| | Synopsis Secretory Protein mRNA Finds Another Way Out Kira E O'Day PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e330. Published online 2007 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050330.PMCID: PMC2100147 Essays Improving Science Education for Sustainable Development Michiel van Eijck and Wolff-Michael Roth PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e306. Published online 2007 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050306.PMCID: PMC2121113 Filling in the Gaps: Artistic License in Education and Outreach David S Goodsell and Graham T Johnson PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e308. Published online 2007 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050308.PMCID: PMC2121112 Feature Going against the Grain: Overturning the received wisdom of a field takes not just strong evidence, but a strong personality. For one reproductive biologist, only time will tell whether such challenges are worth the risks in today's pressurized research climate. Kendall Powell PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e338. Published online 2007 December 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050338.PMCID: PMC2222977 Unsolved Mystery Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect Mimicry Lars Chittka and Daniel Osorio PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e339. Published online 2007 December 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050339.PMCID: PMC2222978 Primer Molecular Cartography: Mapping the Landscape of Meiotic Recombination Jing Pan and Scott Keeney PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e333. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050333.PMCID: PMC2140090 Out FOXing Parkinson Disease: Where Development Meets Neurodegeneration Eric M Wexler and Daniel H Geschwind PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e334. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050334.PMCID: PMC2140089 Male or Female? The Answer Depends on When You Ask Helen K Salz PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e335. Published online 2007 December 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050335.PMCID: PMC2222974 A Tertiary Twist to the Transglutaminase Tale Frits Koning PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e337. Published online 2007 December 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050337.PMCID: PMC2222976 Sex, Dose, and Equality Brian Oliver PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e340. Published online 2007 December 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050340.PMCID: PMC2222979 Research Articles Incomplete and Inaccurate Vocal Imitation after Knockdown of FoxP2 in Songbird Basal Ganglia Nucleus Area X Sebastian Haesler, Christelle Rochefort, Benjamin Georgi, Pawel Licznerski, Pavel Osten, and Constance Scharff PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e321. Published online 2007 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050321.PMCID: PMC2100148 The Signal Sequence Coding Region Promotes Nuclear Export of mRNA Alexander F Palazzo, Michael Springer, Yoko Shibata, Chung-Sheng Lee, Anusha P Dias, and Tom A Rapoport PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e322. Published online 2007 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050322.PMCID: PMC2100149 The Inhibition of Polo Kinase by Matrimony Maintains G2 Arrest in the Meiotic Cell Cycle Youbin Xiang, Satomi Takeo, Laurence Florens, Stacie E Hughes, Li-Jun Huo, William D Gilliland, Selene K Swanson, Kathy Teeter, Joel W Schwartz, Michael P Washburn, Sue L Jaspersen, and R. Scott Hawley PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e323. Published online 2007 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050323.PMCID: PMC2100146 Mapping Meiotic Single-Strand DNA Reveals a New Landscape of DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cyril Buhler, Valérie Borde, and Michael Lichten PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e324. Published online 2007 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050324.PMCID: PMC2121111 The foxa2 Gene Controls the Birth and Spontaneous Degeneration of Dopamine Neurons in Old Age Raja Kittappa, Wendy W Chang, Rajeshwar B Awatramani, and Ronald D. G McKay PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e325. Published online 2007 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050325.PMCID: PMC2121110 Dosage Compensation in the Mouse Balances Up-Regulation and Silencing of X-Linked Genes Hong Lin, Vibhor Gupta, Matthew D VerMilyea, Francesco Falciani, Jeannie T Lee, Laura P O'Neill, and Bryan M Turner PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e326. Published online 2007 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050326.PMCID: PMC2121114 Transglutaminase 2 Undergoes a Large Conformational Change upon Activation Daniel M Pinkas, Pavel Strop, Axel T Brunger, and Chaitan Khosla PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e327. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050327.PMCID: PMC2140088 Basic Math in Monkeys and College Students Jessica F Cantlon and Elizabeth M Brannon PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e328. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050328.PMCID: PMC2140091 GATA3-Driven Th2 Responses Inhibit TGF-β1–Induced FOXP3 Expression and the Formation of Regulatory T Cells Pierre-Yves Mantel, Harmjan Kuipers, Onur Boyman, Claudio Rhyner, Nadia Ouaked, Beate Rückert, Christian Karagiannidis, Bart N Lambrecht, Rudolf W Hendriks, Reto Crameri, Cezmi A Akdis, Kurt Blaser, and Carsten B Schmidt-Weber PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e329. Published online 2007 December 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050329.PMCID: PMC2222968 A Neural Computation for Visual Acuity in the Presence of Eye Movements Xaq Pitkow, Haim Sompolinsky, and Markus Meister PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e331. Published online 2007 December 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050331.PMCID: PMC2222970 Indirect Effects of Ploidy Suggest X Chromosome Dose, Not the X:A Ratio, Signals Sex in Drosophila James W Erickson and Jerome J Quintero PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e332. Published online 2007 December 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050332.PMCID: PMC2222971 Correction Correction: Distinct Mammalian Precursors Are Committed to Generate Neurons with Defined Dendritic Projection Patterns Wolfgang Kelsch, Colleen P Mosley, Chia-Wei Lin, and Carlos Lois PLoS Biol. 2007 December; 5(12): e336. Published online 2007 December 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050336.PMCID: PMC2222975 Corrects: Wolfgang Kelsch, et al. Distinct Mammalian Precursors Are Committed to Generate Neurons with Defined Dendritic Projection Patterns . PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e300. |