Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) offer a unique opportunity to test the assumption that fishing pressure affects some trophic groups more than others.Removal of larger predators through fishing is often suggested to have positive flow-on effects for some lower trophic groups, in which case protection from fishing should result in suppression of lower
Functional ProTracer identifies patterns of cell proliferation in tissues and underlying regulatory mechanisms
Paper Products Abstract A genetic system, ProTracer, has been recently developed to record cell proliferation in vivo.However, the ProTracer is initiated by an infrequently used recombinase Dre, which limits its broad application for functional studies employing floxed gene alleles.Here we generated Cre-activated functional ProTracer (fProTracer) m
Political Influencers and Their Social Media Audiences during the 2021 Arizona Audit
In this study, the authors explore the role of echo chambers in political polarization through a network and content Storage Cabinets analysis of 183 political influencer accounts and 3,000 audience accounts on Twitter (now X) around the Arizona audit of the 2020 U.S.presidential election, sampled between July 17 and August 5, 2021.The authors iden
Public opinion and the politics of the killer robots debate
The possibility that today’s drones could become tomorrow’s killer robots has attracted the attention of people around the world.Scientists and business leaders, from Stephen Hawking to Elon Musk, recently signed a letter urging the Steamer Handle world to ban autonomous weapons.Part of the argument against these systems is that they violate th