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Volume 2(9);  September 2004
Synopses
Host Immunity Escalates the Evolution of Parasite Virulence
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e251. Published online 2004 June 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020251.
PMCID: PMC434155
Genomic Analysis of Retinal Development in the Mouse
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e265. Published online 2004 June 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020265.
PMCID: PMC439009
Genome-Wide Survey of Cohesin: A Molecular Guardian of Genomic Fidelity
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e291. Published online 2004 July 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020291.
PMCID: PMC490028
Evolution of a Primate Defense against Intragenomic Infiltrators
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e292. Published online 2004 July 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020292.
PMCID: PMC479045
A Developmental Role for Fatty Acids in Eukaryotes
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e293. Published online 2004 August 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020293.
PMCID: PMC514886
Patterning the Face
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e295. Published online 2004 July 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020295.
PMCID: PMC479046
Hormones Act in Concert to Direct Plant Growth
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e299. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020299.
PMCID: PMC509411
A Case for a Functional Actin Network in the Nucleus
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e300. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020300.
PMCID: PMC509412
The Structural Basis of a Prostate Cancer Protein's Unique Selectivity
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e305. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020305.
PMCID: PMC509413
New Route to Longer Life
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e308. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020308.
PMCID: PMC514492
Fly Fights with Both Hands
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e313. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020313.
PMCID: PMC515371
The Case of the Noisy Neurons
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e314. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020314.
PMCID: PMC509414
Mitochondrial Genes Cause Nuclear Mischief
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e316. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020316.
PMCID: PMC515372
Protein Helps Orchestrate Cells' Fluid Uptake
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e318. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020318.
PMCID: PMC514493
Dissecting the Transcriptional Control of Body Patterning
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e319. Published online 2004 August 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020319.
PMCID: PMC514888
Verifying Sequences that Enhance Splicing
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e323. Published online 2004 August 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020323.
PMCID: PMC514889
Policing Relative Conflicts of Interest in Social Insects
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e324. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020324.
PMCID: PMC514494
Feature
The Conservation Business
Henry Nicholls
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e310. Published online 2004 September 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020310.
PMCID: PMC516798
Unsolved Mystery
What Is Life—and How Do We Search for It in Other Worlds?
Chris P McKay
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e302. Published online 2004 September 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020302.
PMCID: PMC516796
Book Review/Science in the Media
Paradoxes of Difference
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e263. Published online 2004 September 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020263.
PMCID: PMC516793
Journal Club
Bridging Psychology and Mathematics: Can the Brain Understand the Brain?
Mariano Sigman
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e297. Published online 2004 September 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020297.
PMCID: PMC516795
Primer
Adaptation and Immunity
Eddie C Holmes
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e307. Published online 2004 September 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020307.
PMCID: PMC516797
Hormonal Regulation of Plant Growth and Development
William M Gray
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e311. Published online 2004 September 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020311.
PMCID: PMC516799
Community Page
The Genome Assembly Archive: A New Public Resource
Steven L Salzberg, Deanna Church, Michael DiCuccio, Eugene Yaschenko, and James Ostell
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e285. Published online 2004 September 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020285.
PMCID: PMC516794
Submission of Microarray Data to Public Repositories
Catherine A Ball, Alvis Brazma, Helen Causton, Steve Chervitz, Ron Edgar, Pascal Hingamp, John C Matese, Helen Parkinson, John Quackenbush, Martin Ringwald, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Gavin Sherlock, Paul Spellman, Chris Stoeckert, Yoshio Tateno, Ronald Taylor, Joseph White, and Neil Winegarden
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e317. Published online 2004 August 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020317.
PMCID: PMC514887
Research Articles
Immunity Promotes Virulence Evolution in a Malaria Model
Margaret J Mackinnon and Andrew F Read
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e230. Published online 2004 June 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020230.
PMCID: PMC434153
Emerin Caps the Pointed End of Actin Filaments: Evidence for an Actin Cortical Network at the Nuclear Inner Membrane
James M Holaska, Amy K Kowalski, and Katherine L Wilson
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e231. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020231.
PMCID: PMC509406
An Integrin-Dependent Role of Pouch Endoderm in Hyoid Cartilage Development
Justin Gage Crump, Mary E Swartz, and Charles B Kimmel
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e244. Published online 2004 July 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020244.
