September 11, 2014
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09/11/2014
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Philipp Engel and colleagues undertook a single-cell
genomic approach to investigate the diversification within
two species of the gut microbiota of honey bees.
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09/11/2014
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Francisco F. Esteves and colleagues use bioinformatics, biochemistry, and transgenic animal technology to elucidate the genetic mechanism behind the trunk nervous system of both vertebrates and invertebrates.
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09/11/2014
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Richard McLaughlin and colleagues describe the evolution of a gene, L1TD1. They show that L1TD1 was born in the common ancestor of placental mammals.
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09/04/2014
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Ximena Ibarra-Soriause and colleagues use multiple gene expression technologies to curate and measure the activity of all the genes involved in the detection of odors by mice and find evidence of many new ones.
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09/04/2014
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Claire Leblond and colleagues performed a new genetic screen of SHANK mutations. They found that SHANK mutations account for 1% of patients with autism spectrum disorders.
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09/04/2014
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The photoperiodic clock monitors the seasonal change in day-length. Mirko Pegoraro and colleagues address a major and long-standing question in chronobiology: whether the circadian clock is involved in photoperiodic timing, also known as the Bünning hypothesis.
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09/11/2014
Perspective
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08/28/2014
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Virginia Barbour, Medicine & Biology Editorial Director at PLOS, on the urgent need for Open Access research into the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
The largest recorded in history.
There have been 3 outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fever in Uganda in the last 2 years.
Rift Valley fever is an arthropod-borne viral zoonosis that occurs in large parts of sub-Saharan and North Africa.
At PLOS, we believe we should celebrate the metrics of individual articles and the diverse metrics and the stories associated with them.
For the 2 weeks after the paper from Chris Rands and colleagues published, 36 people were viewing the article every hour.
Since its publication a PLOS NTDs article has gotten over 176,000 views and 12,000 shares in Social Media.
This study, in combination with another, triggered a Food and Drug Administration evaluation that is currently ongoing.
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