Thursday, June 21, 2012

Very Cool Recent Papers

Here are some new papers that I found interesting, surprising or both!

Kinoshita et al. (2012) identify the important of propriospinal neurons for hand dexterity in primates!

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11206.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120621

Arrigo et al. (2012) describe massive phytoplankton blooms under the sea ice.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6087/1408.short

Prufer et al. (2012) have sequenced the bonobo genome, finding they are as closely related to use as chimps.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11128.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120614

Hooper et al. (2012) study the effect of biodiversity loss on continuing climate change.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v486/n7401/full/nature11118.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120607

Barnosky et al. (2012) discuss whether ecosystems are at a tipping point and about to make a dramatic shift in state.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v486/n7401/full/nature11018.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120607

O'Connell and Hofmann (2012) find that vertebrate brain regions responsible for behavior are remarkably conserved.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6085/1154.short

Shoval et al. (2012) study trade offs between different phenotypes in nature.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6085/1157.short

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