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August 2005

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Fish grazing on phytoplankton in the Red Sea.
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Bacterial DNA was collected from a pumping site only a few meters from the location of this underwater shot in the Red Sea. Fragments of this DNA were used to construct one of the bacterial artificial chromosome libraries described in Sabehi et al.

Image Credit: Photograph by Boaz Harel

Editorial

Measures of Impact

Hemai Parthasarathy

PLOS Biology: published July 19, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030296

Feature

Prices for Ingenuity

Bill O'Neill

PLOS Biology: published August 16, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030288

Primer

The Left–Right Polarity Puzzle: Determining Embryonic Handedness

William B Wood

PLOS Biology: published August 16, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030292

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Bioinformatics and Data Management Support for Environmental Genomics

Dawn Field, Bela Tiwari, Jason Snape

PLOS Biology: published August 16, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030297

Research Articles

The Impact of the Species–Area Relationship on Estimates of Paleodiversity

Anthony D Barnosky, Marc A Carrasco, Edward B Davis

PLOS Biology: published July 19, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030266

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Traces of Archaic Mitochondrial Lineages Persist in Austronesian-Speaking Formosan Populations

Jean A Trejaut, Toomas Kivisild, Jun Hun Loo, Chien Liang Lee, Chun Lin He, Chia Jung Hsu, Zheng Yuan Li, Marie Lin

PLOS Biology: published July 5, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247

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Evolution, Systematics, and Phylogeography of Pleistocene Horses in the New World: A Molecular Perspective

Jaco Weinstock, Eske Willerslev, Andrei Sher, Wenfei Tong, Simon Y.W Ho, Dan Rubenstein, John Storer, James Burns, Larry Martin, Claudio Bravi, Alfredo Prieto, Duane Froese, Eric Scott, Lai Xulong, Alan Cooper

PLOS Biology: published June 28, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030241

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Multiple Locus Linkage Analysis of Genomewide Expression in Yeast

John D Storey, Joshua M Akey, Leonid Kruglyak

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The Genome Sequence of Rickettsia felis Identifies the First Putative Conjugative Plasmid in an Obligate Intracellular Parasite

Hiroyuki Ogata, Patricia Renesto, Stéphane Audic, Catherine Robert, Guillaume Blanc, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Hugues Parinello, Jean-Michel Claverie, Didier Raoult

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Prevalence-Dependent Costs of Parasite Virulence

Stephanie Bedhomme, Philip Agnew, Yuri Vital, Christine Sidobre, Yannis Michalakis

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New Insights into Metabolic Properties of Marine Bacteria Encoding Proteorhodopsins

Gazalah Sabehi, Alexander Loy, Kwang-Hwan Jung, Ranga Partha, John L Spudich, Tal Isaacson, Joseph Hirschberg, Michael Wagner, Oded Béjà

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A Conserved Mechanism for Sulfonucleotide Reduction

Kate S Carroll, Hong Gao, Huiyi Chen, C. David Stout, Julie A Leary, Carolyn R Bertozzi

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Structure of a Pheromone Receptor-Associated MHC Molecule with an Open and Empty Groove

Rich Olson, Kathryn E Huey-Tubman, Catherine Dulac, Pamela J Bjorkman

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Functional Analysis of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Expression Using Zebrafish

Craig E Eckfeldt, Eric M Mendenhall, Catherine M Flynn, Tzu-Fei Wang, Michael A Pickart, Suzanne M Grindle, Stephen C Ekker, Catherine M Verfaillie

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The Ews-ERG Fusion Protein Can Initiate Neoplasia from Lineage-Committed Haematopoietic Cells

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De Novo Formation of Left–Right Asymmetry by Posterior Tilt of Nodal Cilia

Shigenori Nonaka, Satoko Yoshiba, Daisuke Watanabe, Shingo Ikeuchi, Tomonobu Goto, Wallace F Marshall, Hiroshi Hamada

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Diverse Modes of Axon Elaboration in the Developing Neocortex

Carlos Portera-Cailliau, Robby M Weimer, Vincenzo De Paola, Pico Caroni, Karel Svoboda

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Dopamine-Independent Locomotor Actions of Amphetamines in a Novel Acute Mouse Model of Parkinson Disease

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Primary Visual Cortex Activity along the Apparent-Motion Trace Reflects Illusory Perception

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Correspondence and Other Communications

Authors' Reply

Mark Stoneking, Brigitte Pakendorf, Hiroki Oota

PLOS Biology: published August 16, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030270

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Comment on “Recent Origin and Cultural Reversion of a Hunter–Gatherer Group”

Tony Waters

PLOS Biology: published August 16, 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030269

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