| | Research Articles Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Negative Binomial Dispersion Parameter for Highly Overdispersed Data, with Applications to Infectious Diseases James O. Lloyd-Smith PMCID: PMC1791715 The +4G Site in Kozak Consensus Is Not Related to the Efficiency of Translation Initiation Xuhua Xia PMCID: PMC1781341 Insights into the Molecular Evolution of the PDZ/LIM Family and Identification of a Novel Conserved Protein Motif Aartjan J.W. te Velthuis, Tadamoto Isogai, Lieke Gerrits, and Christoph P. Bagowski PMCID: PMC1781342 Biological Designer Self-Assembling Peptide Nanofiber Scaffolds Significantly Enhance Osteoblast Proliferation, Differentiation and 3-D Migration Akihiro Horii, Xiumei Wang, Fabrizio Gelain, and Shuguang Zhang PMCID: PMC1784071 Temperature Drops and the Onset of Severe Avian Influenza A H5N1 Virus Outbreaks Chung-Ming Liu, Shu-Hua Lin, Ying-Chen Chen, Katherine Chun-Min Lin, Tsung-Shu Joseph Wu, and Chwan-Chuen King PMCID: PMC1794318 Early Respiratory Management of Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Very Preterm Infants and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Case-Control Study Arjan B. te Pas, Enrico Lopriore, Marissa J. Engbers, and Frans J. Walther PMCID: PMC1781338 Niche Occupation Limits Adaptive Radiation in Experimental Microcosms Michael A. Brockhurst, Nick Colegrave, David J. Hodgson, and Angus Buckling PMCID: PMC1781339 Percutaneous Exposure Incidents of the Health Care Personnel in a Newly Founded Tertiary Hospital: A Prospective Study Matthew E. Falagas, Ioannis Karydis, and Ilektra Kostogiannou PMCID: PMC1805815 Is the Prevalence of Overactive Bladder Overestimated? A Population-Based Study in Finland Kari A.O. Tikkinen, Teuvo L.J. Tammela, Aila M. Rissanen, Antti Valpas, Heini Huhtala, and Anssi Auvinen PMCID: PMC1805814 Meta-Analysis in Genome-Wide Association Datasets: Strategies and Application in Parkinson Disease Evangelos Evangelou, Demetrius M. Maraganore, and John P.A. Ioannidis PMCID: PMC1805816 The Use of Coded PCR Primers Enables High-Throughput Sequencing of Multiple Homolog Amplification Products by 454 Parallel Sequencing Jonas Binladen, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Jonathan P. Bollback, Frank Panitz, Christian Bendixen, Rasmus Nielsen, and Eske Willerslev PMCID: PMC1797623 Kiwi Forego Vision in the Guidance of Their Nocturnal Activities Graham R. Martin, Kerry-Jayne Wilson, J. Martin Wild, Stuart Parsons, M. Fabiana Kubke, and Jeremy Corfield PMCID: PMC1805817 Artificially Introduced Aneuploid Chromosomes Assume a Conserved Position in Colon Cancer Cells Kundan Sengupta, Madhvi B. Upender, Linda Barenboim-Stapleton, Quang Tri Nguyen, Stephen M. Wincovitch, Sr., Susan H. Garfield, Michael J. Difilippantonio, and Thomas Ried PMCID: PMC1805818 A Functional Architecture of Optic Flow in the Inferior Parietal Lobule of the Behaving Monkey Milena Raffi and Ralph M. Siegel PMCID: PMC1784069 Non-Metabolic Membrane Tubulation and Permeability Induced by Bioactive Peptides Antonin Lamazière, Fabienne Burlina, Claude Wolf, Gérard Chassaing, Germain Trugnan, and Jesus Ayala-Sanmartin PMCID: PMC1790702 Great Tits (Parus major) Reduce Caterpillar Damage in Commercial Apple