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Volume 6(10);  October 2008
Perspectives
Is Bayh-Dole Good for Developing Countries? Lessons from the US Experience
Anthony D So, Bhaven N Sampat, Arti K Rai, Robert Cook-Deegan, Jerome H Reichman, Robert Weissman, and Amy Kapczynski
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e262. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060262.
PMCID: PMC2573936
Editorial
PLoS Biology at 5: The Future Is Open Access
Theodora Bloom, Christine Ferguson, Liza Gross, Catriona J MacCallum, Jami Milton, Robert Shields, Stephanie Wai, Janelle Weaver, and Liz Williams
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e267. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060267.
PMCID: PMC2573938
Synopses
A New View of Embryogenesis—Connective Fibers Join the Dance
William Mair
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): 1. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060268.
PMCID: PMC2567000
Brain Growth Receptors Control Lifespan
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e274. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060274.
PMCID: PMC2573943
A Shortcut to Immortality: Rapid Reprogramming with Tissue Cells
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e275. Published online 2008 October 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060275.
PMCID: PMC2570422
Rethinking Dams: Pacific Salmon Recovery May Rest on Other Factors
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e279. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060279.
PMCID: PMC2573945
Feature
Arctic Sentinels: Global mercury emissions have stabilized over the past decade, yet levels in Arctic marine mammals have risen by an order of magnitude. Scientists struggle to explain why.
Hannah Hoag
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e259. Published online 2008 October 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060259.
PMCID: PMC2570426
Primer
Using Both Sides of Your Brain: The Case for Rapid Interhemispheric Switching
Marc F Schmidt
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e269. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060269.
PMCID: PMC2573940
Seeking Membranes: Positive-Strand RNA Virus Replication Complexes
Mark R Denison
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e270. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060270.
PMCID: PMC2573941
Stem Cells Have Different Needs for REST
Ola Hermanson
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e271. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060271.
PMCID: PMC2573942
Research Articles
The ECM Moves during Primitive Streak Formation—Computation of ECM Versus Cellular Motion
Evan A Zamir, Brenda J Rongish, and Charles D Little
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): 1–9. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060247.
PMCID: PMC2567004
An Autonomous Circadian Clock in the Inner Mouse Retina Regulated by Dopamine and GABA
Guo-Xiang Ruan, Gregg C Allen, Shin Yamazaki, and Douglas G McMahon
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): 1–18. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060249.
PMCID: PMC2567003
Rapid Interhemispheric Switching during Vocal Production in a Songbird
Claude Z. H Wang, Joshua A Herbst, Georg B Keller, and Richard H. R Hahnloser
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): 1–9. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060250.
PMCID: PMC2567002
The Nucleosome-Remodeling ATPase ISWI Is Regulated by Poly-ADP-Ribosylation
Anna Sala, Gaspare La Rocca, Giosalba Burgio, Elena Kotova, Dario Di Gesù, Marianna Collesano, Antonia M. R Ingrassia, Alexei V Tulin, and Davide F. V Corona
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): 1–14. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060252.
PMCID: PMC2567001
The Desensitization Gating of the MthK K+ Channel Is Governed by Its Cytoplasmic Amino Terminus
Mario Meng-Chiang Kuo, Innokentiy Maslennikov, Brent Molden, and Senyon Choe
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e223. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060223.
PMCID: PMC2573919
Global Reorganization of Replication Domains During Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation
Ichiro Hiratani, Tyrone Ryba, Mari Itoh, Tomoki Yokochi, Michaela Schwaiger, Chia-Wei Chang, Yung Lyou, Tim M Townes, Dirk Schübeler, and David M Gilbert
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e245. Published online 2008 October 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060245.
PMCID: PMC2561079
The Timing of Differentiation of Adult Hippocampal Neurons Is Crucial for Spatial Memory
Stefano Farioli-Vecchioli, Daniele Saraulli, Marco Costanzi, Simone Pacioni, Irene Cinà, Massimiliano Aceti, Laura Micheli, Alberto Bacci, Vincenzo Cestari, and Felice Tirone
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e246. Published online 2008 October 7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060246.
PMCID: PMC2561078
High Rate of Recent Transposable Element–Induced Adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster
Josefa González, Kapa Lenkov, Mikhail Lipatov, J. Michael Macpherson, and Dmitri A Petrov
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e251. Published online 2008 October 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060251.
PMCID: PMC2570423
Promotion of Reprogramming to Ground State Pluripotency by Signal Inhibition
Jose Silva, Ornella Barrandon, Jennifer Nichols, Jitsutaro Kawaguchi, Thorold W Theunissen, and Austin Smith
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e253. Published online 2008 October 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060253.
PMCID: PMC2570424
Brain IGF-1 Receptors Control Mammalian Growth and Lifespan through a Neuroendocrine Mechanism
Laurent Kappeler, Carlos De Magalhaes Filho, Joëlle Dupont, Patricia Leneuve, Pascale Cervera, Laurence Périn, Catherine Loudes, Annick Blaise, Rüdiger Klein, Jacques Epelbaum, Yves Le Bouc, and Martin Holzenberger
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e254. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060254.
PMCID: PMC2573928
Diverse RNA-Binding Proteins Interact with Functionally Related Sets of RNAs, Suggesting an Extensive Regulatory System
Daniel J Hogan, Daniel P Riordan, André P Gerber, Daniel Herschlag, and Patrick O Brown
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e255. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060255.
PMCID: PMC2573929
REST Regulates Distinct Transcriptional Networks in Embryonic and Neural Stem Cells
Rory Johnson, Christina Hui-leng Teh, Galih Kunarso, Kee Yew Wong, Gopalan Srinivasan, Megan L Cooper, Manuela Volta, Sarah Su-ling Chan, Leonard Lipovich, Steven M Pollard, R. Krishna Murthy Karuturi, Chia-lin Wei, Noel J Buckley, and Lawrence W Stanton
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e256. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060256.
PMCID: PMC2573930
Proteomic Profiling of γ-Secretase Substrates and Mapping of Substrate Requirements
Matthew L Hemming, Joshua E Elias, Steven P Gygi, and Dennis J Selkoe
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e257. Published online 2008 October 21. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060257.
PMCID: PMC2570425
Profound Context-Dependent Plasticity of Mitral Cell Responses in Olfactory Bulb
Wilder Doucette and Diego Restrepo
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e258. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060258.
PMCID: PMC2573932
Structural Homeostasis: Compensatory Adjustments of Dendritic Arbor Geometry in Response to Variations of Synaptic Input
Marco Tripodi, Jan Felix Evers, Alex Mauss, Michael Bate, and Matthias Landgraf
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e260. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060260.
PMCID: PMC2573934
Evolutionary Plasticity of Polycomb/Trithorax Response Elements in Drosophila Species
Arne Hauenschild, Leonie Ringrose, Christina Altmutter, Renato Paro, and Marc Rehmsmeier
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e261. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060261.
PMCID: PMC2573935
Survival of Migrating Salmon Smolts in Large Rivers With and Without Dams
David W Welch, Erin L Rechisky, Michael C Melnychuk, Aswea D Porter, Carl J Walters, Shaun Clements, Benjamin J Clemens, R. Scott McKinley, and Carl Schreck
PLoS Biol. 2008 October; 6(10): e265. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060265.
PMCID: PMC2573937
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