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Volume 4(11);  November 2006
Editorial
ONE for All: The Next Step for PLoS
Catriona J MacCallum
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e401. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040401.
PMCID: PMC1637059
Synopses
“Supporting” Players Take the Lead in Protecting the Overstimulated Brain
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e371. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040371.
PMCID: PMC1609133
The Seeds of Diversity: Lessons from Tropical Trees
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e375. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040375.
PMCID: PMC1609135
Charting the Spread of Salmonella Infection
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e378. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040378.
PMCID: PMC1609134
An Unexpected Connection: Potassium Limitation and Ammonium Toxicity in Yeast
Mary Hoff
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e389. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040389.
PMCID: PMC1609131
Can DNA Distortion Turn RAG into a Potent Transposase?
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e390. Published online 2006 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040390.
PMCID: PMC1618417
Signals That Tell Fly Neurons to Extend or Retract
Françoise Chanut
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e391. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040391.
PMCID: PMC1592315
Assessing Ecosystem Services to Identify Conservation Priorities
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e392. Published online 2006 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040392.
PMCID: PMC1629037
Immune Cells Strike a Balance to Avoid Autoimmune Disease
Mason Inman
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e393. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040393.
PMCID: PMC1609126
Sexual Selection Comes at a Cost
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e394. Published online 2006 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040394.
PMCID: PMC1618419
Too Long, Too Short, or Just Right: Glycosphingolipid–Protein Binding Varies with Acyl Chain Length
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e397. Published online 2006 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040397.
PMCID: PMC1618418
New Factors Controlling Parent-Specific Genetic Control
Jason Underwood
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e398. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040398.
PMCID: PMC1609132
Picking the Right Parts at the Beta Barrel Factory
Mary Hoff
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e399. Published online 2006 November 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040399.
PMCID: PMC1634888
HIV–Cholesterol Connection Suggests a New Antiretroviral Strategy
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e400. Published online 2006 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040400.
PMCID: PMC1629035
PGC-1β: A Regulator of Mitochondrial Function with Subtle Roles in Energy Metabolism
Françoise Chanut
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e402. Published online 2006 November 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040402.
PMCID: PMC1634887
Borrowing a DNA Repair Enzyme to Fine-Tune Antibody Specificity
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e403. Published online 2006 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040403.
PMCID: PMC1618867
Kinetics of Synaptic Protein Turnover Regulate Synaptic Size
Rachel Jones
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e404. Published online 2006 November 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040404.
PMCID: PMC1634880
Bridging the Gap between Theory and Ecology in Evolutionary Models
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e405. Published online 2006 November 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040405.
PMCID: PMC1634885
Metagenomics Offers a Big-Picture View of the Diversity and Distribution of Marine Viruses
Mary Hoff
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e406. Published online 2006 November 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040406.
PMCID: PMC1634877
siRNAs and DNA Methylation Do a Two-Step to Silence Tandem Sequences
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e407. Published online 2006 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040407.
PMCID: PMC1618420
Apoptosis Versus Survival: When in Doubt, Choose Both
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e408. Published online 2006 November 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040408.
PMCID: PMC1634884
Modeling Alien Invasions: Plasticity May Hold the Key to Prevention
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e411. Published online 2006 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040411.
PMCID: PMC1629038
Essay
Bushes in the Tree of Life
Antonis Rokas and Sean B Carroll
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e352. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040352.
PMCID: PMC1637082
Primer
A Marriage of Old and New: Chemostats and Microarrays Identify a New Model System for Ammonium Toxicity
Michael C Lorenz
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e388. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040388.
PMCID: PMC1637045
Community Page
BioGeomancer: Automated Georeferencing to Map the World's Biodiversity Data
Robert P Guralnick, John Wieczorek, Reed Beaman, Robert J Hijmans, and the BioGeomancer Working Group
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e381. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040381.
