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Volume 4(12);  December 2006
Synopses
Mixing Exploitation and Conservation: A Recipe for Disaster
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e418. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040418.
PMCID: PMC1635744
Small Change: Study of Enhancer Supports Evolution Model
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e419. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040419.
PMCID: PMC1635752
Shedding Light on Local Organizational Principles in the Primary Sensory Cortex
Jami Milton Dantzker
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e420. Published online 2006 November 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040420.
PMCID: PMC1637130
A New Theory for the Evolution of Genomic Imprinting
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e421. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040421.
PMCID: PMC1635751
Building a Better Mouse Map
Mary Hoff
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e422. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040422.
PMCID: PMC1635745
Genomic Insights into (Extreme) Life at the Bottom of the Sea
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e425. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040425.
PMCID: PMC1635753
Back to Front in C. elegans
Rachel Jones
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e426. Published online 2006 November 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040426.
PMCID: PMC1637128
Iron Regulation and an Opportunistic AIDS-Related Fungal Infection
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e427. Published online 2006 November 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040427.
PMCID: PMC1637127
For Some Sensory Neurons, Motor Response Shapes Their Output
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e429. Published online 2006 November 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040429.
PMCID: PMC1661686
How to Protect Fly Photoreceptors
Rachel Jones
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e438. Published online 2006 November 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040438.
PMCID: PMC1661687
A Human Taste for Rarity Spells Disaster for Endangered Species
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e439. Published online 2006 November 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040439.
PMCID: PMC1661688
New Mouse Hippocampal Cells Born in Pups and Adults Function Similarly
Mary Hoff
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e441. Published online 2006 November 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040441.
PMCID: PMC1637131
Containing the Damage of Unfolded Proteins
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e442. Published online 2006 November 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040442.
PMCID: PMC1661689
How the Human Brain Detects Unexpected Events
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e443. Published online 2006 November 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040443.
PMCID: PMC1661690
Fishy Cooperation
Frans B. M. de Waal
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e444. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040444.
PMCID: PMC1750934
Reconfirming the Traditional Model of HIV Particle Assembly
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e445. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040445.
PMCID: PMC1750935
Cellular Inheritance
Emma Hill
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e446. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040446.
PMCID: PMC1750936
In the Gut’s Microbial Community, One Plus One Equals Many (Effects)
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e447. Published online 2006 November 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040447.
PMCID: PMC1661691
RNA Silencing Sheds Light on the RNA World
Rachel Jones
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e448. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040448.
PMCID: PMC1750937
Demonstrating the Theory of Ecological Speciation in Cichlids
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e449. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040449.
PMCID: PMC1750938
Essay
Balancing Robustness and Evolvability
Richard E Lenski, Jeffrey E Barrick, and Charles Ofria
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e428. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040428.
PMCID: PMC1750925
Feature
What Is the Hobbit?
Tabitha M Powledge
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e440. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040440.
PMCID: PMC1750933
Primer
How Bacterial Communities Expand Functional Repertoires
James Versalovic and David Relman
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e430. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040430.
PMCID: PMC1750926
Research Articles
Shellfish Dredging Pushes a Flexible Avian Top Predator out of a Marine Protected Area
Jan A van Gils, Theunis Piersma, Anne Dekinga, Bernard Spaans, and Casper Kraan
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e376. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040376.
PMCID: PMC1635749
A Maternal–Offspring Coadaptation Theory for the Evolution of Genomic Imprinting
Jason B Wolf and Reinmar Hager
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e380. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040380.
PMCID: PMC1635750
Interdigitated Paralemniscal and Lemniscal Pathways in the Mouse Barrel Cortex
Ingrid Bureau, Francisca von Saint Paul, and Karel Svoboda
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e382. Published online 2006 November 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040382.
PMCID: PMC1637129
The Genome of Deep-Sea Vent Chemolithoautotroph Thiomicrospira crunogena XCL-2
Kathleen M Scott, Stefan M Sievert, Fereniki N Abril, Lois A Ball, Chantell J Barrett, Rodrigo A Blake, Amanda J Boller, Patrick S. G Chain, Justine A Clark, Carisa R Davis, Chris Detter, Kimberly F Do, Kimberly P Dobrinski, Brandon I Faza, Kelly A Fitzpatrick, Sharyn K Freyermuth, Tara L Harmer, Loren J Hauser, Michael Hügler, Cheryl A Kerfeld, Martin G Klotz, William W Kong, Miriam Land, Alla Lapidus, Frank W Larimer, Dana L Longo, Susan Lucas, Stephanie A Malfatti, Steven E Massey, Darlene D Martin, Zoe McCuddin, Folker Meyer, Jessica L Moore, Luis H Ocampo, Jr., John H Paul, Ian T Paulsen, Douglas K Reep, Qinghu Ren, Rachel L Ross, Priscila Y Sato, Phaedra Thomas, Lance E Tinkham, and Gary T Zeruth
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e383. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040383.
PMCID: PMC1635747
Two or Four Bristles: Functional Evolution of an Enhancer of scute in Drosophilidae
Sylvain Marcellini and Pat Simpson
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e386. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040386.
PMCID: PMC1635746
How Behavioral Constraints May Determine Optimal Sensory Representations
Emilio Salinas
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e387. Published online 2006 November 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040387.
