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Volume 5(11);  November 2007
Editorial
Poverty, Human Development, and Basic Biology
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e295. Published online 2007 October 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050295.
PMCID: PMC2039768
Synopses
Diminished Activity of RNA Polymerase III Selectively Disrupts Tissues with the Most Actively Dividing Cells
Lynne Marshall, Sarah J Goodfellow, and Robert J White
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e286. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050286.
PMCID: PMC2229868
A Genetic Basis for Hypersensitivity to “Sweaty” Odors in Humans
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e298. Published online 2007 October 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050298.
PMCID: PMC2043049
Amyloid Peptide Toxicity in an Animal Model of Alzheimer Disease
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e313. Published online 2007 October 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050313.
PMCID: PMC2043054
Omnidirectional Electric Fish
Kira E O'Day
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e314. Published online 2007 November 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050314.
PMCID: PMC2071940
Learning by Numbers in the Primate Cortex
Rachel Jones
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e319. Published online 2007 October 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050319.
PMCID: PMC2043053
A Candidate Gene for a Biological Marker of Schizophrenia in Mice
Liza Gross
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e320. Published online 2007 November 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050320.
PMCID: PMC2071941
Essay
Biology and Health Inequality
Eric Brunner
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e267. Published online 2007 October 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050267.
PMCID: PMC2039769
Feature
Looking for Chinks in the Armor of Bacterial Biofilms
Don Monroe
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e307. Published online 2007 November 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050307.
PMCID: PMC2071939
Primer
Distorted Sex Ratios: A Window into RNAi-Mediated Silencing
Patrick M Ferree and Daniel A Barbash
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e303. Published online 2007 November 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050303.
PMCID: PMC2043055
Community Page
The Costs of Exclusion: Recognizing a Role for Local Communities in Biodiversity Conservation
Marc Ancrenaz, Lisa Dabek, and Susan O'Neil
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e289. Published online 2007 October 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050289.
PMCID: PMC2039772
Research Articles
Sleep-Related Hippocampo-Cortical Interplay during Emotional Memory Recollection
Virginie Sterpenich, Geneviève Albouy, Mélanie Boly, Gilles Vandewalle, Annabelle Darsaud, Evelyne Balteau, Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, Martin Desseilles, Arnaud D'Argembeau, Steffen Gais, Géraldine Rauchs, Manuel Schabus, Christian Degueldre, André Luxen, Fabienne Collette, and Pierre Maquet
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e282. Published online 2007 October 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050282.
PMCID: PMC2039770
Genetic Elucidation of Human Hyperosmia to Isovaleric Acid
Idan Menashe, Tatjana Abaffy, Yehudit Hasin, Sivan Goshen, Vered Yahalom, Charles W Luetje, and Doron Lancet
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e284. Published online 2007 October 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050284.
PMCID: PMC2043052
An Information Theoretic Characterisation of Auditory Encoding
Tobias Overath, Rhodri Cusack, Sukhbinder Kumar, Katharina von Kriegstein, Jason D Warren, Manon Grube, Robert P Carlyon, and Timothy D Griffiths
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e288. Published online 2007 October 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050288.
PMCID: PMC2039771
Systematic In Vivo Analysis of the Intrinsic Determinants of Amyloid β Pathogenicity
Leila M Luheshi, Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, Ann-Christin Brorsson, Amol P Pawar, Ian E Watson, Fabrizio Chiti, Michele Vendruscolo, David A Lomas, Christopher M Dobson, and Damian C Crowther
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e290. Published online 2007 October 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050290.
PMCID: PMC2043051
A sex-ratio Meiotic Drive System in Drosophila simulans. I: An Autosomal Suppressor
Yun Tao, John P Masly, Luciana Araripe, Yeyan Ke, and Daniel L Hartl
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e292. Published online 2007 November 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050292.
PMCID: PMC2062475
A sex-ratio Meiotic Drive System in Drosophila simulans. II: An X-linked Distorter
Yun Tao, Luciana Araripe, Sarah B Kingan, Yeyan Ke, Hailian Xiao, and Daniel L Hartl
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e293. Published online 2007 November 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050293.
PMCID: PMC2062476
Semantic Associations between Signs and Numerical Categories in the Prefrontal Cortex
Ilka Diester and Andreas Nieder
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e294. Published online 2007 October 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050294.
PMCID: PMC2043050
Fabp7 Maps to a Quantitative Trait Locus for a Schizophrenia Endophenotype
Akiko Watanabe, Tomoko Toyota, Yuji Owada, Takeshi Hayashi, Yoshimi Iwayama, Miho Matsumata, Yuichi Ishitsuka, Akihiro Nakaya, Motoko Maekawa, Tetsuo Ohnishi, Ryoichi Arai, Katsuyasu Sakurai, Kazuo Yamada, Hisatake Kondo, Kenji Hashimoto, Noriko Osumi, and Takeo Yoshikawa
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e297. Published online 2007 November 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050297.
