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Abstracts: Sleep-dependent memory consolidation. What are the memory sources of dreaming? Capacity limit of visual short-term memory in human posterior parietal cortex
Abstracts: Sleeping beauty awakens. Abiscic acid in bloom. Fitness costs of R-gene-mediated resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana
Abstracts: Sleep it off. Meet the human metabolome. Lure of lie detectors spook ethicists
Abstracts: Sleep research: an animal nightmare. The business of animal research. Sue McCrosky
Abstracts: Slick solution for oil spills. Oil from bombed plant left to spill. Poor prospects for oiled birds
Abstracts: Slimebusters. Databasing the brain. Whatever happened to leptin?
Abstracts: Slimline magma chambers. Frozen magma lenses below the oceanic crust. Portrait of a magma chamber
Abstracts: Slimming with a leaner enzyme. Leptin activates anorexigenic POMC neurons through a neural network in the arcuate nucleus
Abstracts: Slip rate variations on normal faults during glacial-interglacial changes in surface loads. Bending-related faulting and mantle serpentinization at the middle America trench
Abstracts: Slip zone and energetics of a large earthquake from the Taiwan Chelungpu-fault Drilling project. Dynamic triggering of earthquakes
Abstracts: Slit, the midline repellent. Frizzled regulation of Notch signalling polarizes cell fate in the Drosophila eye
Abstracts: Slow and steady spirals. Detecting intergalactic magnetic fields using time delays in pulses of gamma-rays. Time trials test the field
Abstracts: Slowed recovery of rod photoresponse in mice lacking the GTPase accelerating protein RGS9-1. Subunits beta-gamma of heterotrimeric G protein activate beta-2 isoform of phospholipase C
Abstracts: Smad2 role in mesoderm formation, left-right patterning and craniofacial development. Female infertility in mice lacking connexin 37
Abstracts: Smad6 inhibits signalling by the TGF-beta superfamily. Identification of Smad7, a TGF-beta-inducible antagonist of TGF-beta signalling
Abstracts: SMAD proteins and mammalian anatomy. A WD-domain protein that is associated with and phosphorylated by the type II TGF-beta receptor
Abstracts: Small advances. Flight of fancy: How an 'eccentric' line of research proved its worth. Electric jets
Abstracts: Small, beautiful and essential. New frog family from India reveals an ancient biogeographical link with the Seychelles
Abstracts: Small cats. Cat kin. Big cats
Abstracts: Small genomes for better flyers. A new link between theropods and birds from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. Evolution of growth pattern in birds
Abstracts: Small mammal responses to thinning and wildfire in ponderosa pine-dominated forests of the Southwestern United States
Abstracts: Small-minded government. Dreams of the past. Fear and loathing at Los Alamos
Abstracts: Small modulation of ongoing cortical dynamics by sensory input during natural vision. Elements of visual perception
Abstracts: Small molecule activators of sirtuins extend Saccharomyces cerevisiae lifespan. Motor proteins branch out
Abstracts: Small molecule activators of sirtuins extend Saccharomyces cerevisiae lifespan. part 2 Nicotinamide and PNC1 govern lifespan extension by calorie restriction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Abstracts: Small size and monogamy: spatial organization of Blanford's foxes, Vulpes cana. Adult male emigration and a female-based social organization in swift foxes, Vulpes velox
Abstracts: Small talk. Charge of the light brigade. Atomic-scale imaging of carbon nanofibre growth
Abstracts: Small talk. The new networking nexus. Array of possibilities opens up in genotyping
Abstracts: Smart but lightweight. Alloys go with the grain. Circuits of slime
Abstracts: Smart transcription factors. Scrambler and yotari disrupt the disabled gene and produce a reeler-like phenotype in mice
Abstracts: Smectic ordering in solutions and films of a rod-like polymer owing to monodispersity of chain length. Autonomic healing of polymer composites
Abstracts: Smithsonian heeds physicists' complaints. US physicists rally to save standards agency. Physicists rally behind linear-collider plan
Abstracts: Snake penises. Hagfishes: champions of slime. Marine buffalos
Abstracts: Snake penises. Snake sounds. Pumice puzzles
Abstracts: Snake River Idaho. Magical Monterey. Searching for sea pandas
Abstracts: SNAP family of NSF attachment proteins includes a brain-specific isoform. Bridging the gap
Abstracts: SNAP family of NSF attachment proteins includes a brain-specific isoform. part 2 Import of carrier proteins into the mitochondrial inner membrane mediated by Tim22
Abstracts: Snapshots of an ancient cover-up. Weather and climate on Mars. The crust and mantle of Mars
Abstracts: Sneaking behavior and nest defence are affected by predation risk in the common goby. Influence of predation risk on individual competitive ability and growth in Eurasian perch, Perca fluviatilis
Abstracts: Sniffing and smelling: separate subsystems in the human olfactory cortex. Picture the smell
Abstracts: Sniffing out clandestine tests. Underwater 'sniffing' by semi-aquatic mammals. Trace gas emissions on geological faults as indicators of underground nuclear testing
Abstracts: S-nitrosohaemoglobin: a dynamic activity of blood involved in vascular control. Export by red blood cells of nitric oxide bioactivity
Abstracts: S-Nitrosylated protein-disulphide isomerase links protein misfolding to neurodegeneration. Turning down, but not off: neuroprotection requires a paradigm shift in drug development
Abstracts: S-nitrosylation regulates apoptosis. Control of apoptosis and mitotic spindle checkpoint by survivin. Injected cytochrome c induces apoptosis
Abstracts: Snow maker for the ice ages. Collapse and rapid resumption of Atlantic meridional circulation linked to deglacial climate changes
Abstracts: Snowpack production of formaldehyde and its effect on the Arctic troposphere. A permanent decline in oil production?
Abstracts: Soap opera reaps prize for its clean message. Georgia court bans biology textbook stickers. Access all areas
Abstracts: Social and ecological factors influencing vigilance by northwestern crows, Corvus caurinus. Effects of ecology and prey characteristics on the use of alternative social foraging tactics in crows, Corvus caurinus
Abstracts: Social and spatial organization of free-ranging shrews, Sorex coronatus and Neomys fodiens (Insectivora, Mammalia)
Abstracts: Social constraints on the onset of incubation in a neotropical parrot: a nestbox addition experiment. Assessing parental effort in a Neotropical parrot: a comparison of methods
Abstracts: Social construction, political power, and the allocation of benefits to endangered species. Public opinion on species and endangered species conservation
Abstracts: Social contact influences the response of infant marmosets towards novel food. True imitation in marmosets
Abstracts: Social contracts in wasp societies. Queen activation of lazy workers in colonies of the eusocial naked mole-rat
Abstracts: Social control of reproduction in banded mongooses. Social organization in the Egyptian mongoose: group size, spatial behaviour and inter-individual contacts in adults
Abstracts: Social diffusion of modified louse egg-handling techniques during grooming in free-ranging Japanese macaques. Grooming as a reward? social function of grooming between females in cooperatively breeding marmosets
Abstracts: Social discrimination in lambs: the role of indirect familiarization and methods of assessment. The role of olfactory cues in the discrimination of agemates by lambs
Abstracts: Social discrimination in lambs: the role of indirect familiarization and methods of assessment. part 2 The temporal development and sensory mediation of social discrimination in domestic chicks
Abstracts: Social dynamics in salmonid fishes: do kin make better neighbours? The influence of the behaviour of conspecifics on responses to threat in the Mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus
Abstracts: Social effects of space availability on the breeding behaviour of elephant seals in Patagonia. Evaluating the function of the male harbour seal, Phoca vitulina, roar through playback experiments
Abstracts: Social equity versus private property: striking the right balance. UNEP rebuffed in search for a wider role
Abstracts: Social induction of malleability in ducklings: sensory basis and psychological mechanism. Capuchins do cooperate: the advantage of an intuitive task
Abstracts: Social influences during song development in the song sparrow: a laboratory experiment simulating field conditions
Abstracts: Social influences on conservation: lessons from U.S. recovery for marine mammals. International conservation education
Abstracts: Social influences on female mate choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticula: Generalized and repeatable trait-copying behavior
Abstracts: Social learning about predators: Does timing matter? Predator avoidance in fiddler crabs: 2. The visual cues. Predator avoidance in fiddler crabs: 1. Escape decisions in relation to the risk of predation
Abstracts: Social learning of food preferences by white-tailed ptarmigan chicks. Yolk androgens and begging behavior in black-headed gull chicks: an experimental field study
Abstracts: Social learning of foraging sites and escape routes in wild Trinidadian guppies. Familiarity facilitates social learning of foraging behaviour in the guppy
Abstracts: Social manipulation causes cooperation in keas. A case of quick problem solving in birds: string pulling in keas, Nestor notabilis
Abstracts: Social mating system affects the frequency of extra-pair paternity in house wrens. The spatial distribution of nonrewarding artificial flowers affects pollinator attraction
Abstracts: Social monogamy in the cleaning goby Elacatinus evelynae: ecological constraints or net benefit? Experimental analysis of monogamy in the Caribbean cleaner goby, Gobiosoma evelynae
Abstracts: Social needs proposed as priority for EU research. Moscow's 'missing fossils' come under scrutiny. UK waives nuclear waste rule for Georgia
Abstracts: Social odours, hormone modulation and resistance to disease in male laboratory mice, Mus musculus. The role of substrate odours in maintaining social tolerance between male house mice, Mus musculus domesticus
Abstracts: Social organization in northern bottlenose whales, Hyperoodon ampullatus: not driven by deep-water foraging? Alliances I. How large should alliances be?
