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Volume 4(7);  July 2006
Editorial
Bipartisan Bill for Public Access to Research—Time for Action
Hemai Parthasarathy
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e257. Published online 2006 July 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040257.
PMCID: PMC1489991
Synopses
Shape of a Common Protein Module Suggests Role as Molecular Switch
Mason Inman
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e221. Published online 2006 June 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040221.
PMCID: PMC1472249
DNA Amplification and Detection Made Simple (Relatively)
Mary Hoff
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e222. Published online 2006 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040222.
PMCID: PMC1475774
The Results Are In: Bacterial Parasite Strives for Balance in Host Infection
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e223. Published online 2006 May 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040223.
PMCID: PMC1470466
Success Comes at a Cost, Even for Phages
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e227. Published online 2006 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040227.
PMCID: PMC1475769
From Lab to Nature: Thermal Adaptation in Bacterial Viruses
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e230. Published online 2006 June 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040230.
PMCID: PMC1472250
Distinct B Cell Receptor Functions Are Determined by Phosphorylation
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e231. Published online 2006 May 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040231.
PMCID: PMC1470464
A New Twist on an Animal Model Reveals Environmental Constraints on Selection
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e236. Published online 2006 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040236.
PMCID: PMC1475770
Global Patterns of Geographic Range Sizes: A Bird's Eye View
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e237. Published online 2006 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040237.
PMCID: PMC1479696
Characterizing a Key Player in Micro, but Not Small, RNA Interference
Richard Robinson
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e238. Published online 2006 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040238.
PMCID: PMC1475775
Neurons' Short-Term Plasticity Amplifies Signals
Mason Inman
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e240. Published online 2006 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040240.
PMCID: PMC1479699
A Chemical Facilitator of Plant–Fungus Communication
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e241. Published online 2006 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040241.
PMCID: PMC1481524
Who Are You Calling a Squirt?
Caitlin Sedwick
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e243. Published online 2006 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040243.
PMCID: PMC1481525
Choice and Uncertainty Clog the Bottleneck of Central Processing
Jami Milton Dantzker
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e244. Published online 2006 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040244.
PMCID: PMC1481522
The Tessellated Monkey: Parsing the Functional Fields of the Auditory Cortex
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e245. Published online 2006 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040245.
PMCID: PMC1479694
A Protean Insect Receptor Holds the Key to Broad-Based Pathogen Recognition
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e246. Published online 2006 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040246.
PMCID: PMC1479697
Bursting on the Scene: How Thalamic Neurons Grab Your Attention
Jami Milton Dantzker
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e250. Published online 2006 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040250.
PMCID: PMC1475767
Primer
The Most Widespread Symbiosis on Earth
Andreas Brachmann and Martin Parniske
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e239. Published online 2006 July 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040239.
PMCID: PMC1489982
Correspondence and Other Communications
Data Sharing: How Much Doesn't Get Submitted to GenBank?
Mohamed A. F Noor, Katherine J Zimmerman, and Katherine C Teeter
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e228. Published online 2006 July 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040228.
PMCID: PMC1489975
Research Articles
Structural Basis for a Munc13–1 Homodimer to Munc13–1/RIM Heterodimer Switch
Jun Lu, Mischa Machius, Irina Dulubova, Han Dai, Thomas C Südhof, Diana R Tomchick, and Josep Rizo
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e192. Published online 2006 June 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040192.
PMCID: PMC1472246
Viruses' Life History: Towards a Mechanistic Basis of a Trade-Off between Survival and Reproduction among Phages
Marianne De Paepe and François Taddei
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e193. Published online 2006 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040193.
PMCID: PMC1475768
Empirical Support for Optimal Virulence in a Castrating Parasite
Knut Helge Jensen, Tom Little, Arne Skorping, and Dieter Ebert
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e197. Published online 2006 May 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040197.
PMCID: PMC1470460
B Cell Antigen Receptor Signaling and Internalization Are Mutually Exclusive Events
Ping Hou, Elizabeth Araujo, Tong Zhao, Miao Zhang, Don Massenburg, Margaret Veselits, Colleen Doyle, Aaron R Dinner, and Marcus R Clark
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e200. Published online 2006 May 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040200.
PMCID: PMC1470458
The Genetic Basis of Thermal Reaction Norm Evolution in Lab and Natural Phage Populations
Jennifer L Knies, Rima Izem, Katie L Supler, Joel G Kingsolver, and Christina L Burch
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e201. Published online 2006 June 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040201.
