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    • Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species 

      Dasmahapatra, Kanchon K; Walters, James R.; Briscoe, Adriana D.; Davey, John W.; Whibley, Annabel; Nadeau, Nicola J.; Zimin, Aleksey V.; Hughes, Daniel S. T.; Ferguson, Laura C.; Martin, Simon H.; Salazar, Camilo; Lewis, James J.; Adler, Sebastian; Ahn, Seung-Joon; Baker, Dean A.; Baxter, Simon W.; Chamberlain, Nicola; Chauhan, Ritika; Counterman, Brian A.; Dalmay, Tamas; Gilbert, Lawrence E.; Gordon, Karl; Heckel, David G.; Hines, Heather M.; Hoff, Katharina J.; Holland, Peter W.H.; Jacquin-Joly, Emmanuelle; Jiggins, Francis M.; Jones, Robert T.; Kapan, Durrell D.; Kersey, Paul; Lamas, Gerardo; Lawson, Daniel; Mapleson, Daniel; Maroja, Luana S.; Martin, Arnaud; Moxon, Simon; Palmer, William J.; Papa, Riccardo; Papanicolaou, Alexie; Pauchet, Yannick; Ray, David A.; Rosser, Neil; Salzberg, Steven L.; Supple, Megan A.; Surridge, Alison; Tenger-Trolander, Ayse; Vogel, Heiko; Wilkinson, Paul A.; Wilson, Derek; Yorke, James A.; Yuan, Furong; Balmuth, Alexi L.; Eland, Cathlene; Gharbi, Karim; Thomson, Marian; Gibbs, Richard A.; Han, Yi; Jayaseelan, Joy C.; Kovar, Christie; Mathew, Tittu; Muzny, Donna M.; Ongeri, Fiona; Pu, Ling-Ling; Qu, Jiaxin; Thornton, Rebecca L.; Worley, Kim C.; Wu, Yuan-Qing; Linares, Mauricio; Blaxter, Mark L.; Constant, Richard H. ffrench; Joron, Mathieu; Kronforst, Marcus; Mullen, Sean P.; Reed, Robert D.; Scherer, Steven E.; Richards, Stephen; Mallet, Jim; McMillan, W. Owen; Jiggins, Chris D. (2012)
      The evolutionary importance of hybridization and introgression has long been debated1. We used genomic tools to investigate introgression in Heliconius, a rapidly radiating genus of neotropical butterflies widely used in ...

    • BVRI light curves for 22 type Ia supernovae 

      Riess, Adam; Kirshner, Robert; Schmidt, Brian; Jha, Saurabh; Challis, Peter; Garnavich, Peter; Esin, Ann; Carpenter, Chris; Grashius, Randy; Schild, Rudolph (American Astronomical Society, 1999)
      We present 1210 Johnson/Cousins B, V, R, and I photometric observations of 22 recent Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia): SNe 1993ac, 1993ae, 1994M, 1994S, 1994T, 1994Q, 1994ae, 1995D, 1995E, 1995al, 1995ac, 1995ak, 1995bd, 1996C, ...

    • By Force of Habit: A Consumption-Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior 

      Campbell, John; Cochrane, John H. (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
      We present a consumption‐based model that explains a wide variety of dynamic asset pricing phenomena, including the procyclical variation of stock prices, the long‐horizon predictability of excess stock returns, and the ...

    • Bypass to Turbulence in Hydrodynamic Accretion Disks: An Eigenvalue Approach 

      Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata; Afshordi, Niayesh; Narayan, Ramesh (American Astronomical Society, 2005)
      Cold accretion disks with temperatures below similar to 3000 K are likely to be composed of highly neutral gas. The magnetorotational instability may cease to operate in such disks, so it is of interest to consider purely ...

    • Bypass to Turbulence in Hydrodynamic Accretion: Lagrangian Analysis of Energy Growth 

      Afshordi, Niayesh; Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata; Narayan, Ramesh (American Astronomical Society, 2005)
      Despite observational evidence for cold neutral astrophysical accretion disks, the viscous process that may drive the accretion in such systems is not yet understood. While molecular viscosity is too small to explain the ...

    • c = 1 string as the topological theory of the conifold 

      Ghoshal, Debashis; Vafa, Cumrun (Elsevier, 1995)

    • C-H Bond Amination from a Ferrous Dipyrromethene Complex 

      King, Evan Robert; Betley, Theodore A (American Chemical Society, 2009)
      In this Communication, we report an intramolecular C-H bond amination reaction of a dipyrromethene ferrous complex with organic azides. Monitoring of the spectral changes (variable temperature NMR and UV-vis) of the FeII ...

    • C/EBPα Activates Pre-existing and De Novo Macrophage Enhancers during Induced Pre-B Cell Transdifferentiation and Myelopoiesis 

      van Oevelen, Chris; Collombet, Samuel; Vicent, Guillermo; Hoogenkamp, Maarten; Lepoivre, Cyrille; Badeaux, Aimee; Bussmann, Lars; Sardina, Jose Luis; Thieffry, Denis; Beato, Miguel; Shi, Yang; Bonifer, Constanze; Graf, Thomas (Elsevier, 2015)
      Summary Transcription-factor-induced somatic cell conversions are highly relevant for both basic and clinical research yet their mechanism is not fully understood and it is unclear whether they reflect normal differentiation ...

