| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveEditorial BMC Biology turns five Elizabeth C Moylan, Matt J Hodgkinson, Maria Kowalczuk, Scott C Edmunds, and Penelope A Webb PMCID: PMC2625334 Methodology Article Use of the viral 2A peptide for bicistronic expression in transgenic mice Georgios Trichas, Jo Begbie, and Shankar Srinivas PMCID: PMC2553761 Research Articles Contributions of chaperone and glycosyltransferase activities of O-fucosyltransferase 1 to Notch signaling Tetsuya Okajima, BVVG Reddy, Tsukasa Matsuda, and Kenneth D Irvine PMCID: PMC2242781 Membrane interaction and structure of the transmembrane domain of influenza hemagglutinin and its fusion peptide complex Ding-Kwo Chang, Shu-Fang Cheng, Eric Aseen B Kantchev, Chi-Hui Lin, and Yu-Tsan Liu PMCID: PMC2267159 Sex-specific asymmetries in communication sound perception are not related to hand preference in an early primate Marina Scheumann and Elke Zimmermann PMCID: PMC2266901 Transient reduction of tinnitus intensity is marked by concomitant reductions of delta band power Nina Kahlbrock and Nathan Weisz PMCID: PMC2254377 Inducible and constitutive heat shock gene expression responds to modification of Hsp70 copy number in Drosophila melanogaster but does not compensate for loss of thermotolerance in Hsp70 null flies Brian R Bettencourt, Catherine C Hogan, Mario Nimali, and Brian W Drohan PMCID: PMC2257928 Strong mitochondrial DNA support for a Cretaceous origin of modern avian lineages Joseph W Brown, Joshua S Rest, Jaime García-Moreno, Michael D Sorenson, and David P Mindell PMCID: PMC2267772 Under the volcano: phylogeography and evolution of the cave-dwelling Palmorchestia hypogaea (Amphipoda, Crustacea) at La Palma (Canary Islands) Carlos Villacorta, Damià Jaume, Pedro Oromí, and Carlos Juan PMCID: PMC2246103 Sequestration of free cholesterol in cell membranes by prions correlates with cytoplasmic phospholipase A2 activation Clive Bate, Mourad Tayebi, and Alun Williams PMCID: PMC2270799 Cell cycle and cell death are not necessary for appressorium formation and plant infection in the fungal plant pathogen Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Iris Nesher, Sima Barhoom, and Amir Sharon PMCID: PMC2276476 Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: Resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Kerry A Deere, Graham J Slater, Colleen Begg, Keith Begg, Lon Grassman, Mauro Lucherini, Geraldine Veron, and Robert K Wayne PMCID: PMC2276185 The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: Integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches Line V Ugelvig, Falko P Drijfhout, Daniel JC Kronauer, Jacobus J Boomsma, Jes S Pedersen, and Sylvia Cremer PMCID: PMC2292682 Double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase PKR of fishes and amphibians: Varying the number of double-stranded RNA binding domains and lineage-specific duplications Stefan Rothenburg, Nikolaus Deigendesch, Madhusudan Dey, Thomas E Dever, and Loubna Tazi PMCID: PMC2291453 Hue-shifted monomeric variants of Clavularia cyan fluorescent protein: identification of the molecular determinants of color and applications in fluorescence imaging Hui-wang Ai, Scott G Olenych, Peter Wong, Michael W Davidson, and Robert E Campbell PMCID: PMC2292683 Dental eruption in afrotherian mammals Robert J Asher and Thomas Lehmann PMCID: PMC2292681 Characterization of the proneural gene regulatory network during mouse telencephalon development Julia M Gohlke, Olivier Armant, Frederick M Parham, Marjolein V Smith, Celine Zimmer, Diogo S Castro, Laurent Nguyen, Joel S Parker, Gerard Gradwohl, Christopher J Portier, and François Guillemot