American Physical Society meeting. Gravity probe researchers report 'glimpses' of long-awaited payoff     

Siegfried T 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2007,316(5824):538-539

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Monte Verde: seaweed, food, medicine, and the peopling of South America     

Dillehay TD  Ramírez C  Pino M  Collins MB  Rossen J  Pino-Navarro JD 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2008,320(5877):784-786

The identification of human artifacts at the early archaeological site of Monte Verde in southern Chile has raised questions of when and how people reached the tip of South America without leaving much other evidence in the New World. Remains of nine species of marine algae were recovered from hearths and other features at Monte Verde II, an upper occupational layer, and were directly dated between 14,220 and 13,980 calendar years before the present ( approximately 12,310 and 12,290 carbon-14 years ago). These findings support the archaeological interpretation of the site and indicate that the site's inhabitants used seaweed from distant beaches and estuarine environments for food and medicine. These data are consistent with the ideas that an early settlement of South America was along the Pacific coast and that seaweeds were important to the diet and health of early humans in the Americas.  相似文献   

Climate change. Using the past to predict the future?     

Hegerl GC  Russon T 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2011,334(6061):1360-1361

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MED12, the mediator complex subunit 12 gene, is mutated at high frequency in uterine leiomyomas     

Mäkinen N  Mehine M  Tolvanen J  Kaasinen E  Li Y  Lehtonen HJ  Gentile M  Yan J  Enge M  Taipale M  Aavikko M  Katainen R  Virolainen E  Böhling T  Koski TA  Launonen V  Sjöberg J  Taipale J  Vahteristo P  Aaltonen LA 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2011,334(6053):252-255

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American Astronomical Society meeting. Snapshots from the meeting     

Siegfried T 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2007,315(5811):455

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Single-molecule kinetics of lambda exonuclease reveal base dependence and dynamic disorder     

van Oijen AM  Blainey PC  Crampton DJ  Richardson CC  Ellenberger T  Xie XS 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2003,301(5637):1235-1238

We used a multiplexed approach based on flow-stretched DNA to monitor the enzymatic digestion of lambda-phage DNA by individual bacteriophage lambda exonuclease molecules. Statistical analyses of multiple single-molecule trajectories observed simultaneously reveal that the catalytic rate is dependent on the local base content of the substrate DNA. By relating single-molecule kinetics to the free energies of hydrogen bonding and base stacking, we establish that the melting of a base from the DNA is the rate-limiting step in the catalytic cycle. The catalytic rate also exhibits large fluctuations independent of the sequence, which we attribute to conformational changes of the enzyme-DNA complex.  相似文献   

Deferring flowering of nobile dendrobium hybrids by holding plants under low temperature after vernalization     

Min Lin  Terri W. Starman  Yin-Tung Wang  Genhua Niu  J. Tom Cothren 《Scientia Horticulturae》2011

Orchids are currently the most valuable potted crop in the United States. To date, no studies focused on making possible the year-round greenhouse production of flowering nobile dendrobium orchids. This experiment was aimed at developing a strategy to defer flowering of nobile dendrobium orchids by holding them under low temperature. Mature Den. Red Emperor ‘Prince’ and Den. Sea Mary ‘Snow King’ were held at 10 °C for various durations (0, 4, 8, 12 or 16 weeks) after vernalization (4 weeks at 10 °C). Plants were forced in a greenhouse after holding. Time to flower, flower differentiation (flowering node percentage, number of aerial shoot and aborted bud) and flower quality (total flower number, flower diameter, flower number per flowering node and flower longevity) were determined. Increase of low temperature holding duration from 0 to 16 weeks extended time to flower up to 3 months and did not affect parameters of flower except producing larger flowers and reducing flower number per flowering node for Den. Red Emperor ‘Prince’. Notably, the flower longevity was not adversely affected. Defoliation was aggravated in Den. Red Emperor ‘Prince’ by longer duration of cooling and was considered a detrimental effect of low temperature holding.  相似文献   

Soil variability through spatial scales in a permanently disturbed natural spruce-fir-beech forest     

Pavel Šamonil  Martin Valtera  Stanislav Bek  Barbora Šebková  Tomáš Vrška  Jakub Houška 《European Journal of Forest Research》2011,130(6):1075-1091

