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06 May 2016

Most viewed Plant Science articles in April 2016

Nighttime Supplemental LED Inter-lighting Improves Growth and Yield of Single-Truss Tomatoes by Enhancing Photosynthesis in Both Winter and Summer Fasil T. Tewolde, Na Lu, Kouta Shiina, Toru Maruo, Michiko Takagaki, Toyoki Kozai and Wataru Yamori* Arbuscular mycorrhiza Symbiosis Induces a Major Transcriptional Reprogramming of the Potato SWEET Sugar Transporter Family Jasmin Manck-Götzenberger and Natalia Requena* Non-targeted Metabolite Profiling and Scavenging Activity Unveil the Nutraceutical Potential of Psyllium (Plantago ovata Forsk) Manish K. Patel, Avinash Mishra* and Bhavanath Jha* Genome-Wide Study of the Tomato SlMLO Gene Family and Its Functional Characterization in Response to the Powdery Mildew Fungus Oidium neolycopersici Zheng Zheng, Michela Appiano, Stefano Pavan, Valentina Bracuto, Luigi Ricciardi, Richard G. F. Visser, Anne-Marie A. Wolters and Yuling Bai* Using Transcriptomics to Identify Differential Gene Expression in Response to Salinity among Australian Phragmites australis Clones Gareth D. Holmes, Nathan E. Hall, Anthony R. Gendall, Paul I. Boon and Elizabeth A. James* Flux Balance Analysis of Plant Metabolism: The Effect of Biomass Composition and Model Structure on Model Predictions Huili Yuan, C. Y. Maurice Cheung*, Peter A. J. Hilbers and Natal A. W. van Riel* Mutation of OsGIGANTEA Leads to Enhanced Tolerance to Polyethylene Glycol-Generated Osmotic Stress in Rice Shuai Li, Wenhao Yue, Min Wang, Wenmin Qiu, Lian […]

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06 May 2016

Most viewed Genetics articles in April 2016

Computational Identification of Key Regulators in Two Different Colorectal Cancer Cell Lines Darius Wlochowitz*, Martin Haubrock, Jetcy Arackal, Annalen Bleckmann, Alexander Wolff, Tim Beißbarth, Edgar Wingender and Mehmet Gültas* Paths of Heritable Mitochondrial DNA Mutation and Heteroplasmy in Reference and gas-1 Strains of Caenorhabditis elegans Riana I. Wernick, Suzanne Estes, Dana K. Howe and Dee R. Denver* Identification of a Bitter-Taste Receptor Gene Repertoire in Different Lagomorphs Species Ana M. Ferreira*, Andreia T. Marques, Luca Fontanesi, Carl-Gustaf Thulin, Elvira Sales-Baptista, Susana S. Araújo and André M. Almeida Identification of QTL on Chromosome 18 Associated with Non-Coagulating Milk in Swedish Red Cows Sandrine I. Duchemin*, Maria Glantz, Dirk-Jan de Koning, Marie Paulsson and Willem F. Fikse Mouse and Human Genetic Analyses Associate Kalirin with Ventral Striatal Activation during Impulsivity and with Alcohol Misuse Yolanda Peña-Oliver*, Fabiana M. Carvalho, Sandra Sanchez-Roige, Erin B. Quinlan, Tianye Jia, Tom Walker-Tilley, Stuart L. Rulten, Frances M. G. Pearl, Tobias Banaschewski, Gareth J. Barker, Arun L. W. Bokde, Christian Büchel, Patricia J. Conrod, Herta Flor, Jürgen Gallinat, Hugh Garavan, Andreas Heinz, Penny Gowland, Marie-Laure Paillere Martinot, Tomáš Paus, Marcella Rietschel, Trevor W. Robbins, Michael N. Smolka, Gunter Schumann, David N. Stephens for the IMAGEN Consortium Boolean Modeling Reveals the Necessity […]

