| | Other Issues: latest | archiveEvolution of maternal effects: past and present Timothy A. Mousseau, Tobias Uller, Erik Wapstra, and Alexander V. Badyaev PMCID: PMC2666690 Mechanisms and functions of brain and behavioural asymmetries Luca Tommasi PMCID: PMC2666088 Light during embryonic development modulates patterns of lateralization strongly and similarly in both zebrafish and chick R.J. Andrew, D. Osorio, and S. Budaev PMCID: PMC2666083 The habenular nuclei: a conserved asymmetric relay station in the vertebrate brain Isaac H. Bianco and Stephen W. Wilson PMCID: PMC2666075 Preface Patricia J. Gearhart, Tomas Lindahl, and Michael S. Neuberger PMCID: PMC2660926 Somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes: lessons from proliferating cell nuclear antigenK164R mutant mice Petra Langerak, Peter H.L. Krijger, Marinus R. Heideman, Paul C.M. van den Berk, and Heinz Jacobs PMCID: PMC2660925 Non-homologous end joining in class switch recombination: the beginning of the end Ashwin Kotnis, Likun Du, Chonghai Liu, Sergey W. Popov, and Qiang Pan-Hammarström PMCID: PMC2660918 Animal camouflage: current issues and new perspectives Martin Stevens and Sami Merilaita PMCID: PMC2674078 Visual influences on auditory spatial learning Andrew J. King PMCID: PMC2674475 Use of auditory learning to manage listening problems in children David R. Moore, Lorna F. Halliday, and Sygal Amitay PMCID: PMC2674471 The molecular logic of sodium-coupled neurotransmitter transporters Eric Gouaux PMCID: PMC2674099 Interactions of alkali cations with glutamate transporters David C. Holley and Michael P. Kavanaugh PMCID: PMC2674104 Introduction. Sensory learning: from neural mechanisms to rehabilitation Paul V. McGraw, Ben S. Webb, and David R. Moore PMCID: PMC2674482 Cortical mechanisms of sensory learning and object recognition K.L. Hoffman and N.K. Logothetis PMCID: PMC2674481 Molecular mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity in visual cortex Daniela Tropea, Audra Van Wart, and Mriganka Sur PMCID: PMC2674480 Bidirectional synaptic mechanisms of ocular dominance plasticity in visual cortex Gordon B. Smith, Arnold J. Heynen, and Mark F. Bear PMCID: PMC2674473 Introduction. The blurred boundary between channels and transporters: We dedicate this volume to the memory of Peter Läuger, a pioneer of the link between channels and pumps. Frances Ashcroft, David Gadsby, and Chris Miller PMCID: PMC2592634 The mammalian proton-coupled peptide cotransporter PepT1: sitting on the transporter–channel fence? David Meredith PMCID: PMC2674094 Introduction. Ecological immunology Hinrich Schulenburg, Joachim Kurtz, Yannick Moret, and Michael T. Siva-Jothy PMCID: PMC2666701 The evolution of RNAi as a defence against viruses and transposable elements Darren J. Obbard, Karl H.J. Gordon, Amy H. Buck, and Francis M. Jiggins PMCID: PMC2592633 Introduction John Collinge and Michael P Alpers PMCID: PMC2575419 The changing face of kuru: a personal perspective John D Mathews PMCID: PMC2581658 Lessons of kuru research: background to recent studies with some personal reflections John Collinge PMCID: PMC2577136 Kuru and its contribution to medicine D. Carleton Gajdusek PMCID: PMC2575417 The epidemiology of kuru: monitoring the epidemic from its peak to its end Michael P Alpers PMCID: PMC2577135 Mortuary rites of the South Fore and kuru Jerome T Whitfield, Wandagi H Pako, John Collinge, and Michael P Alpers PMCID: PMC2581657 A clinical study of kuru patients with long incubation periods at the end of the epidemic in Papua New Guinea John Collinge, Jerome Whitfield, Edward McKintosh, Adam Frosh, Simon Mead, Andrew F Hill, Sebastian Brandner, Dafydd Thomas, and Michael P Alpers PMCID: PMC2581654 Genetic susceptibility, evolution and the kuru epidemic Simon Mead, Jerome Whitfield, Mark Poulter, Paresh Shah, James Uphill, Jonathan Beck, Tracy Campbell, Huda Al-Dujaily, Holger Hummerich, Michael P Alpers, and John Collinge PMCID: PMC2576515 The origin of the prion agent of kuru: molecular and biological strain typing Jonathan D.F Wadsworth, Susan Joiner, Jacqueline M Linehan, Emmanuel A Asante, Sebastian Brandner, and John Collinge PMCID: PMC2581656 Central