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Volume 5(3);  March 2007
Editorial
Oceanic Metagenomics: Global Ocean Sampling Collection
Hemai Parthasarathy, Emma Hill, and Catriona MacCallum
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e83. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050083.
PMCID: PMC1821003
Synopses
Protein–RNA Interaction Links Fragile X Syndrome and Alzheimer Disease
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e84. Published online 2007 February 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050084.
PMCID: PMC1820828
Oceanic Metagenomics: Untapped Bounty: Sampling the Seas to Survey Microbial Biodiversity
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e85. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050085.
PMCID: PMC1821062
A Single Gene Coordinates the Social Life of Honeybees
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e86. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050086.
PMCID: PMC1808118
Does Bacteriophage ϕ29 Pack Its DNA with a Twist?
Mary Hoff
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e91. Published online 2007 February 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050091.
PMCID: PMC1800306
Essays
Synthetic Biology: Caught between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons
Arti Rai and James Boyle
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e58. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050058.
PMCID: PMC1821064
Oceanic Metagenomics: Environmental Shotgun Sequencing: Its Potential and Challenges for Studying the Hidden World of Microbes
Jonathan A Eisen
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e82. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050082.
PMCID: PMC1821061
Feature
Oceanic Metagenomics: Sorcerer II: The Search for Microbial Diversity Roils the Waters
Henry Nicholls
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e74. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050074.
PMCID: PMC1821058
Community Page
Oceanic Metagenomics: CAMERA: A Community Resource for Metagenomics
Rekha Seshadri, Saul A Kravitz, Larry Smarr, Paul Gilna, and Marvin Frazier
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e75. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050075.
PMCID: PMC1821059
Research Articles
Oceanic Metagenomics: The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Expanding the Universe of Protein Families
Shibu Yooseph, Granger Sutton, Douglas B Rusch, Aaron L Halpern, Shannon J Williamson, Karin Remington, Jonathan A Eisen, Karla B Heidelberg, Gerard Manning, Weizhong Li, Lukasz Jaroszewski, Piotr Cieplak, Christopher S Miller, Huiying Li, Susan T Mashiyama, Marcin P Joachimiak, Christopher van Belle, John-Marc Chandonia, David A Soergel, Yufeng Zhai, Kannan Natarajan, Shaun Lee, Benjamin J Raphael, Vineet Bafna, Robert Friedman, Steven E Brenner, Adam Godzik, David Eisenberg, Jack E Dixon, Susan S Taylor, Robert L Strausberg, Marvin Frazier, and J. Craig Venter
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e16. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050016.
PMCID: PMC1821046
Oceanic Metagenomics: Structural and Functional Diversity of the Microbial Kinome
Natarajan Kannan, Susan S Taylor, Yufeng Zhai, J. Craig Venter, and Gerard Manning
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e17. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050017.
PMCID: PMC1821047
Absence of Ret Signaling in Mice Causes Progressive and Late Degeneration of the Nigrostriatal System
Edgar R Kramer, Liviu Aron, Geert M. J Ramakers, Sabine Seitz, Xiaoxi Zhuang, Klaus Beyer, Marten P Smidt, and Rüdiger Klein
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e39. Published online 2007 February 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050039.
PMCID: PMC1808500
Revisiting the Basic Reproductive Number for Malaria and Its Implications for Malaria Control
David L Smith, F. Ellis McKenzie, Robert W Snow, and Simon I Hay
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e42. Published online 2007 February 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050042.
PMCID: PMC1802755
In Vivo Reinsertion of Excised Episomes by the V(D)J Recombinase: A Potential Threat to Genomic Stability
Katrina Vanura, Bertrand Montpellier, Trang Le, Salvatore Spicuglia, Jean-Marc Navarro, Olivier Cabaud, Sandrine Roulland, Elodie Vachez, Immo Prinz, Pierre Ferrier, Rodrig Marculescu, Ulrich Jäger, and Bertrand Nadel
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e43. Published online 2007 February 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050043.
PMCID: PMC1820826
Surviving Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Is Coupled to Altered Chondrocyte Differentiation and Function
Kwok Yeung Tsang, Danny Chan, Deborah Cheslett, Wilson C. W Chan, Chi Leong So, Ian G Melhado, Tori W. Y Chan, Kin Ming Kwan, Ernst B Hunziker, Yoshihiko Yamada, John F Bateman, Kenneth M. C Cheung, and Kathryn S. E Cheah
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e44. Published online 2007 February 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050044.
PMCID: PMC1820825
LACHESIS Restricts Gametic Cell Fate in the Female Gametophyte of Arabidopsis
Rita Groß-Hardt, Christina Kägi, Nadine Baumann, James M Moore, Ramamurthy Baskar, Wendy B Gagliano, Gerd Jürgens, and Ueli Grossniklaus
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e47. Published online 2007 February 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050047.
