| | Editorials PLoS Biology 2.0 Jonathan A Eisen PMCID: PMC2253640 Please Welcome Our First Academic Editor-in-Chief Theodora Bloom, Jami Dantzker, Christine Ferguson, Liza Gross, Catriona MacCallum, Mark Patterson, Robert Shields, Janelle Weaver, and Elizabeth Whiteman PMCID: PMC2253641 Synopses Human Activity, not Ecosystem Characters, Drives Potential Species Invasions Richard Robinson PMCID: PMC2225437 Can Farmed and Wild Salmon Coexist? Liza Gross PMCID: PMC2235900 Essays Are Animals Autistic Savants? Giorgio Vallortigara, Allan Snyder, Gisela Kaplan, Patrick Bateson, Nicola S Clayton, and Lesley J Rogers PMCID: PMC2245986 Shifting Baselines, Local Impacts, and Global Change on Coral Reefs Nancy Knowlton and Jeremy B. C Jackson PMCID: PMC2253644 Feature No Place for Predators?: Time and again, advancing civilization has set people against large carnivores. On the front lines of Washington State, wildlife biologists hope that knowledge can trump fear, and ultimately lead to détente. Liza Gross PMCID: PMC2235901 Obituary Seymour Benzer 1921–2007 The Man Who Took Us from Genes to Behaviour William A Harris PMCID: PMC2235899 Primer The Evolutionary and Developmental Foundations of Mathematics Michael J Beran PMCID: PMC2225440 Mitigating Mutational Meltdown in Mammalian Mitochondria David M Rand PMCID: PMC2245988 Understanding the Web of Life: The Birds, the Bees, and Sex with Aliens Jason M Tylianakis PMCID: PMC2253639 Does Mutation Rate Depend on Itself? Charles F Baer PMCID: PMC2253642 Guide to Understanding Drosophila Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases George R Jackson PMCID: PMC2253643 Research Articles Distinct Cerebral Pathways for Object Identity and Number in Human Infants Véronique Izard, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, and Stanislas Dehaene PMCID: PMC2225438 Amyloid as a Depot for the Formulation of Long-Acting Drugs Samir K Maji, David Schubert, Catherine Rivier, Soon Lee, Jean E Rivier, and Roland Riek PMCID: PMC2225439 Partial Restoration of Mutant Enzyme Homeostasis in Three Distinct Lysosomal Storage Disease Cell Lines by Altering Calcium Homeostasis Ting-Wei Mu, Douglas M Fowler, and Jeffery W Kelly PMCID: PMC2225441 Transcription Factors Bind Thousands of Active and Inactive Regions in the Drosophila Blastoderm Xiao-yong Li, Stewart MacArthur, Richard Bourgon, David Nix, Daniel A Pollard, Venky N Iyer, Aaron Hechmer, Lisa Simirenko, Mark Stapleton, Cris L. Luengo Hendriks, Hou Cheng Chu, Nobuo Ogawa, William Inwood, Victor Sementchenko, Amy Beaton, Richard Weiszmann, Susan E Celniker, David W Knowles, Tom Gingeras, Terence P Speed, Michael B Eisen, and Mark D Biggin PMCID: PMC2235902 Fish Invasions in the World's River Systems: When Natural Processes Are Blurred by Human Activities Fabien Leprieur, Olivier Beauchard, Simon Blanchet, Thierry Oberdorff, and Sébastien Brosse PMCID: PMC2225436 Polyglutamine Genes Interact to Modulate the Severity and Progression of Neurodegeneration in Drosophila Derek Lessing and Nancy M Bonini PMCID: PMC2235903 Increased Transmission of Mutations by Low-Condition Females: Evidence for Condition-Dependent DNA Repair Aneil F Agrawal and Alethea D Wang PMCID: PMC2235904 Invasive Mutualists Erode Native Pollination Webs Marcelo A Aizen, Carolina L Morales, and Juan M Morales PMCID: PMC2235906 In Vitro Whole-Genome Analysis Identifies a Susceptibility Locus for HIV-1 Corinne Loeuillet, Samuel Deutsch, Angela Ciuffi, Daniel Robyr, Patrick Taffé, Miguel Muñoz, Jacques S Beckmann, Stylianos E Antonarakis, and Amalio Telenti PMCID: PMC2245987 A Global Assessment of Salmon Aquaculture Impacts on Wild Salmonids Jennifer S Ford and Ransom A Myers† PMCID: PMC2235905 Caldendrin–Jacob: A Protein Liaison That Couples NMDA Receptor Signalling to the Nucleus Daniela C Dieterich, Anna Karpova, Marina Mikhaylova, Irina Zdobnova, Imbritt König, Marco Landwehr, Martin Kreutz, Karl-Heinz Smalla, Karin Richter, Peter Landgraf, Carsten Reissner, Tobias M Boeckers, Werner Zuschratter, Christina Spilker, Constanze I Seidenbecher, Craig C Garner, Eckart D Gundelfinger, and Michael R Kreutz PMCID: PMC2253627 Genetic Deficiency of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β Corrects Diabetes in Mouse Models of Insulin Resistance Katsuya Tanabe, Zhonghao Liu, Satish Patel, Bradley W Doble, Lin Li, Corentin Cras-Méneur, Sara C Martinez, Cris M Welling, Morris F White, Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi, James R Woodgett, and M. Alan Permutt PMCID: PMC2245985 The Evolution of Combinatorial Gene Regulation in Fungi Brian B Tuch, David J Galgoczy, Aaron D Hernday, Hao Li, and Alexander D Johnson PMCID: PMC2253631 Surface-Anchored Monomeric Agonist pMHCs Alone Trigger TCR with High Sensitivity Zhengyu Ma, Kim A Sharp, Paul A Janmey, and Terri H Finkel PMCID: PMC2253636 VirE2: A Unique ssDNA-Compacting Molecular Machine Wilfried Grange, Myriam Duckely, Sudhir Husale, Susan Jacob, Andreas Engel, and Martin Hegner PMCID: PMC2253637 Correction Correction: Adaptive Variation in Beach Mice Produced by Two Interacting Pigmentation Genes Cynthia C Steiner, Jesse N Weber, and Hopi E Hoekstra PMCID: PMC2253629 Corrects: Cynthia C Steiner, et al. Adaptive Variation in Beach Mice Produced by Two Interacting Pigmentation Genes. PLoS Biol. 2007 September; 5(9): e219. |