    • C/o and Snowline Locations in Protoplanetary Disks: The Effect of Radial Drift and Viscous Gas Accretion 

      Piso, Ana-Maria Adriana; Oberg, Karin; Birnstiel, Tilman David; Murray-Clay, Ruth Ann (IOP Publishing, 2015)
      The C/O ratio is a defining feature of both gas giant atmospheric and protoplanetary disk chemistry. In disks, the C/O ratio is regulated by the presence of snowlines of major volatiles at different distances from the ...

    • C2absorption-line diagnostics of diffuse interstellar clouds 

      Cecchi-Pestellini, Cesare; Dalgarno, Alexander (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2002)
      The excitation of the diatomic carbon molecule in diffuse interstellar clouds is discussed for a cloud with large density fluctuations of small linear filling factor along the line of sight. Possible implications for the ...

    • C60-Propylamine Adduct Monolayers at the Gas/Water Interface: A Brewster Angle Microscopy and X-Ray Scattering Study 

      Fukumo, Masafumi; Penanen, Konstantin; Heilmann, Ralf K.; Pershan, Peter S.; Vaknin, David (American Institute of Physics, 1997)
      Brewster angle microscopy (BAM), x-ray specular reflectivity and grazing-incidence x-ray diffraction (GID) studies of C60-propylamine adduct monolayers at the gas/water interface as a function of molecular area are reported. ...

    • C9orf72 suppresses systemic and neural inflammation induced by gut bacteria 

      Burberry, Aaron; Wells, Michael; Limone, Francesco; Couto, Alexander; Smith, Kevin; Van Gastel, Nick; Wang, Jin-Yuan; Pietilainen, Olli; Qian, Menglu; Cantrell, Chris; Mok, Woon Jong Joanie; Scadden, David; Eggan, Kevin (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-05-13)
      A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the most common genetic variant contributing to Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)1,2. The C9ORF72 mutation acts through gain and loss of ...

    • Cache Craftiness for Fast Multicore Key-Value Storage 

      Mao, Yandong; Kohler, Edward W; Morris, Robert (Association for Computing Machinery, 2012)
      We present Masstree, a fast key-value database designed for SMP machines. Masstree keeps all data in memory. Its main data structure is a trie-like concatenation of \(B^+\)-trees, each of which handles a fixed-length slice ...

    • Cache-Fair Thread Scheduling for Multicore Processors 

      Fedorova, Alexandra; Seltzer, Margo I.; Smith, Michael D. (2006)
      We present a new operating system scheduling algorithm for multicore processors. Our algorithm reduces the effects of unequal CPU cache sharing that occur on these processors and cause unfair CPU sharing, priority inversion, ...

    • Cache-Oblivious Streaming B-Trees 

      Bender, Michael A.; Farach-Colton, Martin; Fineman, Jeremy T.; Fogel, Yonatan R.; Kuszmaul, Bradley C.; Nelson, Jelani (Association for Computer Machinery, 2007)
      A streaming B-tree is a dictionary that efficiently implements insertions and range queries. We present two cache-oblivious streaming B-trees, the shuttle tree, and the cache-oblivious lookahead array (COLA). For block-transfer ...

    • Cadden, Laqueur, and the "One-Sex Body" 

      Park, Katharine (Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, 2010)

    • Caesurae, Bridges, and the Colometry of Four Tocharian B Meters 

      Bross, Christoph; Ryan, Kevin M; Gunkel, Dieter (Brill Academic Publishers, 2014)
      The Tocharians composed verse in hierarchical structures, with the verse dominating major cola, and the major colon in turn dominating one or more minor cola. After providing much-needed descriptive data on Tocharian meter, ...

    • Calcified Metazoans in Thrombolite-stromatolite Reefs of the Terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, Namibia 

      Grotzinger, John P.; Watters, Wesley A.; Knoll, Andrew Herbert (Paleontological Society, 2000)
      Reefs containing abundant calcified metazoans occur at several stratigraphic levels within carbonate platforms of the terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, central and southern Namibia. The reef-bearing strata span an interval ...

    • Calcium Carbonate Storage in Amorphous Form and Its Template-Induced Crystallization† 

      Han, T. Yong-Jin; Aizenberg, Joanna (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2008)
      Calcium carbonate crystallization in organisms often occurs through the transformation from the amorphous precursor. It is believed that the amorphous phase could be temporarily stabilized and stored, until its templated ...

    • Calcium Dynamics During Fertilization in C. elegans 

      Aravinthan, Samuel; Murthy, Venkatesh N.; Hengartner, Michael O (BioMed Central, 2001)
      Background: Of the animals typically used to study fertilization-induced calcium dynamics, none is as accessible to genetics and molecular biology as the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. Motivated by the experimental ...