| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveHistorical and Philosophical Perspectives “It's Ok, We're Not Cousins by Blood”: The Cousin Marriage Controversy in Historical Perspective Diane B Paul and Hamish G Spencer PMCID: PMC2605922 Editorial Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Biology Evelyn Fox Keller PMCID: PMC2605923 Synopses Gal4 Gets Genes to Loosen Up Caitlin Sedwick PMCID: PMC2605934 Lessons on Life from SENP2 Caitlin Sedwick PMCID: PMC2602724 Loopy Chromatin Brings Distant DNA to Bear on Silencing Promoter Genes Mary Hoff PMCID: PMC2592356 Essay Towards an Integrated Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Species to Climate Change Stephen E Williams, Luke P Shoo, Joanne L Isaac, Ary A Hoffmann, and Gary Langham PMCID: PMC2605927 Primer Animal Defenses against Infectious Agents: Is Damage Control More Important Than Pathogen Control Andrew F Read, Andrea L Graham, and Lars Råberg PMCID: PMC2605932 Caenorhabditis elegans Meets Microsporidia: The Nematode Killers from Paris Jonathan Hodgkin and Frederick A Partridge PMCID: PMC2605933 The Role of Auxin Transport in Plant Patterning Mechanisms Richard S Smith PMCID: PMC2602727 Research Articles Modeling a Snap-Action, Variable-Delay Switch Controlling Extrinsic Cell Death John G Albeck, John M Burke, Sabrina L Spencer, Douglas A Lauffenburger, and Peter K Sorger PMCID: PMC2592357 Mutualistic Interactions Drive Ecological Niche Convergence in a Diverse Butterfly Community Marianne Elias, Zachariah Gompert, Chris Jiggins, and Keith Willmott PMCID: PMC2592358 Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotypes Reveal Cell-Nonautonomous Functions of Oncogenic RAS and the p53 Tumor Suppressor Jean-Philippe Coppé, Christopher K Patil, Francis Rodier, Yu Sun, Denise P Muñoz, Joshua Goldstein, Peter S Nelson, Pierre-Yves Desprez, and Judith Campisi PMCID: PMC2592359 Epigenomic Consequences of Immortalized Plant Cell Suspension Culture Milos Tanurdzic, Matthew W Vaughn, Hongmei Jiang, Tae-Jin Lee, R. Keith Slotkin, Bryon Sosinski, William F Thompson, R. W Doerge, and Robert A Martienssen PMCID: PMC2596858 The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space Walter Jetz, Cagan H Sekercioglu, and Katrin Böhning-Gaese PMCID: PMC2596859 A Signaling Protease Required for Melanization in Drosophila Affects Resistance and Tolerance of Infections Janelle S Ayres and David S Schneider PMCID: PMC2596860 PcG Proteins, DNA Methylation, and Gene Repression by Chromatin Looping Vijay K Tiwari, Kelly M McGarvey, Julien D.F Licchesi, Joyce E Ohm, James G Herman, Dirk Schübeler, and Stephen B Baylin PMCID: PMC2592355 Root System Architecture from Coupling Cell Shape to Auxin Transport Marta Laskowski, Verônica A Grieneisen, Hugo Hofhuis, Colette A. ten Hove, Paulien Hogeweg, Athanasius F. M Marée, and Ben Scheres PMCID: PMC2602721 The Maternally Expressed WRKY Transcription Factor TTG2 Controls Lethality in Interploidy Crosses of Arabidopsis Brian P Dilkes, Melissa Spielman, Renate Weizbauer, Brian Watson, Diana Burkart-Waco, Rod J Scott, and Luca Comai PMCID: PMC2596861 Microsporidia Are Natural Intracellular Parasites of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans Emily R Troemel, Marie-Anne Félix, Noah K Whiteman, Antoine Barrière, and Frederick M Ausubel PMCID: PMC2596862 SUMO-Specific Protease 2 Is Essential for Modulating p53-Mdm2 in Development of Trophoblast Stem Cell Niches and Lineages Shang-Yi Chiu, Naoya Asai, Frank