Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation

B Voelkl, NS Altman, A Forsman… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Context-dependent biological variation presents a unique challenge to the reproducibility of
results in experimental animal research, because organisms’ responses to experimental …

An introduction to kernel and nearest-neighbor nonparametric regression

NS Altman - The American Statistician, 1992 - Taylor & Francis
Nonparametric regression is a set of techniques for estimating a regression curve without
making strong assumptions about the shape of the true regression function. These techniques …

The Amborella Genome and the Evolution of Flowering Plants

…, H Tang, E Wafula, C Zheng, VA Albert, NS Altman… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Introduction Darwin famously characterized the rapid rise and early diversification of flowering
plants (angiosperms) in the fossil record as an “abominable mystery.” Identifying genomic …

The floral genome: an evolutionary history of gene duplication and shifting patterns of gene expression

…, PS Soltis, VA Albert, DG Oppenheimer, NS Altman… - Trends in plant …, 2007 - cell.com
Through multifaceted genome-scale research involving phylogenomics, targeted gene
surveys, and gene expression analyses in diverse basal lineages of angiosperms, our studies …

Kernel smoothing of data with correlated errors

NS Altman - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
Kernel smoothing is a common method of estimating the mean function in the nonparametric
regression model y = f(x) + ε, where f(x) is a smooth deterministic mean function and ε is an …

[PDF][PDF] Aphid transmission of barley yellow dwarf virus: acquisition access periods and virus concentration requirements.

…, AG Power, DM Smith, AJ Seaman, NS Altman - Phytopathology, 1991 - apsnet.org
The duration of access periods and the availability of virus in source plants are two factors
that influence the transmission of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) by its aphid vectors. This …

Comparative transcriptome analyses reveal core parasitism genes and suggest gene duplication and repurposing as sources of structural novelty

…, PE Ralph, L Landherr, NS Altman… - Molecular biology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… NA means that enrichment information for the particular term is not identified by the test; NS,
… NA means that enrichment information for the particular term is not identified by the test; NS, …

Interactions between herbivorous fishes and limiting nutrients in a tropical stream ecosystem

…, WK Cornwell, SR Cassatt, MJ Vanni, NS Altman - Ecology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Ecologists have long been interested in understanding the strengths of consumer and
resource limitation in influencing communities. Here we ask three questions concerning the …

[HTML][HTML] Selecting Superior De Novo Transcriptome Assemblies: Lessons Learned by Leveraging the Best Plant Genome

…, NJ Wickett, JP Der, Y Zhang, PP Edger, NS Altman… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Whereas de novo assemblies of RNA-Seq data are being published for a growing number
of species across the tree of life, there are currently no broadly accepted methods for …

Genotypic variation influences reproductive success and thermal stress tolerance in the reef building coral, Acropora palmata

…, NR Polato, D Xu, S Giri, NS Altman… - Coral Reefs, 2013 - Springer
The branching coral Acropora palmata is a foundation species of Caribbean reefs that has
been decimated in recent decades by anthropogenic and natural stressors. Declines in …