17.05.2013 | Cristina Coccia et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Cristina Coccia, Piero Calosi, Luz Boyero, Andy J. Green, David T. Bilton Background Trichocorixa verticalis verticalis, a native of North America, is the only alien corixid identified in Europe. First detected in 1997 in southern Portugal, it has spread into south-west Spain including ...

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19.04.2013 | Christopher N. LaRock et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Christopher N. LaRock, Jing Yu, Alexander R. Horswill, Matthew R. Parsek, F. Chris Minion The etiologic agent of bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, senses self-produced, secreted chemical signals in a process named quorum sensing. Though the closely related enteric pathogen Y. ...

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19.04.2013 | Robert D. Anderson et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Robert D. Anderson, Simon Blanford, Nina E. Jenkins, Matthew B. Thomas Fever has generally been shown to benefit infected hosts. However, fever temperatures also carry costs. While endotherms are able to limit fever costs physiologically, the means by which behavioral thermoregulators ...

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05.04.2013 | Azadeh Kushki et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Azadeh Kushki, Ellen Drumm, Michele Pla Mobarak, Nadia Tanel, Annie Dupuis, Tom Chau, Evdokia Anagnostou Assessment of anxiety symptoms in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a challenging task due to the symptom overlap between the two conditions as well as the difficulties in ...

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29.03.2013 | Taryn N. Crepeau et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Taryn N. Crepeau, Sean P. Healy, Kristen Bartlett-Healy, Isik Unlu, Ary Farajollahi, Dina M. Fonseca The Biogents® Sentinel (BGS) trap is the standard tool to monitor adult Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse) (Diptera: Culicidae), the Asian tiger mosquito. BGS traps are ...

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29.03.2013 | Maria Kozhevnikov et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Maria Kozhevnikov, James Elliott, Jennifer Shephard, Klaus Gramann Stories of g-tummo meditators mysteriously able to dry wet sheets wrapped around their naked bodies during a frigid Himalayan ceremony have intrigued scholars and laypersons alike for a century. Study 1 was ...

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15.03.2013 | Sisse R. Ostrowski et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Sisse R. Ostrowski, Ronan M. G. Berg, Nis A. Windeløv, Martin A. S. Meyer, Ronni R. Plovsing, Kirsten Møller, Pär I. Johansson Background Sepsis induces early activation of coagulation and fibrinolysis followed by late fibrinolytic shutdown and progressive endothelial damage. The aim of ...

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15.03.2013 | Ching-Min Tseng et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Ching-Min Tseng, Yung-Tai Chen, Shuo-Ming Ou, Yi-Han Hsiao, Szu-Yuan Li, Shuu-Jiun Wang, Albert C. Yang, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Diahn-Warng Perng Background Seasonal variations in the acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have been reported. However, the influence ...

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08.03.2013 | Jens Baumgartner et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Jens Baumgartner, Luca Bertinetti, Marc Widdrat, Ann M. Hirt, Damien Faivre The room temperature co-precipitation of ferrous and ferric iron under alkaline conditions typically yields superparamagnetic magnetite nanoparticles below a size of 20 nm. We show that at pH  =  9 this ...

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08.03.2013 | Marco Archetti et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Marco Archetti, Andrew D. Richardson, John O'Keefe, Nicolas Delpierre Climate change affects the phenology of many species. As temperature and precipitation are thought to control autumn color change in temperate deciduous trees, it is possible that climate change might also ...

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