Abstracts: Social organization in the aboriginal house mouse, Mus spretus Lataste: behavioural mechanisms underlying the spatial dispersion of competitors
Abstracts: Social stimuli influencing feeding behaviour of Burmese fowl: a video analysis. Factors influencing the hunting success of an African wild dog pack
Abstracts: Social stimuli influencing feeding behaviour of Burmese fowl: a video analysis. part 2 Feeding behaviour of cod, Gadus morhua: activity rhythm and chemically mediated food search
Abstracts: Social stress and dominance. Communal hunting and pack size in African wild dogs, Lycaon pictus. Pregnancy, oestrogens and future reproductive success in Serengeti dwarf mongooses
Abstracts: Social variation of lions in a male-depopulated area in Zambia. Causes of extirpations in the Wadden Sea, an estuarine area in the Netherlands
Abstracts: Societies spurn women editors. Fishing for trouble. When two tribes go to war
Abstracts: Sociologist fools physics judges. Dealer unearths Hooke's Royal Society notes. Psychologists warn of more suicide attacks in the wake of London bombs
Abstracts: Sodium abundance variations in main-sequence stars of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Identification of V1017 Sgr as a cataclysmic variable binary system with unusually long period
Abstracts: Soft-bodied fossils from a Silurian volcaniclastic deposit. An epipodite-bearing crown-group crustacean from the Lower Cambrian
Abstracts: Soft-mode hardening in SrTiO3 thin films. Discovery of a useful thin-film dielectric using a composition-spread approach
Abstracts: Soil invertebrate fauna enhances grassland succession and diversity. Mobile plastid genes
Abstracts: Soil invertebrate fauna enhances grassland succession and diversity. part 2 Insights into IgA-mediated immune responses from the crystal structures of human Fc alpha RI and its complex with IgA1-Fc
Abstracts: Solar-cycle dependence of the Sun's apparent radius in the neutral iron spectral line at 525 nm. Long-term solar brightness changes estimated from a survey of Sun-like stars
Abstracts: Solar cycle length, greenhouse forcing and global climate. Implications for global warming of intercycle solar irradiance variations
Abstracts: Soldier production under threat. Increased soldier production in ant colonies exposed to intraspecific competition
Abstracts: Soldiers as experimental animals. Probing motivational state during agonistic encounters in animals. Experimental variation in polyandry affects parasite loads and fitness in a bumble-bee
Abstracts: Solid hydrogen at 342 GPa: no evidence for an alkali metal. Single-molecule spectral fluctuations at room temperature
Abstracts: Solid-state dye-sensitized mesoporous TiO(sub2) solar cells with high photon-to-electron conversion efficiencies
Abstracts: Solid-state qubits under control. Putting an electron to rest. Statistics given a spin
Abstracts: Solo efforts hamper tsunami warning system. Japan's embryo experts beg for faster ethical reviews. Japan jumps towards personalized medicine
Abstracts: Solution structure of a protein denatured state and folding intermediate. Mechanism of coupled folding and binding of an intrinsically disordered protein
Abstracts: Solution structure of the POU-specific DNA-binding domain of Oct-1. Structural basis for DNA bending by the architectural transcription factor LEF-1
Abstracts: Solving problems in endangered species conservation: an introduction to problem orientation. Conserving biodiversity in the real world: professional practice using a policy orientation
Abstracts: Solving problems in finite time. The domino effect: When taking a risk proved a wise choice for one postdoc. Thinking big
Abstracts: Somatic activation of the K-ras oncogene causes early onset lung cancer in mice. Effects of an Rb mutation in the mouse
Abstracts: Somatic and gametic resources in male rock shrimp, Rhynchocinetes typus: effect of mating potential and ontogenetic male stage
Abstracts: Some ethical issues raised by studies of predation and aggression. Theory and method in studies of vigilance and aggregation
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