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09 Apr 2016

Most viewed Immunology articles in March 2016

Hand to Mouth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Periodontitis Nicholas R. Fuggle, Toby O. Smith, Arvind Kaul, and Nidhi Sofat* Distinct Mechanisms Regulate Lck Spatial Organization in Activated T cells Natasha Kapoor-Kaushik, Elizabeth Hinde, Ewoud B. Compeer, Yui Yamamoto, Felix Kraus, Zhengmin Yang, Jieqiong Lou, Sophie V. Pageon, Thibault Tabarin, Katharina Gaus* and Jeremie Rossy* An Oral Salmonella-Based Vaccine Inhibits Liver Metastases by Promoting Tumor-Specific T-Cell-Mediated Immunity in Celiac and Portal Lymph Nodes: A Preclinical Study Alejandrina Vendrell*, Claudia Mongini, María José Gravisaco, Andrea Canellada, Agustina Inés Tesone, Juan Carlos Goin and Claudia Inés Waldner* Efficient mRNA-Based Genetic Engineering of Human NK Cells with High-Affinity CD16 and CCR7 Augments Rituximab-Induced ADCC against Lymphoma and Targets NK Cell Migration toward the Lymph Node-Associated Chemokine CCL19 Mattias Carlsten*, Emily Levy, Amrita Karambelkar, Linhong Li, Robert Reger, Maria Berg, Madhusudan V. Peshwa and Richard Childs Thioreductase-Containing Epitopes Inhibit the Development of Type 1 Diabetes in the NOD Mouse Model Elin Malek Abrahimians, Luc Vander Elst, Vincent A. Carlier and Jean-Marie Saint-Remy* miR-146a and miR-155 Expression Levels in Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease Incidence Sadaf Atarod, Mohammed Mahid Ahmed, Clare Lendrem, Kim Frances Pearce, Wei Cope, Jean Norden, Xiao-Nong Wang, Matthew Collin and Anne Mary Dickinson* Potential […]

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08 Apr 2016

Most viewed Plant Science articles in March 2016

Proteomic Responses of Switchgrass and Prairie Cordgrass to Senescence Bimal Paudel, Aayudh Das, Michaellong Tran, Arvid Boe, Nathan Palmer, Gautam Sarath, Jose L. Gonzalez-Hernandez, Paul J. Rushton and Jai S. Rohila* High Quality Maize Centromere 10 Sequence Reveals Evidence of Frequent Recombination Events Thomas K. Wolfgruber, Megan M. Nakashima, Kevin L. Schneider, Anupma Sharma, Zidian Xie, Patrice S. Albert, Ronghui Xu, Paul Bilinski, R. Kelly Dawe, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, James A. Birchler and Gernot Presting* Historical Synthesis-Analysis of Changes in Grain Nitrogen Dynamics in Sorghum Ignacio A. Ciampitti* and P.V. Vara Prasad Diverse Evolutionary Trajectories for Small RNA Biogenesis Genes in the Oomycete Genus Phytophthora Stephanie R. Bollmann, Yufeng Fang, Caroline M. Press, Brett M. Tyler and Niklaus J. Grünwald* Leaf Morphology, Photosynthetic Performance, Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Stomatal Development of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) Exposed to Different Ratios of Red Light to Blue Light Jun Wang, Wei Lu, Yuxin Tong* and  Qichang Yang* Agronomic and Seed Quality Traits Dissected by Genome-Wide Association Mapping in Brassica napus Niklas Körber*, Anja Bus, Jinquan Li, Isobel A. P. Parkin, Benjamin Wittkop, Rod J. Snowdon and Benjamin Stich* The Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequences of Five Epimedium Species: Lights into Phylogenetic and Taxonomic Analyses Yanjun Zhang, Liuwen Du, Ao Liu, Jianjun Chen, Li Wu, Weiming Hu, Wei […]