and peripheral pathology of kuru: pathological analysis of a recent case and comparison with other forms of human prion disease Sebastian Brandner, Jerome Whitfield, Ken Boone, Anderson Puwa, Catherine O'Malley, Jacqueline M Linehan, Susan Joiner, Francesco Scaravilli, Ian Calder, Michael P Alpers, Jonathan D.F Wadsworth, and John Collinge PMCID: PMC2581659 Introduction. Statistical and computational challenges in molecular phylogenetics and evolution Nick Goldman and Ziheng Yang PMCID: PMC2590901 A model of evolution and structure for multiple sequence alignment Ari Löytynoja and Nick Goldman PMCID: PMC2592536 Endowment effect in capuchin monkeys Venkat Lakshminaryanan, M Keith Chen, and Laurie R Santos PMCID: PMC2581778 Introduction. Neuroeconomics: the promise and the profit Wolfram Schultz PMCID: PMC2581782 Explicit neural signals reflecting reward uncertainty Wolfram Schultz, Kerstin Preuschoff, Colin Camerer, Ming Hsu, Christopher D Fiorillo, Philippe N Tobler, and Peter Bossaerts PMCID: PMC2581779 Neuroethology of reward and decision making Karli K Watson and Michael L Platt PMCID: PMC2581784 Neural correlates of economic game playing Frank Krueger, Jordan Grafman, and Kevin McCabe PMCID: PMC2581786 The role of social cognition in decision making Chris D Frith and Tania Singer PMCID: PMC2581783 Introduction. Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour Kenny Smith, Michael L Kalish, Thomas L Griffiths, and Stephan Lewandowsky PMCID: PMC2575430 Introduction. Evolution on Pacific islands: Darwin's legacy Steven A Trewick and Robert H Cowie PMCID: PMC2570583 Introduction. The neurobiology of drug addiction: new vistas T.W Robbins, B.J Everitt, and D.J Nutt PMCID: PMC2607336 Introduction. Speciation in plants and animals: pattern and process Richard J Abbott, Michael G Ritchie, and Peter M Hollingsworth PMCID: PMC2459220 Introduction. Extent, processes and evolutionary impact of interspecific hybridization in animals Klaus Schwenk, Nora Brede, and Bruno Streit PMCID: PMC2453525 Spatial, environmental and anthropogenic effects on the taxon composition of hybridizing Daphnia Barbara Keller, Justyna Wolinska, Marina Manca, and Piet Spaak PMCID: PMC2453521 Introduction. Photosynthetic and atmospheric evolution Derek S Bendall, Christopher J Howe, Euan G Nisbet, and R. Ellen R Nisbet PMCID: PMC2459219 Introduction Michael Rutter PMCID: PMC2459218 Progress in the pathogenesis and genetics of Parkinson's disease Yoshikuni Mizuno, Nobutaka Hattori, Shin-ichiro Kubo, Shigeto Sato, Kenya Nishioka, Taku Hatano, Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Manabu Funayama, Yutaka Machida, and Hideki Mochizuki PMCID: PMC2394571 The neuroscience of primate intellectual evolution: natural selection and passive and intentional niche construction Atsushi Iriki and Osamu Sakura PMCID: PMC2394573 Introduction. Japan: its tradition and hot topics in biological sciences Hideyuki Okano, Toshio Yanagida, and Atsushi Iriki PMCID: PMC2459221 Phase contrast electron microscopy: development of thin-film phase plates and biological applications Kuniaki Nagayama and Radostin Danev PMCID: PMC2453530 Introduction. The sapient mind: archaeology meets neuroscience Colin Renfrew, Chris Frith, and Lambros Malafouris PMCID: PMC2394570 Social cognition Chris D Frith PMCID: PMC2375957 Hydro-climatic and ecological behaviour of the drought of Amazonia in 2005 J.A Marengo, C.A Nobre, J Tomasella, M.F Cardoso, and M.D Oyama PMCID: PMC2373880 Preface Yadvinder Malhi, Timmons Roberts, and Richard A Betts PMCID: PMC2367688 The future of the Amazon: new perspectives from climate, ecosystem and social sciences Richard A Betts, Yadvinder Malhi, and J. Timmons Roberts PMCID: PMC2367686 Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point Daniel C Nepstad, Claudia M Stickler, Britaldo Soares- Filho, and Frank Merry PMCID: PMC2373903 Climate change, biofuels and eco-social impacts in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado Donald Sawyer PMCID: PMC2373893 Amazon Basin climate under global warming: the role of the sea surface temperature Phil P Harris, Chris Huntingford, and Peter M Cox PMCID: PMC2373904 An objective tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature gradient index for studies of south Amazon dry-season climate variability and change Peter Good, Jason A Lowe, Mat Collins, and Wilfran Moufouma-Okia PMCID: PMC2373890 Observed change of the standardized precipitation index, its potential cause and implications to future climate change in the Amazon region Wenhong Li, Rong Fu, Robinson I. Negrón Juárez, and Katia Fernandes PMCID: PMC2373881 Interactions between rainfall, deforestation and fires during recent years in the Brazilian Amazonia Luiz Eduardo O.C Aragão, Yadvinder Malhi, Nicolas Barbier, Andre Lima, Yosio Shimabukuro, Liana Anderson, and Sassan Saatchi PMCID: PMC2373892 Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest Jos Barlow and Carlos A Peres PMCID: PMC2373873 Fire, climate change and biodiversity in Amazonia: a Late-Holocene perspective M.B Bush, M.R Silman, C McMichael, and S Saatchi PMCID: PMC2373879 Human dimensions of climate change: the vulnerability of small farmers in the Amazon Eduardo S Brondizio and Emilio F Moran PMCID: PMC2374891 Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology of tropical forest trees Jon Lloyd and Graham D Farquhar PMCID: PMC2374913 The changing Amazon forest Oliver L Phillips, Simon L Lewis, Timothy R Baker, Kuo-Jung Chao, and Niro Higuchi PMCID: PMC2374914 Impact of a drier Early–Mid-Holocene climate upon Amazonian forests Francis E Mayle and Mitchell J Power PMCID: PMC2374889 Drought effects on litterfall, wood production and belowground carbon cycling in an Amazon forest: results of a throughfall reduction experiment Paulo M Brando, Daniel C Nepstad, Eric A Davidson, Susan E Trumbore, David Ray, and Plínio Camargo PMCID: PMC2374907 The fate of assimilated carbon during drought: impacts on respiration in Amazon rainforests P Meir, D.B Metcalfe, A.C.L Costa, and R.A Fisher PMCID: PMC2374890 Towards quantifying uncertainty in predictions of Amazon ‘dieback’ Chris Huntingford, Rosie A Fisher, Lina Mercado, Ben B.B Booth, Stephen Sitch, Phil P Harris, Peter M Cox, Chris D Jones, Richard A Betts, Yadvinder Malhi, Glen R Harris, Mat Collins, and Paul Moorcroft PMCID: PMC2374898 Water recycling by Amazonian vegetation: coupled versus uncoupled vegetation–climate interactions S.A Cowling, Y Shin, E Pinto, and C.D Jones PMCID: PMC2374916 Effects of large-scale Amazon forest degradation on climate and air quality through fluxes of carbon dioxide, water, energy, mineral dust and isoprene Richard Betts, Michael Sanderson, and Stephanie Woodward PMCID: PMC2375954 Conservation strategies to mitigate impacts from climate change in Amazonia Timothy J Killeen and Luis A Solórzano PMCID: PMC2375951 Road building, land use and climate change: prospects for environmental governance in the Amazon Stephen Perz, Silvia Brilhante, Foster Brown, Marcellus Caldas, Santos Ikeda, Elsa Mendoza, Christine Overdevest, Vera Reis, Juan Fernando Reyes, Daniel Rojas, Marianne Schmink, Carlos Souza, and Robert Walker PMCID: PMC2375950 Environmental policy-making networks and the future of the Amazon Maria Carmen Lemos and J. Timmons Roberts PMCID: PMC2375956 Taking things public: a contribution to address human dimensions of environmental change Diógenes S Alves PMCID: PMC2375952 Navigating Amazonia under uncertainty: past, present and future environmental governance Emily Boyd PMCID: PMC2375953 Generating carbon finance through avoided deforestation and its potential to create climatic, conservation and human development benefits Johannes Ebeling and Maï Yasué PMCID: PMC2610211 Better RED than dead: paying the people for environmental services in Amazonia Anthony Hall PMCID: PMC2375955 Introduction. Integration of ecology and endocrinology in avian reproduction: a new synthesis John C Wingfield, Tony D Williams, and Marcel E Visser PMCID: PMC2394566 Sources of individual variation in plasma testosterone levels Bart Kempenaers, Anne Peters, and Katharina Foerster PMCID: PMC2367619 Introduction. The boreal forest and global change K.E Ruckstuhl, E.A Johnson, and K Miyanishi PMCID: PMC2387060 The Croonian lecture 2006 Structure of the living cell Iain D Campbell PMCID: PMC1955230 |
