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Accounting for genetic differences among unknown parents in microevolutionary studies : how to include genetic groups in quantitative genetic animal models
This work was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant to JMR. We thank Loeske Kruuk, Karin Meyer, Michael Morrissey, Simon Evans, Jarrod Hadfield and an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments and insights.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Is Pairing with a Relative Heritable? : Estimating Female and Male Genetic Contributions to the Degree of Biparental Inbreeding in Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia)
Acknowledgments We thank the Tsawout and Tseycum First Nation bands for access to Mandarte, P. Arcese and everyone who contributed to the longāterm data collection, and the European Research Council and Royal Society for funding. We thank P. Bijma, J. D. Hadfield, L. F. Keller, and E. Postma for illuminating discussions. In addition, R. Bonduriansky, L. E. B. Kruuk, and an anonymous reviewer provided insightful comments that improved the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Individual repeatability and heritability of divorce in a wild population
Funding All authors were supported by a European Research Council grant to JMR. Fieldwork was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the University of British Columbia. Acknowledgments We thank the Tsawout and Tseycum First Nation bands for access to Mandarte, Peter Arcese, Lukas Keller, Pirmin Nietlisbach, and the University of Aberdeen Maxwell High Performance Computing cluster.Peer reviewedPostprin
Quantifying inbreeding avoidance through extra-pair reproduction
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Measurement of the Bs0-Bs0 oscillation frequency Ī“ms in Bs0āDs-(3)Ļ decays
The Bs0-Bs0 oscillation frequency Ī“ms is measured with 36 pb-1 of data collected in pp collisions at s=7TeV by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. A total of 1381 Bs0āDs-Ļ+ and Bs0āDs-Ļ+Ļ-Ļ + signal decays are reconstructed, with average decay time resolutions of 44 fs and 36 fs, respectively. An oscillation signal with a statistical significance of 4.6Ļ is observed. The measured oscillation frequency is Ī“m s=17.63Ā±0.11(stat)Ā±0.02(syst)ps -1
Absolute luminosity measurements with the LHCb detector at the LHC
Absolute luminosity measurements are of general interest for colliding-beam experiments at storage rings. These measurements are necessary to determine the absolute cross-sections of reaction processes and are valuable to quantify the performance of the accelerator. Using data taken in 2010, LHCb has applied two methods to determine the absolute scale of its luminosity measurements for proton-proton collisions at the LHC with a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. In addition to the classic ''van der Meer scan'' method a novel technique has been developed which makes use of direct imaging of the individual beams using beam-gas and beam-beam interactions. This beam imaging method is made possible by the high resolution of the LHCb vertex detector and the close proximity of the detector to the beams, and allows beam parameters such as positions, angles and widths to be determined. The results of the two methods have comparable precision and are in good agreement. Combining the two methods, an overal precision of 3.5% in the absolute luminosity determination is reached. The techniques used to transport the absolute luminosity calibration to the full 2010 data-taking period are presented
Base-mediated cascade rearrangements of aryl-substituted diallyl ethers.
Two base-mediated cascade rearrangement reactions of diallyl ethers were developed leading to selective [2,3]-Wittig-oxy-Cope and isomerization-Claisen rearrangements. Both diaryl and arylsilyl-substituted 1,3-substituted propenyl substrates were examined, and each exhibits unique reactivity and different reaction pathways. Detailed mechanistic and computational analysis was conducted, which demonstrated that the role of the base and solvent was key to the reactivity and selectivity observed. Crossover experiments also suggest that these reactions proceed with a certain degree of dissociation, and the mechanistic pathway is highly complex with multiple competing routes.We thank Eli Lilly (Dr Magnus Walter and Dr Maria Whatton) for a CASE
award to C.A.M. and Queenās University Belfast for funding. We also thank Girton College, Cambridge
(Research Fellowship to M.N.G.) and Unilever for support.This is the accepted manuscript of a paper published in The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2015, 80 (3), pp 1472ā1498, DOI: 10.1021/jo502403n, Publication Date (Web): December 16, 201
First observation of the decay B0sāĻKā0
The first observation of the decay B0sāĻKā0 is reported. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fbā1 of pp collisions at sā=7 TeV, collected with the LHCb detector. A yield of 30 Ā± 6 B0sā(K+Kā)(KāĻ+) decays is found in the mass windows 1012.5 < M (K + K ā) < 1026.5 MeV/c 2 and 746 < M(K ā Ļ +) < 1046 MeV/c 2. The signal yield is found to be dominated by B0sāĻKā0 decays, and the corresponding branching fraction is measured to be B(B0sāĻKā0) = (1.10 Ā± 0.24 (stat) Ā± 0.14 (syst) Ā± 0.08 (f d /f s )) Ć 10ā6, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic and from the ratio of fragmentation fractions f d /f s which accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B0s mesons. The significance of B0sāĻKā0 signal is 6.1 standard deviations. The fraction of longitudinal polarization in B0sāĻKā0 decays is found to be f 0 = 0.51 Ā± 0.15 (stat) Ā± 0.07 (syst)
First evidence of direct CP violation in charmless two-body decays of Bs0 mesons
Using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.35āāfb-1 collected by LHCb in 2011, we report the first evidence of CP violation in the decays of Bs0 mesons to KĀ±Ļā pairs, ACP(Bs0āKĻ)= 0.27Ā±0.08(stat)Ā±0.02(syst), with a significance of 3.3Ļ. Furthermore, we report the most precise measurement of CP violation in the decays of B0 mesons to KĀ±Ļā pairs, ACP(B0āKĻ)=-0.088Ā±0.011(stat)Ā±0.008(syst), with a significance exceeding 6Ļ
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