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Volume 3(2);  February 2005
Synopses
What Does an Airline Traveler Have in Common with a Glowing Fish?
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e46. Published online 2005 February 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030046.
PMCID: PMC546040
Rice Genome Approaches Completion
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e47. Published online 2005 February 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030047.
PMCID: PMC546041
Loss of Sight and Enhanced Hearing: A Neural Picture
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e48. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030048.
PMCID: PMC544930
Unique Double-Barreled Enzyme Makes Methionine the Hard Way
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e54. Published online 2004 December 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030054.
PMCID: PMC539230
How Bacteria Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love…Formaldehyde
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e55. Published online 2005 January 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030055.
PMCID: PMC539343
Why Bad Boys Always Get the Girl and Other Tales of Evolutionary Madness
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e57. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030057.
PMCID: PMC544931
Aging and Death in E. coli
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e58. Published online 2005 February 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030058.
PMCID: PMC546042
DNA Recombination and Repair—A New Twist to RecA Function
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e70. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030070.
PMCID: PMC546332
An HIV Protein Plays a Surprising Role in Gene Activation
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e72. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030072.
PMCID: PMC546333
Hominids Lose Control
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e73. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030073.
PMCID: PMC544932
Novel Enzyme Shows Potential as an Anti-HIV Target
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e74. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030074.
PMCID: PMC546334
Opposing Fat Metabolism Pathways Triggered by a Single Gene
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e83. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030083.
PMCID: PMC546335
The Bottleneck of Central Processing: Clues from Reaction Times
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e84. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030084.
PMCID: PMC546336
Essay
Facts from Text—Is Text Mining Ready to Deliver?
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Harald Kirsch, and Francisco Couto
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e65. Published online 2005 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030065.
PMCID: PMC548955
Feature
Ancient DNA Comes of Age
Henry Nicholls
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e56. Published online 2005 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030056.
PMCID: PMC548952
Book Review/Science in the Media
Progress on the Origin of Species
Douglas J Futuyma
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e62. Published online 2005 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030062.
PMCID: PMC548954
Primer
Timing the Brain: Mental Chronometry as a Tool in Neuroscience
Michael I Posner
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e51. Published online 2005 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030051.
PMCID: PMC548951
A New Paradigm in Eukaryotic Biology: HIV Tat and the Control of Transcriptional Elongation
Matjaz Barboric and B. Matija Peterlin
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e76. Published online 2005 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030076.
PMCID: PMC548956
Community Page
Discovery-Based Science Education: Functional Genomic Dissection in Drosophila by Undergraduate Researchers