PMCID: PMC1472247
DNA Detection Using Recombination Proteins
Olaf Piepenburg, Colin H Williams, Derek L Stemple, and Niall A Armes
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e204. Published online 2006 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040204.
PMCID: PMC1475771
Excitatory and Feed-Forward Inhibitory Hippocampal Synapses Work Synergistically as an Adaptive Filter of Natural Spike Trains
Vitaly A Klyachko and Charles F Stevens
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e207. Published online 2006 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040207.
PMCID: PMC1479695
Global Patterns of Geographic Range Size in Birds
C. David L Orme, Richard G Davies, Valerie A Olson, Gavin H Thomas, Tzung-Su Ding, Pamela C Rasmussen, Robert S Ridgely, Ali J Stattersfield, Peter M Bennett, Ian P. F Owens, Tim M Blackburn, and Kevin J Gaston
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e208. Published online 2006 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040208.
PMCID: PMC1479698
Dynamic Encoding of Natural Luminance Sequences by LGN Bursts
Nicholas A Lesica, Chong Weng, Jianzhong Jin, Chun-I Yeh, Jose-Manuel Alonso, and Garrett B Stanley
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e209. Published online 2006 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040209.
PMCID: PMC1475766
Translation Repression in Human Cells by MicroRNA-Induced Gene Silencing Requires RCK/p54
Chia-ying Chu and Tariq M Rana
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e210. Published online 2006 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040210.
PMCID: PMC1475773
Functional Imaging Reveals Numerous Fields in the Monkey Auditory Cortex
Christopher I Petkov, Christoph Kayser, Mark Augath, and Nikos K Logothetis
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e215. Published online 2006 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040215.
PMCID: PMC1479693
Environmental Coupling of Selection and Heritability Limits Evolution
A. J Wilson, J. M Pemberton, J. G Pilkington, D. W Coltman, D. V Mifsud, T. H Clutton-Brock, and L. E. B Kruuk
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e216. Published online 2006 June 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040216.
PMCID: PMC1475772
Dynamics of the Central Bottleneck: Dual-Task and Task Uncertainty
Mariano Sigman and Stanislas Dehaene
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e220. Published online 2006 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040220.
PMCID: PMC1481521
Formation of the Ascidian Epidermal Sensory Neurons: Insights into the Origin of the Chordate Peripheral Nervous System
Andrea Pasini, Aldine Amiel, Ute Rothbächer, Agnès Roure, Patrick Lemaire, and Sébastien Darras
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e225. Published online 2006 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040225.
PMCID: PMC1481523
Strigolactones Stimulate Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi by Activating Mitochondria
Arnaud Besserer, Virginie Puech-Pagès, Patrick Kiefer, Victoria Gomez-Roldan, Alain Jauneau, Sébastien Roy, Jean-Charles Portais, Christophe Roux, Guillaume Bécard, and Nathalie Séjalon-Delmas
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e226. Published online 2006 June 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040226.
PMCID: PMC1481526
AgDscam, a Hypervariable Immunoglobulin Domain-Containing Receptor of the Anopheles gambiae Innate Immune System
Yuemei Dong, Harry E Taylor, and George Dimopoulos
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e229. Published online 2006 June 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040229.
PMCID: PMC1479700
Corrections
Correction: Interphase Chromosomes Mingle with Their Peers
Françoise Chanut
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e217. Published online 2006 April 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040217.
PMCID: PMC1489967
Corrects: Françoise Chanut. Interphase Chromosomes Mingle with Their Peers. PLoS Biol. 2006 May; 4(5): e174.
Correction: Whole-Genome Analysis of the SHORT-ROOT Developmental Pathway in Arabidopsis
Mitchell P Levesque, Teva Vernoux, Wolfgang Busch, Hongchang Cui, Jean Y Wang, Ikram Blilou, Hala Hassan, Keiji Nakajima, Noritaka Matsumoto, Jan U Lohmann, Ben Scheres, and Philip N Benfey
PLoS Biol. 2006 July; 4(7): e249. Published online 2006 May 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040249.
PMCID: PMC1489989
Corrects: Mitchell P Levesque, et al. Whole-Genome Analysis of the SHORT-ROOT Developmental Pathway in Arabidopsis . PLoS Biol. 2006 May; 4(5): e143.
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