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Volume 3(5);  May 2005
Synopses
To a Zebra Finch: How the Brain Cultivates Birdsong
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e162. Published online 2005 March 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030162.
PMCID: PMC1069650
Growth Disorder Gene Plays a Big Role in Normal Size Variation
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e163. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030163.
PMCID: PMC1073698
Automated Imaging Screen Reveals Promising Drug Candidates
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e165. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030165.
PMCID: PMC1073699
A Novel Data-Mining Approach Systematically Links Genes to Traits
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e166. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030166.
PMCID: PMC1073700
The Hand That Protects: Structural Insights into a Porphyrin-Binding Protein
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e167. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030167.
PMCID: PMC1084336
Infant Sleep: A Precursor to Adult Sleep?
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e168. Published online 2005 April 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030168.
PMCID: PMC1079784
Where Do All Those Genes Come From?
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e169. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030169.
PMCID: PMC1073701
Exon Silencing Regulated by a Trio of Short RNA Motifs
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e173. Published online 2005 April 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030173.
PMCID: PMC1079785
Assessing Consciousness: Of Vigilance and Distractedness
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e179. Published online 2005 April 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030179.
PMCID: PMC1074752
A Developmental Switch in Neuronal Differentiation
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e180. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030180.
PMCID: PMC1084332
Genomes Offer Ecological Clues to Viruses That Target Ubiquitous Ocean Bacteria
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e184. Published online 2005 April 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030184.
PMCID: PMC1079786
The Nuclear Landscape: A 3D Map of Human Chromosomes
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e188. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030188.
PMCID: PMC1084337
Virus Subverts Cellular Defense for Reproduction and Escape
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e195. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030195.
PMCID: PMC1084333
Feature
South Africa—Serious about Biodiversity Science
Michael Cherry
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e145. Published online 2005 May 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030145.
PMCID: PMC1110916
Book Review/Science in the Media
Explorer Naturalists
Fernando E Vega
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e161. Published online 2005 May 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030161.
PMCID: PMC1110913
Obituary
On the Importance of Being Ernst Mayr: “Darwin's apostle” died at the age of 100
Axel Meyer
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e152. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030152.
PMCID: PMC1073696
Primer
The Neural Basis of Birdsong
Fernando Nottebohm
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e164. Published online 2005 May 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030164.
PMCID: PMC1110917
Functional Implications of Sleep Development
Jerome M Siegel
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e178. Published online 2005 May 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030178.
PMCID: PMC1110915
The Third Age of Phage
Nicholas H Mann
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e182. Published online 2005 May 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030182.
PMCID: PMC1110918
Community Page
The Epigenome Network of Excellence
Asifa Akhtar and Giacomo Cavalli
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e177. Published online 2005 May 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030177.
PMCID: PMC1110914
Research Articles
An Unbiased Cell Morphology–Based Screen for New, Biologically Active Small Molecules
Masahiro Tanaka, Raynard Bateman, Daniel Rauh, Eugeni Vaisberg, Shyam Ramachandani, Chao Zhang, Kirk C Hansen, Alma L Burlingame, Jay K Trautman, Kevan M Shokat, and Cynthia L Adams
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e128. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030128.
PMCID: PMC1073692
Evolutionary Origins of Genomic Repertoires in Bacteria
Emmanuelle Lerat, Vincent Daubin, Howard Ochman, and Nancy A Moran
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e130. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030130.
PMCID: PMC1073693
Systematic Association of Genes to Phenotypes by Genome and Literature Mining
Jan O Korbel, Tobias Doerks, Lars J Jensen, Carolina Perez-Iratxeta, Szymon Kaczanowski, Sean D Hooper, Miguel A Andrade, and Peer Bork
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e134. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030134.
PMCID: PMC1073694
Regulatory Variation at Glypican-3 Underlies a Major Growth QTL in Mice
Fiona Oliver, Julian K Christians, Xiaojun Liu, Susan Rhind, Vinesh Verma, Claire Davison, Steve D. M Brown, Paul Denny, and Peter D Keightley
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e135. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030135.
PMCID: PMC1073695
Ongoing Spontaneous Activity Controls Access to Consciousness: A Neuronal Model for Inattentional Blindness
Stanislas Dehaene and Jean-Pierre Changeux
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e141. Published online 2005 April 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030141.
PMCID: PMC1074751
The Neural Substrates of Infant Sleep in Rats
Karl Æ Karlsson, Andrew J Gall, Ethan J Mohns, Adele M. H Seelke, and Mark S Blumberg
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e143. Published online 2005 April 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030143.
PMCID: PMC1079781
Three Prochlorococcus Cyanophage Genomes: Signature Features and Ecological Interpretations
Matthew B Sullivan, Maureen L Coleman, Peter Weigele, Forest Rohwer, and Sallie W Chisholm
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e144. Published online 2005 April 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030144.
PMCID: PMC1079782
Structure of the Mg-Chelatase Cofactor GUN4 Reveals a Novel Hand-Shaped Fold for Porphyrin Binding
Mark A Verdecia, Robert M Larkin, Jean-Luc Ferrer, Roland Riek, Joanne Chory, and Joseph P Noel
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e151. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030151.
PMCID: PMC1084334
Vocal Experimentation in the Juvenile Songbird Requires a Basal Ganglia Circuit
Bence P Ölveczky, Aaron S Andalman, and Michale S Fee
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e153. Published online 2005 March 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030153.
PMCID: PMC1069649
Subversion of Cellular Autophagosomal Machinery by RNA Viruses
William T Jackson, Thomas H Giddings, Jr, Matthew P Taylor, Sara Mulinyawe, Marlene Rabinovitch, Ron R Kopito, and Karla Kirkegaard
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e156. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030156.
PMCID: PMC1084330
Three-Dimensional Maps of All Chromosomes in Human Male Fibroblast Nuclei and Prometaphase Rosettes
Andreas Bolzer, Gregor Kreth, Irina Solovei, Daniela Koehler, Kaan Saracoglu, Christine Fauth, Stefan Müller, Roland Eils, Christoph Cremer, Michael R Speicher, and Thomas Cremer
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e157. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030157.
PMCID: PMC1084335
A Combinatorial Code for Splicing Silencing: UAGG and GGGG Motifs
Kyoungha Han, Gene Yeo, Ping An, Christopher B Burge, and Paula J Grabowski
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e158. Published online 2005 April 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030158.
PMCID: PMC1079783
A Developmental Switch in the Response of DRG Neurons to ETS Transcription Factor Signaling
Simon Hippenmeyer, Eline Vrieseling, Markus Sigrist, Thomas Portmann, Celia Laengle, David R Ladle, and Silvia Arber
PLoS Biol. 2005 May; 3(5): e159. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030159.
PMCID: PMC1084331
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