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08 Apr 2016

Most viewed Genetics articles in March 2016

A Consensus Network of Gene Regulatory Factors in the Human Frontal Lobe Stefano Berto*, Alvaro Perdomo-Sabogal, Daniel Gerighausen, Jing Qin and Katja Nowick* Computational Detection of Stage-Specific Transcription Factor Clusters During Heart Development Sebastian Zeidler*, Cornelia Meckbach, Rebecca Tacke, Farah S. Raad, Angelica Roa, Shizuka Uchida, Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, Edgar Wingender and Mehmet Gültas Global Intersection of Long Non-Coding RNAs with Processed and Unprocessed Pseudogenes in the Human Genome Michael J. Milligan, Erin Harvey, Albert Yu, Ashleigh Morgan, Daniela-Lee Smith, Eden Zhang, Jonathan Berengut, Jothini Sivananthan, Radhini Subramaniam, Aleksandra Skoric, Scott Collins, Caio Damski, Kevin V. Morris and Leonard Lipovich* EM Adaptive LASSO – A Multilocus Modeling Strategy for Detecting SNPs Associated with Zero-Inflated Count Phenotypes Himel Mallick and Hemant K. Tiwari* Genome-Wide Study of Response to Platinum, Taxane, and Combination Therapy in Ovarian Cancer: In vitro Phenotypes, Inherited Variation, and Disease Recurrence Brooke L. Fridley*, Taraswi M. Ghosh, Alice Wang, Rama Raghavan, Junqiang Dai, Ellen L. Goode and Jatinder K. Lamba Microsomal Omega-3 Fatty Acid Desaturase Genes in Low Linolenic Acid Soybean Line RG10 and Validation of Major Linolenic Acid QTL Yarmilla Reinprecht* and K. Peter Pauls A Quantitative Approach to Analyzing Genome Reductive Evolution Using Protein-Protein Interaction Networks: A Case Study of Mycobacterium leprae Richard O. Akinola, Gaston […]

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07 Apr 2016

Most viewed Neuroscience articles in March 2016

Pushing the Limits: Cognitive, Affective, and Neural Plasticity Revealed by an Intensive Multifaceted Intervention Michael D. Mrazek*, Benjamin W. Mooneyham*, Kaita L. Mrazek and Jonathan W. Schooler Blocking and Binding Folate Receptor Alpha Autoantibodies Identify Novel Autism Spectrum Disorder Subgroups Richard E. Frye*, Leanna Delhey, John Slattery, Marie Tippett, Rebecca Wynne, Shannon Rose, Stephen G. Kahler, Sirish C. Bennuri, Stepan Melnyk, Jeffrey M. Sequeira and Edward Quadros Chronic Pyruvate Supplementation Increases Exploratory Activity and Brain Energy Reserves in Young and Middle-Aged Mice Hennariikka Koivisto, Henri Leinonen, Mari Puurula, Hani S. Hafez, Glenda Alquicer Barrera, Malin H. Stridh, Helle S. Waagepetersen, Mika Tiainen, Pasi Soininen, Yuri Zilberter and Heikki Tanila* Protective LRRK2 R1398H Variant Enhances GTPase and Wnt Signalling Activity Jonathon Nixon-Abell,, Daniel C. Berwick, Simone Grannó, Victoria A. Spain, Craig Blackstone and Kirsten Harvey* Voluntary Imitation in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients Ambra Bisio*, Matthieu Casteran, Yves Ballay, Patrick Manckoundia, France Mourey and Thierry Pozzo Correlation between Cortical State and Locus Coeruleus Activity: Implications for Sensory Coding in Rat Barrel Cortex Zeinab Fazlali*, Yadollah Ranjbar-Slamloo, Mehdi Adibi and Ehsan Arabzadeh* Distributed Cerebellar Motor Learning: A Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity Model Niceto R. Luque*, Jesus A. Garrido, Francisco Naveros, Richard R. Carrillo, Egidio D’Angelo and Eduardo Ros Processing of Self versus Non-Self in […]

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07 Apr 2016

Most viewed Physiology articles in March 2016

Muscle-Specific Myosin Heavy Chain Shifts in Response to a Long-Term High Fat/High Sugar diet and Resveratrol Treatment in Nonhuman Primates Jon-Philippe K. Hyatt*, Lisa Nguyen, Allison E. Hall, Ashley M. Huber, Jessica C. Kocan, Julie A. Mattison, Rafael de Cabo, Jeannine R. Larocque and Robert J. Talmadge High-Intensity Intermittent Exercise and its Effects on Heart Rate Variability and Subsequent Strength Performance Valéria L. G. Panissa*, Cesar C. Cal Abad, Ursula F. Julio, Leonardo V. Andreato and Emerson Franchini Cross Acclimation Between Heat and Hypoxia: Heat Acclimation Improves Cellular Tolerance and Exercise Performance in Acute Normobaric Hypoxia Ben J. Lee*, Amanda Miller, Rob S. James and Charles D. Thake Stress Biomarkers, Mood States and Sleep during a Major Competition: “Success” and “Failure” Athlete’s Profile of High-Level Swimmers Mounir Chennaoui*, Clement Bougard, Catherine Drogou, Christophe Langrume, Christian Miller, Danielle Gomez-Merino and Frederic Vergnoux Selective Modulation of MicroRNA Expression with Protein Ingestion Following Concurrent Resistance and Endurance Exercise in Human Skeletal Muscle Donny M. Camera, Jun N. Ong, Vernon G. Coffey and John A. Hawley* Ibuprofen Ingestion Does Not Affect Markers of Post-Exercise Muscle Inflammation Luke Vella*, James F. Markworth, Gøran Paulsen, Truls Raastad, Jonathan M. Peake, Rod J. Snow, David Cameron-Smith and Aaron P. Russell An Analytical Framework […]

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07 Apr 2016

New specialty section “Thermal and Mass Transport” now open for submissions!

