| | Book Review/Science in the Media How to Win the Nobel Prize? Peter Agre PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e333. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040333.PMCID: PMC1617341 Synopses Chance Fluctuations in mRNA Output in Mammalian Cells Françoise Chanut PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e319. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040319.PMCID: PMC1563495 When Evidence Is Scant, Mathematical Modeling Offers a Roadmap for Discovery Liza Gross PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e323. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040323.PMCID: PMC1564159 Jack-of-All-Trades “Supergene” Controls Butterfly Wing Pattern Diversity Liza Gross PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e329. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040329.PMCID: PMC1570759 For Yeast Protein Hubs, More Data Means More Connections Richard Robinson PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e331. Published online 2006 September 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040331.PMCID: PMC1569887 Islands Spark Accelerated Evolution Liza Gross PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e334. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040334.PMCID: PMC1563487 Disrupted Intercellular Communication Causes a Disfiguring Birth Defect Liza Gross PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e335. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040335.PMCID: PMC1563488 Predicting Species Abundance in the Face of Habitat Loss Liza Gross PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e336. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040336.PMCID: PMC1570499 Infection Status Drives Interspecies Mating Choices in Fruit Fly Females Richard Robinson PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e345. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040345.PMCID: PMC1592318 BMPs: Conserved Morphogens in Neural Patterning Françoise Chanut PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e346. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040346.PMCID: PMC1563486 The Case of XPD: Sometimes Two Different Mutant Genes Are Better than One Liza Gross PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e347. Published online 2006 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040347.PMCID: PMC1584418 Transposon Silencing Keeps Jumping Genes in Their Place Liza Gross PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e353. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040353.PMCID: PMC1563490 Learning New Movements Depends on the Statistics of Your Prior Actions Mason Inman PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e354. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040354.PMCID: PMC1563494 Gut Bacteria Cospeciating with Insects Liza Gross PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e357. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040357.PMCID: PMC1592319 Protein Kinases and Plant Pores Liza Gross PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e358. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040358.PMCID: PMC1592314 A Flexible Syntaxin Solves the Mystery of the SNAREd Munc Richard Robinson PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e359. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040359.PMCID: PMC1570501 When Just One Sense Is Available, Multisensory Experience Fills in the Blanks Liza Gross PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e361. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040361.PMCID: PMC1570758 Nuclear Import of HIV-1 Complex Relies on a Surprise Player: tRNA Richard Robinson PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e364. Published online 2006 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040364.PMCID: PMC1584417 Unsolved Mystery To Lose Both Would Look Like Carelessness: Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease Hamish McCallum and Menna Jones PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e342. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040342.PMCID: PMC1617348 Primer Repeating Patterns of Mimicry Axel Meyer PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e341. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040341.PMCID: PMC1617347 Research Articles A Conserved Supergene Locus Controls Colour Pattern Diversity in Heliconius Butterflies Mathieu Joron, Riccardo Papa, Margarita Beltrán, Nicola Chamberlain, Jesús Mavárez, Simon Baxter, Moisés Abanto, Eldredge Bermingham, Sean J Humphray, Jane Rogers, Helen Beasley, Karen Barlow, Richard H. ffrench-Constant, James Mallet, W. Owen McMillan, and Chris D Jiggins PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e303. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040303.PMCID: PMC1570757 Stochastic mRNA Synthesis in Mammalian Cells Arjun Raj, Charles S Peskin, Daniel Tranchina, Diana Y Vargas, and Sanjay Tyagi PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e309. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040309.PMCID: PMC1563489 Predicting Essential Components of Signal Transduction Networks: A Dynamic Model of Guard Cell Abscisic Acid Signaling Song Li, Sarah M Assmann, and Réka Albert PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e312. