Scientific Reports Biology Table of Contents e-alert: July 2012

02 July 2012      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports             Scientific Reports publishes 457 open access papers in its first year Publishing technically sound research articles, Scientific Reports is Nature Publishing Group's fastest growing journal. Given the speed and visibility offered, no wonder 93% of our authors said that they are "likely" or "very likely" to submit again. Keep your research moving. Submit to Scientific Reports               Biological Sciences               Hypothermia-induced hyperphosphorylation: a new model to study tau kinase inhibitors ▶     Alexis Bretteville, François Marcouiller, Carl Julien et al.     Tau hyperphosphorylation is one hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology. Pharmaceutical companies have thus developed kinase inhibitors aiming to reduce tau …             Tools for crushing diatoms – opal teeth in copepods feature a rubber-like bearing composed of resilin ▶     Jan Michels, Jürgen Vogt, Stanislav N. Gorb     Diatoms are generally known for superior mechanical properties of their mineralised shells. Nevertheless, many copepod crustaceans are able to crush such shells using their …             Heterogeneous length of stay of hosts’ movements and spatial epidemic spread ▶     Chiara Poletto, Michele Tizzoni, Vittoria Colizza     Infectious diseases outbreaks are often characterized by a spatial component induced by hosts’ distribution, mobility, and interactions. Spatial models that incorporate hosts’ …             Polyamine sensitivity of gap junctions is required for skin pattern formation in zebrafish ▶     Masakatsu Watanabe, Daisuke Watanabe, Shigeru Kondo     Gap junctions allow the direct and bidirectional transfer of small molecules between cells. Polyamine sensitivity, which has been observed for a certain gap junction in vitro, …             Proportions of CD4+ memory T cells are altered in individuals chronically infected with Schistosoma haematobium ▶     Norman Nausch, Claire D. Bourke, Laura J. Appleby et al.     Characterisation of protective helminth acquired immunity in humans or experimental models has focused on effector responses with little work conducted on memory responses. Here …             Defective folliculogenesis in female mice lacking Vaccinia-related kinase 1 ▶     Jinkyung Kim, Yoon Ha Choi, Soeun Chang et al.     The Vaccinia-related kinase 1(VRK1), which is generally implicated in modulating cell cycle, plays important roles in mammalian gametogenesis. Female infertility in VRK1-deficient …             Involvement of RDR6 in short-range intercellular RNA silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana ▶     Cheng Qin, Nongnong Shi, Mei Gu et al.     In plants, non-cell autonomous RNA silencing spreads between cells and over long distances. Recent work has revealed insight on the genetic and molecular components essential for …             Substitutional Reality System: A Novel Experimental Platform for Experiencing Alternative Reality ▶     Keisuke Suzuki, Sohei Wakisaka, Naotaka Fujii     We have developed a novel experimental platform, referred to as a substitutional reality (SR) system, for studying the conviction of the perception of live reality and related …             Evolution of in-group favoritism ▶     Feng Fu, Corina E. Tarnita, Nicholas A. Christakis et al.     In-group favoritism is a central aspect of human behavior. People often help members of their own group more than members of other groups. Here we propose a mathematical framework …             Gene Set Enrichment Analysis Identifies LIF as a Negative Regulator of Human Th2 Cell Differentiation ▶     Ubaid Ullah, Parul Tripathi, Riitta Lahesmaa et al.     In this study we show that IL-4 is crucial during reinforcement window of human Th2 differentiation for optimal Th2 development. We have also shown here that during this stage, …             Emergence of responsible sanctions without second order free riders, antisocial punishment or spite ▶     Christian Hilbe, Arne Traulsen     While empirical evidence highlights the importance of punishment for cooperation in collective action, it remains disputed how responsible sanctions targeted predominantly at …             Human chondrogenic paraxial mesoderm, directed specification and prospective isolation from pluripotent stem cells ▶     Katsutsugu Umeda, Jiangang Zhao, Paul Simmons et al.     Directed specification and prospective isolation of chondrogenic paraxial mesoderm progeny from human pluripotent stem (PS) cells have not yet been achieved. Here we report the …             Estuarine and early-marine survival of transported and in-river migrant Snake River spring Chinook salmon smolts ▶     Erin L. Rechisky, David W. Welch, Aswea D. Porter et al.     Many juvenile Snake River Chinook salmon are transported downriver to avoid hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River basin. As mortality to the final dam is ∼50%, transported fish …             Degree of adaptive male mate choice is positively correlated with female quality variance ▶     Bodhisatta Nandy, Abhilasha Joshi, Zeeshan Syed Ali et al.     When the cost of reproduction for males and variance in female quality are high, males are predicted to show adaptive mate choice. Using Drosophila melanogaster, we test this …             Do cancer cells undergo phenotypic switching? The case for imperfect cancer stem cell markers ▶     Stefano Zapperi, Caterina A. M. La Porta     The identification of cancer stem cells in vivo and in vitro relies on specific surface markers that should allow to sort cancer cells in phenotypically distinct subpopulations. …             Incunabular Immunological Events in Prion Trafficking ▶     Brady Michel, Crystal Meyerett-Reid, Theodore Johnson et al.     While prions probably interact with the innate immune system immediately following infection, little is known about this initial confrontation. Here we investigated incunabular …             Explicit hypoxia targeting with tumor suppression by creating an “obligate” anaerobic Salmonella Typhimurium strain ▶     Bin Yu, Mei Yang, Lei Shi et al.     Using bacteria as therapeutic agents against solid tumors is emerging as an area of great potential in the treatment of cancer. Obligate and facultative anaerobic bacteria have …             Abrogated cryptic activation of lentiviral transfer vectors ▶     Ralf M. Luche, Joerg Enssle, Hans-Peter Kiem     Despite significant improvements in lentivirus (LV) vector-based gene therapy there are still several safety risks using LV vectors including the potential formation of …             Real-time monitoring in three-dimensional hepatocytes reveals that insulin acts as a synchronizer for liver clock ▶     Daisuke Yamajuku, Takahiko Inagaki, Tomonori Haruma et al.     Resetting the peripheral clock and understanding the integration between the circadian rhythm and metabolic pathways are fundamental questions. To test whether insulin acts as a …             Noiseonomics: The relationship between ambient noise levels in the sea and global economic trends ▶     George V. Frisk     In recent years, the topic of noise in the sea and its effects on marine mammals has attracted considerable attention from both the scientific community and the general public. …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. 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