Orchards Christel M.M. Mols and Marcel E. Visser PMCID: PMC1784073 A Family of Human MicroRNA Genes from Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Elements Jittima Piriyapongsa and I. King Jordan PMCID: PMC1784062 Ancient Origin of the New Developmental Superfamily DANGER Nikolas Nikolaidis, Dimitra Chalkia, D. Neil Watkins, Roxanne K. Barrow, Solomon H. Snyder, Damian B. van Rossum, and Randen L. Patterson PMCID: PMC1784063 Bats' Conquest of a Formidable Foraging Niche: The Myriads of Nocturnally Migrating Songbirds Ana G. Popa-Lisseanu, Antonio Delgado-Huertas, Manuela G. Forero, Alicia Rodríguez, Raphaël Arlettaz, and Carlos Ibáñez PMCID: PMC1784064 The Identification of Lymphocyte-Like Cells and Lymphoid-Related Genes in Amphioxus Indicates the Twilight for the Emergency of Adaptive Immune System Gonghua Huang, Xiaojin Xie, Yan Han, Lifei Fan, Jie Chen, Chunyan Mou, Lei Guo, Hui Liu, Qinfen Zhang, Shangwu Chen, Meiling Dong, Jianzhong Liu, and Anlong Xu PMCID: PMC1784065 LoCoH: Nonparameteric Kernel Methods for Constructing Home Ranges and Utilization Distributions Wayne M. Getz, Scott Fortmann-Roe, Paul C. Cross, Andrew J. Lyons, Sadie J. Ryan, and Christopher C. Wilmers PMCID: PMC1797616 Mortality, Recruitment and Change of Desert Tree Populations in a Hyper-Arid Environment Gidske L. Andersen and Knut Krzywinski PMCID: PMC1784067 Prevalence of Depression among Households in Three Capital Cities of Pakistan: Need to Revise the Mental Health Policy Amin A. Muhammad Gadit and Gerry Mugford PMCID: PMC1790700 Wind Data Mining by Kohonen Neural Networks José Fayos and Carolina Fayos PMCID: PMC1790699 Bacterial Toxicity of Potassium Tellurite: Unveiling an Ancient Enigma José M. Pérez, Iván L. Calderón, Felipe A. Arenas, Derie E. Fuentes, Gonzalo A. Pradenas, Eugenia L. Fuentes, Juan M. Sandoval, Miguel E. Castro, Alex O. Elías, and Claudio C. Vásquez PMCID: PMC1784070 Exploitation of Other Social Amoebae by Dictyostelium caveatum Clément Nizak, Robert J. Fitzhenry, and Richard H. Kessin PMCID: PMC1790701 Xnrs and Activin Regulate Distinct Genes during Xenopus Development: Activin Regulates Cell Division Joana M. Ramis, Clara Collart, and James C. Smith PMCID: PMC1790703 Biological Feedbacks as Cause and Demise of Neoproterozoic Icehouse: Astrobiological Prospects for Faster Evolution and Importance of Cold Conditions Pekka Janhunen, Hermanni Kaartokallio, Ilona Oksanen, Kirsi Lehto, and Harry Lehto PMCID: PMC1788933 Sensory Cell Proliferation within the Olfactory Epithelium of Developing Adult Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera) Marie-dominique Franco, Jonathan Bohbot, Kenny Fernandez, Jayd Hanna, James Poppy, and Richard Vogt PMCID: PMC1789077 Comparison of Protein and mRNA Expression Evolution in Humans and Chimpanzees Ning Fu, Ines Drinnenberg, Janet Kelso, Jia-Rui Wu, Svante Pääbo, Rong Zeng, and Philipp Khaitovich PMCID: PMC1789144 Quantifying Organismal Complexity using a Population Genetic Approach Olivier Tenaillon, Olin K. Silander, Jean-Philippe Uzan, and Lin Chao PMCID: PMC1790863 Acquired Obesity Is Associated with Changes in the Serum Lipidomic Profile Independent of Genetic Effects – A Monozygotic Twin Study Kirsi H. Pietiläinen, Marko