PMCID: PMC1637066
Research Articles
The Impact of T Cell Intrinsic Antigen Adaptation on Peripheral Immune Tolerance
Nevil J Singh, Chuan Chen, and Ronald H Schwartz
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e340. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040340.
PMCID: PMC1609129
Plasticity of Astrocytic Coverage and Glutamate Transporter Expression in Adult Mouse Cortex
Christel Genoud, Charles Quairiaux, Pascal Steiner, Harald Hirling, Egbert Welker, and Graham W Knott
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e343. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040343.
PMCID: PMC1609127
Seed Dispersal and Spatial Pattern in Tropical Trees
Tristram G Seidler and Joshua B Plotkin
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e344. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040344.
PMCID: PMC1609130
A Signaling Network for Patterning of Neuronal Connectivity in the Drosophila Brain
Mohammed Srahna, Maarten Leyssen, Ching Man Choi, Lee G Fradkin, Jasprina N Noordermeer, and Bassem A Hassan
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e348. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040348.
PMCID: PMC1592317
Intracellular Demography and the Dynamics of Salmonella enterica Infections
Sam P Brown, Stephen J Cornell, Mark Sheppard, Andrew J Grant, Duncan J Maskell, Bryan T Grenfell, and Pietro Mastroeni
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e349. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040349.
PMCID: PMC1609125
Target DNA Structure Plays a Critical Role in RAG Transposition
Jennifer E Posey, Malgorzata J Pytlos, Richard R Sinden, and David B Roth
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e350. Published online 2006 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040350.
PMCID: PMC1618415
Ammonium Toxicity and Potassium Limitation in Yeast
David C Hess, Wenyun Lu, Joshua D Rabinowitz, and David Botstein
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e351. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040351.
PMCID: PMC1609136
The Testis-Specific Factor CTCFL Cooperates with the Protein Methyltransferase PRMT7 in H19 Imprinting Control Region Methylation
Petar Jelinic, Jean-Christophe Stehle, and Phillip Shaw
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e355. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040355.
PMCID: PMC1609128
Intralocus Sexual Conflict Diminishes the Benefits of Sexual Selection
Alison Pischedda and Adam K Chippindale
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e356. Published online 2006 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040356.
PMCID: PMC1618422
Mapping the Economic Costs and Benefits of Conservation
Robin Naidoo and Taylor H Ricketts
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e360. Published online 2006 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040360.
PMCID: PMC1629040
The Liganding of Glycolipid Transfer Protein Is Controlled by Glycolipid Acyl Structure
Lucy Malinina, Margarita L Malakhova, Alex T Kanack, Min Lu, Ruben Abagyan, Rhoderick E Brown, and Dinshaw J Patel
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e362. Published online 2006 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040362.
PMCID: PMC1618416
Two-Step Recruitment of RNA-Directed DNA Methylation to Tandem Repeats
Simon W.-L Chan, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yana V Bernatavichute, and Steven E Jacobsen
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e363. Published online 2006 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040363.
PMCID: PMC1618421
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Impairs Reverse Cholesterol Transport from Macrophages
Zahedi Mujawar, Honor Rose, Matthew P Morrow, Tatiana Pushkarsky, Larisa Dubrovsky, Nigora Mukhamedova, Ying Fu, Anthony Dart, Jan M Orenstein, Yuri V Bobryshev, Michael Bukrinsky, and Dmitri Sviridov
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e365. Published online 2006 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040365.
PMCID: PMC1629034
A Role for PCNA Ubiquitination in Immunoglobulin Hypermutation
Hiroshi Arakawa, George-Lucian Moldovan, Huseyin Saribasak, Nesibe Nur Saribasak, Stefan Jentsch, and Jean-Marie Buerstedde
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e366. Published online 2006 October 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040366.
