| | Synopses Undercover Agents Fight Autoimmunity Caitlin Sedwick PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e281. Published online 2008 November 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060281.PMCID: PMC2581626 A Social Amoeba Discriminates in Favor of Kin Robin Meadows PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e290. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060290.PMCID: PMC2586371 For New Neurons in an Old Brain, cdk5 Shows the Way Richard Robinson PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e291. Published online 2008 November 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060291.PMCID: PMC2581631 Gut Reaction: Pyrosequencing Provides the Poop on Distal Gut Bacteria Kira O'Day PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e295. Published online 2008 November 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060295.PMCID: PMC2586365 Essays Where Do Introns Come From? Francesco Catania and Michael Lynch PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e283. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060283.PMCID: PMC2586383 Foundations of Neuroeconomics: From Philosophy to Practice John A Clithero, Dharol Tankersley, and Scott A Huettel PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e298. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060298.PMCID: PMC2586372 Community Page Metagenome Annotation Using a Distributed Grid of Undergraduate Students Pascal Hingamp, Céline Brochier, Emmanuel Talla, Daniel Gautheret, Denis Thieffry, and Carl Herrmann PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e296. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060296.PMCID: PMC2586363 Research Articles Evolution Acts on Enhancer Organization to Fine-Tune Gradient Threshold Readouts Justin Crocker, Yoichiro Tamori, and Albert Erives PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e263. Published online 2008 November 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060263.PMCID: PMC2577699 Network Hubs Buffer Environmental Variation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sasha F Levy and Mark L Siegal PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e264. Published online 2008 November 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060264.PMCID: PMC2577700 S-Nitrosylation of Surfactant Protein-D Controls Inflammatory Function Chang-Jiang Guo, Elena N Atochina-Vasserman, Elena Abramova, Joseph P Foley, Aisha Zaman, Erika Crouch, Michael F Beers, Rashmin C Savani, and Andrew J Gow PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e266. Published online 2008 November 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060266.PMCID: PMC2581630 Cdk5 Regulates Accurate Maturation of Newborn Granule Cells in the Adult Hippocampus Sebastian Jessberger, Stefan Aigner, Gregory D Clemenson, Jr., Nicolas Toni, D. Chichung Lie, Özlem Karalay, Rupert Overall, Gerd Kempermann, and Fred H Gage PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e272. Published online 2008 November 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060272.PMCID: PMC2581629 Phase Coupling of a Circadian Neuropeptide With Rest/Activity Rhythms Detected Using a Membrane-Tethered Spider Toxin Ying Wu, Guan Cao, Beth Pavlicek, Xuan Luo, and Michael N Nitabach PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e273. Published online 2008 November 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060273.PMCID: PMC2577701 Specific Immunosuppression with Inducible Foxp3-Transduced Polyclonal T cells Kristian G Andersen, Tracey Butcher, and Alexander G Betz PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e276. Published online 2008 November 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060276.PMCID: PMC2581628 Chromatin- and Transcription-Related Factors Repress Transcription from within Coding Regions throughout the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Genome Vanessa Cheung, Gordon Chua, Nizar N Batada, Christian R Landry, Stephen W Michnick, Timothy R Hughes, and Fred Winston PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e277. Published online 2008 November 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060277.PMCID: PMC2581627 A Novel Gene Family Controls Species-Specific Morphological Traits in Hydra Konstantin Khalturin, Friederike Anton-Erxleben, Sylvia Sassmann, Jörg Wittlieb, Georg Hemmrich, and Thomas C. G Bosch PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e278. Published online 2008 November 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060278.PMCID: PMC2586386 The Pervasive Effects of an Antibiotic on the Human Gut Microbiota, as Revealed by Deep 16S rRNA Sequencing Les Dethlefsen, Sue Huse, Mitchell L Sogin, and David A Relman PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e280. Published online 2008 November 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060280.PMCID: PMC2586385 Drosophila Neurotrophins Reveal a Common Mechanism for Nervous System Formation Bangfu Zhu, Jenny A Pennack, Peter McQuilton, Manuel G Forero, Kenji Mizuguchi, Ben Sutcliffe, Chun-Jing Gu, Janine C Fenton, and Alicia Hidalgo PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e284. Published online 2008 November 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060284.PMCID: PMC2586362 Specialization Does Not Predict Individual Efficiency in an Ant Anna Dornhaus PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e285. Published online 2008 November 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060285.PMCID: PMC2586388 Intergenic Locations of Rice Centromeric Chromatin Huihuang Yan, Paul B Talbert, Hye-Ran Lee, Jamie Jett, Steven Henikoff, Feng Chen, and Jiming Jiang PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e286. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060286.PMCID: PMC2586382 Kin Discrimination Increases with Genetic Distance in a Social Amoeba Elizabeth A Ostrowski, Mariko Katoh, Gad Shaulsky, David C Queller, and Joan E Strassmann PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e287. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060287.PMCID: PMC2586364 The Making of a Compound Inflorescence in Tomato and Related Nightshades Zachary B Lippman, Oded Cohen, John P Alvarez, Mohamad Abu-Abied, Irena Pekker, Ilan Paran, Yuval Eshed, and Dani Zamir PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e288. Published online 2008 November 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060288.PMCID: PMC2586368 Gamma-Secretase Represents a Therapeutic Target for the Treatment of Invasive Glioma Mediated by the p75 Neurotrophin Receptor LiMei Wang, Jennifer J Rahn, XueQing Lun, Beichen Sun, John J. P Kelly, Samuel Weiss, Stephen M Robbins, Peter A Forsyth, and Donna L Senger PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e289. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060289.PMCID: PMC2586378 COPI Complex Is a Regulator of Lipid Homeostasis Mathias Beller, Carole Sztalryd, Noel Southall, Ming Bell, Herbert Jäckle, Douglas S Auld, and Brian Oliver PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e292. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060292.PMCID: PMC2586367 Exdpf Is a Key Regulator of Exocrine Pancreas Development Controlled by Retinoic Acid and ptf1a in Zebrafish Zhi Jiang, Jianbo Song, Fei Qi, An Xiao, Xizhou An, Ning-ai Liu, Zuoyang Zhu, Bo Zhang, and Shuo Lin PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e293. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060293.PMCID: PMC2586380 Prion Switching in Response to Environmental Stress Jens Tyedmers, Maria Lucia Madariaga, and Susan Lindquist PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e294. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060294.PMCID: PMC2586387 Corrections Correction: Rice XB15, a Protein Phosphatase 2C, Negatively Regulates Cell Death and XA21-Mediated Innate Immunity Chang-Jin Park, Ying Peng, Xuewei Chen, Christopher Dardick, DeLing Ruan, Rebecca Bart, Patrick E Canlas, and Pamela C Ronald PLoS Biol. 2008 November; 6(11): e282. 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