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Volume 5(5);  May 2007
Book Review/Science in the Media
A Cultural and Natural History of the Fly
Andreas Keller
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e135. Published online 2007 May 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050135.
PMCID: PMC1868069
Correspondence
Evidence of a Large-Scale Functional Organization of Mammalian Chromosomes
Petko M Petkov, Joel H Graber, Gary A Churchill, Keith DiPetrillo, Benjamin L King, and Kenneth Paigen
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e127. Published online 2007 May 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050127.
PMCID: PMC1868061
Evidence of a Large-Scale Functional Organization of Mammalian Chromosomes: Authors' Reply
Sagiv Shifman, Jordana Tzenova Bell, Richard R Copley, Martin S Taylor, Richard Mott, Jonathan Flint, and Robert W Williams
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e128. Published online 2007 May 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050128.
PMCID: PMC1868062
Synopses
Non-Random Chromosome Segregation in Stem Cells
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e125. Published online 2007 April 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050125.
PMCID: PMC1852587
When Bacteria Lose a Single DNA Base, Aphids Suffer
Mary Hoff
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e126. Published online 2007 April 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050126.
PMCID: PMC1847844
Novel Technique Shows When the Fertilized Egg’s Genome Comes into Its Own
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e131. Published online 2007 April 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050131.
PMCID: PMC1854913
Can a Taste for Poison Drive Speciation?
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e140. Published online 2007 April 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050140.
PMCID: PMC1854915
Essays
The Failure of Environmental Education (and How We Can Fix It)
Daniel T Blumstein and Charlie Saylan
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e120. Published online 2007 April 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050120.
PMCID: PMC1847843
Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition
Lori Marino, Richard C Connor, R. Ewan Fordyce, Louis M Herman, Patrick R Hof, Louis Lefebvre, David Lusseau, Brenda McCowan, Esther A Nimchinsky, Adam A Pack, Luke Rendell, Joy S Reidenberg, Diana Reiss, Mark D Uhen, Estel Van der Gucht, and Hal Whitehead
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e139. Published online 2007 May 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050139.
PMCID: PMC1868071
Feature
Survival of the Likeliest?
John Whitfield
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e142. Published online 2007 May 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050142.
PMCID: PMC1868074
Community Page
The Undergraduate Genomics Research Initiative
Cheryl A Kerfeld and Robert W Simons
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e141. Published online 2007 May 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050141.
PMCID: PMC1868073
Research Articles
Aphid Thermal Tolerance Is Governed by a Point Mutation in Bacterial Symbionts
Helen E Dunbar, Alex C. C Wilson, Nicole R Ferguson, and Nancy A Moran
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e96. Published online 2007 April 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050096.
PMCID: PMC1847839
Structural and Chemical Profiling of the Human Cytosolic Sulfotransferases
Abdellah Allali-Hassani, Patricia W Pan, Ludmila Dombrovski, Rafael Najmanovich, Wolfram Tempel, Aiping Dong, Peter Loppnau, Fernando Martin, Janet Thonton, Aled M Edwards, Alexey Bochkarev, Alexander N Plotnikov, Masoud Vedadi, and Cheryl H Arrowsmith
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e97. Published online 2007 April 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050097.
PMCID: PMC1847840
Object-Oriented Echo Perception and Cortical Representation in Echolocating Bats
Uwe Firzlaff, Maike Schuchmann, Jan E Grunwald, Gerd Schuller, and Lutz Wiegrebe
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e100. Published online 2007 April 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050100.
PMCID: PMC1847841
High Incidence of Non-Random Template Strand Segregation and Asymmetric Fate Determination In Dividing Stem Cells and their Progeny
Michael J Conboy, Ariela O Karasov, and Thomas A Rando
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e102. Published online 2007 April 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050102.
PMCID: PMC1852584
A Dominant, Recombination-Defective Allele of Dmc1 Causing Male-Specific Sterility
Laura A Bannister, Roberto J Pezza, Janet R Donaldson, Dirk G de Rooij, Kerry J Schimenti, R. Daniel Camerini-Otero, and John C Schimenti
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e105. Published online 2007 April 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050105.
PMCID: PMC1847842
Peptides Encoded by Short ORFs Control Development and Define a New Eukaryotic Gene Family
Máximo Ibo Galindo, José Ignacio Pueyo, Sylvaine Fouix, Sarah Anne Bishop, and Juan Pablo Couso
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e106. Published online 2007 April 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050106.