PMCID: PMC2071943
Synthesis-Dependent Strand Annealing in Meiosis
Melissa S McMahill, Caroline W Sham, and Douglas K Bishop
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e299. Published online 2007 November 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050299.
PMCID: PMC2062477
Distinct Mammalian Precursors Are Committed to Generate Neurons with Defined Dendritic Projection Patterns
Wolfgang Kelsch, Colleen P Mosley, Chia-Wei Lin, and Carlos Lois
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e300. Published online 2007 November 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050300.
PMCID: PMC2071944
Omnidirectional Sensory and Motor Volumes in Electric Fish
James B Snyder, Mark E Nelson, Joel W Burdick, and Malcolm A MacIver
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e301. Published online 2007 November 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050301.
PMCID: PMC2071945
Self-Organization in High-Density Bacterial Colonies: Efficient Crowd Control
HoJung Cho, Henrik Jönsson, Kyle Campbell, Pontus Melke, Joshua W Williams, Bruno Jedynak, Ann M Stevens, Alex Groisman, and Andre Levchenko
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e302. Published online 2007 October 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050302.
PMCID: PMC2043048
Complex Regulation of cyp26a1 Creates a Robust Retinoic Acid Gradient in the Zebrafish Embryo
Richard J White, Qing Nie, Arthur D Lander, and Thomas F Schilling
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e304. Published online 2007 November 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050304.
PMCID: PMC2080651
Neuronal Activity in Rat Barrel Cortex Underlying Texture Discrimination
Moritz von Heimendahl, Pavel M Itskov, Ehsan Arabzadeh, and Mathew E Diamond
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e305. Published online 2007 November 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050305.
PMCID: PMC2071938
Coordinate Gene Regulation during Hematopoiesis Is Related to Genomic Organization
Steven T Kosak, David Scalzo, Sam V Alworth, Fusheng Li, Stephanie Palmer, Tariq Enver, James S. J Lee, and Mark Groudine
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e309. Published online 2007 November 20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050309.
PMCID: PMC2080650
Population Genomics: Whole-Genome Analysis of Polymorphism and Divergence in Drosophila simulans
David J Begun, Alisha K Holloway, Kristian Stevens, LaDeana W Hillier, Yu-Ping Poh, Matthew W Hahn, Phillip M Nista, Corbin D Jones, Andrew D Kern, Colin N Dewey, Lior Pachter, Eugene Myers, and Charles H Langley
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e310. Published online 2007 November 6. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050310.
PMCID: PMC2062478
Resolving the Fast Kinetics of Cooperative Binding: Ca2+ Buffering by Calretinin
Guido C Faas, Beat Schwaller, Julio L Vergara, and Istvan Mody
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e311. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050311.
PMCID: PMC2229850
Mutation of RNA Pol III Subunit rpc2/polr3b Leads to Deficiency of Subunit Rpc11 and Disrupts Zebrafish Digestive Development
Nelson S Yee, Weilong Gong, Ying Huang, Kristin Lorent, Amy C Dolan, Richard J Maraia, and Michael Pack
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e312. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050312.
PMCID: PMC2229849
Light Activates Output from Evening Neurons and Inhibits Output from Morning Neurons in the Drosophila Circadian Clock
Marie Picot, Paola Cusumano, André Klarsfeld, Ryu Ueda, and François Rouyer
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e315. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050315.
PMCID: PMC2229858
Disruption of State Estimation in the Human Lateral Cerebellum
R. Chris Miall, Lars O. D Christensen, Owen Cain, and James Stanley
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e316. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050316.
PMCID: PMC2229864
Novel Roles of Formin mDia2 in Lamellipodia and Filopodia Formation in Motile Cells
Changsong Yang, Lubov Czech, Silke Gerboth, Shin-ichiro Kojima, Giorgio Scita, and Tatyana Svitkina
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e317. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050317.
PMCID: PMC2229861
Draft Crystal Structure of the Vault Shell at 9-Å Resolution
Daniel H Anderson, Valerie A Kickhoefer, Stuart A Sievers, Leonard H Rome, and David Eisenberg
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e318. Published online 2007 November 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050318.
PMCID: PMC2229873
Correction
Correction: A Ubiquitin Ligase Complex Regulates Caspase Activation During Sperm Differentiation in Drosophila
Eli Arama, Maya Bader, Gabrielle E Rieckhof, and Hermann Stellar
PLoS Biol. 2007 November; 5(11): e291. Published online 2007 November 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050291.
PMCID: PMC2071942
Corrects: Eli Arama, et al. A Ubiquitin Ligase Complex Regulates Caspase Activation During Sperm Differentiation in Drosophila. PLoS Biol. 2007 October; 5(10): e251.
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