Costantini, and Wei Hsu PMCID: PMC2602722 High Functional Diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Driven by Genetic Drift and Human Demography Ruth Hershberg, Mikhail Lipatov, Peter M Small, Hadar Sheffer, Stefan Niemann, Susanne Homolka, Jared C Roach, Kristin Kremer, Dmitri A Petrov, Marcus W Feldman, and Sebastien Gagneux PMCID: PMC2602723 Identifying Neural Drivers with Functional MRI: An Electrophysiological Validation Olivier David, Isabelle Guillemain, Sandrine Saillet, Sebastien Reyt, Colin Deransart, Christoph Segebarth, and Antoine Depaulis PMCID: PMC2605917 Twist-2 Controls Myeloid Lineage Development and Function Andrew B Sharabi, Melissa Aldrich, Drazen Sosic, Eric N Olson, Alan D Friedman, Sung-Hyung Lee, and Si-Yi Chen PMCID: PMC2602725 Activator Control of Nucleosome Occupancy in Activation and Repression of Transcription Gene O Bryant, Vidya Prabhu, Monique Floer, Xin Wang, Dan Spagna, David Schreiber, and Mark Ptashne PMCID: PMC2605919 PKMζ Maintains Spatial, Instrumental, and Classically Conditioned Long-Term Memories Peter Serrano, Eugenia L Friedman, Jana Kenney, Stephen M Taubenfeld, Joshua M Zimmerman, John Hanna, Cristina Alberini, Ann E Kelley, Stephen Maren, Jerry W Rudy, Jerry C. P Yin, Todd C Sacktor, and André A Fenton PMCID: PMC2605920 The Communication Factor EDF and the Toxin–Antitoxin Module mazEF Determine the Mode of Action of Antibiotics Ilana Kolodkin-Gal, Boaz Sat, Alex Keshet, and Hanna Engelberg- Kulka PMCID: PMC2602726 Timing Precision in Population Coding of Natural Scenes in the Early Visual System Gaëlle Desbordes, Jianzhong Jin, Chong Weng, Nicholas A Lesica, Garrett B Stanley, and Jose-Manuel Alonso PMCID: PMC2602720 Nutrient-Regulated Antisense and Intragenic RNAs Modulate a Signal Transduction Pathway in Yeast Masafumi Nishizawa, Tae Komai, Yuki Katou, Katsuhiko Shirahige, Takehiko Ito, and Akio Toh-e PMCID: PMC2605928 BEAF Regulates Cell-Cycle Genes through the Controlled Deposition of H3K9 Methylation Marks into Its Conserved Dual-Core Binding Sites Eldon Emberly, Roxane Blattes, Bernd Schuettengruber, Magali Hennion, Nan Jiang, Craig M Hart, Emmanuel Käs, and Olivier Cuvier PMCID: PMC2605929 Tissue-Specific Genetic Control of Splicing: Implications for the Study of Complex Traits Erin L Heinzen, Dongliang Ge, Kenneth D Cronin, Jessica M Maia, Kevin V Shianna, Willow N Gabriel, Kathleen A Welsh-Bohmer, Christine M Hulette, Thomas N Denny, and David B Goldstein PMCID: PMC2605930 The Bacterial Symbiont Wolbachia Induces Resistance to RNA Viral Infections in Drosophila melanogaster Luís Teixeira, Álvaro Ferreira, and Michael Ashburner PMCID: PMC2605931 Corrections Correction: Survival of Migrating Salmon Smolts in Large Rivers With and Without Dams David W Welch, Erin L Rechisky, Michael C Melnychuk, Aswea D Porter, Carl J Walters, Shaun Clements, Benjamin J Clemens, R. Scott McKinley, and Carl Schreck PMCID: PMC2605916 Corrects: David W Welch, et al. Survival of Migrating Salmon Smolts in Large Rivers With and Without Dams . PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e265. Correction: Fish Invasions in the World's River Systems: When Natural Processes Are Blurred by Human Activities Fabien Leprieur, Olivier Beauchard, Simon Blanchet, Thierry Oberdorff, and Sébastien Brosse PMCID: PMC2605924 Corrects: Fabien Leprieur, et al. Fish Invasions in the World's River Systems: When Natural Processes Are Blurred by Human Activities . PLoS Biol. 2008 February; 6(2): e28. |
