| | Book Review/Science in the Media The Allure of the Few Barry W Brook PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e127. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060127.PMCID: PMC2386843 Perspectives The Challenge of Conserving Amphibian Megadiversity in Madagascar Franco Andreone, Angus I Carpenter, Neil Cox, Louis du Preez, Karen Freeman, Samuel Furrer, Gerardo Garcia, Frank Glaw, Julian Glos, David Knox, Jörn Köhler, Joseph R Mendelson, III, Vincenzo Mercurio, Russell A Mittermeier, Robin D Moore, Nirhy H. C Rabibisoa, Herilala Randriamahazo, Harison Randrianasolo, Noromalala Rasoamampionona Raminosoa, Olga Ravoahangimalala Ramilijaona, Christopher J Raxworthy, Denis Vallan, Miguel Vences, David R Vieites, and Ché Weldon PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e118. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060118.PMCID: PMC2365978 The Case of Deborah Rice: Who Is the Environmental Protection Agency Protecting? Herbert L Needleman PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e129. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060129.PMCID: PMC2430913 Synopses Birds Do It, Bees Do It, but Candida albicans Does It Differently Richard Robinson PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e121. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060121.PMCID: PMC2365979 When Skin Damage Causes Death Liza Gross PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e133. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060133.PMCID: PMC2430916 Sniffing Out the Right Address Rachel Jones PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e134. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060134.PMCID: PMC2430917 Essay Evolution and Creationism in America's Classrooms: A National Portrait Michael B Berkman, Julianna Sandell Pacheco, and Eric Plutzer PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e124. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060124.PMCID: PMC2386841 Unsolved Mystery Sperm Sociality: Cooperation, Altruism, and Spite Tommaso Pizzari and Kevin R Foster PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e130. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060130.PMCID: PMC2430914 Primer Man versus Machine versus Ribozyme Andrew D Ellington PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e132. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060132.PMCID: PMC2430915 Community Page Interesting Structures: Education and Outreach at the RCSB Protein Data Bank Christine Zardecki PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e117. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060117.PMCID: PMC2365977 Research Articles Biogenesis of the Trypanosome Endo-Exocytotic Organelle Is Cytoskeleton Mediated Mélanie Bonhivers, Sophie Nowacki, Nicolas Landrein, and Derrick R Robinson PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e105. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060105.PMCID: PMC2365980 Mapping the Genetic Architecture of Gene Expression in Human Liver Eric E Schadt, Cliona Molony, Eugene Chudin, Ke Hao, Xia Yang, Pek Y Lum, Andrew Kasarskis, Bin Zhang, Susanna Wang, Christine Suver, Jun Zhu, Joshua Millstein, Solveig Sieberts, John Lamb, Debraj GuhaThakurta, Jonathan Derry, John D Storey, Iliana Avila-Campillo, Mark J Kruger, Jason M Johnson, Carol A Rohl, Atila van Nas, Margarete Mehrabian, Thomas A Drake, Aldons J Lusis, Ryan C Smith, F. Peter Guengerich, Stephen C Strom, Erin Schuetz, Thomas H Rushmore, and Roger Ulrich PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e107. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060107.PMCID: PMC2365981 Allele-Specific Up-Regulation of FGFR2 Increases Susceptibility to Breast Cancer Kerstin B Meyer, Ana-Teresa Maia, Martin O'Reilly, Andrew E Teschendorff, Suet-Feung Chin, Carlos Caldas, and Bruce A. J Ponder PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e108. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060108.PMCID: PMC2365982 Genetic and Physiologic Dissection of the Vertebrate Cardiac Conduction System Neil C Chi, Robin M Shaw, Benno Jungblut, Jan Huisken, Tania Ferrer, Rima Arnaout, Ian Scott, Dimitris Beis, Tong Xiao, Herwig Baier, Lily Y Jan, Martin Tristani-Firouzi, and Didier Y. R Stainier PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e109. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060109.PMCID: PMC2430899 The Parasexual Cycle in Candida albicans Provides an Alternative Pathway to Meiosis for the Formation of Recombinant Strains Anja Forche, Kevin Alby, Dana Schaefer, Alexander D Johnson, Judith Berman, and Richard J Bennett PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e110. Published online 2008 May 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060110.PMCID: PMC2365976 Distinct DNA Exit and Packaging Portals in the Virus Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus Nathan Zauberman, Yael Mutsafi, Daniel Ben Halevy, Eyal Shimoni, Eugenia Klein, Chuan Xiao, Siyang Sun, and Abraham Minsky PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e114. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060114.PMCID: PMC2430901 Topography of Thalamic Projections Requires Attractive and Repulsive Functions of Netrin-1 in the Ventral Telencephalon Ashton W Powell, Takayuki Sassa, Yongqin Wu, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, and Franck Polleux PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e116. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060116.PMCID: PMC2584572 Circadian Transcription Contributes to Core Period Determination in Drosophila Sebastian Kadener, Jerome S Menet, Rebecca Schoer, and Michael Rosbash PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e119. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060119.PMCID: PMC2386838 Nongenetic Individuality in the Host–Phage Interaction Sivan Pearl, Chana Gabay, Roy Kishony, Amos Oppenheim, and Nathalie Q Balaban PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e120. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060120.PMCID: PMC2386839 Resource Heterogeneity Moderates the Biodiversity-Function Relationship in Real World Ecosystems Jason M Tylianakis, Tatyana A Rand, Ansgar Kahmen, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Nina Buchmann, Jörg Perner, and Teja Tscharntke PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e122. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060122.PMCID: PMC2386840 Notch-Deficient Skin Induces a Lethal Systemic B-Lymphoproliferative Disorder by Secreting TSLP, a Sentinel for Epidermal Integrity Shadmehr Demehri, Zhenyi Liu, Jonghyeob Lee, Meei-Hua Lin, Seth D Crosby, Christopher J Roberts, Perry W Grigsby, Jeffrey H Miner, Andrew G Farr, and Raphael Kopan PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e123. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060123.PMCID: PMC2430908 A Regulatory Code for Neuron-Specific Odor Receptor Expression Anandasankar Ray, Wynand van der Goes van Naters, and John R Carlson PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e125. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060125.PMCID: PMC2430909 Low-Level Information and High-Level Perception: The Case of Speech in Noise Mor Nahum, Israel Nelken, and Merav Ahissar PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e126. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060126.PMCID: PMC2386842 Raf Activation Is Regulated by Tyrosine 510 Phosphorylation in Drosophila Fan Xia, Jinghong Li, Gavin W Hickey, Amy Tsurumi, Kimberly Larson, Dongdong Guo, Shian-Jang Yan, Louis Silver-Morse, and Willis X Li PLoS Biol. 2008 May; 6(5): e128. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060128.PMCID: PMC2386837 |