PMCID: PMC2330019 Duplicate gene expression in allopolyploid Gossypium reveals two temporally distinct phases of expression evolution Lex Flagel, Joshua Udall, Dan Nettleton, and Jonathan Wendel PMCID: PMC2330141 The brown adipocyte differentiation pathway in birds: An evolutionary road not taken Nadejda V Mezentseva, Jaliya S Kumaratilake, and Stuart A Newman PMCID: PMC2375860 Flying lemurs – The 'flying tree shrews'? Molecular cytogenetic evidence for a Scandentia-Dermoptera sister clade Wenhui Nie, Beiyuan Fu, Patricia CM O'Brien, Jinhuan Wang, Weiting Su, Alongkoad Tanomtong, Vitaly Volobouev, Malcolm A Ferguson-Smith, and Fengtang Yang PMCID: PMC2386441 Acoustic divergence in the communication of cryptic species of nocturnal primates (Microcebus ssp.) Pia Braune, Sabine Schmidt, and Elke Zimmermann PMCID: PMC2390514 Resource supply and the evolution of public-goods cooperation in bacteria Michael A Brockhurst, Angus Buckling, Dan Racey, and Andy Gardner PMCID: PMC2409295 Induced metamorphosis in crustacean y-larvae: Towards a solution to a 100-year-old riddle Henrik Glenner, Jens T Høeg, Mark J Grygier, and Yoshihisa Fujita PMCID: PMC2412843 Visual sensitivities tuned by heterochronic shifts in opsin gene expression Karen L Carleton, Tyrone C Spady, J Todd Streelman, Michael R Kidd, William N McFarland, and Ellis R Loew PMCID: PMC2430543 Interactions of biotic and abiotic environmental factors in an ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, and the potential for selection mosaics Bridget J Piculell, Jason D Hoeksema, and John N Thompson PMCID: PMC2430191 Effects of aging and calorie restriction on the global gene expression profiles of mouse testis and ovary Alexei A Sharov, Geppino Falco, Yulan Piao, Suresh Poosala, Kevin G Becker, Alan B Zonderman, Dan L Longo, David Schlessinger, and Minoru SH Ko PMCID: PMC2426674 'Systems toxicology' approach identifies coordinated metabolic responses to copper in a terrestrial non-model invertebrate, the earthworm Lumbricus rubellus Jacob G Bundy, Jasmin K Sidhu, Faisal Rana, David J Spurgeon, Claus Svendsen, Jodie F Wren, Stephen R Stürzenbaum, A John Morgan, and Peter Kille PMCID: PMC2424032 A subgroup of plant aquaporins facilitate the bi-directional diffusion of As(OH)3 and Sb(OH)3 across membranes Gerd P Bienert, Michael Thorsen, Manuela D Schüssler, Henrik R Nilsson, Annemarie Wagner, Markus J Tamás, and Thomas P Jahn PMCID: PMC2442057 The diversity of reproductive parasites among arthropods: Wolbachia do not walk alone Olivier Duron, Didier Bouchon, Sébastien Boutin, Lawrence Bellamy, Liqin Zhou, Jan Engelstädter, and Gregory D Hurst PMCID: PMC2492848 Integrating paleoecology and genetics of bird populations in two sky island archipelagos John E McCormack, Bonnie S Bowen, and Thomas B Smith PMCID: PMC2474579 The role of upstream sequences in selecting the reading frame on tmRNA Mickey R Miller, David W Healey, Stephen G Robison, Jonathan D Dewey, and Allen R Buskirk PMCID: PMC2481249 Transcriptome analysis for Caenorhabditis elegans based on novel expressed sequence tags Heesun Shin, Martin Hirst, Matthew N Bainbridge, Vincent Magrini, Elaine Mardis, Donald G Moerman, Marco A Marra, David L Baillie, and Steven JM Jones PMCID: PMC2474577 A cryptic promoter in the first exon of the SPG4 gene directs the synthesis of the 60-kDa spastin isoform Giuseppe Mancuso and Elena I Rugarli PMCID: PMC2474578 A periodic pattern generator for dental diversity Gareth J Fraser, Ryan F Bloomquist, and J Todd Streelman PMCID: PMC2496899 Systematic comparison and reconstruction of sea urchin (Echinoidea) internal anatomy: a novel approach using magnetic resonance