Jiong Chen, Gerald B Call, Elsa Beyer, Chris Bui, Albert Cespedes, Amy Chan, Jenny Chan, Stacy Chan, Akanksha Chhabra, Peter Dang, Artemis Deravanesian, Brenda Hermogeno, James Jen, Eunha Kim, Eric Lee, Gemma Lewis, Jamie Marshall, Kirsten Regalia, Farnaz Shadpour, Aram Shemmassian, Kristin Spivey, Maggie Wells, Joy Wu, Yuki Yamauchi, Amir Yavari, Anna Abrams, Amanda Abramson, Latiffe Amado, Jenny Anderson, Keenan Bashour, Elena Bibikova, Allen Bookatz, Sarah Brewer, Natalie Buu, Stephanie Calvillo, Joseph Cao, Aileen Chang, Daniel Chang, Yuli Chang, Yibing Chen, Joo Choi, Jeyling Chou, Sumit Datta, Ardy Davarifar, Poonam Desai, Jordan Fabrikant, Shahbaz Farnad, Katherine Fu, Eddie Garcia, Nick Garrone, Srpouhi Gasparyan, Phyllis Gayda, Chad Goffstein, Courtney Gonzalez, Mariam Guirguis, Ryan Hassid, Aria Hong, Julie Hong, Lindsay Hovestreydt, Charles Hu, Farid Jamshidian, Katrin Kahen, Linda Kao, Melissa Kelley, Thomas Kho, Sarah Kim, Yein Kim, Brian Kirkpatrick, Emil Kohan, Robert Kwak, Adam Langenbacher, Santino Laxamana, Chris Lee, Janet Lee, So-Youn Lee, To Hang S Lee, Toni Lee, Sheila Lezcano, Henry Lin, Peter Lin, Julie Luu, Thanh Luu, Will Marrs, Erin Marsh, Sarah Min, Tanya Minasian, Amit Misra, Miles Morimoto, Yasaman Moshfegh, Jessica Murray, Cynthia Nguyen, Kha Nguyen, Ernesto Nodado, II, Amanda O'Donahue, Ndidi Onugha, Nneka Orjiakor, Bhavin Padhiar, Mara Pavel-Dinu, Alex Pavlenko, Edwin Paz, Sarah Phaklides, Lephong Pham, Preethi Poulose, Russell Powell, Aya Pusic, Divi Ramola, Meghann Ribbens, Bassel Rifai, Desiree Rosselli, Manyak Saakyan, Pamela Saarikoski, Miriam Segura, Ramnik Singh, Vivek Singh, Emily Skinner, Daniel Solomin, Kosha Soneji, Erika Stageberg, Marina Stavchanskiy, Leena Tekchandani, Leo Thai, Jayantha Thiyanaratnam, Maurine Tong, Aneet Toor, Steve Tovar, Kelly Trangsrud, Wah-Yung Tsang, Marc Uemura, Mary Unkovic, Emily Vollmer, Emily Weiss, Damien Wood, Sophia Wu, Winston Wu, Qing Xu, Kevin Yackle, Will Yarosh, Laura Yee, George Yen, Grant Alkin, Sheryllene Go, Devon M Huff, Helena Minye, Eric Paul, Nikki Villarasa, Allison Milchanowski, and Utpal Banerjee
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e59. Published online 2005 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030059.
PMCID: PMC548953
Research Articles
Flux Analysis Uncovers Key Role of Functional Redundancy in Formaldehyde Metabolism
Christopher J Marx, Stephen J Van Dien, and Mary E Lidstrom
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e16. Published online 2005 January 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030016.
PMCID: PMC539335
A Functional Neuroimaging Study of Sound Localization: Visual Cortex Activity Predicts Performance in Early-Blind Individuals
Frédéric Gougoux, Robert J Zatorre, Maryse Lassonde, Patrice Voss, and Franco Lepore
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e27. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030027.
PMCID: PMC544927
Cobalamin-Independent Methionine Synthase (MetE): A Face-to-Face Double Barrel That Evolved by Gene Duplication
Robert Pejchal and Martha L Ludwig
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e31. Published online 2004 December 28. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030031.
PMCID: PMC539065
The Indirect Benefits of Mating with Attractive Males Outweigh the Direct Costs
Megan L Head, John Hunt, Michael D Jennions, and Robert Brooks
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e33. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030033.
PMCID: PMC544928
Light-Dependent Development of Circadian Gene Expression in Transgenic Zebrafish
Maki Kaneko and Gregory M Cahill
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e34. Published online 2005 February 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030034.
PMCID: PMC546037
Parsing a Cognitive Task: A Characterization of the Mind's Bottleneck
Mariano Sigman and Stanislas Dehaene
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e37. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030037.
