January 9, 2017
Image credit: Daniela Goretti and colleagues
01/11/2017
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Reiko Tajiri and colleagues show that, during metamorphosis of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the cuticle covering the long and thin larva (maggot) undergoes longitudinal contraction and lateral expansion to become the short and stout puparium covering the pupa.
Image credit: Reiko Tajiri and colleagues
Current Issue December 2016
01/09/2017
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Lin Wang, Zhiyu Liu and colleagues identified a highly conserved ADAM protein, SUP-17/ADAM10, as an important factor in modulating BMP signaling in C. elegans and showed that proper localization and function of this ADAM protease require two conserved tetraspanin proteins, TSP-12 and TSP-14.
Image credit: Lin Wang, Zhiyu Liu and colleagues
01/06/2017
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Using stage-specific gene expression data, Samantha N. McNulty and colleagues identified liver fluke proteins likely involved in host-parasite interactions, and using immunolocalization, confirmed Neorickettsia in organs and tissues of the adult trematode.
Image credit: Samantha N. McNulty and colleagues
12/29/2016
research article
Jocelyn Plassais and colleagues present a canine neuropathy characterized by insensitivity to pain in the feet, sometimes combined with self-mutilation.
Image credit: Jocelyn Plassais and colleagues
01/03/2017
research article
Russell Corbett-Detig and Rasmus Nielsen introduce a novel hidden Markov model for estimating local ancestry that uses short read data.
Image credit: Russell Corbett-Detig and Rasmus Nielsen
01/05/2017
research article
Beatriz Orosa, Qin He and colleagues demonstrate that a BTB domain protein, POB1, is a conserved novel negative regulator of plant immune responses triggered by evolutionarily diverse pathogens. nucleus and stimulates its degradation
Image credit: Beatriz Orosa, Qin He and colleagues
01/12/2017
PERSPECTIVE
Alexander Arthur Wurm and colleagues explore work by Chao Shen and colleagues on miR-22 function during myelopoiesis.
Image credit: Chao Shen and colleagues
12/29/2016
perspective
Karen J. Liu discusses recent work by Ching-Fang Chang and colleagues which uncovers an important role for HH-dependent transcriptional repression during facial development.
Image credit: Richard Edlemann
12/15/2016
review
Idit Hazan and colleagues review recent advances linking some CFS gene products with the DDR, genomic instability, and carcinogenesis.
Image credit: Idit Hazan and colleagues
12/01/2016
PERSPECTIVE
Maureen M. Barr discusses recent research by Cornils, Maurya, and colleagues which sheds light on age-related suppression of ciliogenesis defects.
Image credit: Park, Lee et al. (2013), PLOS Genetics
Sylvain Alem and colleagues investigate the social learning of string-pulling in the bumblebee which is illustrated through a number of videos.
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