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Volume 5(7);  July 2007
Correspondence
Spurious or Island Effect? A Response to J. A. Pérez-Claros and J. C. Aledo's Comment on “Morphological Evolution Is Accelerated among Island Mammals”
Virginie Millien
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e176. Published online 2007 July 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050176.
PMCID: PMC1914391
Comment on “Morphological Evolution Is Accelerated among Island Mammals”
Juan Antonio Pérez-Claros and Juan Carlos Aledo
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e180. Published online 2007 July 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050180.
PMCID: PMC1914395
Editorial
New Taxonomy and the Origin of Species
Shai Meiri and Georgina M Mace
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e194. Published online 2007 July 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050194.
PMCID: PMC1914406
Synopses
All Together Now: Pancreatic β Cells Don’t Rely on a Few to Renew
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e186. Published online 2007 June 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050186.
PMCID: PMC1891323
Microbes Colonize a Baby’s Gut with Distinction
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e191. Published online 2007 June 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050191.
PMCID: PMC1896185
Human Gut Hosts a Dynamically Evolving Microbial Ecosystem
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e199. Published online 2007 June 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050199.
PMCID: PMC1892576
Revealing the Poliovirus’s Path to Infection
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e205. Published online 2007 July 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050205.
PMCID: PMC1913095
Essays
Stoichiometry and the New Biology: The Future Is Now
James J Elser and Andrew Hamilton
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e181. Published online 2007 July 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050181.
PMCID: PMC1914396
Babies, Bottles, and Bisphenol A: The Story of a Scientist-Mother
Aimee Quitmeyer and Rebecca Roberts
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e200. Published online 2007 July 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050200.
PMCID: PMC1914410
Feature
The Toxic Origins of Disease
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e193. Published online 2007 June 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050193.
PMCID: PMC1896186
Primer
With a Little Help from a Friend
Frans B. M de Waal
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e190. Published online 2007 July 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050190.
PMCID: PMC1914404
Mitochondrial Cell Death Control in Familial Parkinson Disease
Guido Kroemer and Klas Blomgren
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e206. Published online 2007 July 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050206.
PMCID: PMC1914412
Research Articles
Evolution of Symbiotic Bacteria in the Distal Human Intestine
Jian Xu, Michael A Mahowald, Ruth E Ley, Catherine A Lozupone, Micah Hamady, Eric C Martens, Bernard Henrissat, Pedro M Coutinho, Patrick Minx, Philippe Latreille, Holland Cordum, Andrew Van Brunt, Kyung Kim, Robert S Fulton, Lucinda A Fulton, Sandra W Clifton, Richard K Wilson, Robin D Knight, and Jeffrey I Gordon
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e156. Published online 2007 June 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050156.
PMCID: PMC1892571
All β Cells Contribute Equally to Islet Growth and Maintenance
Kristen Brennand, Danwei Huangfu, and Doug Melton
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e163. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050163.
PMCID: PMC1877817
Comparison of C. elegans and C. briggsae Genome Sequences Reveals Extensive Conservation of Chromosome Organization and Synteny
LaDeana W Hillier, Raymond D Miller, Scott E Baird, Asif Chinwalla, Lucinda A Fulton, Daniel C Koboldt, and Robert H Waterston
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e167. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050167.
PMCID: PMC1914384
The Spindle Pole Bodies Facilitate Nuclear Envelope Division during Closed Mitosis in Fission Yeast
Liling Zheng, Cindi Schwartz, Valentin Magidson, Alexey Khodjakov, and Snezhana Oliferenko
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e170. Published online 2007 June 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050170.
PMCID: PMC1892572
A New Approach for Using Genome Scans to Detect Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome
Kun Tang, Kevin R Thornton, and Mark Stoneking
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e171. Published online 2007 June 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050171.
PMCID: PMC1892573
PINK1 Protects against Oxidative Stress by Phosphorylating Mitochondrial Chaperone TRAP1
Julia W Pridgeon, James A Olzmann, Lih-Shen Chin, and Lian Li
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e172. Published online 2007 June 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050172.
PMCID: PMC1892574
Auditory Cortical Detection and Discrimination Correlates with Communicative Significance
Robert C Liu and Christoph E Schreiner
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e173. Published online 2007 June 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050173.