PMCID: PMC1804285
FMRP Mediates mGluR5-Dependent Translation of Amyloid Precursor Protein
Cara J Westmark and James S Malter
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e52. Published online 2007 February 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050052.
PMCID: PMC1808499
Functional Modulation of Cardiac Form through Regionally Confined Cell Shape Changes
Heidi J Auman, Hope Coleman, Heather E Riley, Felix Olale, Huai-Jen Tsai, and Deborah Yelon
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e53. Published online 2007 February 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050053.
PMCID: PMC1802756
Auditory Short-Term Memory Behaves Like Visual Short-Term Memory
Kristina M Visscher, Elina Kaplan, Michael J Kahana, and Robert Sekuler
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e56. Published online 2007 February 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050056.
PMCID: PMC1800308
Genome-Wide Profiling and Analysis of Arabidopsis siRNAs
Kristin D Kasschau, Noah Fahlgren, Elisabeth J Chapman, Christopher M Sullivan, Jason S Cumbie, Scott A Givan, and James C Carrington
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e57. Published online 2007 February 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050057.
PMCID: PMC1820830
Experimental Test of Connector Rotation during DNA Packaging into Bacteriophage ϕ29 Capsids
Thorsten Hugel, Jens Michaelis, Craig L Hetherington, Paul J Jardine, Shelley Grimes, Jessica M Walter, Wayne Falk, Dwight L Anderson, and Carlos Bustamante
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e59. Published online 2007 February 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050059.
PMCID: PMC1800307
A Burst-Based “Hebbian” Learning Rule at Retinogeniculate Synapses Links Retinal Waves to Activity-Dependent Refinement
Daniel A Butts, Patrick O Kanold, and Carla J Shatz
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e61. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050061.
PMCID: PMC1808114
The Gene vitellogenin Has Multiple Coordinating Effects on Social Organization
C. Mindy Nelson, Kate E Ihle, M. Kim Fondrk, Robert E Page, Jr., and Gro V Amdam
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e62. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050062.
PMCID: PMC1808115
Als3 Is a Candida albicans Invasin That Binds to Cadherins and Induces Endocytosis by Host Cells
Quynh T Phan, Carter L Myers, Yue Fu, Donald C Sheppard, Michael R Yeaman, William H Welch, Ashraf S Ibrahim, John E Edwards, Jr., and Scott G Filler
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e64. Published online 2007 February 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050064.
PMCID: PMC1802757
Retinal Ganglion Cells Can Rapidly Change Polarity from Off to On
Maria Neimark Geffen, Saskia E. J de Vries, and Markus Meister
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e65. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050065.
PMCID: PMC1808116
Arkadia Enhances Nodal/TGF-β Signaling by Coupling Phospho-Smad2/3 Activity and Turnover
Konstantinos J Mavrakis, Rebecca L Andrew, Kian Leong Lee, Chariklia Petropoulou, James E Dixon, Naveenan Navaratnam, Dominic P Norris, and Vasso Episkopou
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e67. Published online 2007 March 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050067.
PMCID: PMC1808117
A Novel Role for the TIR Domain in Association with Pathogen-Derived Elicitors
Tessa M Burch-Smith, Michael Schiff, Jeffrey L Caplan, Jeffrey Tsao, Kirk Czymmek, and Savithramma P Dinesh-Kumar
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e68. Published online 2007 February 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050068.
PMCID: PMC1820829
Oceanic Metagenomics: The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific
Douglas B Rusch, Aaron L Halpern, Granger Sutton, Karla B Heidelberg, Shannon Williamson, Shibu Yooseph, Dongying Wu, Jonathan A Eisen, Jeff M Hoffman, Karin Remington, Karen Beeson, Bao Tran, Hamilton Smith, Holly Baden-Tillson, Clare Stewart, Joyce Thorpe, Jason Freeman, Cynthia Andrews-Pfannkoch, Joseph E Venter, Kelvin Li, Saul Kravitz, John F Heidelberg, Terry Utterback, Yu-Hui Rogers, Luisa I Falcón, Valeria Souza, Germán Bonilla-Rosso, Luis E Eguiarte, David M Karl, Shubha Sathyendranath, Trevor Platt, Eldredge Bermingham, Victor Gallardo, Giselle Tamayo-Castillo, Michael R Ferrari, Robert L Strausberg, Kenneth Nealson, Robert Friedman, Marvin Frazier, and J. Craig Venter
PLoS Biol. 2007 March; 5(3): e77. Published online 2007 March 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050077.
PMCID: PMC1821060
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