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Helping decisions and kin recognition in long-tailed tits
Most cooperative breeders live in discrete family groups, but in a minority, breeding populations comprise extended social networks of conspecifics that vary in relatedness. Selection for effective kin recognition may be...
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Kith or Kin? Familiarity as a Cue to Kinship in Social Birds
Interacting with relatives provides opportunities for fitness benefits via kin-selected cooperation, but also creates potential costs through kin competition and inbreeding. Therefore, a mechanism for the discrimination of kin...
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A Conversation with Ha-Joon Chang
Maha Abdelrahman
Aug 01, 2019
Ha‐Joon Chang is the Director of the Centre of Development Studies and a Reader in the Political Economy of Development in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He grew up in South Korea where he completed his...
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Reciprocal mimicry
Established mimicry theory predicts that Batesian mimics are selected to resemble their defended models, while models are selected to become dissimilar from their mimics. However, this theory has mainly considered individual...
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A Hox-Embedded Long Noncoding RNA
Over 20 years ago, the discovery of Xist as a critical component of X chromosome inactivation revealed a fundamental role for long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in epigenetic regulation during mammalian development and foreshadowed a...
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Withdrawal from Extended, Intermittent Access to A Highly Palatable Diet Impairs Hippocampal Memory Function and Neurogenesis
Background: Compulsive eating can be promoted by intermittent access to palatable food and is often accompanied by cognitive deficits and reduction in hippocampal plasticity. Here, we investigated the effects of intermittent...
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Separate Roles of FAN1 and Fanconi Anemia Proteins in DNA Interstrand Crosslink Repair and Human Disease
Supawat Thongthip
Jan 01, 0001
DNA interstrand crosslink (ICL) repair is vital for cellular proliferation and survival. Defects in the repair of DNA crosslinks have been associated with congenital abnormalities, bone marrow and kidney failure, liver...
Published by: Rockefeller University
The Effects of a High Fat Western Diet Along With Pregnancy on the Morphology and Contractile Function of the Heart
Vikki Rueda-Juarez
Jan 01, 0001
In the United States of America the obesity rate has reached an all-time high, with 40% of Americans having a BMI above 30.0. Obesity is correlated with cardiac hypertrophy, which is the enlargement of the heart due to increased...
Published by: Ursinus College
The effects of reputational and social knowledge on cooperation.
Edoardo Gallo, Chang Yan
Jul 09, 2019
The emergence and sustenance of cooperative behavior is fundamental for a society to thrive. Recent experimental studies have shown that cooperation increases in dynamic networks in which subjects can choose their partners....
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Unveiling the additive-assisted oriented growth of perovskite crystallite for high performance light-emitting diodes.
Solution-processed metal halide perovskites have been recognized as one of the most promising semiconductors, with applications in light-emitting diodes (LEDs), solar cells and lasers. Various additives have been widely used in...
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The Grizzly, February 13, 1987
Greek Life Grits Teeth at State's Hazing Law Free Roses for Lorelei Letter: Fellow Student Reports on Chang News Notes: R.A. Selection Underway; St. Andrew's Scholarship; National Women in Sports Day Bears Bump LaSalle and...
Published by: Ursinus College
Increased anxiety from fear of Omicron in China as compared to North America and Western Europe
Background: Policies dealing with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic vary across the globe, the different governmental responses then affect the public perception of COVID-19. Many unofficial Chinese media outlets...
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