Author(s): Linkiewich D; Martinovich VV; Rinaldi CM; Howe N; Gokiert R;

This study evaluated the relationship between parental autonomy support and preschool-aged children's display of autonomy. Specifically, we examined if mothers' and fathers' use of positive guidance, negative control, and responsiveness during p ...

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Author(s): Brusseau AJP; Feyten LEA; Crane AL; Brown GE;

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Author(s): Mercuri M; Stack DM; De France K; Jean ADL; Fogel A;

Touch is a central component of mothers' and infants' everyday interactions and the formation of a healthy mother-infant relationship. Twelve mothers and their full-term infants from the Midwest, USA participated in the present study, which examined ...

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Author(s): MacNeil S; Renaud J; Gouin JP;

Introduction: This study examined daily fluctuations in the unmet interpersonal needs of thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness in response to daily negative social interactions, as well as the moderating role of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (R ...

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Author(s): Mercuri M; Stack DM; Mantis I; Moszkowski R; Field TM;

Touch is an important means through which mothers and infants co-regulate during periods of stress or perturbation. The present study examined the synchrony of maternal and infant touching behaviours among 41 mother-infant dyads, some of whom were deemed at ...

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Author(s): Cosmo LG; Sales LP; Guimarães PR; Pires MM;

Linking local to regional ecological and evolutionary processes is key to understand the response of Earth's biodiversity to environmental changes. Here we integrate evolution and mutualistic coevolution in a model of metacommunity dynamics and use nume ...

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Author(s): Cuesta S; Burdisso P; Segev A; Kourrich S; Sperandio V;

Gut-microbiota membership is associated with diverse neuropsychological outcomes, including substance use disorders (SUDs). Here, we use mice colonized with Citrobacter rodentium or the human ?-Proteobacteria commensal Escherichia coli HS as a model to exam ...

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Author(s): Ouellette S; Pakarian P; Bin X; Pawelek PD;

Siderophores are high-affinity small-molecule chelators employed by bacteria to acquire iron from the extracellular environment. The Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli synthesizes and secretes enterobactin, a tris-catechol siderophore. Enterobactin is ...

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Author(s): Feyten LEA; Demers EEM; Ramnarine IW; Brown GE;

Neophobic predator avoidance, where prey actively avoid novel stimuli, is thought to allow prey to cope with the inability to predict predation risk (i.e. uncertainty) while reducing the costs associated with learning. Recent studies suggest that neophobia ...

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Author(s): Martínez RF; Cuccia LA; Viedma C; Cintas P;

By paraphrasing one of Kipling's most amazing short stories (How the Leopard Got His Spots), this article could be entitled "How Sugars Became Homochiral". Obviously, we have no answer to this still unsolved mystery, and this perspective simply brings r ...

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Author(s): De Bellis T; Laforest-Lapointe I; Solarik KA; Gravel D; Kembel SW;

Climate change is prompting plants to migrate and establish novel interactions in new habitats. Because of the pivotal roles microbes have on plant health and function, it is important to understand the ecological consequences of these shifts in host-microb ...

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