PMCID: PMC1618868
The Marine Viromes of Four Oceanic Regions
Florent E Angly, Ben Felts, Mya Breitbart, Peter Salamon, Robert A Edwards, Craig Carlson, Amy M Chan, Matthew Haynes, Scott Kelley, Hong Liu, Joseph M Mahaffy, Jennifer E Mueller, Jim Nulton, Robert Olson, Rachel Parsons, Steve Rayhawk, Curtis A Suttle, and Forest Rohwer
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e368. Published online 2006 November 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040368.
PMCID: PMC1634881
Ablation of PGC-1β Results in Defective Mitochondrial Activity, Thermogenesis, Hepatic Function, and Cardiac Performance
Christopher J Lelliott, Gema Medina-Gomez, Natasa Petrovic, Adrienn Kis, Helena M Feldmann, Mikael Bjursell, Nadeene Parker, Keira Curtis, Mark Campbell, Ping Hu, Dongfang Zhang, Sheldon E Litwin, Vlad G Zaha, Kimberly T Fountain, Sihem Boudina, Mercedes Jimenez-Linan, Margaret Blount, Miguel Lopez, Aline Meirhaeghe, Mohammad Bohlooly-Y, Leonard Storlien, Maria Strömstedt, Michael Snaith, Matej Orešič, E. Dale Abel, Barbara Cannon, and Antonio Vidal-Puig
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e369. Published online 2006 November 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040369.
PMCID: PMC1634886
Rapid Redistribution of Synaptic PSD-95 in the Neocortex In Vivo
Noah W Gray, Robby M Weimer, Ingrid Bureau, and Karel Svoboda
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e370. Published online 2006 November 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040370.
PMCID: PMC1634879
Phenotypic Plasticity Opposes Species Invasions by Altering Fitness Surface
Scott D Peacor, Stefano Allesina, Rick L Riolo, and Mercedes Pascual
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e372. Published online 2006 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040372.
PMCID: PMC1629039
Detecting Non-Brownian Trait Evolution in Adaptive Radiations
Robert P Freckleton and Paul H Harvey
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e373. Published online 2006 November 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040373.
PMCID: PMC1634878
Adaptation to ER Stress Is Mediated by Differential Stabilities of Pro-Survival and Pro-Apoptotic mRNAs and Proteins
D. Thomas Rutkowski, Stacey M Arnold, Corey N Miller, Jun Wu, Jack Li, Kathryn M Gunnison, Kazutoshi Mori, Amir A. Sadighi Akha, David Raden, and Randal J Kaufman
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e374. Published online 2006 November 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040374.
PMCID: PMC1634883
Assembly Factor Omp85 Recognizes Its Outer Membrane Protein Substrates by a Species-Specific C-Terminal Motif
Viviane Robert, Elena B Volokhina, Freya Senf, Martine P Bos, Patrick Van Gelder, and Jan Tommassen
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e377. Published online 2006 November 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040377.
PMCID: PMC1634882
Conservation Planning for Ecosystem Services
Kai M. A Chan, M. Rebecca Shaw, David R Cameron, Emma C Underwood, and Gretchen C Daily
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e379. Published online 2006 October 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040379.
PMCID: PMC1629036
Corrections
Correction: Morphological Evolution Is Accelerated among Island Mammals
Virginie Millien
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e384. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040384.
PMCID: PMC1637079
Corrects: Virginie Millien. Morphological Evolution Is Accelerated among Island Mammals. PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e321.
Correction: Preserving Genome Integrity: The DdrA Protein of Deinococcus radiodurans R1
Dennis R Harris, Masashi Tanaka, Sergei V Saveliev, Edmond Jolivet, Ashlee M Earl, Michael M Cox, and John R Battista
PLoS Biol. 2006 November; 4(11): e385. Published online 2006 November 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040385.
PMCID: PMC1637083
Corrects: Dennis R Harris, et al. Preserving Genome Integrity: The DdrA Protein of Deinococcus radiodurans R1. PLoS Biol. 2004 October; 2(10): e304.
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