Sysi-Aho, Aila Rissanen, Tuulikki Seppänen-Laakso, Hannele Yki-Järvinen, Jaakko Kaprio, and Matej Orešič PMCID: PMC1789242 High-Throughput Sequencing of Arabidopsis microRNAs: Evidence for Frequent Birth and Death of MIRNA Genes Noah Fahlgren, Miya D. Howell, Kristin D. Kasschau, Elisabeth J. Chapman, Christopher M. Sullivan, Jason S. Cumbie, Scott A. Givan, Theresa F. Law, Sarah R. Grant, Jeffery L. Dangl, and James C. Carrington PMCID: PMC1790633 A North American Yersinia pestis Draft Genome Sequence: SNPs and Phylogenetic Analysis Jeffrey W. Touchman, David M. Wagner, Jicheng Hao, Stephen D. Mastrian, Maulik K. Shah, Amy J. Vogler, Christopher J. Allender, Erin A. Clark, Debbie S. Benitez, David J. Youngkin, Jessica M. Girard, Raymond K. Auerbach, Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg, and Paul Keim PMCID: PMC1794153 Organotypic Culture of Physiologically Functional Adult Mammalian Retinas Amane Koizumi, Günther Zeck, Yixin Ben, Richard H. Masland, and Tatjana C. Jakobs PMCID: PMC1794165 Occipital Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1H-MRS) Reveals Normal Metabolite Concentrations in Retinal Visual Field Defects Christine C. Boucard, Johannes M. Hoogduin, Jeroen van der Grond, and Frans W. Cornelissen PMCID: PMC1794168 PathogenMip Assay: A Multiplex Pathogen Detection Assay Michael S. Akhras, Sreedevi Thiyagarajan, Andrea C. Villablanca, Ronald W. Davis, Pål Nyrén, and Nader Pourmand PMCID: PMC1794193 Plant Carbohydrate Scavenging through TonB-Dependent Receptors: A Feature Shared by Phytopathogenic and Aquatic Bacteria Servane Blanvillain, Damien Meyer, Alice Boulanger, Martine Lautier, Catherine Guynet, Nicolas Denancé, Jacques Vasse, Emmanuelle Lauber, and Matthieu Arlat PMCID: PMC1790865 Sequential Broadening of CTL Responses in Early HIV-1 Infection Is Associated with Viral Escape Annika C. Karlsson, Astrid K.N. Iversen, Joan M. Chapman, Tulio de Oliveira, Gerald Spotts, Andrew J. McMichael, Miles P. Davenport, Frederick M. Hecht, and Douglas F. Nixon PMCID: PMC1790860 Pin1 Modulates the Type 1 Immune Response Stephane Esnault, Ruedi K. Braun, Zhong-Jian Shen, Zhuzai Xiang, Erika Heninger, Robert B. Love, Matyas Sandor, and James S. Malter PMCID: PMC1790862 Conflict between Translation Initiation and Elongation in Vertebrate Mitochondrial Genomes Xuhua Xia, Huang Huang, Malisa Carullo, Esther Betrán, and Etsuko N. Moriyama PMCID: PMC1794132 Dissection of the Role of PfEMP1 and ICAM-1 in the Sensing of Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Erythrocytes by Natural Killer Cells Myriam Baratin, Sophie Roetynck, Bruno Pouvelle, Céline Lemmers, Nicola K. Viebig, Sofia Johansson, Philippe Bierling, Artur Scherf, Jürg Gysin, Eric Vivier, and Sophie Ugolini PMCID: PMC1794133 Knockout Mice: Is It Just Genetics? Effect of Enriched Housing on Fibulin-4+/− Mice Elizabeth Cudilo, Hamda Al Naemi, Lihua Marmorstein, and Ann L. Baldwin PMCID: PMC1794134 High Reinforcing Efficacy of Nicotine in Non-Human Primates Bernard Le Foll, Carrie Wertheim, and Steven R. Goldberg PMCID: PMC1794142 External Stimuli Mediate Collective Rhythms: Artificial Control Strategies Tianshou Zhou, Jiajun Zhang, Zhanjiang Yuan, and Anlong Xu PMCID: PMC1794152 Characterization of