Search Results - "Wills, M. A."

Severe extinction and rapid recovery of mammals across the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary, and the effects of rarity on patterns of extinction and recovery by Longrich, N. R., Scriberas, J., Wills, M. A.

“…The end‐Cretaceous mass extinction ranks among the most severe extinctions of all time; however, patterns of extinction and recovery remain incompletely…”
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The disparity of priapulid, archaeopriapulid and palaeoscolecid worms in the light of new data by Wills, M. A., Gerber, S., Ruta, M., Hughes, M.

“…Priapulids and their extinct relatives, the archaeopriapulids and palaeoscolecids, are vermiform, carnivorous ecdysozoans with an armoured, extensible…”
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Ganoderma boninense basidiospores in oil palm plantations: evaluation of their possible role in stem rots of Elaeis guineensis by Rees, R. W., Flood, J., Hasan, Y., Wills, M. A., Cooper, R. M.

“…Basidiospores are implicated in the distribution and genetic diversity of Ganoderma boninense, cause of basal stem rot (BSR) and upper stem rot (USR) of oil…”
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A large-scale international meta-analysis of paraoxonase gene polymorphisms in sporadic ALS by WILLS, A.-M, CRONIN, S, ROULEAU, G. A, FISHER, E. M. C, SHAW, P. J, MORRISON, K. E, PAMPHLETT, R, VAN DEN BERG, L. H, FIGLEWICZ, D. A, ANDERSEN, P. M, AL-CHALABI, A, HARDIMAN, O, SLOWIK, A, PURCELL, S, LANDERS, J. E, BROWN, Rh, KASPERAVICIUTE, D, VAN ES, M. A, MORAHAN, J. M, VALDMANIS, P. N, MEININGER, V, MELKI, J, SHAW, C. E

“…Six candidate gene studies report a genetic association of DNA variants within the paraoxonase locus with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)…”
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The Cortical Basal ganglia Functional Scale (CBFS): Development and preliminary validation by Lang, Anthony E., Stebbins, Glenn T., Wang, Ping, Jabbari, Edwin, Lamb, Ruth, Morris, Huw, Boxer, Adam L., Boxer (PI), A., Boeve, B., Dickerson, B., Grossman, M., Litvan, I., Ljubenkov, P., Pantelyat, A., Rojas-Martinez, J., Tartaglia, M.-C., Wills, A.-M., Morris (PI), H., Amar, K., Capps, E., Carey, G., Church, A., Critchley, P., Ghosh, B., Houlden, H., Hu, M., Jabbari, Edwin, Kobylecki, C., Massey, L., Molloy, S., Nath, U., Pavese, N., Rowe, J.B.

“…To develop a patient/care-giver reported scale capable of easily and reliably assessing functional disability in 4 repeat tauopathies (4RTs). 4R tauopathies…”
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Quality of the fossil record through time by Benton, M. J, Wills, M. A, Hitchin, R

“…Does the fossil record present a true picture of the history of life, or should it be viewed with caution? Raup argued that plots of the diversification of…”
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Engraftable human neural stem cells respond to developmental cues, replace neurons, and express foreign genes by FLAX, J. D, AURORA, S, SNYDER, E. Y, CHUNHUA YANG, SIMONIN, C, WILLS, A. M, BILLINGHURST, L. L, JENDOUBI, M, SIDMAN, R. L, WOLFE, J. H, KIM, S. U

“…Stable clones of neural stem cells (NSCs) have been isolated from the human fetal telencephalon. These self-renewing clones give rise to all fundamental neural…”
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Fossil ghost ranges are most common in some of the oldest and some of the youngest strata by Wills, M.A

“…Biologists routinely compare inferences about the order of evolutionary branching (phylogeny) with the order in which groups appear in the fossil record…”
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Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) organophosphate hydrolysis is not reduced in ALS by WILLS, A.-M, LANDERS, J. E, ZHANG, H, RICHTER, R. J, CARAGANIS, A. J, CUDKOWICZ, M. E, FURLONG, C. E, BROWN, R. H

“…Four recent studies report a genetic association of the paraoxonase locus with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We tested the hypothesis that this…”
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Poly(A) tail-dependent exonuclease AtRrp41p from Arabidopsis thaliana rescues 5.8 S rRNA processing and mRNA decay defects of the yeast ski6 mutant and is found in an exosome-sized complex in plant and yeast cells by Chekanova, J A, Shaw, R J, Wills, M A, Belostotsky, D A

“…Eukaryotic 3'-->5' exonucleolytic activities are essential for a wide variety of reactions of RNA maturation and metabolism, including processing of rRNA,…”
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Pancrustacean Phylogeny in the Light of New Phylogenomic Data: Support for Remipedia as the Possible Sister Group of Hexapoda by von Reumont, Bjoern M., Jenner, Ronald A., Wills, Matthew A., Dell'Ampio, Emiliano, Pass, Günther, Ebersberger, Ingo, Meyer, Benjamin, Koenemann, Stefan, Iliffe, Thomas M., Stamatakis, Alexandros, Niehuis, Oliver, Meusemann, Karen, Misof, Bernhard

“…Remipedes are a small and enigmatic group of crustaceans, first described only 30 years ago. Analyses of both morphological and molecular data have recently…”
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Pacemaker-induced tachycardia caused by inappropriate response to parkinsonian tremor by WILLS, A.-M, PLANTE, D. T, DUKKIPATI, S. R, CORCORAN, C. P, STANDAERT, D. G

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Examining the Effect of Time-From-Treatment on Activities of Daily Living Kinematics in Breast Cancer Survivors by Wills, Rebecca A M, Maciukiewicz, Jacquelyn M, Mourtzakis, Marina, Dickerson, Clark R

“…Breast cancer affects one in 8 females with a 5-year survival rate of 89%. Up to 72% of breast cancer survivors have trouble with activities of daily living…”
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The influence of Carboniferous palaeoatmospheres on plant function: an experimental and modelling assessment by Beerling, D. J., Woodward, F. I., Lomas, M. R., Wills, M. A., Quick, W. P., Valdes, P. J.

“… 300 Ma, atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations were 35% and 0.03%, respectively. Both gases compete with each other for…”
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Adaptation Limits Diversification of Experimental Bacterial Populations by Buckling, Angus, Wills, Matthew A., Colegrave, Nick

“…Adaptation to a specific niche theoretically constrains a population's ability to subsequently diversify into other niches. We tested this theory using the…”
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The Cambrian evolutionary 'explosion': decoupling cladogenesis from morphological disparity by Fortey, R.A., Briggs, D.E.G., WILLS, M.A.

“…The origin and differentiation of major clades is often assumed to have occurred in tandem with the ‘explosion’ of fossil evidence of diverse morphologies…”
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Assessing Congruence Between Cladistic and Stratigraphic Data by Benton, Michael J., Hitchin, Rebecca, Wills, Matthew A., Olmstead, R.

“…Benton et al assess the performance of three metrics used currently for comparing stratigraphic and phylogenetic data, and compare their results with a null…”
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The shape of life: how much is written in stone? by Wills, Matthew A., Fortey, Richard A.

“…Considering the enormous diversity of living organisms, representing mostly untapped resources for studying ecological, ontogenetic and phylogenetic patterns…”
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Morphological Disparity in the Cambrian by Derek E. G. Briggs, Fortey, Richard A., Wills, Matthew A.

“…An analysis of the range of morphology among arthropods demonstrates that disparity among living arthropods is similar to that in Cambrian arthropods. The…”
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The anaesthetist and the pain clinic by Wills, Lesley A M

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