PMCID: PMC1891324
Epigenetic Natural Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Matthew W Vaughn, Miloš Tanurdžić, Zachary Lippman, Hongmei Jiang, Robert Carrasquillo, Pablo D Rabinowicz, Neilay Dedhia, W. Richard McCombie, Nicolas Agier, Agnès Bulski, Vincent Colot, R.W Doerge, and Robert A Martienssen
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e174. Published online 2007 June 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050174.
PMCID: PMC1892575
Development of the Human Infant Intestinal Microbiota
Chana Palmer, Elisabeth M Bik, Daniel B DiGiulio, David A Relman, and Patrick O Brown
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e177. Published online 2007 June 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050177.
PMCID: PMC1896187
Topological Reorganization of Odor Representations in the Olfactory Bulb
Emre Yaksi, Benjamin Judkewitz, and Rainer W Friedrich
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e178. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050178.
PMCID: PMC1904499
Rb-Mediated Neuronal Differentiation through Cell-Cycle–Independent Regulation of E2f3a
Danian Chen, Rene Opavsky, Marek Pacal, Naoyuki Tanimoto, Pamela Wenzel, Mathias W Seeliger, Gustavo Leone, and Rod Bremner
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e179. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050179.
PMCID: PMC1914394
Imaging Poliovirus Entry in Live Cells
Boerries Brandenburg, Lily Y Lee, Melike Lakadamyali, Michael J Rust, Xiaowei Zhuang, and James M Hogle
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e183. Published online 2007 July 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050183.
PMCID: PMC1914398
Spontaneous Altruism by Chimpanzees and Young Children
Felix Warneken, Brian Hare, Alicia P Melis, Daniel Hanus, and Michael Tomasello
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e184. Published online 2007 June 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050184.
PMCID: PMC1896184
A Dendrite-Autonomous Mechanism for Direction Selectivity in Retinal Starburst Amacrine Cells
Susanne E Hausselt, Thomas Euler, Peter B Detwiler, and Winfried Denk
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e185. Published online 2007 July 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050185.
PMCID: PMC1906843
The Functional Microarchitecture of the Mouse Barrel Cortex
Takashi R Sato, Noah W Gray, Zachary F Mainen, and Karel Svoboda
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e189. Published online 2007 July 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050189.
PMCID: PMC1914403
Generalized Reciprocity in Rats
Claudia Rutte and Michael Taborsky
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e196. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050196.
PMCID: PMC1914408
Corrections
Correction: 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 July; 5(7): e175. Published online 2007 July 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050175.
PMCID: PMC1914390
Corrects: Robert D Lagow, et al. Modification of a Hydrophobic Layer by a Point Mutation in Syntaxin 1A Regulates the Rate of Synaptic Vesicle Fusion . PLoS Biol. 2007 April; 5(4): e72.
Correction: High Incidence of Non-Random Template Strand Segregation and Asymmetric Fate Determination In Dividing Stem Cells and their Progeny
Michael Conboy, Ariela Karasov, and Thomas Rando
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e182. Published online 2007 July 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050182.
PMCID: PMC1914397
Corrects: Michael J Conboy, et al. High Incidence of Non-Random Template Strand Segregation and Asymmetric Fate Determination In Dividing Stem Cells and their Progeny . PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e102.
Correction: Retinal Ganglion Cells Can Rapidly Change Polarity from Off to On
Maria Geffen, Saskia de Vries, and Markus Meister
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e188. Published online 2007 July 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050188.
PMCID: PMC1914402
Corrects: Maria Neimark Geffen, et al. Retinal Ganglion Cells Can Rapidly Change Polarity from Off to On . PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e65.
Correction: Unmasking Activation of the Zygotic Genome Using Chromosomal Deletions in the Drosophila Embryo
Stefano De Renzis, Olivier Elemento, Saeed Tavazoie, and Eric Wieschaus
PLoS Biol. 2007 July; 5(7): e195. Published online 2007 July 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050195.
PMCID: PMC1914407
Corrects: Stefano De Renzis, et al. Unmasking Activation of the Zygotic Genome Using Chromosomal Deletions in the Drosophila Embryo . PLoS Biol. 2007 May; 5(5): e117.
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