Developmental Pathway of Natural Killer Cells from Embryonic Stem Cells In Vitro Nooshin Tabatabaei-Zavareh, Anastasia Vlasova, Chelsea Pamela Greenwood, and Fumio Takei PMCID: PMC1794166 Local Perturbations Do Not Affect Stability of Laboratory Fruitfly Metapopulations Sutirth Dey and Amitabh Joshi PMCID: PMC1794186 Dynamic Range Compression in the Honey Bee Auditory System toward Waggle Dance Sounds Seiya Tsujiuchi, Elena Sivan-Loukianova, Daniel F. Eberl, Yasuo Kitagawa, and Tatsuhiko Kadowaki PMCID: PMC1794319 Within-Host Speciation of Malaria Parasites Javier Pérez-Tris, Olof Hellgren, Asta Križanauskienė, Jonas Waldenström, Jean Secondi, Camille Bonneaud, Jon Fjeldså, Dennis Hasselquist, and Staffan Bensch PMCID: PMC1794596 B-RAF and N-RAS Mutations Are Preserved during Short Time In Vitro Propagation and Differentially Impact Prognosis Selma Ugurel, Ranjit K. Thirumaran, Sandra Bloethner, Andreas Gast, Antje Sucker, Jan Mueller-Berghaus, Werner Rittgen, Kari Hemminki, Jürgen C. Becker, Rajiv Kumar, and Dirk Schadendorf PMCID: PMC1794595 The CD34-Related Molecule Podocalyxin Is a Potent Inducer of Microvillus Formation Julie S. Nielsen, Marcia L. Graves, Shierley Chelliah, A. Wayne Vogl, Calvin D. Roskelley, and Kelly M. McNagny PMCID: PMC1796660 Proteasome Activator Enhances Survival of Huntington's Disease Neuronal Model Cells Hyemyung Seo, Kai-Christian Sonntag, Woori Kim, Elena Cattaneo, and Ole Isacson PMCID: PMC1800909 Factors Affecting Trypanosome Maturation in Tsetse Flies Ewan Thomas Macleod, Alistair Charles Darby, Ian Maudlin, and Sue Christina Welburn PMCID: PMC1797825 Reduced Susceptibility to Interference in the Consolidation of Motor Memory before Adolescence Shoshi Dorfberger, Esther Adi-Japha, and Avi Karni PMCID: PMC1800346 Imaging of Disease Dynamics during Meningococcal Sepsis Hong Sjölinder and Ann-Beth Jonsson PMCID: PMC1797199 Epigenetic Activation of a Subset of mRNAs by eIF4E Explains Its Effects on Cell Proliferation Yaël Mamane, Emmanuel Petroulakis, Yvan Martineau, Taka-Aki Sato, Ola Larsson, Vinagolu K. Rajasekhar, and Nahum Sonenberg PMCID: PMC1797416 Identification of uPAR-positive Chemoresistant Cells in Small Cell Lung Cancer Margarita Gutova, Joseph Najbauer, Anna Gevorgyan, Marianne Z. Metz, Yehua Weng, Chu-Chih Shih, and Karen S. Aboody PMCID: PMC1800348 Self-Organization of Anastral Spindles by Synergy of Dynamic Instability, Autocatalytic Microtubule Production, and a Spatial Signaling Gradient Thomas Clausen and Katharina Ribbeck PMCID: PMC1797610 Diffusion of Protease into Meat & Bone Meal for Solubility Improvement and Potential Inactivation of the BSE Prion Brian A. Coll, Rafael A. Garcia, and William N. Marmer PMCID: PMC1796944 Patient Acceptance of Noninvasive and Invasive Coronary Angiography Eva Schönenberger, Dirk Schnapauff, Florian Teige, Michael Laule, Bernd Hamm, and Marc Dewey PMCID: PMC1796945 Role for Non-Proteolytic Control of M-phase Promoting Factor Activity at M-phase Exit Vincenzo D'Angiolella, Luca Palazzo, Concetta Santarpia, Vincenzo Costanzo, and Domenico Grieco PMCID: PMC1803016 Melanesian mtDNA Complexity Jonathan S. Friedlaender, Françoise R. Friedlaender, Jason A. Hodgson, Matthew Stoltz, George Koki, Gisele Horvat, Sergey