Do migratory flight paths of raptors follow constant geographical or geomagnetic courses?
Abstracts: Orienting asymmetries in rhesus monkeys: the effect of time-domain changes on acoustic perception. Asymmetries in the timing of facial and vocal expressions by rhesus monkeys: implications for hemispheric specialization
Abstracts: Origin of floral asymmetry in Antirrhinum. An epigenetic mutation responsible for natural variation in floral symmetry
Abstracts: Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes. Phylogeny and the origin of HIV-1
Abstracts: Origin of life from apatite dating? Evidence for life on Earth before 3,800 million years ago. Cryptomare magmatism 4.35 Gyr ago recorded in lunar meteorite Kalahari 009
Abstracts: Origin of life. Sex butterfly style. Let them eat grass!
Abstracts: Origin of oscillons. A triploblast origin for Myxozoa? A cellulase gene of termite origin
Abstracts: Origin of oscillons. Harmonic pictures in a flash. The origin of harmonic tremor at Old Faithful geyser
Abstracts: Origin of the arthropod mandible. Rapid speciation in an arthropod. Moulting arthropod caught in the act
Abstracts: Origin of the dielectric dead layer in nanoscale capacitors. An off- normal fibre- like texture in thin films on single- crystal substrates
Abstracts: Origin of the Invar effect in iron-nickel alloys. Experimental and theoretical identification of a new high-pressure phase of silica
Abstracts: Origin of the metallic properties of heavily boron doped superconducting diamond. Determination of complex structures by combined neutron and synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction
Abstracts: Origin of the Moon's orbital inclination from resonant disk interactions. A common mass scaling for satellite systems of gaseous planets
Abstracts: Origin of the obliquities of the giant planets in mutual interactions in the early Solar System. Energetic neutral atoms from a trans-Europa gas torus at Jupiter
Abstracts: Origin of the spider's head. The nitrogen fix. Head start
Abstracts: Origin of Thy-1+ dendritic epidermal cells of adult mice from fetal thymic precursors. A cell line that can induce thymocyte positive selection
Abstracts: Origin of upper-ocean warming and El Nino change on decadal scales in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Increased dissolved oxygen in Pacific intermediate waters due to lower rates of carbon oxidation in sediments
Abstracts: Origins of behavioural variability: categorical and discriminative assessment in serial contests. Measuring the reliability of skew indices: is there one best index?
Abstracts: Origins of instability. Multiple pathways cooperate in the suppression of genome instability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Abstracts: Origins of Old Testament priests. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
Abstracts: Origins of T-cell leukaemia virus. Leukaemia inhibitory factor is necessary for maintenance of haematopoietic stem cells and thymocyte stimulation
Abstracts: Ornate plumage of male red junglefowl does not influence mate choice by females. Female quail prefer testosterone-mediated traits, rather than the ornate plumage of males
Abstracts: Ornithine decarboxylase activity is critical for cell transformation. Chromosomal instability
Abstracts: Ornithologists stunned by bird collector's deceit. Laws under review for fossils on native land. Universities scramble to assess scope of falsified results
Abstracts: Orographic control of storm zones on Mars. Evolution of water reservoirs on Mars from D/H ratios in the atmosphere and crust
Abstracts: Orphan drug act: winners to keep all. The dos and don'ts of grant writing. Biotechnology leads the way as state moves beyond ground-based economy
Abstracts: Orthogonal motion after-effect illusion predicted by a model of cortical motion processing. Motor-cortical activity in tetraplegics
Abstracts: Osmotic generation of 'anomalous' fluid pressures in geological environments. Mechanosensitive channels transduce osmosensitivity in supraoptic neurons
Abstracts: Osteoclast differentiation and activation. A positive-feedback-based bistable 'memory module' that governs a cell fate decision
Abstracts: Osteoclast differentiation and activation. HIV-1 Nef intersects the macrophage CD40L signalling pathway to promote resting-cell infection
Abstracts: OTA panel opens inquiry into patenting of genes. Accelerator-based tritium facility to win out over rival US proposals...
Abstracts: Other worlds. Investing in the dream. A sense of history
Abstracts: Otter catastrophe? Life on the ledge. The great return to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Abstracts: Otzi spills his guts. This sporting life. Making faces
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