Scientific Reports Earth Sciences Table of Contents e-alert: February 2012

01 February 2012      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports           Nature Reviews Neuroscience FOCUS ON ADDICTION Read for FREE online at: www.nature.com/nrn/focus/addiction Produced with support from National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) National Institutes of Health U.S. Department of Health & Human Services             Earth & Environmental Sciences               Road to evolution? Local adaptation to road adjacency in an amphibian (Ambystoma maculatum) ▶     Steven P. Brady     The network of roads on the landscape is vast, and contributes a suite of negative ecological effects on adjacent habitats, ranging from fragmentation to contamination by runoff. …             Collagen based magnetic nanocomposites for oil removal applications ▶     Palanisamy Thanikaivelan, Narayanan T. Narayanan, Bhabendra K. Pradhan et al.     A stable magnetic nanocomposite of collagen and superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) is prepared by a simple process utilizing protein wastes from leather industry. …             Fine-Scale Temporal Dynamics of a Fragmented Lotic Microbial Ecosystem ▶     Amitai Or, Lilach Shtrasler, Uri Gophna     Microbial ecosystems are often assumed to be relatively stable over short periods of time, but this assumption is seldom tested. An urban stream influenced by both flow and …             Discrimination of the oral microbiota associated with high hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan production ▶     Toru Takeshita, Nao Suzuki, Yoshio Nakano et al.     Both hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and methyl mercaptan (CH3SH) are frequently detected in large amounts in malodorous mouth air. We investigated the bacterial composition of saliva of …                         Scientific Reports is accepting submissions from all scientific fields. 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