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Volume 4(3);  March 2006
Editorial
Being Positive about Selection
Catriona MacCallum and Emma Hill
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e87. Published online 2006 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040087.
PMCID: PMC1400604
Synopses
Switching Drugs for Livestock May Help Save Critically Endangered Asian Vultures
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e61. Published online 2006 January 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040061.
PMCID: PMC1351926
A Key Tumor Suppressor Protein Ensures Proper Chromosome Segregation during Cell Division
Mary Hoff
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e65. Published online 2006 February 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040065.
PMCID: PMC1361798
Polyglutamine Leads to Altered Chromatin Architecture and Neurodegeneration
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e70. Published online 2006 February 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040070.
PMCID: PMC1382010
Reading the Evolutionary History of the Woolly Mammoth in Its Mitochondrial Genome
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e74. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040074.
PMCID: PMC1360100
Marsupial Genome Sheds Light on the Evolution of Immunity
Emma Hill
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e75. Published online 2006 January 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040075.
PMCID: PMC1351922
When Less Is More: Losing Genes on the Path to Becoming Human
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e76. Published online 2006 February 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040076.
PMCID: PMC1361799
When Seeing Is Misleading: Clutter Leads to High-Confidence Errors
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e77. Published online 2006 February 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040077.
PMCID: PMC1382014
How Females Keep Male Hoverfly Visual Neurons from Distraction
Jami Milton Dantzker
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e81. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040081.
PMCID: PMC1360099
Quiet Time: Gene Program Prevents Division but Keeps Cells at the Ready
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e85. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040085.
PMCID: PMC1389700
Diatoms Rely on Sophisticated Signaling Systems for Population Control
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e89. Published online 2006 February 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040089.
PMCID: PMC1370915
Jumping for Dear Life with a Giant Neuron and a Single Receptor
Françoise Chanut
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e93. Published online 2006 February 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040093.
PMCID: PMC1382019
Clues to Our Past: Mining the Human Genome for Signs of Recent Selection
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e94. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040094.
PMCID: PMC1382009
Classic Illusion Sheds New Light on the Neural Site of Tactile Perception
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e96. Published online 2006 February 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040096.
PMCID: PMC1382017
Book Review/Science in the Media
Toward a Climate of Scientific Integrity
Beth A Fischer and Michael J Zigmond
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e84. Published online 2006 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040084.
PMCID: PMC1397907
Primer
The Year of the Mammoth
Alan Cooper
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e78. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040078.
PMCID: PMC1360097
Community Page
Plant Virus Biodiversity and Ecology
Jonathan D Wren, Marilyn J Roossinck, Richard S Nelson, Kay Scheets, Michael W Palmer, and Ulrich Melcher
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e80. Published online 2006 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040080.
PMCID: PMC1397904
Correspondence and Other Communications
Neuromedin U and Its Putative Drosophila Homolog hugin
Christoph Melcher, Rüdiger Bader, Steffen Walther, Oleg Simakov, and Michael J Pankratz
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e68. Published online 2006 March 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040068.
PMCID: PMC1397894
Research Articles
Reconstructing an Ancestral Mammalian Immune Supercomplex from a Marsupial Major Histocompatibility Complex
Katherine Belov, Janine E Deakin, Anthony T Papenfuss, Michelle L Baker, Sandra D Melman, Hannah V Siddle, Nicolas Gouin, David L Goode, Tobias J Sargeant, Mark D Robinson, Matthew J Wakefield, Shaun Mahony, Joseph G. R Cross, Panayiotis V Benos, Paul B Samollow, Terence P Speed, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, and Robert D Miller
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e46. Published online 2006 January 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040046.
PMCID: PMC1351924
p16INK4a Prevents Centrosome Dysfunction and Genomic Instability in Primary Cells
Kimberly M McDermott, Jianmin Zhang, Charles R Holst, B. Krystyna Kozakiewicz, Veena Singla, and Thea D Tlsty
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e51. Published online 2006 February 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040051.
PMCID: PMC1361797
Gene Losses during Human Origins
Xiaoxia Wang, Wendy E Grus, and Jianzhi Zhang
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e52. Published online 2006 February 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040052.
PMCID: PMC1361800
Insect Detection of Small Targets Moving in Visual Clutter
Karin Nordström, Paul D Barnett, and David C O'Carroll
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e54. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040054.
PMCID: PMC1360098
Visual Clutter Causes High-Magnitude Errors
Stefano Baldassi, Nicola Megna, and David C Burr
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e56. Published online 2006 February 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040056.
PMCID: PMC1382012
A Stress Surveillance System Based on Calcium and Nitric Oxide in Marine Diatoms
Assaf Vardi, Fabio Formiggini, Raffaella Casotti, Alessandra De Martino, François Ribalet, Antonio Miralto, and Chris Bowler
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e60. Published online 2006 February 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040060.
PMCID: PMC1370914
The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Dα7 Is Required for an Escape Behavior inDrosophila
Amir Fayyazuddin, Mahira A Zaheer, P. Robin Hiesinger, and Hugo J Bellen
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e63. Published online 2006 February 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040063.
PMCID: PMC1382016
Removing the Threat of Diclofenac to Critically Endangered Asian Vultures
Gerry Swan, Vinasan Naidoo, Richard Cuthbert, Rhys E Green, Deborah J Pain, Devendra Swarup, Vibhu Prakash, Mark Taggart, Lizette Bekker, Devojit Das, Jörg Diekmann, Maria Diekmann, Elmarié Killian, Andy Meharg, Ramesh Chandra Patra, Mohini Saini, and Kerri Wolter
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e66. Published online 2006 January 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040066.
PMCID: PMC1351921
Glutamine-Expanded Ataxin-7 Alters TFTC/STAGA Recruitment and Chromatin Structure Leading to Photoreceptor Dysfunction
Dominique Helmlinger, Sara Hardy, Gretta Abou-Sleymane, Adrien Eberlin, Aaron B Bowman, Anne Gansmüller, Serge Picaud, Huda Y Zoghbi, Yvon Trottier, Làszlò Tora, and Didier Devys
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e67. Published online 2006 February 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040067.
PMCID: PMC1382020
The Cutaneous Rabbit Illusion Affects Human Primary Sensory Cortex Somatotopically
Felix Blankenburg, Christian C Ruff, Ralf Deichmann, Geraint Rees, and Jon Driver
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e69. Published online 2006 February 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040069.
PMCID: PMC1382015
A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome
Benjamin F Voight, Sridhar Kudaravalli, Xiaoquan Wen, and Jonathan K Pritchard
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e72. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040072.
PMCID: PMC1382018
Complete Mitochondrial Genome and Phylogeny of Pleistocene MammothMammuthus primigenius
Evgeny I Rogaev, Yuri K Moliaka, Boris A Malyarchuk, Fyodor A Kondrashov, Miroslava V Derenko, Ilya Chumakov, and Anastasia P Grigorenko
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e73. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040073.
PMCID: PMC1360101
A New Description of Cellular Quiescence
Hilary A Coller, Liyun Sang, and James M Roberts
PLoS Biol. 2006 March; 4(3): e83. Published online 2006 March 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040083.
PMCID: PMC1393757
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