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05 May 2016

Most viewed Neuroscience articles in April 2016

A Heart and A Mind: Self-distancing Facilitates the Association Between Heart Rate Variability and Wise Reasoning Igor Grossmann*, Baljinder K. Sahdra, and Joseph Ciarrochi Human Brain Expansion during Evolution Is Independent of Fire Control and Cooking Alianda M. Cornélio*, Ruben E. de Bittencourt-Navarrete, Ricardo de Bittencourt Brum, Claudio M. Queiroz and Marcos R. Costa* The Association Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Meta-Analysis Perspective Farnoosh Emamian, Habibolah Khazaie*, Masoud Tahmasian, Guy D. Leschziner, Mary J. Morrell, Ging-Yuek R. Hsiung, Ivana Rosenzweig and Amir A. Sepehry A Neural Mechanism of Preference Shifting Under Zero Price Condition Mikhail Votinov*, Toshihiko Aso, Hidenao Fukuyama and Tatsuya Mima Decreased Corticospinal Excitability after the Illusion of Missing Part of the Arm Konstantina Kilteni, Jennifer Grau-Sánchez, Misericordia Veciana De Las Heras, Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells and Mel Slater* General Anesthetic Conditions Induce Network Synchrony and Disrupt Sensory Processing in the Cortex Thomas Lissek, Horst A. Obenhaus, Désirée A. W. Ditzel, Takeharu Nagai, Atsushi Miyawaki, Rolf Sprengel and Mazahir T. Hasan* Retinal Remodeling and Metabolic Alterations in Human AMD Bryan W. Jones*, Rebecca L. Pfeiffer, William D. Ferrell, Carl B. Watt, James Tucker and Robert E. Marc Young and Middle-Aged Schoolteachers Differ in the Neural Correlates of Memory Encoding and Cognitive Fatigue: A Functional […]

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05 May 2016

Most viewed Physiology articles in April 2016

Greater Strength Gains after Training with Accentuated Eccentric than Traditional Isoinertial Loads in Already Strength-Trained Men Simon Walker*, Anthony J. Blazevich, G. Gregory Haff, James J. Tufano, Robert U. Newton and Keijo Häkkinen Acute Endurance Exercise Induces Nuclear p53 Abundance in Human Skeletal Muscle Bill Tachtsis, William J. Smiles, Steven C. Lane, John A. Hawley, and Donny M. Camera* Same Performance Changes after Live High-Train Low in Normobaric vs. Hypobaric Hypoxia Jonas J. Saugy, Laurent Schmitt, Anna Hauser, Guillaume Constantin, Roberto Cejuela, Raphael Faiss, Jon P. Wehrlin, Jérémie Rosset, Neil Robinson and Grégoire P. Millet* Time-Course of Neuromuscular Changes during and after Maximal Eccentric Contractions Valentin Doguet, Marc Jubeau*, Sylvain Dorel, Antoine Couturier, Lilian Lacourpaille, Arnaud Guével and Gaël Guilhem Severe Obesity Shifts Metabolic Thresholds but Does Not Attenuate Aerobic Training Adaptations in Zucker Rats Thiago S. Rosa*, Herbert G. Simões, Marcelo M. Rogero, Milton R. Moraes, Benedito S. Denadai, Ricardo M. Arida, Marília S. Andrade and Bruno M. Silva Continuous Aerobic Training in Individualized Intensity Avoids Spontaneous Physical Activity Decline and Improves MCT1 Expression in Oxidative Muscle of Swimming Rats Pedro P. M. Scariot, Fúlvia de Barros Manchado-Gobatto, Adriana S. Torsoni, Ivan G. M. dos Reis, Wladimir R. Beck and Claudio A. Gobatto* Human Dental […]

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04 May 2016

Most viewed Microbiology articles in April 2016

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Vibrio spp. within the Sydney Harbour Estuary Nachshon Siboni*, Varunan Balaraju, Richard Carney, Maurizio Labbate and Justin R. Seymour Reconstruction of Bacterial and Viral Genomes from Multiple Metagenomes Ankit Gupta, Sanjiv Kumar, Vishnu P. K. Prasoodanan, K. Harish, Ashok K. Sharma, and Vineet K. Sharma* K-shell Analysis Reveals Distinct Functional Parts in an Electron Transfer Network and Its Implications for Extracellular Electron Transfer Dewu Ding, Ling Li, Chuanjun Shu and Xiao Sun* Enantioselective Utilization of D-Amino Acids by Deep-Sea Microorganisms Takaaki Kubota*, Tohru Kobayashi, Takuro Nunoura, Fumito Maruyama and Shigeru Deguchi A Putative ABC Transporter Permease Is Necessary for Resistance to Acidified Nitrite and EDTA in Pseudomonas aeruginosa under Aerobic and Anaerobic Planktonic and Biofilm Conditions Cameron McDaniel, Shengchang Su, Warunya Panmanee, Gee W. Lau, Tristan Browne, Kevin Cox, Andrew T. Paul, Seung-Hyun B. Ko, Joel E. Mortensen, Joseph S. Lam, Daniel A. Muruve and Daniel J. Hassett* Coral-Associated Bacterial Diversity Is Conserved across Two Deep-Sea Anthothela Species Stephanie N. Lawler, Christina A. Kellogg*, Scott C. France, Rachel W. Clostio, Sandra D. Brooke and Steve W. Ross Protist-Bacteria Associations: Gammaproteobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria Are Prevalent as Digestion-Resistant Bacteria in Ciliated Protozoa Jun Gong*, Yao Qing, Songbao Zou, Rao Fu, Lei Su, Xiaoli Zhang and Qianqian […]

