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25 November 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Do freshwater mussel shells record road-salt pollution? ▶     Dane D. O'Neil, David P. Gillikin     Road-salt pollution in streams in the Northeastern United States has become a major concern, but historical data are scarce. Freshwater bivalve shells have the ability to record …             Oldest Directly Dated Remains of Sheep in China ▶     John Dodson, Eoin Dodson, Richard Banati et al.     The origins of domesticated sheep (Ovis sp.) in China remain unknown. Previous workers have speculated that sheep may have been present in China up to 7000 years ago, however …             Antimicrobial silver: An unprecedented anion effect ▶     J. R. Swathy, M. Udhaya Sankar, Amrita Chaudhary et al.     Silver is an indispensable metal but its use has to be minimised for sustainable growth. Much of the silver lost during use is unrecoverable; an example being its use as an …             Heavy Metal Contamination in the Surface Sediments of Representative Limnetic Ecosystems in Eastern China ▶     Wenzhong Tang, Baoqing Shan, Hong Zhang et al.     A comprehensive analysis of heavy metal pollution was conducted in the representative limnetic ecosystems of eastern China, which are subject to rapid economic development and …             Atmospheric Direct Uptake and Long-term Fate of Radiocesium in Trees after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident ▶     Yasunori Mahara, Tomoko Ohta, Hideki Ogawa et al.     Large areas of forests were radioactively contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011, and forest decontamination is now an important problem in Japan. However, …             Relationship between High-frequency Radiation and Asperity Ruptures, Revealed by Hybrid Back-projection with a Non-planar Fault Model ▶     Ryo Okuwaki, Yuji Yagi, Shiro Hirano     High-frequency seismic waves are generated by abrupt changes of rupture velocity and slip-rate during an earthquake. Therefore, analysis of high-frequency waves is crucial to …             A marine inducible prophage vB_CibM-P1 isolated from the aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Citromicrobium bathyomarinum JL354 ▶     Qiang Zheng, Rui Zhang, Yongle Xu et al.     A prophage vB_CibM-P1 was induced by mitomycin C from the epipelagic strain Citromicrobium bathyomarinum JL354, a member of the alpha-IV subcluster of marine aerobic anoxygenic …             Nonstationary Precipitation Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves for Infrastructure Design in a Changing Climate ▶     Linyin Cheng, Amir AghaKouchak     Extreme climatic events are growing more severe and frequent, calling into question how prepared our infrastructure is to deal with these changes. 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