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Volume 3(4);  April 2005
Editorial
The PLoS Community Journals
Mark Patterson, Catriona MacCallum, Hemai Parthasarathy, and Caitlin Sedwick
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e129. Published online 2005 April 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030129.
PMCID: PMC1074812
Synopses
Cracking the Olfactory Code
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e122. Published online 2005 February 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030122.
PMCID: PMC1043862
Memories Are Made of This: Modeling the CaMKII Molecular Switch
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e124. Published online 2005 March 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030124.
PMCID: PMC1069647
Heart Repair Gets New Muscle
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e125. Published online 2005 March 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030125.
PMCID: PMC1064855
The Chimp Genome Reveals a Retroviral Invasion in Primate Evolution
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e126. Published online 2005 March 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030126.
PMCID: PMC1054891
Gray Wolves Help Scavengers Ride Out Climate Change
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e132. Published online 2005 March 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030132.
PMCID: PMC1064856
A New Role for a Protein Involved in Energy Metabolism
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e133. Published online 2005 March 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030133.
PMCID: PMC1064857
Plus Ça Change: Gene Enhancers Upset Evolutionary Assumption
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e138. Published online 2005 March 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030138.
PMCID: PMC1064858
Crucial Roles in Drosophila Development for Little-Known Protein
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e139. Published online 2005 March 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030139.
PMCID: PMC1064859
The Bacteria's Guide to Survival
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e140. Published online 2005 March 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030140.
PMCID: PMC1065268
White Collar Proteins Help Fungi Do It in the Dark
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e142. Published online 2005 March 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030142.
PMCID: PMC1064860
A Small RNA That Neutralizes a Protein Linked to Tumor Development
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e147. Published online 2005 March 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030147.
PMCID: PMC1065269
And Littler Genomes inside 'Em: Clues to a Parasitic Nematode's Bacterial Partnership
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e148. Published online 2005 March 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030148.
PMCID: PMC1069648
How a Latent Virus Eludes Immune Defenses
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e149. Published online 2005 March 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030149.
PMCID: PMC1065270
Killers on Patrol: Liver Lymphocytes Remain in the Blood Vessels
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e154. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030154.
PMCID: PMC1073697
Feature
As the Antarctic Ice Pack Recedes, a Fragile Ecosystem Hangs in the Balance
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e127. Published online 2005 April 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030127.
PMCID: PMC1074811
Book Review/Science in the Media
Traversing the Highwire from Pop to Optical
Christopher W Tyler
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e136. Published online 2005 April 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030136.
PMCID: PMC1074814
Primer
Alchemy and the New Age of Cardiac Muscle Cell Biology
Kenneth R Chien
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e131. Published online 2005 April 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030131.
PMCID: PMC1074813
Perception Space—The Final Frontier
Lars Chittka and Axel Brockmann
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e137. Published online 2005 April 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030137.
PMCID: PMC1074815
Research Articles
Perceptual and Neural Olfactory Similarity in Honeybees
Fernando Guerrieri, Marco Schubert, Jean-Christophe Sandoz, and Martin Giurfa
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e60. Published online 2005 February 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030060.
PMCID: PMC1043859
Adult Murine Skeletal Muscle Contains Cells That Can Differentiate into Beating Cardiomyocytes In Vitro
Steve O Winitsky, Thiru V Gopal, Shahin Hassanzadeh, Hiroshi Takahashi, Divina Gryder, Michael A Rogawski, Kazuyo Takeda, Zu X Yu, Yu H Xu, and Neal D Epstein
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e87. Published online 2005 March 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030087.
PMCID: PMC1064849
Gray Wolves as Climate Change Buffers in Yellowstone
Christopher C Wilmers and Wayne M Getz
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e92. Published online 2005 March 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030092.
PMCID: PMC1064850
Functional Evolution of a cis-Regulatory Module
Michael Z Ludwig, Arnar Palsson, Elena Alekseeva, Casey M Bergman, Janaki Nathan, and Martin Kreitman
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e93. Published online 2005 March 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030093.
