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Volume 5(4);  April 2007
Book Review/Science in the Media
Big Pharma (The Play)
Lisa Bero
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e104. Published online 2007 April 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050104.
PMCID: PMC1852147
Correspondence
An Incentive Solution to the Peer Review Problem
Marc Hauser and Ernst Fehr
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e107. Published online 2007 April 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050107.
PMCID: PMC1852148
Editorial
Does Medicine without Evolution Make Sense?
Catriona J MacCallum
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e112. Published online 2007 April 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050112.
PMCID: PMC1852151
Synopses
From One to Many and Back Again: A Systemic Signal Triggers Tunicate Regeneration
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e98. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050098.
PMCID: PMC1808483
Who Needs Sex (or Males) Anyway?
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e99. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050099.
PMCID: PMC1828146
Paradox Resolved? The Strange Case of the Radiation-Resistant Bacteria
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e108. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050108.
PMCID: PMC1828147
In the Shadows of the Congo Basin Forest, Elephants Fall to the Illegal Ivory Trade
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e115. Published online 2007 April 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050115.
PMCID: PMC1845160
Essays
Law, Responsibility, and the Brain
Dean Mobbs, Hakwan C Lau, Owen D Jones, and Christopher D Frith
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e103. Published online 2007 April 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050103.
PMCID: PMC1852146
The Genetics of Brain Wiring: From Molecule to Mind
Kevin J Mitchell
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e113. Published online 2007 April 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050113.
PMCID: PMC1852152
Research Articles
Cdk5 Is Involved in BDNF-Stimulated Dendritic Growth in Hippocampal Neurons
Zelda H Cheung, Wing Hong Chin, Yu Chen, Yu Pong Ng, and Nancy Y Ip
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e63. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050063.
PMCID: PMC1808488
Expanding the Neuron's Calcium Signaling Repertoire: Intracellular Calcium Release via Voltage-Induced PLC and IP3R Activation
Stefanie Ryglewski, Hans J Pflueger, and Carsten Duch
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e66. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050066.
PMCID: PMC1808487
The Prethalamus Is Established during Gastrulation and Influences Diencephalic Regionalization
Nicole Staudt and Corinne Houart
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e69. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050069.
PMCID: PMC1808486
Two Oppositely Localised Frizzled RNAs as Axis Determinants in a Cnidarian Embryo
Tsuyoshi Momose and Evelyn Houliston
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e70. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050070.
PMCID: PMC1820609
Systemic Bud Induction and Retinoic Acid Signaling Underlie Whole Body Regeneration in the Urochordate Botrylloides leachi
Yuval Rinkevich, Guy Paz, Baruch Rinkevich, and Ram Reshef
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e71. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050071.
PMCID: PMC1808485
Modification of a Hydrophobic Layer by a Point Mutation in Syntaxin 1A Regulates the Rate of Synaptic Vesicle Fusion
Robert D Lagow, Hong Bao, Evan N Cohen, Richard W Daniels, Aleksej Zuzek, Wade H Williams, Gregory T Macleod, R. Bryan Sutton, and Bing Zhang
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e72. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050072.
PMCID: PMC1808484
Enhancement of SMN2 Exon 7 Inclusion by Antisense Oligonucleotides Targeting the Exon
Yimin Hua, Timothy A Vickers, Brenda F Baker, C. Frank Bennett, and Adrian R Krainer
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e73. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050073.
PMCID: PMC1820610
Superfamily Assignments for the Yeast Proteome through Integration of Structure Prediction with the Gene Ontology
Lars Malmström, Michael Riffle, Charlie E. M Strauss, Dylan Chivian, Trisha N Davis, Richard Bonneau, and David Baker
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e76. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050076.
PMCID: PMC1828141
Glucocorticoids Play a Key Role in Circadian Cell Cycle Rhythms
Thomas Dickmeis, Kajori Lahiri, Gabriela Nica, Daniela Vallone, Cristina Santoriello, Carl J Neumann, Matthias Hammerschmidt, and Nicholas S Foulkes
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e78. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050078.