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03 May 2016

Sociological Theory: now open for submissions

We are proud to announce the launch of the latest specialty section of Frontiers in Sociology, Sociological Theory. Led by Chief Editor Prof. William Outhwaite, the section will aim to publish high quality articles in sociological theory, broadly defined, with a particular focus on: 1) Maximizing its geographical reach, particularly in relation to article submissions from lower-income countries. 2) Paying close attention to both the research frontiers in the various areas of sociological theory and the interface between sociological theory, broadly defined, and related work in adjacent fields of sociology and other disciplines such as philosophy, intellectual history, cultural studies, social anthropology, and international relations. Geographical and interdisciplinary cosmopolitanism remain important aims, Prof. Outhwaite indicates, as there are still serious deficiencies in communication between disciplines in many parts of the world as well as between sociologists in different geographical and linguistic regions. To learn more about Prof. Outhwaite’s vision for the section, see his Specialty Grand Challenge article available here. The section’s Associate Editor Board is already composed of the following researchers and scholars: Jan Balon, Czech Academy of Sciences Richard Ruey-Chyi Hwang, Academia Sinica Maurizio Meloni, University of Sheffield Angelos Mouzakitis, University of Crete Scott Schaffer, University of Western Ontario Frederic Vandenberghe, State University of Rio de Janeiro Aaron Winter, University of East London   […]

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02 May 2016

Frontiers’ Co-founder receives Shannon Visionary Award

Bell Labs Shannon Visionary Award   Professor Henry Markram, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers, was one of five global luminaries and visionaries honored with a Bell Labs Shannon Visionary Award on April 28, 2016. Bell Labs is the birthplace of the digital age. This is where Claude Elwood Shannon developed the idea that information can be represented by “zeroes” and “ones” and established a mathematical theory that explains just how. It is also where the first transistor was invented to electrically generate BITS. The awards, given out in a two day celebration of 100 years since Shannon’s birth, recognized five visionaries of the digital age, including; Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc., Irwin Jacobs, Co-founder of Qualcomm, Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist, Bob Metcalfe, Co-inventor of Ethernet and formulator of Metcalfe’s Law and Henry Markram, founder of the Blue Brain and Human Brain Projects. “We created the Bell Labs Shannon Visionary Awards to recognize pioneering contributions to advancing the current and future digital age that is, and will be, underpinned by Shannon’s seminal work,” says Marcus Weldon, President of Bell Labs and CTO of Nokia. “The award is a tremendous honor because Shannon is not only the father of Information Theory, he […]

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22 Apr 2016

Frontiers internships provide a stepping stone for career success

Many rewarding careers have been launched through a paid internship at Frontiers.  As one of the leading open-access publishers that is constantly developing innovations to enable knowledge to flow freely, we give early career academics the opportunity to branch out from research into research communication. “Doing an internship at Frontiers has been one of the best decisions I have made in my short career. I have had many internships but I was still unsure what career I would pursue. After 2 months at Frontiers not only did I know that I wanted a career in publishing, I also realized that I was good at it and enjoyed it,” said one intern who is now a fulltime member of the Frontiers editorial team. The best way to learn about an organization is to be immersed in it: interns are immediately considered part of our team and the work they do matters.  “I was surrounded by supportive colleagues, challenged to think differently and given the opportunity to actively help shape the future of publishing. I’m not sure I would have had the same opportunities elsewhere,” said an intern. Depending on their interest and expertise, Frontiers interns have the chance to work with the […]