Soil variability was assessed in a 74.2-ha area within the Žofínsky prales natural forest. Parameters evaluated for 1765 soil profiles inside 353 graticule plots were as follows: (1) thickness of organic horizons, (2) thickness and form of mineral horizons, (3) humus form (HF), (4) soil taxonomic unit (STU) and (5) anomalies. In addition, soil reaction (pH_KCl) and oxidizable carbon content (C_ox) were measured in the laboratory for 734 samples from the upper mineral (A) and lower mineral (B) horizons. The most frequently occurring humus form was mor followed by moder, hydromor and peaty T-horizon. Entic Podzols, Dystric Cambisols, Haplic Cambisols, Albic Podzols, Histic (or Haplic) Gleysols, Endogleyic Stagnosols, Fibric or Hemic or Sapric Histosols and Stagnic Gleysols were all present at the site despite its homogeneous geological bedrock. Overall coefficient of variance (CV) was lower in terrestrial soils compared with (semi-)hydromorphic soils. Overall variance decreased in both soil groups with increasing depth, as did CV differences between the fine (up to 10 m) and the locality scales. The lowest CV values occurred for C_ox and pH_KCl. The CV values differed between STUs as well. Compared to lower horizons, variograms of upper horizons showed greater autocorrelation at the intermediate spatial scale (10–320 m)—ranging from 50 to 150 m. Semivariance values, however, reached 70–80% of sill already at a distance of 10 m. The most significant factor of variability at all studied spatial scales is presumably the soil disturbance regime, followed by terrain micro-topography and the effect of tree species.  相似文献   

Measuring Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) Mass With the Use of Satellite Imagery     

Patrick J. Starks  Brad C. Venuto  John A. Eckroat  Tom. Lucas 《Strength and Conditioning Journal》2011,64(2):178-186

Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) is an aggressively spreading native species in Oklahoma grasslands. It decreases rangeland forage production, and has been implicated in reducing stream flow and groundwater recharge. Industrial-scale plans to use redcedar as a biofuel source are being considered. Optimal placement of redcedar-based industries requires determination of redcedar availability. Such large-area inventories of redcedar mass can be practically addressed via aircraft or satellite remote sensing. Therefore, we conducted a study in central and western Oklahoma to develop and test a remote-sensing–based allometric equation relating redcedar canopy area to aboveground dry mass (AGM). We used automated methods to measure tree canopy area from georectified, pan-sharpened, multispectral QuickBird images having a spatial resolution of 0. 45 m² per pixel ground sample area. We also measured the canopy area and fresh and dry mass of these trees with the use of destructive sampling techniques. Regression analysis showed that satellite-derived measurements of canopy coverage explained about 85% of field-measured redcedar dry AGM in the study plots. The resulting allometric equation was applied to an independent data set, yielding dry AGM of 38.2 metric tons ? ha^?1, which was well within the field-measured range of 36–43 metric tons ? ha^?1. The allometric equation was then applied to Natural Resources Conservation Service measurements of redcedar canopy coverage for 17 counties in Oklahoma, to determine that the area of interest contains a median value of about 11.5 million metric tons of redcedar AGM. These results indicate that 0.45-m² spatial resolution multispectral imagery can be a useful tool for rapid and reliable measurement of redcedar dry AGM.  相似文献   

A new species of Acanthochondria (Copepoda: Chondracanthidae) parasitizing the flounder Xystreurys rasile (Pleuronectiformes: Paralichthyidae) from Argentina     

Alarcos AJ  Timi JT 《Folia parasitologica》2011,58(2):164-168

A new copepod species, Acanthochondria sagitta sp. n., is described based on specimens collected from the flounder Xystreurys rasile (Jordan) (Pleuronectiformes, Paralichthyidae), caught in the coastal waters off Necochea, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The new species differs from its congeners by the following combination of characters: presence of three pairs of cephalic outgrowths; the triangular shape of the trunk with diverging postero-lateral processes; leg 2 of an intermediate shape between Types C and D, which projects laterally from the trunk, and Type B-V antennule bearing two proximal processes (one ventral and one dorsal) on the swollen basal portion.  相似文献