PMCID: PMC1828142
An Aromatic Sensor with Aversion to Damaged Strands Confers Versatility to DNA Repair
Olivier Maillard, Szilvia Solyom, and Hanspeter Naegeli
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e79. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050079.
PMCID: PMC1820611
DNA-Dependent Protein Kinase Inhibits AID-Induced Antibody Gene Conversion
Adam J. L Cook, Joanna M Raftery, K. K. Edwin Lau, Andrew Jessup, Reuben S Harris, Shunichi Takeda, and Christopher J Jolly
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e80. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050080.
PMCID: PMC1820612
H2A.Z-Mediated Localization of Genes at the Nuclear Periphery Confers Epigenetic Memory of Previous Transcriptional State
Donna Garvey Brickner, Ivelisse Cajigas, Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf, Sara Ahmed, Pei-Chih Lee, Jonathan Widom, and Jason H Brickner
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e81. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050081.
PMCID: PMC1828143
Independently Evolving Species in Asexual Bdelloid Rotifers
Diego Fontaneto, Elisabeth A Herniou, Chiara Boschetti, Manuela Caprioli, Giulio Melone, Claudia Ricci, and Timothy G Barraclough
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e87. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050087.
PMCID: PMC1828144
Transcript Specificity in Yeast Pre-mRNA Splicing Revealed by Mutations in Core Spliceosomal Components
Jeffrey A Pleiss, Gregg B Whitworth, Megan Bergkessel, and Christine Guthrie
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e90. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050090.
PMCID: PMC1831718
Protein Oxidation Implicated as the Primary Determinant of Bacterial Radioresistance
Michael J Daly, Elena K Gaidamakova, Vera Y Matrosova, Alexander Vasilenko, Min Zhai, Richard D Leapman, Barry Lai, Bruce Ravel, Shu-Mei W Li, Kenneth M Kemner, and James K Fredrickson
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e92. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050092.
PMCID: PMC1828145
Elucidating the Ticking of an In Vitro Circadian Clockwork
Tetsuya Mori, Dewight R Williams, Mark O Byrne, Ximing Qin, Martin Egli, Hassane S Mchaourab, Phoebe L Stewart, and Carl Hirschie Johnson
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e93. Published online 2007 March 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050093.
PMCID: PMC1831719
Understanding the Evolutionary Fate of Finite Populations: The Dynamics of Mutational Effects
Olin K Silander, Olivier Tenaillon, and Lin Chao
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e94. Published online 2007 April 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050094.
PMCID: PMC1845161
Intramolecular and Intermolecular Interactions of Protein Kinase B Define Its Activation In Vivo
Véronique Calleja, Damien Alcor, Michel Laguerre, Jongsun Park, Borivoj Vojnovic, Brian A Hemmings, Julian Downward, Peter J Parker, and Banafshé Larijani
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e95. Published online 2007 April 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050095.
PMCID: PMC1845162
Survey Sequencing and Comparative Analysis of the Elephant Shark (Callorhinchus milii) Genome
Byrappa Venkatesh, Ewen F Kirkness, Yong-Hwee Loh, Aaron L Halpern, Alison P Lee, Justin Johnson, Nidhi Dandona, Lakshmi D Viswanathan, Alice Tay, J. Craig Venter, Robert L Strausberg, and Sydney Brenner
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e101. Published online 2007 April 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050101.
PMCID: PMC1845163
Forest Elephant Crisis in the Congo Basin
Stephen Blake, Samantha Strindberg, Patrick Boudjan, Calixte Makombo, Inogwabini Bila-Isia, Omari Ilambu, Falk Grossmann, Lambert Bene-Bene, Bruno de Semboli, Valentin Mbenzo, Dino S'hwa, Rosine Bayogo, Liz Williamson, Mike Fay, John Hart, and Fiona Maisels
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e111. Published online 2007 April 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050111.
PMCID: PMC1845159
Fly Photoreceptors Demonstrate Energy-Information Trade-Offs in Neural Coding
Jeremy E Niven, John C Anderson, and Simon B Laughlin
PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e116. Published online 2007 March 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050116.
PMCID: PMC1828148
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