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22 Apr 2016

Space Robotics open for submissions

Space Robotics is a new specialty section available through the community-run open-access journals Frontiers in Robotics and AI and Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. The new section Space Robotics is led by Specialty Chief Editor Prof Panagiotis Tsiotras from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Space robotics is broadly defined as the intersection of control, articulated mechanisms, artificial intelligence, path-planning, computer vision, astrodynamics and orbital and space sciences. In the foreseeable future, most space missions beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) will depend heavily on robotic systems. Even for manned space missions, robotic systems are envisioned to play a major role and act as “co-workers” helping astronauts perform complex tasks. Due to the increased interest in robotic and autonomous systems for operations in a space environment ‒ either in the vicinity of Earth or on other planets and asteroids ‒ we encourage submissions covering these topics, including – but not limited to – in-orbit satellite servicing and inspection, assembly, refueling, rendezvous and docking. Robotic monitoring and exploration of planets and asteroids are also of great interest to this journal. As part of the Space Robotics section we welcome submissions that investigate new algorithms for robotic mechanisms, autonomous satellites and spacecraft that deal with the peculiarities and challenges of the […]

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18 Apr 2016

Early career scientists: time for a Labor Union? AIRIcerca and the Italian case

Is being a scientist a real job? If you have a tenure track position the answer is certainly “yes.” Otherwise, welcome to the dark side of early career scientists. They make up the majority of the workforce in research, they are the ones who actually design experiments and produce scientific data and they invest the best years of their lives trying to find new ideas and create new opportunities for science. Without them, the job of many other fully recognized employees (such as lab technicians, research administrative staff and principal investigators themselves) would make little or no sense. Nonetheless in most of cases (though the situation is different depending on the country and on the specific work contract) they are still struggling to see their rights fully acknowledged: maternity/paternity leave, pension, sick leave, or simply defined working time are often still considered a luxury. We have been taught to believe that science is collective enterprise, but early career scientists are actually often left alone. The issue has been (and still is) widely debated, but what are early career researchers doing to improve their own working conditions? As the saying goes “you only get what you give,” but when it comes to labor rights you actually only get what you ask for. […]

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11 Apr 2016

Environmental Psychology launches as new section

We are proud and delighted to announce the launch of the latest section in Frontiers in Psychology: Environmental Psychology. This section will be led by Specialty Chief Editor Prof. Patrik Sörqvist, former Chair of the International Commission of Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN) team 4, and specialist in the interactions between environmental factors, noise, auditory perception, selective attention, cognition and action. Mission statement: The section publishes experimental, theoretical and applied studies of psychological processes engaged in encounters between people and the built and natural environment. It covers all aspects of human behavior and mental life in relation to the sociophysical environment, whether considered as ambient environmental factors (e.g., noise, temperature, lighting), specific behavior settings (e.g., schools, offices, hospitals), the basic infrastructure of everyday life (e.g., energy and transportation systems), or in a broader sense, with regard to landscape and the relationship between built and natural aspects of human environments. Human behavior and mental life include, but are not limited to, perception and cognition, emotion, stress and mental fatigue, and social interactions, as manifest in covert and overt behavior. In brief, this Specialty Section of Frontiers in Psychology provides an outlet for researchers addressing many of the classical concerns of environmental psychology. The […]

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10 Apr 2016

Most viewed Psychology articles in March 2016

Survey of Expert Opinion on Intelligence: Causes of International Differences in Cognitive Ability Tests Heiner Rindermann*, David Becker and Thomas Coyle Prefrontal Electrical Stimulation in Non-depressed Reduces Levels of Reported Negative Affects from Daily Stressors Adelaide Austin, Gabriela M. Jiga-Boy, Sara Rea, Simon A. Newstead, Sian Roderick, Nick J. Davis, Robert Marc Clement and Frederic Boy* When Love Meets Money: Priming the Possession of Money Influences Mating Strategies Yi Ming Li, Jian Li, Darius K.-S. Chan* and Bo Zhang To Switch or Not to Switch: Role of Cognitive Control in Working Memory Training in Older Adults Chandramallika Basak* and Margaret A. O’Connell Retrieval-Based Learning: Positive Effects of Retrieval Practice in Elementary School Children Jeffrey D. Karpicke*, Janell R. Blunt and Megan A. Smith Layered Social Network Analysis Reveals Complex Relationships in Kindergarteners Mireille Golemiec, Jonathan Schneider, W. Thomas Boyce, Nicole R. Bush, Nancy Adler and Joel D. Levine* Faces with light makeup are better recognized than faces with heavy makeup Keiko Tagai*, Hitomi Ohtaka and Hiroshi Nittono Unpredicted Pitch Modulates Beta Oscillatory Power during Rhythmic Entrainment to a Tone Sequence Andrew Chang, Dan J. Bosnyak and Laurel J. Trainor* Sex Differences in Music: A Female Advantage at Recognizing Familiar Melodies Scott A. Miles, Robbin A. Miranda and Michael T. Ullman* Psychopaths […]