PMCID: PMC546328
The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications
Jun Yu, Jun Wang, Wei Lin, Songgang Li, Heng Li, Jun Zhou, Peixiang Ni, Wei Dong, Songnian Hu, Changqing Zeng, Jianguo Zhang, Yong Zhang, Ruiqiang Li, Zuyuan Xu, Shengting Li, Xianran Li, Hongkun Zheng, Lijuan Cong, Liang Lin, Jianning Yin, Jianing Geng, Guangyuan Li, Jianping Shi, Juan Liu, Hong Lv, Jun Li, Jing Wang, Yajun Deng, Longhua Ran, Xiaoli Shi, Xiyin Wang, Qingfa Wu, Changfeng Li, Xiaoyu Ren, Jingqiang Wang, Xiaoling Wang, Dawei Li, Dongyuan Liu, Xiaowei Zhang, Zhendong Ji, Wenming Zhao, Yongqiao Sun, Zhenpeng Zhang, Jingyue Bao, Yujun Han, Lingli Dong, Jia Ji, Peng Chen, Shuming Wu, Jinsong Liu, Ying Xiao, Dongbo Bu, Jianlong Tan, Li Yang, Chen Ye, Jingfen Zhang, Jingyi Xu, Yan Zhou, Yingpu Yu, Bing Zhang, Shulin Zhuang, Haibin Wei, Bin Liu, Meng Lei, Hong Yu, Yuanzhe Li, Hao Xu, Shulin Wei, Ximiao He, Lijun Fang, Zengjin Zhang, Yunze Zhang, Xiangang Huang, Zhixi Su, Wei Tong, Jinhong Li, Zongzhong Tong, Shuangli Li, Jia Ye, Lishun Wang, Lin Fang, Tingting Lei, Chen Chen, Huan Chen, Zhao Xu, Haihong Li, Haiyan Huang, Feng Zhang, Huayong Xu, Na Li, Caifeng Zhao, Shuting Li, Lijun Dong, Yanqing Huang, Long Li, Yan Xi, Qiuhui Qi, Wenjie Li, Bo Zhang, Wei Hu, Yanling Zhang, Xiangjun Tian, Yongzhi Jiao, Xiaohu Liang, Jiao Jin, Lei Gao, Weimou Zheng, Bailin Hao, Siqi Liu, Wen Wang, Longping Yuan, Mengliang Cao, Jason McDermott, Ram Samudrala, Jian Wang, Gane Ka-Shu Wong, and Huanming Yang
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e38. Published online 2005 February 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030038.
PMCID: PMC546038
SIRT1 Regulates HIV Transcription via Tat Deacetylation
Sara Pagans, Angelika Pedal, Brian J North, Katrin Kaehlcke, Brett L Marshall, Alexander Dorr, Claudia Hetzer-Egger, Peter Henklein, Roy Frye, Michael W McBurney, Henning Hruby, Manfred Jung, Eric Verdin, and Melanie Ott
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e41. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030041.
PMCID: PMC546329
Evidence for Widespread Degradation of Gene Control Regions in Hominid Genomes
Peter D Keightley, Martin J Lercher, and Adam Eyre-Walker
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e42. Published online 2005 January 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030042.
PMCID: PMC544929
HIV-1 Tat Stimulates Transcription Complex Assembly through Recruitment of TBP in the Absence of TAFs
Tamal Raha, S. W. Grace Cheng, and Michael R Green
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e44. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030044.
PMCID: PMC546330
Aging and Death in an Organism That Reproduces by Morphologically Symmetric Division
Eric J Stewart, Richard Madden, Gregory Paul, and François Taddei
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e45. Published online 2005 February 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030045.
PMCID: PMC546039
Organized Unidirectional Waves of ATP Hydrolysis within a RecA Filament
Julia M Cox, Oleg V Tsodikov, and Michael M Cox
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e52. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030052.
PMCID: PMC546331
Nuclear Hormone Receptor NHR-49 Controls Fat Consumption and Fatty Acid Composition in C. elegans
Marc R. Van Gilst, Haralambos Hadjivassiliou, Amber Jolly, and Keith R Yamamoto
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e53. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030053.
PMCID: PMC547972
Corrections
Correction: Components of Coated Vesicles and Nuclear Pore Complexes Share a Common Molecular Architecture
Damien Devos, Svetlana Dokudovskaya, Frank Alber, Rosemary Williams, Brian T Chait, Andrej Sali, and Michael P Rout
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e80. Published online 2005 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030080.
PMCID: PMC548957
Corrects: Damien Devos, et al. Components of Coated Vesicles and Nuclear Pore Complexes Share a Common Molecular Architecture. PLoS Biol. 2004 December; 2(12): e380.
Correction: Cro-Magnons Conquered Europe, but Left Neanderthals Alone
PLoS Biol. 2005 February; 3(2): e90. Published online 2005 February 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030090.
PMCID: PMC548958
Corrects: Cro-Magnons Conquered Europe, but Left Neanderthals Alone. PLoS Biol. 2004 December; 2(12): e449.
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