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01 July 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Assessment of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact on Gulf coast microbial communities In this article, Regina Lamendella and colleagues investigated the impact of the oil on the microbial composition in beach samples collected in June 2010 along a heavily impacted shoreline near Grand Isle, Louisiana. Successional changes in the microbial community structure due to the oil contamination were determined by deep sequencing of 16S rRNA genes.   Read more high-quality articles from Frontiers in Microbiology           Earth & Environmental Sciences               Synergistic effect on the visible light activity of Ti3+ doped TiO2 nanorods/boron doped graphene composite ▶     Mingyang Xing, Xiao Li, Jinlong Zhang     TiO2/graphene (TiO2-x/GR) composites, which are Ti3 self-doped TiO2 nanorods decorated on boron doped graphene sheets, were synthesized via a simple one-step hydrothermal method …             Decomposition of Phragmites australis litter retarded by invasive Solidago canadensis in mixtures: an antagonistic non-additive effect ▶     Ling Zhang, Yaojun Zhang, Jianwen Zou et al.     Solidago canadensis is an aggressive invader in China. Solidago invasion success is partially attributed to allelopathic compounds release and more benefits from AM fungi, which …             Defection and extortion as unexpected catalysts of unconditional cooperation in structured populations ▶     Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc     We study the evolution of cooperation in the spatial prisoner's dilemma game, where besides unconditional cooperation and defection, tit-for-tat, win-stay-lose-shift and extortion …             Pacific freshening drives Pliocene cooling and Asian monsoon intensification ▶     Junsheng Nie, Thomas Stevens, Yougui Song et al.     The monsoon is a fundamental component of Earth's climate. The Pliocene warm period is characterized by long-term global cooling yet concurrent monsoon dynamics are poorly known. …             Isolation, plant colonization potential, and phenanthrene degradation performance of the endophytic bacterium Pseudomonas sp. Ph6-gfp ▶     Kai Sun, Juan Liu, Yanzheng Gao et al.     This investigation provides a novel method of endophyte-aided removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from plant bodies. A phenanthrene-degrading endophytic bacterium …             Alternative hypotheses to explain why biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are concave-up in some natural ecosystems but concave-down in manipulative experiments ▶     Camilo Mora, Roberto Danovaro, Michel Loreau     Recent studies of the relationship between biodiversity and functioning in marine ecosystems have yielded non-saturating patterns that contrast sharply with the results of …                   NEW DEALS: Lab equipment and services   Browse our library of savings and information!   Check Marketplace first   VISIT MARKETPLACE TODAY          • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       PhD Student     University of Oxford            Postdoctoral fellow     University of Maryland at Baltimore            PhD position     Lund University            Senior Research Fellow     University College Cork            PhD student     Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main            Research Assistant I     The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)            Postdoctoral Research Associate     University of Liverpool            Research Associate     Cardiff University            Research Associate     King's College London            PhD Positions     Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD)          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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