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Volume 5(12);  December 2007
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.
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