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Volume 2(4);  April 2004
Editorial
Who Pays for Open Access?
Helen Doyle, Andy Gass, and Rebecca Kennison
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e105. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020105.
PMCID: PMC387273
Synopses
Artificial Prions Created from Portable Control Elements
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e93. Published online 2004 March 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020093.
PMCID: PMC374242
“Mosaic” Genes Highlight Forces of Genome Diversity and Adaptation
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e94. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020094.
PMCID: PMC387266
Wnt Signaling Relies on Nuclear Armadillo
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e102. Published online 2004 February 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020102.
PMCID: PMC340127
A Mechanism for Adding the First Link in a Nascent Actin Filament Chain
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e103. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020103.
PMCID: PMC387272
Neural Basis of Solving Problems with Insight
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e111. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020111.
PMCID: PMC387276
Exploring Small RNA Function
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e114. Published online 2004 February 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020114.
PMCID: PMC350674
A Window into the Brain Demonstrates the Importance of Astrocytes
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e115. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020115.
PMCID: PMC387279
Phage Display Libraries Identify T Cells
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e117. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020117.
PMCID: PMC387280
Predicting Cancer Patient Survival with Gene Expression Data
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e118. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020118.
PMCID: PMC387822
Evaluating Disease Trends in Marine Ecosystems
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e119. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020119.
PMCID: PMC387282
Emergence of a Peaceful Culture in Wild Baboons
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e124. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020124.
PMCID: PMC387823
Essay
Reason as Our Guide
Elizabeth Blackburn and Janet Rowley
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e116. Published online 2004 March 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020116.
PMCID: PMC359389
Features
Troubled Waters: The Future of Global Fisheries
Virginia Gewin
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e113. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020113.
PMCID: PMC387278
Chronic Wasting Disease—Prion Disease in the Wild
Steve Bunk
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e121. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020121.
PMCID: PMC387284
Book Review/Science in the Media
When Food Kills
John Krebs
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e112. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020112.
PMCID: PMC387277
Journal Club
The Cytoskeleton In Vivo
Beatriz García Fernández
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e100. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020100.
PMCID: PMC387270
Primer
Peace Lessons from an Unlikely Source
Frans B. M de Waal
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e101. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020101.
PMCID: PMC387271
Yeast Prions: Protein Aggregation Is Not Enough
Michael Y Sherman
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e125. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020125.
PMCID: PMC387287
Community Page
A Wee Lesson in Science Communication
Emma King
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e122. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020122.
PMCID: PMC387285
Correspondence and Other Communications
Avoiding URL Reference Degradation in Scientific Publications
Desiree P Kelly, Eric J Hester, Kathryn R Johnson, Lauren F Heilig, Amanda L Drake, Lisa M Schilling, and Robert P Dellavalle
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e99. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020099.
PMCID: PMC387269
Research Articles
Segmentally Variable Genes:A New Perspective on Adaptation
Yu Zheng, Richard J Roberts, and Simon Kasif
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e81. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020081.
PMCID: PMC387263
Dissection and Design of Yeast Prions
Lev Z Osherovich, Brian S Cox, Mick F Tuite, and Jonathan S Weissman
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e86. Published online 2004 March 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020086.
PMCID: PMC374241
Mimotopes for Alloreactive and Conventional T Cells in a Peptide–MHC Display Library
Frances Crawford, Eric Huseby, Janice White, Philippa Marrack, and John W Kappler
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e90. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020090.
PMCID: PMC387264
Activation of Arp2/3 Complex: Addition of the First Subunit of the New Filament by a WASP Protein Triggers Rapid ATP Hydrolysis on Arp2
Mark J Dayel and R. Dyche Mullins
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e91. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020091.
PMCID: PMC387265
A Nuclear Function for Armadillo/β-Catenin
Nicholas S Tolwinski and Eric Wieschaus
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e95. Published online 2004 February 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020095.
PMCID: PMC338072
Calcium Dynamics of Cortical Astrocytic Networks In Vivo
Hajime Hirase, Lifen Qian, Peter Barthó, and György Buzsáki
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e96. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020096.
PMCID: PMC387267
Neural Activity When People Solve Verbal Problems with Insight
Mark Jung-Beeman, Edward M Bowden, Jason Haberman, Jennifer L Frymiare, Stella Arambel-Liu, Richard Greenblatt, Paul J Reber, and John Kounios
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e97. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020097.
PMCID: PMC387268
Sequence-Specific Inhibition of Small RNA Function
György Hutvágner, Martin J Simard, Craig C Mello, and Phillip D Zamore
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e98. Published online 2004 February 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020098.
PMCID: PMC350664
A Pacific Culture among Wild Baboons: Its Emergence and Transmission
Robert M Sapolsky and Lisa J Share
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e106. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020106.
PMCID: PMC387274
Semi-Supervised Methods to Predict Patient Survival from Gene Expression Data
Eric Bair and Robert Tibshirani
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e108. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020108.
PMCID: PMC387275
The Elusive Baseline of Marine Disease: Are Diseases in Ocean Ecosystems Increasing?
Jessica R Ward and Kevin D Lafferty
PLoS Biol. 2004 April; 2(4): e120. Published online 2004 April 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020120.
PMCID: PMC387283
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