| | Synopses In Monarchs, Cry2 Is King of the Clock Richard Robinson PMCID: PMC2174971 Novel DNA–Dye Hybrids Sniff out Odors Richard Robinson PMCID: PMC2211547 Conspicuous Chameleons Kira E O'Day PMCID: PMC2214816 Essay The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth Leslie E Orgel PMCID: PMC2211548 Feature Riders of a Modern-Day Ark Virginia Gewin PMCID: PMC2214819 Community Page Recognizing Student Misconceptions through Ed's Tools and the Biology Concept Inventory Michael W Klymkowsky and Kathy Garvin-Doxas PMCID: PMC2174968 Research Articles Distinct Roles for Arp2/3 Regulators in Actin Assembly and Endocytosis Brian J Galletta, Dennis Y Chuang, and John A Cooper PMCID: PMC2156081 A Mechanism Regulating the Onset of Sox2 Expression in the Embryonic Neural Plate Costis Papanayotou, Anne Mey, Anne-Marie Birot, Yasushi Saka, Sharon Boast, Jim C Smith, Jacques Samarut, and Claudio D Stern PMCID: PMC2174969 Cryptochromes Define a Novel Circadian Clock Mechanism in Monarch Butterflies That May Underlie Sun Compass Navigation Haisun Zhu, Ivo Sauman, Quan Yuan, Amy Casselman, Myai Emery-Le, Patrick Emery, and Steven M Reppert PMCID: PMC2174970 Conformational Equilibria in Monomeric α-Synuclein at the Single-Molecule Level Massimo Sandal, Francesco Valle, Isabella Tessari, Stefano Mammi, Elisabetta Bergantino, Francesco Musiani, Marco Brucale, Luigi Bubacco, and Bruno Samorì PMCID: PMC2174973 Specific Targeting of a Plasmodesmal Protein Affecting Cell-to-Cell Communication Carole L Thomas, Emmanuelle M Bayer, Christophe Ritzenthaler, Lourdes Fernandez-Calvino, and Andrew J Maule PMCID: PMC2211546 The Viral Oncoprotein LMP1 Exploits TRADD for Signaling by Masking Its Apoptotic Activity Frank Schneider, Julia Neugebauer, Janine Griese, Nicola Liefold, Helmut Kutz, Cinthia Briseño, and Arnd Kieser PMCID: PMC2174972 Solid-State, Dye-Labeled DNA Detects Volatile Compounds in the Vapor Phase Joel White, Kathleen Truesdell, Lloyd B Williams, Mary S AtKisson, and John S Kauer PMCID: PMC2211549 Strong Purifying Selection in Transmission of Mammalian Mitochondrial DNA James Bruce Stewart, Christoph Freyer, Joanna L Elson, Anna Wredenberg, Zekiye Cansu, Aleksandra Trifunovic, and Nils-Göran Larsson PMCID: PMC2214808 Selective Inflammatory Pain Insensitivity in the African Naked Mole-Rat (Heterocephalus glaber) Thomas J Park, Ying Lu, René Jüttner, Ewan St. J Smith, Jing Hu, Antje Brand, Christiane Wetzel, Nevena Milenkovic, Bettina Erdmann, Paul A Heppenstall, Charles E Laurito, Steven P Wilson, and Gary R Lewin PMCID: PMC2214810 The Evolution of Quorum Sensing in Bacterial Biofilms Carey D Nadell, Joao B Xavier, Simon A Levin, and Kevin R Foster PMCID: PMC2214811 Inhibitory Phosphorylation of Separase Is Essential for Genome Stability and Viability of Murine Embryonic Germ Cells Xingxu Huang, Claudia V Andreu-Vieyra, J. Philippe York, Rashieda Hatcher, Tao Lu, Martin M Matzuk, and Pumin Zhang PMCID: PMC2214812 Sparse Representation of Sounds in the Unanesthetized Auditory Cortex Tomáš Hromádka, Michael R DeWeese, and Anthony M Zador PMCID: PMC2214813 A Novel CpG Island Set Identifies Tissue-Specific Methylation at Developmental Gene Loci Robert Illingworth, Alastair Kerr, Dina DeSousa, Helle Jørgensen, Peter Ellis, Jim Stalker, David Jackson, Chris Clee, Robert Plumb, Jane Rogers, Sean Humphray, Tony Cox, Cordelia Langford, and Adrian Bird PMCID: PMC2214817 Selection for Social Signalling Drives the Evolution of Chameleon Colour Change Devi Stuart-Fox and Adnan Moussalli PMCID: PMC2214820 Corrections Correction: Quantitative Characteristics of Gene Regulation by Small RNA Erel Levine, Zhongge Zhang, Thomas Kuhlman, and Terence Hwa PMCID: PMC2214803 Corrects: Erel Levine, et al. Quantitative Characteristics of Gene Regulation by Small RNA. PLoS Biol. 2007 September; 5(9): e229. Correction: Relationship Between Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain Dysfunction, Development, and Life Extension in Caenorhabditis elegan Shane L Rea, Natascia Ventura, and Thomas E Johnson PMCID: PMC2214818 Corrects: Shane L Rea, et al. Relationship Between Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain Dysfunction, Development, and Life Extension in Caenorhabditis elegans . PLoS Biol. 2007 October; 5(10): e259. |
