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October 2006

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Rescue of sun sensitivity and premature aging.
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Rescue of sun sensitivity and premature aging by embryonic lethal Xpd alleles in compound heterozygote mice suggests new thinking about recessive disorders in humans (see Mitchell et al.). Depicted is an artistic representation of the two alleles (light and dark) with a young woman emerging from the dark, symbolizing the rescue effect.

Image Credit: Photo by L. Kallasvee and J. O. Andressoo. Model, Reet Aus

Unsolved Mystery

To Lose Both Would Look Like Carelessness: Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease

Hamish McCallum, Menna Jones

PLOS Biology: published October 17, 2006 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040342

Primer

Repeating Patterns of Mimicry

Axel Meyer

PLOS Biology: published October 17, 2006 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040341

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Initiation, Establishment, and Maintenance of Heritable MuDR Transposon Silencing in Maize Are Mediated by Distinct Factors

Margaret Roth Woodhouse, Michael Freeling, Damon Lisch

PLOS Biology: published September 12, 2006 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040339

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Lyubov Zaitseva, Richard Myers, Ariberto Fassati

PLOS Biology: published October 3, 2006 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040332

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Stochastic mRNA Synthesis in Mammalian Cells

Arjun Raj, Charles S Peskin, Daniel Tranchina, Diana Y Vargas, Sanjay Tyagi

PLOS Biology: published September 12, 2006 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040309

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Stratus Not Altocumulus: A New View of the Yeast Protein Interaction Network

Nizar N Batada, Teresa Reguly, Ashton Breitkreutz, Lorrie Boucher, Bobby-Joe Breitkreutz, Laurence D Hurst, Mike Tyers

PLOS Biology: published September 19, 2006 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040317

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Predicting Essential Components of Signal Transduction Networks: A Dynamic Model of Guard Cell Abscisic Acid Signaling

Song Li, Sarah M Assmann, Réka Albert

PLOS Biology: published September 12, 2006 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040312

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CDPKs CPK6 and CPK3 Function in ABA Regulation of Guard Cell S-Type Anion- and Ca2+- Permeable Channels and Stomatal Closure

Izumi C Mori, Yoshiyuki Murata, Yingzhen Yang, Shintaro Munemasa, Yong-Fei Wang, Shannon Andreoli, Hervé Tiriac, Jose M Alonso, Jeffery F Harper, Joseph R Ecker, June M Kwak, Julian I Schroeder

PLOS Biology: published October 10, 2006 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040327

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Alice Davy, Jeffrey O Bush, Philippe Soriano

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Munc18-Bound Syntaxin Readily Forms SNARE Complexes with Synaptobrevin in Native Plasma Membranes

Felipe E Zilly, Jakob B Sørensen, Reinhard Jahn, Thorsten Lang

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Generalization of Motor Learning Depends on the History of Prior Action

John W Krakauer, Pietro Mazzoni, Ali Ghazizadeh, Roshni Ravindran, Reza Shadmehr

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Implicit Multisensory Associations Influence Voice Recognition

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Rescue of Progeria in Trichothiodystrophy by Homozygous Lethal Xpd Alleles

Jaan-Olle Andressoo, Judith Jans, Jan de Wit, Frederic Coin, Deborah Hoogstraten, Marieke van de Ven, Wendy Toussaint, Jan Huijmans, H. Bing Thio, Wibeke J van Leeuwen, Jan de Boer, Jean-Marc Egly, Jan H. J Hoeijmakers, Gijsbertus T. J van der Horst, James R Mitchell

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A Conserved Supergene Locus Controls Colour Pattern Diversity in Heliconius Butterflies

Mathieu Joron, Riccardo Papa, Margarita Beltrán, Nicola Chamberlain, Jesús Mavárez, Simon Baxter, Moisés Abanto, Eldredge Bermingham, Sean J Humphray, Jane Rogers, Helen Beasley, Karen Barlow, Richard H. ffrench-Constant, James Mallet, W. Owen McMillan, Chris D Jiggins

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Strict Host-Symbiont Cospeciation and Reductive Genome Evolution in Insect Gut Bacteria

Takahiro Hosokawa, Yoshitomo Kikuchi, Naruo Nikoh, Masakazu Shimada, Takema Fukatsu

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Asymmetrical Reinforcement and Wolbachia Infection in Drosophila

John Jaenike, Kelly A Dyer, Chad Cornish, Miranda S Minhas

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Morphological Evolution Is Accelerated among Island Mammals

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Food-Web Models Predict Species Abundances in Response to Habitat Change

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Corrections

Correction: Evolution of Melanopsin Photoreceptors: Discovery and Characterization of a New Melanopsin in Nonmammalian Vertebrates

James Bellingham, Shyam S Chaurasia, Zara Melyan, Cuimei Liu, Morven A Cameron, Emma E Tarttelin, P. Michael Iuvone, Mark W Hankins, Gianluca Tosini, Robert J Lucas

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Correction: Math and Fossils Resolve a Debate on Dinosaur Metabolism

Liza Gross

PLOS Biology: published October 17, 2006 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040328

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How to Win the Nobel Prize?

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PLOS Biology: published October 17, 2006 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040333