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Volume 6(7);  July 2008
Book Review/Science in the Media
Beautiful Minds—For How Long
Lori Marino
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e189. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060189.
PMCID: PMC2486313
Perspectives
Protecting Migration Corridors: Challenges and Optimism for Mongolian Saiga
Joel Berger, Julie K Young, and Kim Murray Berger
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e165. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060165.
PMCID: PMC2486290
Improved Tropical Forest Management for Carbon Retention
Francis E Putz, Pieter A Zuidema, Michelle A Pinard, Rene G. A Boot, Jeffrey A Sayer, Douglas Sheil, Plinio Sist, Elias, and Jerome K Vanclay
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e166. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060166.
PMCID: PMC2459208
Synopses
From Structure to Function: Mapping the Connection Matrix of the Human Brain
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e164. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060164.
PMCID: PMC2443196
Shedding Light on Animal Cryptochromes
Kira E O'Day
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e168. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060168.
PMCID: PMC2443195
Starting Over: The Search for Endogenous NKT Cell Ligands
Caitlin Sedwick
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e181. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060181.
PMCID: PMC2459207
Essay
Going, Going, Gone: Is Animal Migration Disappearing
David S Wilcove and Martin Wikelski
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e188. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060188.
PMCID: PMC2486312
Feature
Across the Curious Parallel of Language and Species Evolution
John Whitfield
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e186. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060186.
PMCID: PMC2475544
Unsolved Mystery
Controlling Size in Multicellular Organs: Focus on the Leaf
Hirokazu Tsukaya
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e174. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060174.
PMCID: PMC2459211
Primer
The Soup in My Fly: Evolution, Form and Function of Seminal Fluid Proteins
Tracey Chapman
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e179. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060179.
PMCID: PMC2486303
Considering the First Steps toward a Stable and Orderly Way of Bacterial Life
Karen Otto
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e180. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060180.
PMCID: PMC2459212
Antigenic Variation in Trypanosoma brucei: Joining the DOTs
Chris Stockdale, Michal R Swiderski, J. David Barry, and Richard McCulloch
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e185. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060185.
PMCID: PMC2486309
Oscillating Per-Cision
Ying-Hui Fu
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e192. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060192.
PMCID: PMC2486315
The Threat of Instability: Neurodegeneration Predicted by Protein Destabilization and Aggregation Propensity
Elizabeth M Meiering
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e193. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060193.
PMCID: PMC2486316
Community Page
A Gene Wiki for Community Annotation of Gene Function
Jon W Huss, III, Camilo Orozco, James Goodale, Chunlei Wu, Serge Batalov, Tim J Vickers, Faramarz Valafar, and Andrew I Su
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e175. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060175.
PMCID: PMC2443188
WikiPathways: Pathway Editing for the People
Alexander R Pico, Thomas Kelder, Martijn P van Iersel, Kristina Hanspers, Bruce R Conklin, and Chris Evelo
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e184. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060184.
PMCID: PMC2475545
Research Articles
Neuronal Correlates of the Set-Size Effect in Monkey Lateral Intraparietal Area
Puiu F Balan, Jeff Oristaglio, David M Schneider, and Jacqueline Gottlieb
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e158. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060158.
PMCID: PMC2443194
Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex
Patric Hagmann, Leila Cammoun, Xavier Gigandet, Reto Meuli, Christopher J Honey, Van J Wedeen, and Olaf Sporns
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e159. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060159.
PMCID: PMC2443193
Human and Drosophila Cryptochromes Are Light Activated by Flavin Photoreduction in Living Cells
Nathalie Hoang, Erik Schleicher, Sylwia Kacprzak, Jean-Pierre Bouly, Marie Picot, William Wu, Albrecht Berndt, Eva Wolf, Robert Bittl, and Margaret Ahmad
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e160. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060160.
PMCID: PMC2443192
A Histone Methyltransferase Modulates Antigenic Variation in African Trypanosomes
Luisa M Figueiredo, Christian J Janzen, and George A.M Cross
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e161. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060161.