We are very pleased to announce the launch of the latest specialty section for Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering: Thermal and Mass Transport, led by Chief Editor, Prof. Timothy S. Fisher. The section already has a strong, internationally representative Associate Editorial Board currently composed of the following researchers: Shyy Woei Chang (National Kaohsiung Marine University, Taiwan) Dipankar Chatterjee (CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, India) David B. Go (University of Notre Dame, USA) Md Anwar Hossain (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh) Balaram Kundu (Jadavpur University, India) Haruhiko Ohta (Kyushu University, Japan) Nesrin Ozalp (University at Qatar, Qatar) Guillermo Rein (Imperial College London, UK) Sivasankaran Sivanandam (University of Malaya, Malaysia) Sebastian Volz (CNRS, France) Changying Zhao (University of Cambridge, UK) Speaking of the launch of this new specialty section, Prof. Fisher remarked that, “Thermal and mass transport are as important today as they were when they ushered in the industrial revolution. The main difference today is that we have so many more degrees of freedom — from amazing new materials to innovative ways to build transport devices more like Mother Nature does. On top of all this, understanding how transport happens in dynamic systems, whether relating to controlled release of pharmaceuticals or issues surrounding climate change, remains a […]

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06 Apr 2016

Most viewed Microbiology articles in March 2016

Newly Isolated Paenibacillus tyrfis sp. nov., from Malaysian Tropical Peat Swamp Soil with Broad Spectrum Antimicrobial Activity Yoong-Kit Aw, Kuan-Shion Ong, Learn-Han Lee, Yuen-Lin Cheow, Catherine M. Yule and Sui-Mae Lee* Biogeochemical and Microbial Variation across 5500 km of Antarctic Surface Sediment Implicates Organic Matter as a Driver of Benthic Community Structure Deric R. Learman*, Michael W. Henson, J. Cameron Thrash, Ben Temperton, Pamela M. Brannock, Scott R. Santos, Andrew R. Mahon and Kenneth M. Halanych GenSeed-HMM: A Tool for Progressive Assembly Using Profile HMMs as Seeds and its Application in Alpavirinae Viral Discovery from Metagenomic Data João M. P. Alves, André L. de Oliveira, Tatiana O. M. Sandberg, Jaime L. Moreno-Gallego, Marcelo A. F. de Toledo, Elisabeth M. M. de Moura, Liliane S. Oliveira, Alan M. Durham, Dolores U. Mehnert, Paolo M. de A. Zanotto, Alejandro Reyes* and Arthur Gruber* Expanding the Diet for DIET: Electron Donors Supporting Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer (DIET) in Defined Co-Cultures Li-Ying Wang, Kelly P. Nevin, Trevor L. Woodard, Bo-Zhong Mu and Derek R. Lovley* A Metagenomics Approach to Evaluate the Impact of Dietary Supplementation with Ascophyllum nodosum or Laminaria digitata on Rumen Function in Rusitec Fermenters Alejandro Belanche*, Eleanor Jones, Ifat Parveen and Charles J. Newbold Anthropogenic N Deposition Slows Decay by Favoring Bacterial […]

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06 Apr 2016

Interdisciplinary Collaboration is key to successful medical education

The medicine of the 21st century is moving from the “one-size-fits-most” practice to a targeted personalized approach, tailored to the specific characteristics and needs of an individual. The rapidly changing field of medicine and healthcare increasingly adopts scientific and technological innovations, making interdisciplinary collaborations especially important. The implications of these changes for medicine and the key components of successful interdisciplinary programs are discussed in Prof. Michel Goldman’s «Education in Medicine: Moving the Boundaries to Foster Interdisciplinarity». In his Field Grand Challenge for Frontiers in Medicine, Prof. Michel Goldman emphasized the importance of translational medicine to interdisciplinary collaborations.  “Translational medicine can be defined as the interdisciplinary science that will cover this continuum, from basic research to preclinical and clinical research, development of new medicines and medical devices, and ultimately patient-centric care.” As medicine becomes increasingly interlinked with other fields, medical education needs also to evolve towards a more interdisciplinary approach.  Prof. Goldman highlighted the need for a new taxonomy of diseases, novel trial designs, adapted regulatory policies and guidelines and patient-centricity as essential components of medical education. “Collaboration between healthcare stakeholders will be essential to address the complex scientific, regulatory, societal and economic challenges related to precision medicine. This will require […]

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01 Apr 2016

Article and Author Impact Metrics available

Did you know that every article published in a Frontiers journal comes with a complete set of metrics and that this is just one of the quality services we offer? Frontiers was the first publisher to offer Article Impact Metrics back in 2008, providing views and downloads for every article we publish. Frontiers’ article-centric focus is refocusing attention on what is published – rather than focusing on the journals in which the articles appear. Frontiers Article Impact Metrics are complemented with Altmetric® data on tweets, Facebook posts and media mentions on the paper. In addition to Article Impact Metrics, Frontiers offers Author Impact Metrics.  These metrics aggregate individual article impact metrics for all the articles an author publishes in Frontiers and are available on authors’ Loop profiles.  Visit your Loop Profile and see your impact as an author.

