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Volume 6(5);  May 2008
Book Review/Science in the Media
The Allure of the Few
Barry W Brook
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e127. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060127.
PMCID: PMC2386843
Perspectives
The Challenge of Conserving Amphibian Megadiversity in Madagascar
Franco Andreone, Angus I Carpenter, Neil Cox, Louis du Preez, Karen Freeman, Samuel Furrer, Gerardo Garcia, Frank Glaw, Julian Glos, David Knox, Jörn Köhler, Joseph R Mendelson, III, Vincenzo Mercurio, Russell A Mittermeier, Robin D Moore, Nirhy H. C Rabibisoa, Herilala Randriamahazo, Harison Randrianasolo, Noromalala Rasoamampionona Raminosoa, Olga Ravoahangimalala Ramilijaona, Christopher J Raxworthy, Denis Vallan, Miguel Vences, David R Vieites, and Ché Weldon
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e118. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060118.
PMCID: PMC2365978
The Case of Deborah Rice: Who Is the Environmental Protection Agency Protecting?
Herbert L Needleman
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e129. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060129.
PMCID: PMC2430913
Synopses
Birds Do It, Bees Do It, but Candida albicans Does It Differently
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e121. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060121.
PMCID: PMC2365979
When Skin Damage Causes Death
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e133. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060133.
PMCID: PMC2430916
Sniffing Out the Right Address
Rachel Jones
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e134. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060134.
PMCID: PMC2430917
Essay
Evolution and Creationism in America's Classrooms: A National Portrait
Michael B Berkman, Julianna Sandell Pacheco, and Eric Plutzer
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e124. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060124.
PMCID: PMC2386841
Unsolved Mystery
Sperm Sociality: Cooperation, Altruism, and Spite
Tommaso Pizzari and Kevin R Foster
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e130. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060130.
PMCID: PMC2430914
Primer
Man versus Machine versus Ribozyme
Andrew D Ellington
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e132. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060132.
PMCID: PMC2430915
Community Page
Interesting Structures: Education and Outreach at the RCSB Protein Data Bank
Christine Zardecki
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e117. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060117.
PMCID: PMC2365977
Research Articles
Biogenesis of the Trypanosome Endo-Exocytotic Organelle Is Cytoskeleton Mediated
Mélanie Bonhivers, Sophie Nowacki, Nicolas Landrein, and Derrick R Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e105. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060105.
PMCID: PMC2365980
Mapping the Genetic Architecture of Gene Expression in Human Liver
Eric E Schadt, Cliona Molony, Eugene Chudin, Ke Hao, Xia Yang, Pek Y Lum, Andrew Kasarskis, Bin Zhang, Susanna Wang, Christine Suver, Jun Zhu, Joshua Millstein, Solveig Sieberts, John Lamb, Debraj GuhaThakurta, Jonathan Derry, John D Storey, Iliana Avila-Campillo, Mark J Kruger, Jason M Johnson, Carol A Rohl, Atila van Nas, Margarete Mehrabian, Thomas A Drake, Aldons J Lusis, Ryan C Smith, F. Peter Guengerich, Stephen C Strom, Erin Schuetz, Thomas H Rushmore, and Roger Ulrich
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e107. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060107.
PMCID: PMC2365981
Allele-Specific Up-Regulation of FGFR2 Increases Susceptibility to Breast Cancer
Kerstin B Meyer, Ana-Teresa Maia, Martin O'Reilly, Andrew E Teschendorff, Suet-Feung Chin, Carlos Caldas, and Bruce A. J Ponder
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e108. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060108.
PMCID: PMC2365982
Genetic and Physiologic Dissection of the Vertebrate Cardiac Conduction System
Neil C Chi, Robin M Shaw, Benno Jungblut, Jan Huisken, Tania Ferrer, Rima Arnaout, Ian Scott, Dimitris Beis, Tong Xiao, Herwig Baier, Lily Y Jan, Martin Tristani-Firouzi, and Didier Y. R Stainier
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e109. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060109.
PMCID: PMC2430899
The Parasexual Cycle in Candida albicans Provides an Alternative Pathway to Meiosis for the Formation of Recombinant Strains
Anja Forche, Kevin Alby, Dana Schaefer, Alexander D Johnson, Judith Berman, and Richard J Bennett
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e110. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060110.
PMCID: PMC2365976
Distinct DNA Exit and Packaging Portals in the Virus Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus
Nathan Zauberman, Yael Mutsafi, Daniel Ben Halevy, Eyal Shimoni, Eugenia Klein, Chuan Xiao, Siyang Sun, and Abraham Minsky
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e114. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060114.
PMCID: PMC2430901
Topography of Thalamic Projections Requires Attractive and Repulsive Functions of Netrin-1 in the Ventral Telencephalon
Ashton W Powell, Takayuki Sassa, Yongqin Wu, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, and Franck Polleux
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e116. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060116.
PMCID: PMC2584572
Circadian Transcription Contributes to Core Period Determination in Drosophila
Sebastian Kadener, Jerome S Menet, Rebecca Schoer, and Michael Rosbash
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e119. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060119.
PMCID: PMC2386838
Nongenetic Individuality in the Host–Phage Interaction
Sivan Pearl, Chana Gabay, Roy Kishony, Amos Oppenheim, and Nathalie Q Balaban
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e120. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060120.
PMCID: PMC2386839
Resource Heterogeneity Moderates the Biodiversity-Function Relationship in Real World Ecosystems
Jason M Tylianakis, Tatyana A Rand, Ansgar Kahmen, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Nina Buchmann, Jörg Perner, and Teja Tscharntke
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e122. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060122.
PMCID: PMC2386840
Notch-Deficient Skin Induces a Lethal Systemic B-Lymphoproliferative Disorder by Secreting TSLP, a Sentinel for Epidermal Integrity
Shadmehr Demehri, Zhenyi Liu, Jonghyeob Lee, Meei-Hua Lin, Seth D Crosby, Christopher J Roberts, Perry W Grigsby, Jeffrey H Miner, Andrew G Farr, and Raphael Kopan
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e123. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060123.
PMCID: PMC2430908
A Regulatory Code for Neuron-Specific Odor Receptor Expression
Anandasankar Ray, Wynand van der Goes van Naters, and John R Carlson
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e125. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060125.
PMCID: PMC2430909
Low-Level Information and High-Level Perception: The Case of Speech in Noise
Mor Nahum, Israel Nelken, and Merav Ahissar
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e126. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060126.
PMCID: PMC2386842
Raf Activation Is Regulated by Tyrosine 510 Phosphorylation in Drosophila
Fan Xia, Jinghong Li, Gavin W Hickey, Amy Tsurumi, Kimberly Larson, Dongdong Guo, Shian-Jang Yan, Louis Silver-Morse, and Willis X Li
PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e128. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060128.
PMCID: PMC2386837
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