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Cirrus-cloud thermostat for tropical sea surface temperatures tested using satellite data

RAMANATHAN and Collins¹ have suggested cirrus clouds associated with tropical convection might act as a 'thermostat' to limit tropical sea surface temperatures (SSTs) to less than 305 K by shielding the ocean fro...

Rong Fu, Anthony D. Del Genio, William B. Rossow, W. Timothy Liu in Nature (1992)

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A thermostat in the tropics?

Rong Fu, W. Timothy Liu, Anthony D. Del Genio, William B. Rossow in Nature (1993)

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Correction: The mitotic feedback control gene MAD2 encodes the α-subunit of a prenyltransferase

Nature 366, 82-84 (1993) WE previously reported that the product of budding yeast spindle assembly checkpoint gene MAD2 was a component of a geranylgeranyl transferase. Further analysis by our colleague Rey-Hu...

Rong Li, Christopher Havel, John A. Watson, Andrew W. Murray in Nature (1994)

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An Early Silurian vascular plant

Chongyang Cai, Shu Ouyang, Yi Wang, Zongjie Fang, Jiayu Rong, Liangyu Geng… in Nature (1996)

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Unique physiological and pathogenic features of Leptospira interrogans revealed by whole-genome sequencing

Leptospirosis is a widely spread disease of global concern. Infection causes flu-like episodes with frequent severe renal and hepatic damage, such as haemorrhage and jaundice. In more severe cases, massive pul...

Shuang-** Ren, Gang Fu, **u-Gao Jiang, Rong Zeng, You-Gang Miao, Hai Xu… in Nature (2003)

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Design and application of 60mer oligonucleotide microarray in SARS coronavirus detection

The 60mer oligonucleotide microarray was designed and applied to detecting of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) coronavirus. Thirty 60mer specific oligos were designed to cover the whole genome of the f...

Rong Shi, Wenli Ma, Qinghua Wu, Bao Zhang, Yanbin Song… in Chinese Science Bulletin (2003)

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Control dynamics of severe acute respiratory syndrome transmission

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a serious disease with many puzzling features. We present a simple, dynamic model to assess the epidemic potential of SARS and the effectiveness of control measures....

Haiying Wang, Feng Rong, Fujiu Ke, Yilong Bai in Chinese Science Bulletin (2003)

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The RickA protein of Rickettsia conorii activates the Arp2/3 complex

Actin polymerization, the main driving force for cell locomotion, is also used by the bacteria Listeria and Shigella and vaccinia virus for intracellular and intercellular movements^1,2. Seminal studies have shown...

Edith Gouin, Coumaran Egile, Pierre Dehoux, Véronique Villiers, Josephine Adams… in Nature (2004)

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The genome sequence of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea

Magnaporthe grisea is the most destructive pathogen of rice worldwide and the principal model organism for elucidating the molecular basis of fungal disease of plants. Here, we report the draft sequence of the M....

Ralph A. Dean, Nicholas J. Talbot, Daniel J. Ebbole, Mark L. Farman… in Nature (2005)

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Erratum: Hax1-mediated processing of HtrA2 by Parl allows survival of lymphocytes and neurons

Nature 452, 98–102 (2008) In Fig. 1a of this Letter, the light blue line was incorrectly labelled as Hax1/Bak DKO, n = 13. The light blue line should be labelled Hax1/Bax DKO, n = 13.

Jyh-Rong Chao, Evan Parganas, Kelli Boyd, Cheol Yi Hong, Joseph T. Opferman… in Nature (2008)

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The sequence and de novo assembly of the giant panda genome

Using next-generation sequencing technology alone, we have successfully generated and assembled a draft sequence of the giant panda genome. The assembled contigs (2.25 gigabases (Gb)) cover approximately 94% o...

Ruiqiang Li, Wei Fan, Geng Tian, Hongmei Zhu, Lin He, **g Cai, Quanfei Huang… in Nature (2010)

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Erratum: The sequence and de novo assembly of the giant panda genome

Nature 463, 311–317 (2010) In this Article, the Latin species name of the giant panda was written incorrectly as Ailuropoda melanoleura. The correct name is Ailuropoda melanoleuca.

Ruiqiang Li, Wei Fan, Geng Tian, Hongmei Zhu, Lin He, **g Cai, Quanfei Huang… in Nature (2010)

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Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium

Fusarium species are among the most important phytopathogenic and toxigenic fungi. To understand the molecular underpinnings of pathogenicity in the genus Fusarium, we compared the genomes of three phenotypically...

Li-Jun Ma, H. Charlotte van der Does, Katherine A. Borkovich, Jeffrey J. Coleman… in Nature (2010)

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Pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine protects against 1918 Spanish influenza virus

The 1918 influenza A virus caused the most devastating pandemic, killing approximately 50 million people worldwide. Immunization with 1918-like and classical swine H1N1 virus vaccines results in cross-protecti...

Rafael A. Medina, Balaji Manicassamy, Silke Stertz… in Nature Communications (2010)

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DNA barcoding of 18 species of Bovidae

Genetic divergences of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I genes, known as DNA barcodes, have been used in species identification in the animal kingdom. Barcodes can assist field workers and taxonomists ...

YanSen Cai, Liang Zhang, FuJun Shen, Wen** Zhang, Rong Hou… in Chinese Science Bulletin (2011)

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Dynamical decoupling of electron spins in phosphorus-doped silicon

Quantum coherence is an important enabling feature underpinning quantum computation. However, because of couplings with its noisy surrounding environment, qubits suffer from the decoherence effects. The dynami...

**ng Rong, Ya Wang, JiaHui Yang, ****an Zhu, WanJie Xu… in Chinese Science Bulletin (2011)

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Neodymium isotopes distribution and transport in the central North Pacific deep water

Radiogenic Neodymium (Nd) isotopes in the central North Pacific deep water have been generally interpreted as reflecting Pacific arcs input according to previous studies, while little is known about the specif...

TianYu Chen, HongFei Ling, Rong Hu in Chinese Science Bulletin (2011)

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Inactivation of CBF/NF-Y in postnatal liver causes hepatocellular degeneration, lipid deposition and endoplasmic reticulum stress

We previously demonstrated that CBF activity is needed for cell proliferation and early embryonic development. To examine the in vivo function of CBF in differentiated hepatocytes, we conditionally deleted CBF-B ...

Rong Luo, Sherry A. Klumpp, Milton J. Finegold, Sankar N. Maity in Scientific Reports (2011)

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Observation of an anomalous decoherence effect in a quantum bath at room temperature

The decoherence of quantum objects is a critical issue in quantum science and technology. It is generally believed that stronger noise causes faster decoherence. Strikingly, recent theoretical work suggests th...

Pu Huang, ** Kong, Nan Zhao, Fazhan Shi, Pengfei Wang, **ng Rong… in Nature Communications (2011)

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Effects of soil stoichiometry of the CaCO₃/available phosphorus ratio on plant density in Artemisia ordosica communities

In soil, CaCO₃ can reduce the availability of phosphorus in arid and semi-arid regions, thereby influencing plant growth. However, the effects of soil stoichiometry of the CaCO₃/available phosphorus ratio (CaCO₃/...

XueLai Zhao, **ngDong He, **** Xue, Ning Zhang, Wei Wu… in Chinese Science Bulletin (2012)