PMCID: PMC2443197
Novel Intermolecular Iterative Mechanism for Biosynthesis of Mycoketide Catalyzed by a Bimodular Polyketide Synthase
Tarun Chopra, Srijita Banerjee, Sarika Gupta, Gitanjali Yadav, Swadha Anand, Avadhesha Surolia, Rajendra P Roy, Debasisa Mohanty, and Rajesh S Gokhale
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e163. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060163.
PMCID: PMC2443190
A Short–Time Scale Colloidal System Reveals Early Bacterial Adhesion Dynamics
Christophe Beloin, Ali Houry, Manuel Froment, Jean-Marc Ghigo, and Nelly Henry
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e167. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060167.
PMCID: PMC2443189
Protein Aggregation and Protein Instability Govern Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patient Survival
Qi Wang, Joshua L Johnson, Nathalie Y.R Agar, and Jeffrey N Agar
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e170. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060170.
PMCID: PMC2486295
Persistent Leatherback Turtle Migrations Present Opportunities for Conservation
George L Shillinger, Daniel M Palacios, Helen Bailey, Steven J Bograd, Alan M Swithenbank, Philippe Gaspar, Bryan P Wallace, James R Spotila, Frank V Paladino, Rotney Piedra, Scott A Eckert, and Barbara A Block
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e171. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060171.
PMCID: PMC2459209
Humans Lack iGb3 Due to the Absence of Functional iGb3-Synthase: Implications for NKT Cell Development and Transplantation
Dale Christiansen, Julie Milland, Effie Mouhtouris, Hilary Vaughan, Daniel G Pellicci, Malcolm J McConville, Dale I Godfrey, and Mauro S Sandrin
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e172. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060172.
PMCID: PMC2459210
Visuomotor Transformation in the Fly Gaze Stabilization System
Stephen J Huston and Holger G Krapp
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e173. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060173.
PMCID: PMC2475543
Population Genomic Analysis of Strain Variation in Leptospirillum Group II Bacteria Involved in Acid Mine Drainage Formation
Sheri L Simmons, Genevieve DiBartolo, Vincent J Denef, Daniela S. Aliaga Goltsman, Michael P Thelen, and Jillian F Banfield
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e177. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060177.
PMCID: PMC2475542
Proteomics Reveals Novel Drosophila Seminal Fluid Proteins Transferred at Mating
Geoffrey D Findlay, Xianhua Yi, Michael J MacCoss, and Willie J Swanson
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e178. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060178.
PMCID: PMC2486302
Spinal Cord Injury Reveals Multilineage Differentiation of Ependymal Cells
Konstantinos Meletis, Fanie Barnabé-Heider, Marie Carlén, Emma Evergren, Nikolay Tomilin, Oleg Shupliakov, and Jonas Frisén
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e182. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060182.
PMCID: PMC2475541
Activating PER Repressor through a DBT-Directed Phosphorylation Switch
Saul Kivimäe, Lino Saez, and Michael W Young
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e183. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060183.
PMCID: PMC2486307
Multivariate Patterns in Object-Selective Cortex Dissociate Perceptual and Physical Shape Similarity
Johannes Haushofer, Margaret S Livingstone, and Nancy Kanwisher
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e187. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060187.
PMCID: PMC2486311
Corrections
Correction: Notch-Deficient Skin Induces a Lethal Systemic B-Lymphoproliferative Disorder by Secreting TSLP, a Sentinel for Epidermal Integrity
Shadmehr Demehri, Zhenyi Liu, Jonghyeob Lee, Meei-Hua Lin, Seth D Crosby, Christopher J Roberts, Perry W Grigsby, Jeffrey H Miner, Andrew G Farr, and Raphael Kopan
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e169. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060169.
PMCID: PMC2486294
Corrects: Shadmehr Demehri, et al. Notch-Deficient Skin Induces a Lethal Systemic B-Lymphoproliferative Disorder by Secreting TSLP, a Sentinel for Epidermal Integrity. PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e123.
Correction: 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
PLoS Biol. 2008 July; 6(7): e190. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060190.
PMCID: PMC2486314
Corrects: Xiao-yong Li, et al. Transcription Factors Bind Thousands of Active and Inactive Regions in the Drosophila Blastoderm . PLoS Biol. 2008 February; 6(2): e27.
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