Zhadanov, Theodore G. Schurr, and D. Andrew Merriwether PMCID: PMC1803017 Control of Signaling in a MAP-kinase Pathway by an RNA-Binding Protein Susanne Prinz, Christine Aldridge, Stephen A. Ramsey, R. James Taylor, and Timothy Galitski PMCID: PMC1803019 Strategy of Transcription Regulation in the Budding Yeast Sagi Levy, Jan Ihmels, Miri Carmi, Adina Weinberger, Gilgi Friedlander, and Naama Barkai PMCID: PMC1803021 On the Origin of the Functional Architecture of the Cortex Dario L. Ringach PMCID: PMC1804100 The Pafah1b Complex Interacts with the Reelin Receptor VLDLR Guangcheng Zhang, Amir H. Assadi, Robert S. McNeil, Uwe Beffert, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, Joachim Herz, Gary D. Clark, and Gabriella D'Arcangelo PMCID: PMC1800349 Eye Development under the control of SRp55/B52-Mediated Alternative Splicing of eyeless Weronika Fic, François Juge, Johann Soret, and Jamal Tazi PMCID: PMC1803029 Tentative Mapping of Transcription-Induced Interchromosomal Interaction using Chimeric EST and mRNA Data Per Unneberg and Jean-Michel Claverie PMCID: PMC1804257 Genome-Wide Analysis of Neuroblastomas using High-Density Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Arrays Rani E. George, Edward F. Attiyeh, Shuli Li, Lisa A. Moreau, Donna Neuberg, Cheng Li, Edward A. Fox, Matthew Meyerson, Lisa Diller, Paolo Fortina, A. Thomas Look, and John M. Maris PMCID: PMC1797488 The Lingering Effects of an Artificial Blind Spot Michael J. Morgan, William McEwan, and Joshua Solomon PMCID: PMC1797615 Sialoadhesin (CD169) Expression in CD14+ Cells Is Upregulated Early after HIV-1 Infection and Increases during Disease Progression Antoinette C. van der Kuyl, Remco van den Burg, Fokla Zorgdrager, Fedde Groot, Ben Berkhout, and Marion Cornelissen PMCID: PMC1804103 Urban Physiology: City Ants Possess High Heat Tolerance Michael J. Angilletta, , Jr, Robbie S. Wilson, Amanda C. Niehaus, Michael W. Sears, Carlos A. Navas, and Pedro L. Ribeiro PMCID: PMC1797824 A Rapid Sound-Action Association Effect in Human Insular Cortex Isabella Mutschler, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, Volkmar Glauche, Evariste Demandt, Oliver Speck, and Tonio Ball PMCID: PMC1800344 PPARα Deficiency in Inflammatory Cells Suppresses Tumor Growth Arja Kaipainen, Mark W. Kieran, Sui Huang, Catherine Butterfield, Diane Bielenberg, Gustavo Mostoslavsky, Richard Mulligan, Judah Folkman, and Dipak Panigrahy PMCID: PMC1800345 Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza: Entry Pathways into North America via Bird Migration A. Townsend Peterson, Brett W. Benz, and Monica Papeş PMCID: PMC1803015 Evidence for Active Maintenance of Inverted Repeat Structures Identified by a Comparative Genomic Approach Guoyan Zhao, Kuan Y. Chang, Katherine Varley, and Gary D. Stormo PMCID: PMC1803023 Protein Buffering in Model Systems and in Whole Human Saliva Andreas Lamanda, Zeinab Cheaib, Melek Dilek Turgut, and Adrian Lussi PMCID: PMC1803027 Spatio-Temporal Interpolation Is Accomplished by Binocular Form and Motion Mechanisms Farid I. Kandil and Markus Lappe PMCID: PMC1800347 The Use of the Cancellation Technique to Quantify the Hermann Grid Illusion Piers D.L. Howe and Margaret S. Livingstone PMCID: PMC1800350 |
