Advertisement
Table of Contents

February 2010

Cover

The pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum, an emerging genomic model organism.
Issue Image

Pea aphids extracting sap from the stem and leaves of garden peas. Nymph aphids surrounding the mother aphid were produced parthenogenetically and viviparously; sexual reproduction can be induced by shorter amounts of daylight. A study conducted by The International Aphid Genomics Consortium (e1000313) reveals significant features of the whole genome sequence of the pea aphid, shedding light on its unusual life cycle and interaction with endosymbiotic bacteria.

Image Credit: Shipher Wu (photograph) and Gee-way Lin (aphid provision), National Taiwan University.

Synopses

Touch Neurons Have a Good Sense of Direction

Richard Robinson

PLOS Biology: published February 2, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000304

Related Articles

  1. Shape Invariant Coding of Motion Direction in Somatosensory Cortex
  2. Shape Invariant Coding of Motion Direction in Somatosensory Cortex

BIN1: A Protein with Great Heart

Caitlin Sedwick

PLOS Biology: published February 16, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000311

Related Articles

  1. BIN1 Localizes the L-Type Calcium Channel to Cardiac T-Tubules
  2. BIN1 Localizes the L-Type Calcium Channel to Cardiac T-Tubules

Current Affairs: A Mutation's-Eye View of Voltage Gating

Mary Hoff

PLOS Biology: published February 23, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000314

Related Articles

  1. Voltage-Dependent Gating in a “Voltage Sensor-Less” Ion Channel
  2. Voltage-Dependent Gating in a “Voltage Sensor-Less” Ion Channel

Essay

Paleovirology—Modern Consequences of Ancient Viruses

Michael Emerman, Harmit S. Malik

PLOS Biology: published February 9, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000301

Primers

Genomic Responses to Abnormal Gene Dosage: The X Chromosome Improved on a Common Strategy

Xinxian Deng, Christine M. Disteche

PLOS Biology: published February 23, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000318

Related Articles

  1. Expression in Aneuploid Drosophila S2 Cells
  2. Expression in Aneuploid Drosophila S2 Cells

Living the Sweet Life: How Does a Plant Pathogenic Fungus Acquire Sugar from Plants?

Nicholas J. Talbot

PLOS Biology: published February 9, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000308

Related Articles

  1. A Novel High-Affinity Sucrose Transporter Is Required for Virulence of the Plant Pathogen Ustilago maydis
  2. A Novel High-Affinity Sucrose Transporter Is Required for Virulence of the Plant Pathogen Ustilago maydis

Community Page

VertNet: A New Model for Biodiversity Data Sharing

Heather Constable, Robert Guralnick, John Wieczorek, Carol Spencer, A. Townsend Peterson, The VertNet Steering Committee

PLOS Biology: published February 16, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000309

Research Articles

Absolute Humidity and the Seasonal Onset of Influenza in the Continental United States

Jeffrey Shaman, Virginia E. Pitzer, Cécile Viboud, Bryan T. Grenfell, Marc Lipsitch

PLOS Biology: published February 23, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000316

Related Articles

  1. Correction: Absolute Humidity and the Seasonal Onset of Influenza in the Continental United States
  2. Correction: Absolute Humidity and the Seasonal Onset of Influenza in the Continental United States

Regulatory T Cells and Human Myeloid Dendritic Cells Promote Tolerance via Programmed Death Ligand-1

Shoba Amarnath, Carliann M. Costanzo, Jacopo Mariotti, Jessica L. Ullman, William G. Telford, Veena Kapoor, James L. Riley, Bruce L. Levine, Carl H. June, Timothy Fong, Noel L. Warner, Daniel H. Fowler

PLOS Biology: published February 2, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000302

Shape Invariant Coding of Motion Direction in Somatosensory Cortex

Yu-Cheng Pei, Steven S. Hsiao, James C. Craig, Sliman J. Bensmaia

PLOS Biology: published February 2, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000305

Related Articles

  1. Touch Neurons Have a Good Sense of Direction
  2. Touch Neurons Have a Good Sense of Direction

Targeting A20 Decreases Glioma Stem Cell Survival and Tumor Growth

Anita B. Hjelmeland, Qiulian Wu, Sarah Wickman, Christine Eyler, John Heddleston, Qing Shi, Justin D. Lathia, Jennifer MacSwords, Jeongwu Lee, Roger E. McLendon, Jeremy N. Rich

PLOS Biology: published February 23, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000319

Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

The International Aphid Genomics Consortium

PLOS Biology: published February 23, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000313

Related Articles

  1. Correction: Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

Expression in Aneuploid Drosophila S2 Cells

Yu Zhang, John H. Malone, Sara K. Powell, Vipul Periwal, Eric Spana, David M. MacAlpine, Brian Oliver

PLOS Biology: published February 23, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000320

Related Articles

  1. Genomic Responses to Abnormal Gene Dosage: The X Chromosome Improved on a Common Strategy
  2. Genomic Responses to Abnormal Gene Dosage: The X Chromosome Improved on a Common Strategy

The Wnt Pathway Controls Cell Death Engulfment, Spindle Orientation, and Migration through CED-10/Rac

Juan Cabello, Lukas J. Neukomm, Ufuk Günesdogan, Katharina Burkart, Steve J. Charette, Günter Lochnit, Michael O. Hengartner, Ralf Schnabel

PLOS Biology: published February 2, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000297

Ciprofloxacin Causes Persister Formation by Inducing the TisB toxin in Escherichia coli

Tobias Dörr, Marin Vulić, Kim Lewis

PLOS Biology: published February 23, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000317

A Novel High-Affinity Sucrose Transporter Is Required for Virulence of the Plant Pathogen Ustilago maydis

Ramon Wahl, Kathrin Wippel, Sarah Goos, Jörg Kämper, Norbert Sauer

PLOS Biology: published February 9, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000303

Related Articles

  1. Living the Sweet Life: How Does a Plant Pathogenic Fungus Acquire Sugar from Plants?
  2. Living the Sweet Life: How Does a Plant Pathogenic Fungus Acquire Sugar from Plants?

BIN1 Localizes the L-Type Calcium Channel to Cardiac T-Tubules

Ting-Ting Hong, James W. Smyth, Danchen Gao, Kevin Y. Chu, Jacob M. Vogan, Tina S. Fong, Brian C. Jensen, Henry M. Colecraft, Robin M. Shaw

PLOS Biology: published February 16, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000312

Related Articles

  1. BIN1: A Protein with Great Heart
  2. BIN1: A Protein with Great Heart

Voltage-Dependent Gating in a “Voltage Sensor-Less” Ion Channel

Harley T. Kurata, Markus Rapedius, Marc J. Kleinman, Thomas . Baukrowitz, Colin G. Nichols

PLOS Biology: published February 23, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000315

Related Articles

  1. Current Affairs: A Mutation's-Eye View of Voltage Gating
  2. Current Affairs: A Mutation's-Eye View of Voltage Gating

Using Structural Information to Change the Phosphotransfer Specificity of a Two-Component Chemotaxis Signalling Complex

Christian H. Bell, Steven L. Porter, Annabel Strawson, David I. Stuart, Judith P. Armitage

PLOS Biology: published February 9, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000306

mRNA Secondary Structures Fold Sequentially But Exchange Rapidly In Vivo

Elisabeth M. Mahen, Peter Y. Watson, Joseph W. Cottrell, Martha J. Fedor

PLOS Biology: published February 9, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000307

Book Review%2FScience in the Media

Why We Conform

Julia Fischer

PLOS Biology: published February 2, 2010 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000277