PMCID: PMC1661681
A High-Resolution Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Genetic Map of the Mouse Genome
Sagiv Shifman, Jordana Tzenova Bell, Richard R Copley, Martin S Taylor, Robert W Williams, Richard Mott, and Jonathan Flint
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e395. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040395.
PMCID: PMC1635748
A Posterior Centre Establishes and Maintains Polarity of the Caenorhabditis elegans Embryo by a Wnt-Dependent Relay Mechanism
Marcus Bischoff and Ralf Schnabel
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e396. Published online 2006 November 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040396.
PMCID: PMC1637133
Functional Convergence of Neurons Generated in the Developing and Adult Hippocampus
Diego A Laplagne, M. Soledad Espósito, Verónica C Piatti, Nicolás A Morgenstern, Chunmei Zhao, Henriette van Praag, Fred H Gage, and Alejandro F Schinder
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e409. Published online 2006 November 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040409.
PMCID: PMC1637132
Iron Regulation of the Major Virulence Factors in the AIDS-Associated Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans
Won Hee Jung, Anita Sham, Rick White, and James W Kronstad
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e410. Published online 2006 November 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040410.
PMCID: PMC1637126
Genomic and Metabolic Studies of the Impact of Probiotics on a Model Gut Symbiont and Host
Justin L Sonnenburg, Christina T. L Chen, and Jeffrey I Gordon
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e413. Published online 2006 November 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040413.
PMCID: PMC1661682
Rarity Value and Species Extinction: The Anthropogenic Allee Effect
Franck Courchamp, Elena Angulo, Philippe Rivalan, Richard J Hall, Laetitia Signoret, Leigh Bull, and Yves Meinard
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e415. Published online 2006 November 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040415.
PMCID: PMC1661683
Drosophila NMNAT Maintains Neural Integrity Independent of Its NAD Synthesis Activity
R. Grace Zhai, Yu Cao, P. Robin Hiesinger, Yi Zhou, Sunil Q Mehta, Karen L Schulze, Patrik Verstreken, and Hugo J Bellen
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e416. Published online 2006 November 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040416.
PMCID: PMC1665629
Polarised Asymmetric Inheritance of Accumulated Protein Damage in Higher Eukaryotes
María A Rujano, Floris Bosveld, Florian A Salomons, Freark Dijk, Maria A.W.H van Waarde, Johannes J.L van der Want, Rob A.I de Vos, Ewout R Brunt, Ody C.M Sibon, and Harm H Kampinga
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e417. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040417.
PMCID: PMC1750924
Autophagy Counterbalances Endoplasmic Reticulum Expansion during the Unfolded Protein Response
Sebastián Bernales, Kent L McDonald, and Peter Walter
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e423. Published online 2006 November 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040423.
PMCID: PMC1661684
An Unexpected Sequence of Events: Mismatch Detection in the Human Hippocampus
Dharshan Kumaran and Eleanor A Maguire
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e424. Published online 2006 November 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040424.
PMCID: PMC1661685
Interspecific Communicative and Coordinated Hunting between Groupers and Giant Moray Eels in the Red Sea
Redouan Bshary, Andrea Hohner, Karim Ait-el-Djoudi, and Hans Fricke
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e431. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040431.
PMCID: PMC1750927
Divergent Selection on Opsins Drives Incipient Speciation in Lake Victoria Cichlids
Yohey Terai, Ole Seehausen, Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Shinji Mizoiri, Tohru Sugawara, Tetsu Sato, Masakatsu Watanabe, Nellie Konijnendijk, Hillary D. J Mrosso, Hidenori Tachida, Hiroo Imai, Yoshinori Shichida, and Norihiro Okada
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e433. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040433.
PMCID: PMC1750929
The Structure of an RNAi Polymerase Links RNA Silencing and Transcription
Paula S Salgado, Minni R. L Koivunen, Eugene V Makeyev, Dennis H Bamford, David I Stuart, and Jonathan M Grimes
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e434. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040434.
PMCID: PMC1750930
Plasma Membrane Is the Site of Productive HIV-1 Particle Assembly
Nolwenn Jouvenet, Stuart J. D Neil, Cameron Bess, Marc C Johnson, Cesar A Virgen, Sanford M Simon, and Paul D Bieniasz
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e435. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040435.
PMCID: PMC1750931
Corrections
Correction: A Signaling Network for Patterning of Neuronal Connectivity in the Drosophila Brain
Mohammed Srahna, Maarten Leyssen, Ching Man Choi, Lee Fradkin, Jasprina Noordermeer, and Bassem Hassan
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e432. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040432.
PMCID: PMC1750928
Corrects: Mohammed Srahna, et al. A Signaling Network for Patterning of Neuronal Connectivity in the Drosophila Brain. PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e348.
Correction: Pathways of Carbon Assimilation and Ammonia Oxidation Suggested by Environmental Genomic Analyses of Marine Crenarchaeota
Edward DeLong, Steven Hallam, Tracy Mincer, Christa Schleper, Christina Preston, Katie Roberts, and Paul Richardson
PLoS Biol. 2006 December; 4(12): e437. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040437.
PMCID: PMC1750932
Corrects: Steven J Hallam, et al. Pathways of Carbon Assimilation and Ammonia Oxidation Suggested by Environmental Genomic Analyses of Marine Crenarchaeota . PLoS Biol. 2006 April; 4(4): e95.
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