PMCID: PMC1064851
Light Controls Growth and Development via a Conserved Pathway in the Fungal Kingdom
Alexander Idnurm and Joseph Heitman
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e95. Published online 2005 March 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030095.
PMCID: PMC1064852
Two Distinct E3 Ubiquitin Ligases Have Complementary Functions in the Regulation of Delta and Serrate Signaling in Drosophila
Roland Le Borgne, Sylvie Remaud, Sophie Hamel, and François Schweisguth
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e96. Published online 2005 March 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030096.
PMCID: PMC1064853
The N. gonorrhoeae Type IV Pilus Stimulates Mechanosensitive Pathways and Cytoprotection through a pilT-Dependent Mechanism
Heather L Howie, Michael Glogauer, and Magdalene So
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e100. Published online 2005 March 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030100.
PMCID: PMC1065265
PGC-1α Deficiency Causes Multi-System Energy Metabolic Derangements: Muscle Dysfunction, Abnormal Weight Control and Hepatic Steatosis
Teresa C Leone, John J Lehman, Brian N Finck, Paul J Schaeffer, Adam R Wende, Sihem Boudina, Michael Courtois, David F Wozniak, Nandakumar Sambandam, Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi, Zhouji Chen, John O. Holloszy, Denis M Medeiros, Robert E Schmidt, Jeffrey E Saffitz, E. Dale Abel, Clay F Semenkovich, and Daniel P Kelly
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e101. Published online 2005 March 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030101.
PMCID: PMC1064854
The Stability of a Stochastic CaMKII Switch: Dependence on the Number of Enzyme Molecules and Protein Turnover
Paul Miller, Anatol M Zhabotinsky, John E Lisman, and Xiao-Jing Wang
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e107. Published online 2005 March 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030107.
PMCID: PMC1069645
Lineage-Specific Expansions of Retroviral Insertions within the Genomes of African Great Apes but Not Humans and Orangutans
Chris T Yohn, Zhaoshi Jiang, Sean D McGrath, Karen E Hayden, Philipp Khaitovich, Matthew E Johnson, Marla Y Eichler, John D McPherson, Shaying Zhao, Svante Pääbo, and Evan E Eichler
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e110. Published online 2005 March 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030110.
PMCID: PMC1054887
Intravascular Immune Surveillance by CXCR6+ NKT Cells Patrolling Liver Sinusoids
Frederic Geissmann, Thomas O Cameron, Stephane Sidobre, Natasha Manlongat, Mitchell Kronenberg, Michael J Briskin, Michael L Dustin, and Dan R Littman
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e113. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030113.
PMCID: PMC1073691
Gamma-Herpesvirus Latency Requires T Cell Evasion during Episome Maintenance
Neil J Bennett, Janet S May, and Philip G Stevenson
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e120. Published online 2005 March 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030120.
PMCID: PMC1065266
The Wolbachia Genome of Brugia malayi: Endosymbiont Evolution within a Human Pathogenic Nematode
Jeremy Foster, Mehul Ganatra, Ibrahim Kamal, Jennifer Ware, Kira Makarova, Natalia Ivanova, Anamitra Bhattacharyya, Vinayak Kapatral, Sanjay Kumar, Janos Posfai, Tamas Vincze, Jessica Ingram, Laurie Moran, Alla Lapidus, Marina Omelchenko, Nikos Kyrpides, Elodie Ghedin, Shiliang Wang, Eugene Goltsman, Victor Joukov, Olga Ostrovskaya, Kiryl Tsukerman, Mikhail Mazur, Donald Comb, Eugene Koonin, and Barton Slatko
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e121. Published online 2005 March 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030121.
PMCID: PMC1069646
Neutralizing Aptamers from Whole-Cell SELEX Inhibit the RET Receptor Tyrosine Kinase
Laura Cerchia, Frédéric Ducongé, Carine Pestourie, Jocelyne Boulay, Youssef Aissouni, Karine Gombert, Bertrand Tavitian, Vittorio de Franciscis, and Domenico Libri
PLoS Biol. 2005 April; 3(4): e123. Published online 2005 March 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030123.
PMCID: PMC1065267
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