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- January 4, 2008
- 06:17 PM
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Evolutionary arms race turns ants into babysitters for Alcon blue butterflies
by Ed Yong in Not Exactly Rocket Science
In the meadows of Europe, colonies of industrious team-workers are being manipulated by a master slacker. The layabout in question is the Alcon blue butterfly (Maculinea alcon) a large and beautiful summer visitor and its victims are two species of red ants, Myrmica rubra and Myrmica ruginodis.
The Alcon blue is a ‘brood parasite’ - the
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D Nash, T D Als, R Maile, G R Jones, & J J Boomsma. (2008) A Mosaic of Chemical Coevolution in a Large Blue Butterfly. Science, 319(5859), 88-90. DOI: 10.1126/science.1149180
- December 18, 2007
- 08:04 AM
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Prehistoric meat-eating fungus snared microscopic worms
by Ed Yong in Not Exactly Rocket Science
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A Schmidt, H Dorfelt, & V Perrichot. (2007) Carnivorous Fungi from Cretaceous Amber. Science, 318(5857), 1743-1743. DOI: 10.1126/science.1149947
- December 12, 2007
- 09:04 PM
- 1,061 views
Time doesn’t actually slow down in a crisis
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Chess Stetson, Matthew Fiesta, David Eagleman, & David Burr. (2007) Does Time Really Slow Down during a Frightening Event?. PLoS ONE, 2(12). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001295
- December 10, 2007
- 09:04 PM
- 1,156 views
Mud time capsules show evolutionary arms race between host and parasite
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Ellen Decaestecker, Sabrina Gaba, Joost Raeymaekers, Robby Stoks, Liesbeth Van Kerckhoven, Dieter Ebert, & Luc De Meester. (2007) Host–parasite ‘Red Queen’ dynamics archived in pond sediment. Nature, 450(7171), 870-873. DOI: 10.1038/nature06291
- December 8, 2007
- 03:04 AM
- 1,141 views
Sickle cell mice cured by stem cells reprogrammed from their own tails
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J Hanna, M Wernig, S Markoulaki, C-W Sun, A Meissner, J Cassady, C Beard, T Brambrink, L-C Wu, T Townes.... (2007) Treatment of Sickle Cell Anemia Mouse Model with iPS Cells Generated from Autologous Skin. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.1152092
- December 6, 2007
- 09:04 PM
- 1,097 views
Subliminal flag shifts political views and voting choices
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R Hassin, M J Ferguson, D Shidlovski, & T Gross. (2007) Subliminal exposure to national flags affects political thought and behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0704679104
- December 5, 2007
- 09:04 PM
- 1,183 views
Songbirds need so-called “human language gene” to learn new tunes
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Sebastian Haesler, Christelle Rochefort, Benjamin Georgi, Pawel Licznerski, Pavel Osten, & Constance Scharff. (2007) Incomplete and Inaccurate Vocal Imitation after Knockdown of FoxP2 in Songbird Basal Ganglia Nucleus Area X. PLoS Biology, 5(12). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050321
- November 28, 2007
- 05:05 PM
- 2,160 views
Solving the San Francisco plankton mystery
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James Cloern, Alan Jassby, Janet Thompson, Kathryn Hieb , & . (2007) A cold phase of the East Pacific triggers new phytoplankton blooms in San Francisco Bay. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(47), 18561-18565.
- November 23, 2007
- 11:04 PM
- 1,133 views
Human skin cells reprogrammed into stem cells
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Junying Yu, Maxim Vodyanik, Kim Smuga-Otto, Jessica Antosiewicz-Bourget, Jennifer Frane, Shulan Tian, Gudrun Jonsdottir, Victor Ruotti, Jeff Nie, & James Thomson. (2007) Induced pluripotent stem cell lines derived from human somatic cells. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.1151526
- November 23, 2007
- 11:38 AM
- 1,123 views
Envious capuchin monkeys react badly to raw deals
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Megan van Wolkenten, Sarah Brosnan, & Frans de Waal. (2007) Inequity responses of monkeys modified by effort. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(47), 18854-18859. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0707182104v1?maxtoshow
- November 23, 2007
- 11:38 AM
- 1,123 views
Cooperating bacteria are vulnerable to slackers
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S Diggle, A Griffin, G Campbell, & S West . (2007) Cooperation and conflict in quorum-sensing bacterial populations. Nature, 411-415. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7168/abs/nature06279.html
K Sandoz, S Mitzimberg, & M Schuster. (2007) Social cheating in Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(40), 15876-15881. www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0705653104v1
- November 23, 2007
- 11:38 AM
- 1,171 views
Brain of the beholder – the neuroscience of beauty in sculpture
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Cinzia Di Dio, Emiliano Macaluso, & Giacomo Rizzolatti . (2007) The Golden Beauty: brain response to Classical and Renaissance sculptures. PLoS one, 2(11). YOUR REPORT (URL live from November 21): http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0001201
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