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01 Apr 2016

New article type: Flop!

by Chloé Schmidt Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution is excited to announce a new article type: Flop! This announcement brought to you by “Your Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Team”. Conscious of the importance of negative results and reproducibility to the greater scientific community, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution is debuting the Flop article type. Flops will take negative results a step further, and give researchers a distinct venue to publish non-results from failed experiments. A complete article type description is below: Flop Flop articles describe the intended aims, study, methods, and mistakes of original research. Flop articles should be composed of Introduction, Methods, Discussion and Conclusions sections making sure to detail where it all went wrong. The Results of the research are not reported, as there are none. Flop articles may also report on the non-reproducibility of previously published results. Flop Articles are peer-reviewed, have a maximum word count of 3,000 and may include up to 2 Figures/Tables. Authors are required to pay a fee (A-type article) to publish a Flop Article. April Fools, everyone!!

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31 Mar 2016

Over 5M monthly article views and downloads

Each month, the Frontiers platform sees over 5 million article views and downloads – and that number is continuously growing. A few more of our recent stats include: 75 million article views and 21 million article downloads for Frontiers Research Topics submitted to date. 55 open access journals 430 specialties represented 43,000 articles published 85 days average review time Being born digital and building our innovative technology in-house has enabled Frontiers to help your research reach a broader audience quickly. In fact, a recent analysis shows that Frontiers journals have become the largest and most-cited in their fields within a few years. See full analysis.    

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29 Mar 2016

OpenMinTeD needs your input

Are you a researcher spending a significant part of your time searching for relevant publications and research data related to your research and studies? Or, a text miner constantly analyzing and aggregating text and data to derive high quality information? OpenMinTeD is a one of two Horizon 2020 projects where Frontiers is a partner. OpenMinTed’s goal is to create an open, service-oriented e-infrastructure for Text and Data Mining (TDM) of scientific and scholarly content. With OpenMinTeD, researchers will be able to collaboratively create, discover, share and re-use knowledge from a wide range of text-based scientific related sources in a seamless way. To build this new infrastructure, OpenMinTeD needs your input: Click the link and take the survey: For researchers  For text miners   

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29 Mar 2016

Frontiers launches new Digital Editorial Office

Frontiers has launched a new innovative service that allows for complete operational independence in academic publishing for their over 60,000 editors around the world. The Frontiers Digital Editorial Office launched this week and was built in-house by Frontiers’ team of IT professionals. It was at first specifically designed to assist Frontiers’ Specialty Chief Editors, who come from the world’s leading institutions,  in their editorial tasks and to assist them in quality assurance, as well as to assess the performance of their specialty area.  Created with  feedback from the editors, the new Digital Editorial Office is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and will help them make editorial decisions and supervise the review process. In 2008, Frontiers was the first publisher to build a Digital Editorial Office that gives editors complete editorial independence and freedom to act in the review process at any time.  The launch of the new Digital Editorial Office is an extension of this original innovation with more advanced usability, features and functions. A  winner of the Gold Prize for the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing, Frontiers was born digital 8 years ago and changed the way publishing is done by custom-building their entire IT ecosystem in-house around collaborative and transparent peer-review and scalable journal management. Frontiers […]

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14 Mar 2016

Actúaloop awards the most innovative ideas to social research networks

by Beatriz del Rincón Alonso, Over 30 ideas submitted and 69 participants, including students, PhD students, researchers and professors, is the result of the first edition of actúaloop. Actúaloop competition aims to stimulate innovation in social research networks and to promote ideas that improve the functionality of Loop research network while generating new and innovative applications for academic and publishing. It has the support and mentoring of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and of the Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers. This initiative is part of the activities carried out by Frontiers  in collaboration with the Center for Support of Technological Innovation (CAIT) – UPM. In the first phase of the competition, a total of 31 ideas were submitted by 69 participants from UPM (including students, PhD students, researchers and professors). In its initial phase, actúaloop selected the three best ideas. The team for each idea  received a prize of 1.000 euros. Another five ideas were recognized for their development. They too will move to the next stage of the competition. Two of the three winning ideas, Journal Advisor and Formalization of experimental protocols, came from the ETSI Informáticos (UPM). The other one, IDeM, came from the ETSI Telecomunicación (UPM). Awards Journal Advisor: Orientation visualization system for would-be authors to advise them in […]