A new study published
in the open access journal PLOS Biology attempted to calculate the global value of protected areas in terms of ecotourism, as well as the total number of visits per year protected areas receive.
A new research paper published
in the open access journal ZooKeys reports on a discovery made during a Los Angeles class fieldtrip — a new species of marine pillbug (Crustacea: Isopoda).
Desk - based workers would like to spend less time sitting down and more time walking or doing physical activity as part of their working day, research published
in the open access journal BMC Research Notes suggests.
The work, conducted by researchers from Cambridge University's departments of Plant Sciences and Zoology, is published
today in the open access journal PLOS Biology.
The study, published today
in open access journal Frontiers in Psychology, shows that this xenophobia, or a fear of other groups, was a strong predictor of a Brexit vote regardless of people's age, gender or education.
It was precisely this affinity to the unusual displayed by the nearly worldwide genus that inspired Dr Neil Snow and his co-authors to delve deeper in a dedicated monograph published
in the open access journal PhytoKeys.
The study by Dr T. Keith Philips, recently published
in the open access journal Zookeys, provides important insights into the evolution and diversity of these dung beetles, which make up about half of the world's dung beetle fauna.
Sequencing RNA, not just DNA, could help doctors predict how prostate cancer tumors will respond to treatment, according to research published
in the open access journal Genome Biology.
In the current paper, published online
in the open access journal Scientific Reports, Jiang and his collaborators studied taste organoids at different stages of growth to identify which genes are turned on at each stage of taste cell generation.
In a feature article published
in the open access journal eLife, an international team of experts led by Dr Bonnie Wintle and Dr Christian R. Boehm from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, capture perspectives of industry, innovators, scholars, and the security community in the UK and US on what they view as the major emerging issues in the field.
The ability to walk has been restored following a spinal cord injury, using one's own brain power, according to research published
in the open access Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.
In a new study published on 19
February in the open access journal PLOS Biology, researchers show that similar — or even identical — mutations can occur during diversification in completely separate populations of E. coli evolving in different environments over more than 1000 generations.
The spectacular finds, publishing on 14
March in the open access journal PLOS Biology, indicate that advanced multicellular life evolved much earlier than previously thought.
In the study, published
online in the open access journal Scientific Reports, the researchers analyzed data from the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSLHP), a population - based study of health and social factors in the United States.
In the paper, which was published
in the open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, Hansen is joined by 16 colleagues, some of whom are experts in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
«Strong species - environment feedback shapes plant community assembly along environmental gradients» was published online in October 2013
in the open access journal Ecology and Evolution.
International support for measures to prevent neglected tropical diseases has resulted in public health gains, but eliminating these debilitating conditions will require significant investments in basic research, argues Dr. Peter Hotez in a new article publishing 9
November in the open access journal PLOS Biology.
Global methane emissions from agriculture are larger than estimated due to the previous use of out - of - date data on carbon emissions generated by livestock, according to a study published
in the open access journal Carbon Balance and Management.
In a new Essay publishing 28
December in the open access journal PLOS Biology, Kristofer Wollein Waldetoft and Sam P. Brown of Georgia Institute of Technology propose that development of alternative therapies for mild infections could help slow the development and spread of antibiotic resistance, thereby preserving the drugs» effectiveness for use in severe infections.
Researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Barcelona, Spain,
writing in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology in a paper publishing 7th August, have now proposed a new theory to explain this phenomenon; the answer involves an ancient mating event between two distinct species, and may have implications for our own genomes.
In a paper publishing August
7th in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI - CBG) succeeded in mimicking the sustained expression of the transcription factor Pax6 as seen in the developing human brain, in mouse cortical progenitor cells.
The results of this study, published
now in the open access journal PLOS Biology, raise the possibility that chromosome rearrangements involving these regions, often seen in many cancers, can induce additional errors in cell division and thereby compromise genetic stability.
New paper, published by two
scientists in the open access journal ZooKeys, addresses the knowledge gap by providing an updated list of already 50 amphibian species living on Mount Oku, Cameroon.
Dr. Gavin Svenson, curator of invertebrate zoology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, described the new species and published a revision of the genus
Liturgusa in the open access journal ZooKeys.
Some collected 40 years ago, some as far back as a 100, the nine new species are described
in the open access journal Phytokeys to showcase the importance of herbarium collections in Botany.
Using a more extensive number of samples for molecular and morphological analysis, researchers from the University of Richmond and The George Washington University described a tiny new species of narrow - mouthed frog from the Microhylidae
family in the open access journal ZooKeys.
As a result of this research collaboration between Ecuador's Catholic University (PUCE) and Peru's Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), the treefrogs were recently described as new to
science in the open access journal ZooKeys.
It is expected that the European Commission will aim for a combination of both green and gold open access by offering extra funding to pay
fees in open access journals and mandating that scientists archive their papers in a central repository.
The study, published
in the open access journal Acta Neuropathologica Communications, showed that in experiments on mice, an immune - based treatment reduced the size of brain lesions.
When the researchers looked at fish larvae and adults of the same species (27 taxa in total), they found that in 49 percent, the timing of larval occurrence had shifted, and in 60 percent of the taxa (13 in total), the movements of the adults and the larvae were out of sync with each other, according to the researchers, who published their findings last
month in the open access journal PLOS ONE.
The paper, which
appears in the open access journal, by De Gruyter Open, analyzes how the size, shape and color of the wings differ among a collection of migrant monarch butterflies.
The full article Development of corporate social responsibility in small and medium - sized enterprises and its nexus with quality management published
in the open access journal Cogent Business & Management is free to read and download via this permanent link: