July 2005

Experimentally manipulating the environment of water fleas (Daphnia) demonstrates that extinction risk can be predicted accurately if density dependence is included and reveals that existing models underestimate extinction rates.

Image Credit: Photograph provided by Paul Hebert, Barcode of Life Image Library, University of Guelph, Canada

Essay

Evolution at Two Levels: On Genes and Form

Sean B Carroll

PLOS Biology: published July 12, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030245

Feature

Follow the Money—The Politics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Eugene Russo

PLOS Biology: published July 12, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030234

Primer

After 30 Years of Study, the Bacterial SOS Response Still Surprises Us

Bénédicte Michel

PLOS Biology: published July 12, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030255

Community Page

Protecting Science from Abuse Requires a Broader Form of Outreach

Kai M. A Chan, Paul A. T Higgins, Stephen Porder

PLOS Biology: published July 12, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030218

Research Articles

Self-Assembling Peptide Detergents Stabilize Isolated Photosystem Ion a Dry Surface for an Extended Time

Patrick Kiley, Xiaojun Zhao, Michael Vaughn, Marc A Baldo, Barry D Bruce, Shuguang Zhang

PLOS Biology: published June 21, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030230

Normal microRNA Maturation and Germ-Line Stem Cell Maintenance Requires Loquacious, a Double-Stranded RNA-Binding Domain Protein

Klaus Förstemann, Yukihide Tomari, Tingting Du, Vasily V Vagin, Ahmet M Denli, Diana P Bratu, Carla Klattenhoff, William E Theurkauf, Phillip D Zamore

PLOS Biology: published May 24, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030236

Processing of Pre-microRNAs by the Dicer-1–Loquacious Complex in Drosophila Cells

Kuniaki Saito, Akira Ishizuka, Haruhiko Siomi, Mikiko C Siomi

PLOS Biology: published May 24, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030235

A Role for Adenosine Deaminase in Drosophila Larval Development

Tomas Dolezal, Eva Dolezelova, Michal Zurovec, Peter J Bryant

PLOS Biology: published May 24, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030201

Rab7 Associates with Early Endosomes to Mediate Sorting and Transport of Semliki Forest Virus to Late Endosomes

Andreas Vonderheit, Ari Helenius

PLOS Biology: published June 21, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030233

The Cell Cycle–Regulated Genes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Anna Oliva, Adam Rosebrock, Francisco Ferrezuelo, Saumyadipta Pyne, Haiying Chen, Steve Skiena, Bruce Futcher, Janet Leatherwood

PLOS Biology: published June 28, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030225

Precise Temporal Modulation in the Response of the SOS DNA Repair Network in Individual Bacteria

Nir Friedman, Shuki Vardi, Michal Ronen, Uri Alon, Joel Stavans

PLOS Biology: published June 21, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030238

The Evolution of Connectivity in Metabolic Networks

Thomas Pfeiffer, Orkun S Soyer, Sebastian Bonhoeffer

PLOS Biology: published June 28, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030228

Population Fitness and the Regulation of Escherichia coli Genes by Bacterial Viruses

Ying Chen, Ido Golding, Satoshi Sawai, Ling Guo, Edward C Cox

PLOS Biology: published June 21, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030229

Host–Parasite Interactions and the Evolution of Gene Expression

Scott L Nuismer, Sarah P Otto

PLOS Biology: published May 31, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030203

The Pattern of Polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana

Magnus Nordborg, Tina T Hu, Yoko Ishino, Jinal Jhaveri, Christopher Toomajian, Honggang Zheng, Erica Bakker, Peter Calabrese, Jean Gladstone, Rana Goyal, Mattias Jakobsson, Sung Kim, Yuri Morozov, Badri Padhukasahasram, Vincent Plagnol, Noah A Rosenberg, Chitiksha Shah, Jeffrey D Wall, Jue Wang, Keyan Zhao, Theodore Kalbfleisch, Vincent Schulz, Martin Kreitman, Joy Bergelson

PLOS Biology: published May 24, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030196