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Volume 2(5);  May 2004
Editorial
Open Access and Scientific Societies
Helen Doyle, Andy Gass, and Rebecca Kennison
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e156. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020156.
PMCID: PMC406407
Synopses
Small RNA Pathways in Plants
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e107. Published online 2004 February 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020107.
PMCID: PMC350672
Evolutionary History of a Gene Controlling Brain Size
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e134. Published online 2004 March 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020134.
PMCID: PMC374245
A Gene That Directs the Regeneration of Injured Muscle from Adult Stem Cells
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e135. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020135.
PMCID: PMC406395
Depositing a Histone That Protects Active Chromosomal Regions from Silencing
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e136. Published online 2004 March 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020136.
PMCID: PMC374246
A Role for Early Cardiac Function in Cardiac Morphogenesis
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e138. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020138.
PMCID: PMC406396
Single Locus Controls Majority of Armor Evolution in Two Populations of Sticklebacks
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e143. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020143.
PMCID: PMC385220
The Mre11 Protein Is Necessary for DNA Damage Response
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e144. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020144.
PMCID: PMC406399
Neural Induction without Mesoderm in Xenopus
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e149. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020149.
PMCID: PMC406404
Dissecting the Complexities of Glucose Signaling in Yeast
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e151. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020151.
PMCID: PMC406405
Random Processes Underlie Most Evolutionary Changes in Gene Expression
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e154. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020154.
PMCID: PMC406406
Defects in Ribosomal Protein Genes Cause Cancer in Zebrafish
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e159. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020159.
PMCID: PMC406408
Essay
Open Access: A PLoS for Education
A. Malcolm Campbell
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e145. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020145.
PMCID: PMC406400
Features
Small Fish, Big Science
Jane Bradbury
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e148. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020148.
PMCID: PMC406403
The European Research Council—A European Renaissance
Bill O'Neill
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e161. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020161.
PMCID: PMC406409
Unsolved Mystery
The Human Sense of Smell: Are We Better Than We Think?
Gordon M Shepherd
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e146. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020146.
PMCID: PMC406401
Book Review/Science in the Media
Niche Markets
Peter Manning and H. Charles J Godfray
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e147. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020147.
PMCID: PMC406402
Journal Club
Learning to Change
Morten L Kringelbach
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e140. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020140.
PMCID: PMC406398
Primer
Organizing the Vertebrate Embryo—A Balance of Induction and Competence
Igor B Dawid
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e127. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020127.
PMCID: PMC406389
Planting the Seeds of a New Paradigm
Marjori A Matzke and Antonius J. M Matzke
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e133. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020133.
PMCID: PMC406394
Research Articles
Neural Induction in Xenopus: Requirement for Ectodermal and Endomesodermal Signals via Chordin, Noggin, β-Catenin, and Cerberus
Hiroki Kuroda, Oliver Wessely, and E. M. De Robertis
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e92. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020092.
PMCID: PMC406387
Genetic and Functional Diversification of Small RNA Pathways in Plants
Zhixin Xie, Lisa K Johansen, Adam M Gustafson, Kristin D Kasschau, Andrew D Lellis, Daniel Zilberman, Steven E Jacobsen, and James C Carrington
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e104. Published online 2004 February 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020104.
PMCID: PMC350667
The Genetic Architecture of Parallel Armor Plate Reduction in Threespine Sticklebacks
Pamela F Colosimo, Catherine L Peichel, Kirsten Nereng, Benjamin K Blackman, Michael D Shapiro, Dolph Schluter, and David M Kingsley
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e109. Published online 2004 March 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020109.
PMCID: PMC385219
Mre11 Assembles Linear DNA Fragments into DNA Damage Signaling Complexes
Vincenzo Costanzo, Tanya Paull, Max Gottesman, and Jean Gautier
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e110. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020110.
PMCID: PMC406388
Accelerated Evolution of the ASPM Gene Controlling Brain Size Begins Prior to Human Brain Expansion
Natalay Kouprina, Adam Pavlicek, Ganeshwaran H Mochida, Gregory Solomon, William Gersch, Young-Ho Yoon, Randall Collura, Maryellen Ruvolo, J. Carl Barrett, C. Geoffrey Woods, Christopher A Walsh, Jerzy Jurka, and Vladimir Larionov
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e126. Published online 2004 March 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020126.
PMCID: PMC374243
Ras and Gpa2 Mediate One Branch of a Redundant Glucose Signaling Pathway in Yeast
Ying Wang, Michael Pierce, Lisa Schneper, C. Gökçe Güldal, Xiuying Zhang, Saeed Tavazoie, and James R Broach
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e128. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020128.
PMCID: PMC406390
Early Myocardial Function Affects Endocardial Cushion Development in Zebrafish
Thomas Bartman, Emily C Walsh, Kuo-Kuang Wen, Melissa McKane, Jihui Ren, Jonathan Alexander, Peter A Rubenstein, and Didier Y. R Stainier
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e129. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020129.
PMCID: PMC406391
Pax7 Is Necessary and Sufficient for the Myogenic Specification of CD45+:Sca1+ Stem Cells from Injured Muscle
Patrick Seale, Jeff Ishibashi, Anthony Scimè, and Michael A Rudnicki
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e130. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020130.
PMCID: PMC406392
A Protein Complex Containing the Conserved Swi2/Snf2-Related ATPase Swr1p Deposits Histone Variant H2A.Z into Euchromatin
Michael. S Kobor, Shivkumar Venkatasubrahmanyam, Marc D Meneghini, Jennifer W Gin, Jennifer L Jennings, Andrew J Link, Hiten D Madhani, and Jasper Rine
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e131. Published online 2004 March 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020131.
PMCID: PMC374244
A Neutral Model of Transcriptome Evolution
Philipp Khaitovich, Gunter Weiss, Michael Lachmann, Ines Hellmann, Wolfgang Enard, Bjoern Muetzel, Ute Wirkner, Wilhelm Ansorge, and Svante Pääbo
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e132. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020132.
PMCID: PMC406393
Many Ribosomal Protein Genes Are Cancer Genes in Zebrafish
Adam Amsterdam, Kirsten C Sadler, Kevin Lai, Sarah Farrington, Roderick T Bronson, Jacqueline A Lees, and Nancy Hopkins
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e139. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020139.
PMCID: PMC406397
Correction
Correction
PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e201. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020201.
PMCID: PMC406410
Corrects: Correction. PLoS Biol. 2004 May; 2(5): e201.
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