PMCID: PMC1852585
Selective Translational Repression of Truncated Proteins from Frameshift Mutation-Derived mRNAs in Tumors
Kwon Tae You, Long Shan Li, Nam-Gyun Kim, Hyun Ju Kang, Kwi Hye Koh, Yong-Joon Chwae, Kyoung Mi Kim, Yoon Ki Kim, Sung Mi Park, Sung Key Jang, and Hoguen Kim
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e109. Published online 2007 April 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050109.
PMCID: PMC1854916
Mitochondrial Dysfunction Accounts for the Stochastic Heterogeneity in Telomere-Dependent Senescence
João F Passos, Gabriele Saretzki, Shaheda Ahmed, Glyn Nelson, Torsten Richter, Heiko Peters, Ilka Wappler, Matthew J Birket, Graham Harold, Karin Schaeuble, Mark A Birch-Machin, Thomas B. L Kirkwood, and Thomas von Zglinicki
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e110. Published online 2007 May 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050110.
PMCID: PMC1858712
From Parasite to Mutualist: Rapid Evolution of Wolbachia in Natural Populations of Drosophila
Andrew R Weeks, Michael Turelli, William R Harcombe, K. Tracy Reynolds, and Ary A Hoffmann
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e114. Published online 2007 April 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050114.
PMCID: PMC1852586
Unmasking Activation of the Zygotic Genome Using Chromosomal Deletions in the Drosophila Embryo
Stefano De Renzis, Olivier Elemento, Saeed Tavazoie, and Eric F Wieschaus
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e117. Published online 2007 April 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050117.
PMCID: PMC1854917
Odorant-Binding Proteins OBP57d and OBP57e Affect Taste Perception and Host-Plant Preference in Drosophila sechellia
Takashi Matsuo, Shigeru Sugaya, Jyunichiro Yasukawa, Toshiro Aigaki, and Yoshiaki Fuyama
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e118. Published online 2007 April 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050118.
PMCID: PMC1854911
Imaging the Impact of Cortical Microcirculation on Synaptic Structure and Sensory-Evoked Hemodynamic Responses In Vivo
Shengxiang Zhang and Timothy H Murphy
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e119. Published online 2007 April 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050119.
PMCID: PMC1854912
Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of Selective Ion Binding in a K+ Channel
Steve W Lockless, Ming Zhou, and Roderick MacKinnon
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e121. Published online 2007 May 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050121.
PMCID: PMC1858713
Cyclin B1–Cdk1 Activation Continues after Centrosome Separation to Control Mitotic Progression
Arne Lindqvist, Wouter van Zon, Christina Karlsson Rosenthal, and Rob M. F Wolthuis
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e123. Published online 2007 May 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050123.
PMCID: PMC1858714
Whole-Genome Analysis of Histone H3 Lysine 27 Trimethylation in Arabidopsis
Xiaoyu Zhang, Oliver Clarenz, Shawn Cokus, Yana V Bernatavichute, Matteo Pellegrini, Justin Goodrich, and Steven E Jacobsen
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e129. Published online 2007 April 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050129.
PMCID: PMC1852588
Distinct Functions for Different scl Isoforms in Zebrafish Primitive and Definitive Hematopoiesis
Feng Qian, Fenghua Zhen, Jin Xu, Mei Huang, Wanyu Li, and Zilong Wen
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e132. Published online 2007 May 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050132.
PMCID: PMC1858710
Gamma Oscillations in Human Primary Somatosensory Cortex Reflect Pain Perception
Joachim Gross, Alfons Schnitzler, Lars Timmermann, and Markus Ploner
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e133. Published online 2007 April 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050133.
PMCID: PMC1854914
A Helical Structural Nucleus Is the Primary Elongating Unit of Insulin Amyloid Fibrils
Bente Vestergaard, Minna Groenning, Manfred Roessle, Jette S Kastrup, Marco van de Weert, James M Flink, Sven Frokjaer, Michael Gajhede, and Dmitri I Svergun
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e134. Published online 2007 May 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050134.
PMCID: PMC1858711
Corrections
Correction: Does Bacteriophage [var phi]29 Pack Its DNA with a Twist?
Mary Hoff
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e130. Published online 2007 May 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050130.
PMCID: PMC1868064
Corrects: Mary Hoff. Does Bacteriophage ϕ29 Pack Its DNA with a Twist? PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e91.
Correction: Retinal Ganglion Cells Can Rapidly Change Polarity from Off to On
Maria Neimark Geffen, Saskia E. J de Vries, and Markus Meister
PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e136. Published online 2007 May 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050136.
PMCID: PMC1868070
Corrects: Maria Neimark Geffen, et al. Retinal Ganglion Cells Can Rapidly Change Polarity from Off to On . PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e65.
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