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040312.PMCID: PMC1564158 Threshold-Dependent BMP-Mediated Repression: A Model for a Conserved Mechanism That Patterns the Neuroectoderm Claudia Mieko Mizutani, Néva Meyer, Henk Roelink, and Ethan Bier PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e313. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040313.PMCID: PMC1563485 Inhibition of Gap Junction Communication at Ectopic Eph/ephrin Boundaries Underlies Craniofrontonasal Syndrome Alice Davy, Jeffrey O Bush, and Philippe Soriano PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e315. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040315.PMCID: PMC1563491 Generalization of Motor Learning Depends on the History of Prior Action John W Krakauer, Pietro Mazzoni, Ali Ghazizadeh, Roshni Ravindran, and Reza Shadmehr PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e316. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040316.PMCID: PMC1563496 Stratus Not Altocumulus: A New View of the Yeast Protein Interaction Network Nizar N Batada, Teresa Reguly, Ashton Breitkreutz, Lorrie Boucher, Bobby-Joe Breitkreutz, Laurence D Hurst, and Mike Tyers PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e317. Published online 2006 September 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040317.PMCID: PMC1569888 Morphological Evolution Is Accelerated among Island Mammals Virginie Millien PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e321. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040321.PMCID: PMC1563493 Rescue of Progeria in Trichothiodystrophy by Homozygous Lethal Xpd Alleles Jaan-Olle Andressoo, Judith Jans, Jan de Wit, Frederic Coin, Deborah Hoogstraten, Marieke van de Ven, Wendy Toussaint, Jan Huijmans, H. Bing Thio, Wibeke J van Leeuwen, Jan de Boer, Jean-Marc Egly, Jan H. J Hoeijmakers, Gijsbertus T. J van der Horst, and James R Mitchell PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e322. Published online 2006 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040322.PMCID: PMC1584416 Food-Web Models Predict Species Abundances in Response to Habitat Change Nicholas J Gotelli and Aaron M Ellison PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e324. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040324.PMCID: PMC1570498 Asymmetrical Reinforcement and Wolbachia Infection in Drosophila John Jaenike, Kelly A Dyer, Chad Cornish, and Miranda S Minhas PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e325. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040325.PMCID: PMC1592313 Implicit Multisensory Associations Influence Voice Recognition Katharina von Kriegstein and Anne-Lise Giraud PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e326. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040326.PMCID: PMC1570760 CDPKs CPK6 and CPK3 Function in ABA Regulation of Guard Cell S-Type Anion- and Ca2+- Permeable Channels and Stomatal Closure Izumi C Mori, Yoshiyuki Murata, Yingzhen Yang, Shintaro Munemasa, Yong-Fei Wang, Shannon Andreoli, Hervé Tiriac, Jose M Alonso, Jeffery F Harper, Joseph R Ecker, June M Kwak, and Julian I Schroeder PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e327. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040327.PMCID: PMC1592316 Munc18-Bound Syntaxin Readily Forms SNARE Complexes with Synaptobrevin in Native Plasma Membranes Felipe E Zilly, Jakob B Sørensen, Reinhard Jahn, and Thorsten Lang PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e330. Published online 2006 September 26. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040330.PMCID: PMC1570500 tRNAs Promote Nuclear Import of HIV-1 Intracellular Reverse Transcription Complexes Lyubov Zaitseva, Richard Myers, and Ariberto Fassati PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e332. Published online 2006 October 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040332.PMCID: PMC1584419 Strict Host-Symbiont Cospeciation and Reductive Genome Evolution in Insect Gut Bacteria Takahiro Hosokawa, Yoshitomo Kikuchi, Naruo Nikoh, Masakazu Shimada, and Takema Fukatsu PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e337. Published online 2006 October 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040337.PMCID: PMC1592312 Initiation, Establishment, and Maintenance of Heritable MuDR Transposon Silencing in Maize Are Mediated by Distinct Factors Margaret Roth Woodhouse, Michael Freeling, and Damon Lisch PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e339. Published online 2006 September 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040339.PMCID: PMC1563492 Corrections Correction: Evolution of Melanopsin Photoreceptors: Discovery and Characterization of a New Melanopsin in Nonmammalian Vertebrates James Bellingham, Shyam S Chaurasia, Zara Melyan, Cuimei Liu, Morven A Cameron, Emma E Tarttelin, P. Michael Iuvone, Mark W Hankins, Gianluca Tosini, and Robert J Lucas PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e320. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040320.PMCID: PMC1617328 Corrects: James Bellingham, et al. Evolution of Melanopsin Photoreceptors: Discovery and Characterization of a New Melanopsin in Nonmammalian Vertebrates. PLoS Biol. 2006 August; 4(8): e254. Correction: Math and Fossils Resolve a Debate on Dinosaur Metabolism Liza Gross PLoS Biol. 2006 October; 4(10): e328. Published online 2006 October 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040328.PMCID: PMC1617336 Corrects: Liza Gross. Math and Fossils Resolve a Debate on Dinosaur Metabolism. 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