PMCID: PMC479042
Genomic Analysis of Mouse Retinal Development
Seth Blackshaw, Sanjiv Harpavat, Jeff Trimarchi, Li Cai, Haiyan Huang, Winston P Kuo, Griffin Weber, Kyungjoon Lee, Rebecca E Fraioli, Seo-Hee Cho, Rachel Yung, Elizabeth Asch, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Wing H Wong, and Constance L Cepko
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e247. Published online 2004 June 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020247.
PMCID: PMC439783
Conflict over Male Parentage in Social Insects
Robert L Hammond and Laurent Keller
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e248. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020248.
PMCID: PMC514489
Monomethyl Branched-Chain Fatty Acids Play an Essential Role in Caenorhabditis elegans Development
Marina Kniazeva, Quinn T Crawford, Matt Seiber, Cun-Yu Wang, and Min Han
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e257. Published online 2004 August 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020257.
PMCID: PMC514883
Interdependency of Brassinosteroid and Auxin Signaling in Arabidopsis
Jennifer L Nemhauser, Todd C Mockler, and Joanne Chory
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e258. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020258.
PMCID: PMC509407
Genome-Wide Mapping of the Cohesin Complex in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Earl F Glynn, Paul C Megee, Hong-Guo Yu, Cathy Mistrot, Elcin Unal, Douglas E Koshland, Joseph L DeRisi, and Jennifer L Gerton
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e259. Published online 2004 July 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020259.
PMCID: PMC490026
The Kinetochore Is an Enhancer of Pericentric Cohesin Binding
Stewart A Weber, Jennifer L Gerton, Joan E Polancic, Joseph L DeRisi, Douglas Koshland, and Paul C Megee
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e260. Published online 2004 July 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020260.
PMCID: PMC490027
The Rab5 Effector Rabankyrin-5 Regulates and Coordinates Different Endocytic Mechanisms
Carsten Schnatwinkel, Savvas Christoforidis, Margaret R Lindsay, Sandrine Uttenweiler-Joseph, Matthias Wilm, Robert G Parton, and Marino Zerial
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e261. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020261.
PMCID: PMC514490
Amplification of Trial-to-Trial Response Variability by Neurons in Visual Cortex
Matteo Carandini
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e264. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020264.
PMCID: PMC509408
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism–Based Validation of Exonic Splicing Enhancers
William G Fairbrother, Dirk Holste, Christopher B Burge, and Phillip A Sharp
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e268. Published online 2004 August 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020268.
PMCID: PMC514884
Transcriptional Control in the Segmentation Gene Network of Drosophila
Mark D Schroeder, Michael Pearce, John Fak, HongQing Fan, Ulrich Unnerstall, Eldon Emberly, Nikolaus Rajewsky, Eric D Siggia, and Ulrike Gaul
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e271. Published online 2004 August 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020271.
PMCID: PMC514885
Continued Colonization of the Human Genome by Mitochondrial DNA
Miria Ricchetti, Fredj Tekaia, and Bernard Dujon
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e273. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020273.
PMCID: PMC515365
Recognition and Accommodation at the Androgen Receptor Coactivator Binding Interface
Eugene Hur, Samuel J Pfaff, E. Sturgis Payne, Hanne Grøn, Benjamin M Buehrer, and Robert J Fletterick
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e274. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020274.
PMCID: PMC509409
Ancient Adaptive Evolution of the Primate Antiviral DNA-Editing Enzyme APOBEC3G
Sara L Sawyer, Michael Emerman, and Harmit S Malik
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e275. Published online 2004 July 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020275.
PMCID: PMC479043
A Drosophila Pattern Recognition Receptor Contains a Peptidoglycan Docking Groove and Unusual L,D-Carboxypeptidase Activity
Chung-I Chang, Sébastien Pili-Floury, Mireille Hervé, Claudine Parquet, Yogarany Chelliah, Bruno Lemaitre, Dominique Mengin-Lecreulx, and Johann Deisenhofer
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e277. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020277.
PMCID: PMC515366
Sir2-Independent Life Span Extension by Calorie Restriction in Yeast
Matt Kaeberlein, Kathryn T Kirkland, Stanley Fields, and Brian K Kennedy
PLoS Biol. 2004 September; 2(9): e296. Published online 2004 August 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020296.
PMCID: PMC514491
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