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Neal Williams

- Verified email at ucdavis.edu - Cited by 30066

Norman Williams

- Verified email at ucl.ac.uk - Cited by 10577

Stephanie Nicole Giamberardino

- Stephanie Nicole Williams - Verified email at rti.org - Cited by 9666

Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land‐use change

C Kremen, NM Williams, MA Aizen… - Ecology …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Many ecosystem services are delivered by organisms that depend on habitats that are
segregated spatially or temporally from the location where services are provided. Management of …

[HTML][HTML] Is increased time to diagnosis and treatment in symptomatic cancer associated with poorer outcomes? Systematic review

…, ML Tørring, C Wilkinson, B Williams, N Williams… - British journal of …, 2015 - nature.com
Background: It is unclear whether more timely cancer diagnosis brings favourable outcomes,
with much of the previous evidence, in some cancers, being equivocal. We set out to …

Gene duplications and the origins of vertebrate development

…, J Garcia-Fernàndez, NA Williams… - …, 1994 - journals.biologists.com
All vertebrates possess anatomical features not seen in their closest living relatives, the
protochordates (tunicates and amphioxus). Some of these features depend on develop mental …

Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

…, M Weiser, DB Wildenauer, NM Williams, S Williams… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder. Genetic risk is conferred by a large number of
alleles, including common alleles of small effect that might be detected by genome-wide …

Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

…, NM Williams, L Georgieva, I Nikolov, N Norton… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder with a lifetime risk of about 1%, characterized by
hallucinations, delusions and cognitive deficits, with heritability estimated at up to 80% 1 , 2 . …

[PDF][PDF] A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the cause of chromosome 9p21-linked ALS-FTD

…, A Dutra, E Pak, J Hardy, A Singleton, NM Williams… - Neuron, 2011 - cell.com
… a Data missing for age at onset (n = 12), and site of onset (n = 67). b Data … (n = 1) and gender
(n = 1). c Data missing for age at onset (n = 29), site of onset (n = 64) and familial status (n = …

Wild pollinators enhance fruit set of crops regardless of honey bee abundance

…, BF Viana, TC Wanger, C Westphal, N Williams… - science, 2013 - science.org
The diversity and abundance of wild insect pollinators have declined in many agricultural
landscapes. Whether such declines reduce crop yields, or are mitigated by managed …

Local recurrence of rectal adenocarcinoma due to inadequate surgical resection: histopathological study of lateral tumour spread and surgical excision

P Quirke, MF Dixon, P Durdey, NS Williams - The Lancet, 1986 - Elsevier
In 52 patients with rectal adenocarcinoma whole-mount sections of the entire operative
specimen were examined by transverse slicing. There was spread to the lateral resection margin …

Generalization in pollination systems, and why it matters

NM Waser, L Chittka, MV Price, NM Williams… - Ecology, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
One view of pollination systems is that they tend toward specialization. This view is implicit
in many discussions of angiosperm evolution and plant—pollinator coevolution and in the …

[HTML][HTML] MRI-targeted or standard biopsy for prostate-cancer diagnosis

…, S Morris, S Punwani, NR Williams… - … England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with or without targeted
biopsy, is an alternative to standard transrectal ultrasonography–guided biopsy for prostate-…