imaging Alexander Ziegler, Cornelius Faber, Susanne Mueller, and Thomas Bartolomaeus PMCID: PMC2500006 Platypus globin genes and flanking loci suggest a new insertional model for beta-globin evolution in birds and mammals Vidushi S Patel, Steven JB Cooper, Janine E Deakin, Bob Fulton, Tina Graves, Wesley C Warren, Richard K Wilson, and Jennifer AM Graves PMCID: PMC2529266 Evolution of developmental roles of Pax2/5/8 paralogs after independent duplication in urochordate and vertebrate lineages Susan Bassham, Cristian Cañestro, and John H Postlethwait PMCID: PMC2532684 Complex chloroplast RNA metabolism: just debugging the genetic programme? Uwe G Maier, Andrew Bozarth, Helena T Funk, Stefan Zauner, Stefan A Rensing, Christian Schmitz-Linneweber, Thomas Börner, and Michael Tillich PMCID: PMC2553071 Erythropoietin enhances hippocampal long-term potentiation and memory Bartosz Adamcio, Derya Sargin, Alicja Stradomska, Lucian Medrihan, Christoph Gertler, Fabian Theis, Mingyue Zhang, Michael Müller, Imam Hassouna, Kathrin Hannke, Swetlana Sperling, Konstantin Radyushkin, Ahmed El-Kordi, Lizzy Schulze, Anja Ronnenberg, Fred Wolf, Nils Brose, Jeong-Seop Rhee, Weiqi Zhang, and Hannelore Ehrenreich PMCID: PMC2562991 Viral cystatin evolution and three-dimensional structure modelling: A case of directional selection acting on a viral protein involved in a host-parasitoid interaction Céline Serbielle, Shafinaz Chowdhury, Samuel Pichon, Stéphane Dupas, Jérôme Lesobre, Enrico O Purisima, Jean-Michel Drezen, and Elisabeth Huguet PMCID: PMC2553070 Docosahexaenoic and eicosapentaenoic acids increase prion formation in neuronal cells Clive Bate, Mourad Tayebi, Luisa Diomede, Mario Salmona, and Alun Williams PMCID: PMC2556658 Resilin and chitinous cuticle form a composite structure for energy storage in jumping by froghopper insects Malcolm Burrows, Stephen R Shaw, and Gregory P Sutton PMCID: PMC2584104 The Caenorhabditis chemoreceptor gene families James H Thomas and Hugh M Robertson PMCID: PMC2576165 Identification of the Weevil immune genes and their expression in the bacteriome tissue Caroline Anselme, Vicente Pérez-Brocal, Agnès Vallier, Carole Vincent-Monegat, Delphine Charif, Amparo Latorre, Andrés Moya, and Abdelaziz Heddi PMCID: PMC2590597 The molecular basis of defective lens development in the Iberian mole F David Carmona, Rafael Jiménez, and J Martin Collinson PMCID: PMC2587461 Y chromosome evidence of earliest modern human settlement in East Asia and multiple origins of Tibetan and Japanese populations Hong Shi, Hua Zhong, Yi Peng, Yong-Li Dong, Xue-Bin Qi, Feng Zhang, Lu-Fang Liu, Si-Jie Tan, Runlin Z Ma, Chun-Jie Xiao, R Spencer Wells, Li Jin, and Bing Su PMCID: PMC2605740 Positive correlation between genetic diversity and fitness in a large, well-connected metapopulation Sofie Vandewoestijne, Nicolas Schtickzelle, and Michel Baguette PMCID: PMC2587462 Knee-clicks and visual traits indicate fighting ability in eland antelopes: multiple messages and back-up signals Jakob Bro-Jørgensen and Torben Dabelsteen PMCID: PMC2596769 Lack of functional alpha-lactalbumin prevents involution in Cape fur seals and identifies the protein as an apoptotic milk factor in mammary gland involution Julie A Sharp, Christophe Lefèvre, and Kevin R Nicholas PMCID: PMC2600633 Modulation of social interactions by immune stimulation in honey bee, Apis mellifera, workers F-J Richard, A Aubert, and CM Grozinger PMCID: PMC2596086 An internal ribosome entry site element directs the synthesis of the 80 kDa isoforms of protein 4.1R Eva Lospitao, Carmen M Pérez-Ferreiro, Altea Gosálbez, Miguel A Alonso, and Isabel Correas PMCID: PMC2614411 |
