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Volume 4(10);  October 2006
Book Review/Science in the Media
How to Win the Nobel Prize?
Peter Agre
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e333. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040333.
PMCID: PMC1617341
Synopses
Chance Fluctuations in mRNA Output in Mammalian Cells
Françoise Chanut
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e319. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040319.
PMCID: PMC1563495
When Evidence Is Scant, Mathematical Modeling Offers a Roadmap for Discovery
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e323. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040323.
PMCID: PMC1564159
Jack-of-All-Trades “Supergene” Controls Butterfly Wing Pattern Diversity
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e329. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040329.
PMCID: PMC1570759
For Yeast Protein Hubs, More Data Means More Connections
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e331. Published online 2006 September 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040331.
PMCID: PMC1569887
Islands Spark Accelerated Evolution
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e334. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040334.
PMCID: PMC1563487
Disrupted Intercellular Communication Causes a Disfiguring Birth Defect
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e335. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040335.
PMCID: PMC1563488
Predicting Species Abundance in the Face of Habitat Loss
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e336. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040336.
PMCID: PMC1570499
Infection Status Drives Interspecies Mating Choices in Fruit Fly Females
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e345. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040345.
PMCID: PMC1592318
BMPs: Conserved Morphogens in Neural Patterning
Françoise Chanut
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e346. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040346.
PMCID: PMC1563486
The Case of XPD: Sometimes Two Different Mutant Genes Are Better than One
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e347. Published online 2006 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040347.
PMCID: PMC1584418
Transposon Silencing Keeps Jumping Genes in Their Place
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e353. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040353.
PMCID: PMC1563490
Learning New Movements Depends on the Statistics of Your Prior Actions
Mason Inman
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e354. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040354.
PMCID: PMC1563494
Gut Bacteria Cospeciating with Insects
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e357. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040357.
PMCID: PMC1592319
Protein Kinases and Plant Pores
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e358. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040358.
PMCID: PMC1592314
A Flexible Syntaxin Solves the Mystery of the SNAREd Munc
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e359. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040359.
PMCID: PMC1570501
When Just One Sense Is Available, Multisensory Experience Fills in the Blanks
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e361. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040361.
PMCID: PMC1570758
Nuclear Import of HIV-1 Complex Relies on a Surprise Player: tRNA
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e364. Published online 2006 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040364.
PMCID: PMC1584417
Unsolved Mystery
To Lose Both Would Look Like Carelessness: Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease
Hamish McCallum and Menna Jones
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e342. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040342.
PMCID: PMC1617348
Primer
Repeating Patterns of Mimicry
Axel Meyer
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e341. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040341.
PMCID: PMC1617347
Research Articles
A Conserved Supergene Locus Controls Colour Pattern Diversity in Heliconius Butterflies
Mathieu Joron, Riccardo Papa, Margarita Beltrán, Nicola Chamberlain, Jesús Mavárez, Simon Baxter, Moisés Abanto, Eldredge Bermingham, Sean J Humphray, Jane Rogers, Helen Beasley, Karen Barlow, Richard H. ffrench-Constant, James Mallet, W. Owen McMillan, and Chris D Jiggins
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e303. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040303.
PMCID: PMC1570757
Stochastic mRNA Synthesis in Mammalian Cells
Arjun Raj, Charles S Peskin, Daniel Tranchina, Diana Y Vargas, and Sanjay Tyagi
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e309. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040309.
PMCID: PMC1563489
Predicting Essential Components of Signal Transduction Networks: A Dynamic Model of Guard Cell Abscisic Acid Signaling
Song Li, Sarah M Assmann, and Réka Albert
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e312. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040312.
PMCID: PMC1564158
Threshold-Dependent BMP-Mediated Repression: A Model for a Conserved Mechanism That Patterns the Neuroectoderm
Claudia Mieko Mizutani, Néva Meyer, Henk Roelink, and Ethan Bier
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e313. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040313.
PMCID: PMC1563485
Inhibition of Gap Junction Communication at Ectopic Eph/ephrin Boundaries Underlies Craniofrontonasal Syndrome
Alice Davy, Jeffrey O Bush, and Philippe Soriano
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e315. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040315.
PMCID: PMC1563491
Generalization of Motor Learning Depends on the History of Prior Action
John W Krakauer, Pietro Mazzoni, Ali Ghazizadeh, Roshni Ravindran, and Reza Shadmehr
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e316. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040316.