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10 Apr 2016

Most viewed Neurology articles in March 2016

3D Cinema and Headache: The First Evidential Relation and Analysis of Involved Factors Mark Braschinsky*,  Aire Raidvee, Liis Sabre, Nadzeja Zmachinskaja, Olga Zukovskaja, Anti Karask, Bruno Saar and Aleksei Rakitin Bilateral Vestibular Hypofunction: Insights in Etiologies, Clinical Subtypes, and Diagnostics F. Lucieer, P. Vonk, N. Guinand, R. Stokroos, H. Kingma and Raymond van de Berg* Assessing the Relationship between Neurocognitive Performance and Brain Volume in Chronic Moderate–Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Nikos Konstantinou*, Eva Pettemeridou, Ioannis Seimenis, Eleni Eracleous, Savvas S. Papacostas, Andrew C. Papanicolaou and Fofi Constantinidou Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Deprivation Induces Neuronal Apoptosis by Noradrenaline Acting on Alpha1 Adrenoceptor and by Triggering Mitochondrial Intrinsic Pathway Bindu I. Somarajan, Mudasir A. Khanday and Birendra N. Mallick* Espresso Coffee for the Treatment of Somnolence in Parkinson’s Disease: Results of n-of-1 Trials Joaquim J. Ferreira*, Tiago Mestre, Leonor Correia Guedes, Miguel Coelho, Mário M. Rosa, Ana T. Santos, Marcio Barra, Cristina Sampaio and Olivier Rascol Lesion Size Is Exacerbated in Hypoxic Rats Whereas Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 Alpha and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Increase in Injured Normoxic Rats: A Prospective Cohort Study of Secondary Hypoxia in Focal Traumatic Brain Injury Eric Peter Thelin*, Arvid Frostell, Jan Mulder, Nicholas Mitsios, Peter Damberg, Sahar Nikkhou Aski, Mårten Risling, Mikael Svensson, […]

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09 Apr 2016

Most viewed Oncology articles in March 2016

Enrichment of Inflammatory IL-17 and TNF-α Secreting CD4+ T Cells within Colorectal Tumors despite the Presence of Elevated CD39+ T Regulatory Cells and Increased Expression of the Immune Checkpoint Molecule, PD-1 Margaret R. Dunne, Ciara Ryan, Bláthnaid Nolan, Miriam Tosetto, Robert Geraghty, Des C. Winter, P. Ronan O’Connell, John M. Hyland, Glen A. Doherty, Kieran Sheahan, Elizabeth J. Ryan* and Jean M. Fletcher Variation in Practice of the Diagnostic Workup of Asymptomatic Patients Diagnosed with Invasive Breast Cancer Anees B. Chagpar*, Gildy V. Babiera, Jose Aguirre, Kelly K. Hunt and Tyler Hughes Quantitative Imaging of D-2-Hydroxyglutarate in Selected Histological Tissue Areas by a Novel Bioluminescence Technique Nadine F. Voelxen, Stefan Walenta, Martin Proescholdt, Katja Dettmer, Stefan Pusch and Wolfgang Mueller-Klieser* The Value of the History and Physical for Patients with Newly Diagnosed Brain Metastases Considering Radiosurgery Ima Paydar, Eric Karl Oermann, Miriam Knoll, James Lee, Brian Timothy Collins, Matthew Ewend, Douglas Kondziolka and Sean P. Collins* The Response of Variant Histology Bladder Cancer to Intravesical Immunotherapy Compared to Conventional Cancer Ofer N. Gofrit*, Vladimir Yutkin, Amos Shapiro, Galina Pizov, Kevin C. Zorn, Guy Hidas, Ilan Gielchinsky, Mordechai Duvdevani, Ezekiel H. Landau and Dov Pode Monte Carlo Calculations Supporting Patient Plan Verification in Proton Therapy Thiago V. M. Lima*, […]