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Volume 4(4);  April 2006
Synopses
Mutations Change the Boolean Logic of Gene Regulation
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e64. Published online 2006 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040064.
PMCID: PMC1413573
A New Model for Predicting Outbreaks of West Nile Virus
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e101. Published online 2006 February 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040101.
PMCID: PMC1382013
Intensive Training Reveals Plasticity in the Adult Auditory System
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e104. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040104.
PMCID: PMC1393759
The Sound of Dinner
Françoise Chanut
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e107. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040107.
PMCID: PMC1393760
Resolving the Family Tree of Placental Mammals
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e111. Published online 2006 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040111.
PMCID: PMC1395350
Inefficient Immune Killer Cells Abet HIV Infection
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e114. Published online 2006 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040114.
PMCID: PMC1395355
The Neural Persistence of Memory: Retention Begins While You're Still Awake
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e116. Published online 2006 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040116.
PMCID: PMC1413566
The Education of Mr. T
Caitlin Sedwick
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e117. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040117.
PMCID: PMC1393761
Tuning in to How Neurons Distinguish between Stimuli
Mason Inman
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e118. Published online 2006 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040118.
PMCID: PMC1403157
The Key to Longevity? Having Long-Lived Parents Is a Good Start
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e119. Published online 2006 April 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040119.
PMCID: PMC1413565
Genomics Sheds Light on Metabolism of Cryptic Marine Microbes
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e123. Published online 2006 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040123.
PMCID: PMC1403156
Remnants of the Past or Ready to Move? Resident Birds Display Migratory Restlessness
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e130. Published online 2006 April 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040130.
PMCID: PMC1420643
One Signal, Multiple Pathways: Diversity Comes from the Receptor
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e131. Published online 2006 April 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040131.
PMCID: PMC1420651
What Does Evolution Do with a Spare Set of Genes?
Mary Hoff
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e132. Published online 2006 April 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040132.
PMCID: PMC1420644
What Governs Enzyme Activity? For One Enzyme, Charge Contributes Only Weakly
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e133. Published online 2006 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040133.
PMCID: PMC1413572
Essay
Money for Nothing? A Call for Empirical Evaluation of Biodiversity Conservation Investments
Paul J Ferraro and Subhrendu K Pattanayak
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e105. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040105.
PMCID: PMC1435411
Book Review/Science in the Media
Sour Grapes
William Foster
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e102. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040102.
PMCID: PMC1435410
Primer
How Do Neurons Look at the World?
Sara A Solla
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e122. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040122.
PMCID: PMC1435412
Community Page
BGEM: An In Situ Hybridization Database of Gene Expression in the Embryonic and Adult Mouse Nervous System
Susan Magdaleno, Patricia Jensen, Craig L Brumwell, Anna Seal, Karen Lehman, Andrew Asbury, Tony Cheung, Tommie Cornelius, Diana M Batten, Christopher Eden, Shannon M Norland, Dennis S Rice, Nilesh Dosooye, Sundeep Shakya, Perdeep Mehta, and Tom Curran
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e86. Published online 2006 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040086.
PMCID: PMC1413568
Keeping Tabs on the Women: Life Scientists in Europe
Karla M Neugebauer
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e97. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040097.
PMCID: PMC1435409
Research Articles
Plasticity of the cis-Regulatory Input Function of a Gene
Avraham E Mayo, Yaakov Setty, Seagull Shavit, Alon Zaslaver, and Uri Alon
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e45. Published online 2006 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040045.
PMCID: PMC1413569
Training-Induced Plasticity of Auditory Localization in Adult Mammals
Oliver Kacelnik, Fernando R Nodal, Carl H Parsons, and Andrew J King
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e71. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040071.
PMCID: PMC1393755
Active Listening for Spatial Orientation in a Complex Auditory Scene
Cynthia F Moss, Kari Bohn, Hannah Gilkenson, and Annemarie Surlykke
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e79. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040079.
PMCID: PMC1393756
West Nile Virus Epidemics in North America Are Driven by Shifts in Mosquito Feeding Behavior
A. Marm Kilpatrick, Laura D Kramer, Matthew J Jones, Peter P Marra, and Peter Daszak
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e82. Published online 2006 February 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040082.
PMCID: PMC1382011
Inefficient Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte–Mediated Killing of HIV-1–Infected Cells In Vivo
Becca Asquith, Charles T. T Edwards, Marc Lipsitch, and Angela R McLean
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e90. Published online 2006 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040090.
PMCID: PMC1395353
Retroposed Elements as Archives for the Evolutionary History of Placental Mammals
Jan Ole Kriegs, Gennady Churakov, Martin Kiefmann, Ursula Jordan, Jürgen Brosius, and Jürgen Schmitz
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e91. Published online 2006 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040091.
PMCID: PMC1395351
Tuning Curves, Neuronal Variability, and Sensory Coding
Daniel A Butts and Mark S Goldman
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e92. Published online 2006 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040092.
PMCID: PMC1403159
Pathways of Carbon Assimilation and Ammonia Oxidation Suggested by Environmental Genomic Analyses of Marine Crenarchaeota
Steven J Hallam, Tracy J Mincer, Christa Schleper, Christina M Preston, Katie Roberts, Paul M Richardson, and Edward F DeLong
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e95. Published online 2006 March 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040095.
PMCID: PMC1403158
Testing Electrostatic Complementarity in Enzyme Catalysis: Hydrogen Bonding in the Ketosteroid Isomerase Oxyanion Hole
Daniel A Kraut, Paul A Sigala, Brandon Pybus, Corey W Liu, Dagmar Ringe, Gregory A Petsko, and Daniel Herschlag
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e99. Published online 2006 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040099.
PMCID: PMC1413570
Offline Persistence of Memory-Related Cerebral Activity during Active Wakefulness
Philippe Peigneux, Pierre Orban, Evelyne Balteau, Christian Degueldre, André Luxen, Steven Laureys, and Pierre Maquet
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e100. Published online 2006 March 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040100.
PMCID: PMC1413571
IAN Family Critically Regulates Survival and Development of T Lymphocytes
Takeshi Nitta, Mariam Nasreen, Takafumi Seike, Atsushi Goji, Izumi Ohigashi, Tadaaki Miyazaki, Tsutomu Ohta, Masamoto Kanno, and Yousuke Takahama
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e103. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040103.
PMCID: PMC1393758
Functional Partitioning of Yeast Co-Expression Networks after Genome Duplication
Gavin C Conant and Kenneth H Wolfe
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e109. Published online 2006 April 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040109.
PMCID: PMC1420641
Migratory Restlessness in an Equatorial Nonmigratory Bird
Barbara Helm and Eberhard Gwinner
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e110. Published online 2006 April 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040110.
PMCID: PMC1420642
Lipoprotein Genotype and Conserved Pathway for Exceptional Longevity in Humans
Gil Atzmon, Marielisa Rincon, Clyde B Schechter, Alan R Shuldiner, Richard B Lipton, Aviv Bergman, and Nir Barzilai
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e113. Published online 2006 April 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040113.
PMCID: PMC1413567
Purified Wnt5a Protein Activates or Inhibits β-Catenin–TCF Signaling Depending on Receptor Context
Amanda J Mikels and Roel Nusse
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e115. Published online 2006 April 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040115.
PMCID: PMC1420652
Correction
Correction: A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome
Benjamin F Voight, Sridhar Kudaravalli, Xiaoquan Wen, and Jonathan K Pritchard
PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e154. Published online 2006 April 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040154.
PMCID: PMC1435413
Corrects: Benjamin F Voight, et al. A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome. PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e72.
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