PMCID: PMC1563496
Stratus Not Altocumulus: A New View of the Yeast Protein Interaction Network
Nizar N Batada, Teresa Reguly, Ashton Breitkreutz, Lorrie Boucher, Bobby-Joe Breitkreutz, Laurence D Hurst, and Mike Tyers
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e317. Published online 2006 September 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040317.
PMCID: PMC1569888
Morphological Evolution Is Accelerated among Island Mammals
Virginie Millien
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e321. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040321.
PMCID: PMC1563493
Rescue of Progeria in Trichothiodystrophy by Homozygous Lethal Xpd Alleles
Jaan-Olle Andressoo, Judith Jans, Jan de Wit, Frederic Coin, Deborah Hoogstraten, Marieke van de Ven, Wendy Toussaint, Jan Huijmans, H. Bing Thio, Wibeke J van Leeuwen, Jan de Boer, Jean-Marc Egly, Jan H. J Hoeijmakers, Gijsbertus T. J van der Horst, and James R Mitchell
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e322. Published online 2006 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040322.
PMCID: PMC1584416
Food-Web Models Predict Species Abundances in Response to Habitat Change
Nicholas J Gotelli and Aaron M Ellison
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e324. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040324.
PMCID: PMC1570498
Asymmetrical Reinforcement and Wolbachia Infection in Drosophila
John Jaenike, Kelly A Dyer, Chad Cornish, and Miranda S Minhas
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e325. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040325.
PMCID: PMC1592313
Implicit Multisensory Associations Influence Voice Recognition
Katharina von Kriegstein and Anne-Lise Giraud
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e326. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040326.
PMCID: PMC1570760
CDPKs CPK6 and CPK3 Function in ABA Regulation of Guard Cell S-Type Anion- and Ca2+- Permeable Channels and Stomatal Closure
Izumi C Mori, Yoshiyuki Murata, Yingzhen Yang, Shintaro Munemasa, Yong-Fei Wang, Shannon Andreoli, Hervé Tiriac, Jose M Alonso, Jeffery F Harper, Joseph R Ecker, June M Kwak, and Julian I Schroeder
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e327. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040327.
PMCID: PMC1592316
Munc18-Bound Syntaxin Readily Forms SNARE Complexes with Synaptobrevin in Native Plasma Membranes
Felipe E Zilly, Jakob B Sørensen, Reinhard Jahn, and Thorsten Lang
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e330. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040330.
PMCID: PMC1570500
tRNAs Promote Nuclear Import of HIV-1 Intracellular Reverse Transcription Complexes
Lyubov Zaitseva, Richard Myers, and Ariberto Fassati
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e332. Published online 2006 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040332.
PMCID: PMC1584419
Strict Host-Symbiont Cospeciation and Reductive Genome Evolution in Insect Gut Bacteria
Takahiro Hosokawa, Yoshitomo Kikuchi, Naruo Nikoh, Masakazu Shimada, and Takema Fukatsu
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e337. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040337.
PMCID: PMC1592312
Initiation, Establishment, and Maintenance of Heritable MuDR Transposon Silencing in Maize Are Mediated by Distinct Factors
Margaret Roth Woodhouse, Michael Freeling, and Damon Lisch
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e339. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040339.
PMCID: PMC1563492
Corrections
Correction: Evolution of Melanopsin Photoreceptors: Discovery and Characterization of a New Melanopsin in Nonmammalian Vertebrates
James Bellingham, Shyam S Chaurasia, Zara Melyan, Cuimei Liu, Morven A Cameron, Emma E Tarttelin, P. Michael Iuvone, Mark W Hankins, Gianluca Tosini, and Robert J Lucas
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e320. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040320.
PMCID: PMC1617328
Corrects: James Bellingham, et al. Evolution of Melanopsin Photoreceptors: Discovery and Characterization of a New Melanopsin in Nonmammalian Vertebrates. PLoS Biol. 2006 August; 4(8): e254.
Correction: Math and Fossils Resolve a Debate on Dinosaur Metabolism
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e328. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040328.
PMCID: PMC1617336
Corrects: Liza Gross. Math and Fossils Resolve a Debate on Dinosaur Metabolism. PLoS Biol. 2006 August; 4(8): e255.
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