January 2007

Insect fat body cells (highlighted here with a specific molecular marker) are secretory cells that play important roles in energy metabolism, in the immune response, and in female reproduction. In addition, the fat body produces male-specific proteins and plays a significant role in controlling male courtship behavior. (see Dauwalder et al.).

Image Credit: Cover photographs captured by Hank Adams, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Editorial

Scrambling Eggs in Plastic Bottles

R. Scott Hawley, Dorothy Warburton

PLOS Genetics: published January 12, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030006

Research Articles

Early History of Mammals Is Elucidated with the ENCODE Multiple Species Sequencing Data

Sergey Nikolaev, Juan I Montoya-Burgos, Elliott H Margulies, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Jacques Rougemont, Bruno Nyffeler, Stylianos E Antonarakis

PLOS Genetics: published January 5, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030002

A High-Resolution Map of Segmental DNA Copy Number Variation in the Mouse Genome

Timothy A Graubert, Patrick Cahan, Deepa Edwin, Rebecca R Selzer, Todd A Richmond, Peggy S Eis, William D Shannon, Xia Li, Howard L McLeod, James M Cheverud, Timothy J Ley

PLOS Genetics: published January 5, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030003

An Arabidopsis Example of Association Mapping in Structured Samples

Keyan Zhao, María José Aranzana, Sung Kim, Clare Lister, Chikako Shindo, Chunlao Tang, Christopher Toomajian, Honggang Zheng, Caroline Dean, Paul Marjoram, Magnus Nordborg

PLOS Genetics: published January 19, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030004

Bisphenol A Exposure In Utero Disrupts Early Oogenesis in the Mouse

Martha Susiarjo, Terry J Hassold, Edward Freeman, Patricia A Hunt

PLOS Genetics: published January 12, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030005

A Role for Alström Syndrome Protein, Alms1, in Kidney Ciliogenesis and Cellular Quiescence

Guochun Li, Raquel Vega, Keats Nelms, Nicholas Gekakis, Christopher Goodnow, Peter McNamara, Hua Wu, Nancy A Hong, Richard Glynne

PLOS Genetics: published January 5, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030008

Distinct Pigmentary and Melanocortin 1 Receptor–Dependent Components of Cutaneous Defense against Ultraviolet Radiation

Craig S April, Gregory S Barsh

PLOS Genetics: published January 12, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030009

Repeated Recruitment of LTR Retrotransposons as Promoters by the Anti-Apoptotic Locus NAIP during Mammalian Evolution

Mark T Romanish, Wynne M Lock, Louie N. van de Lagemaat, Catherine A Dunn, Dixie L Mager

PLOS Genetics: published January 12, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030010

The Regulatory Code for Transcriptional Response Diversity and Its Relation to Genome Structural Properties in A. thaliana

Dirk Walther, Roman Brunnemann, Joachim Selbig

PLOS Genetics: published February 9, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030011

A Multi-Step Pathway for the Establishment of Sister Chromatid Cohesion

Mark Milutinovich, Elçin Ünal, Chris Ward, Robert V Skibbens, Douglas Koshland

PLOS Genetics: published January 19, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030012

Comparative Genomics of Large Mitochondria in Placozoans

Ana Y Signorovitch, Leo W Buss, Stephen L Dellaporta

PLOS Genetics: published January 12, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030013

Reductive Genome Evolution from the Mother of Rickettsia

Guillaume Blanc, Hiroyuki Ogata, Catherine Robert, Stéphane Audic, Karsten Suhre, Guy Vestris, Jean-Michel Claverie, Didier Raoult

PLOS Genetics: published January 19, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030014

Adaptive Diversification in Genes That Regulate Resource Use in Escherichia coli

Christine C Spencer, Melanie Bertrand, Michael Travisano, Michael Doebeli

PLOS Genetics: published January 19, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030015

A Role for the Adult Fat Body in Drosophila Male Courtship Behavior

Anna A Lazareva, Gregg Roman, William Mattox, Paul E Hardin, Brigitte Dauwalder

PLOS Genetics: published January 26, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030016

Gene Duplication of the Zebrafish kit ligand and Partitioning of Melanocyte Development Functions to kit ligand a

Keith A Hultman, Nathan Bahary, Leonard I Zon, Stephen L Johnson

PLOS Genetics: published January 26, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030017

Jagged2a-Notch Signaling Mediates Cell Fate Choice in the Zebrafish Pronephric Duct

Ming Ma, Yun-Jin Jiang

PLOS Genetics: published January 26, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030018

Polymorphisms of CUL5 Are Associated with CD4⁺ T Cell Loss in HIV-1 Infected Individuals

Ping An, Priya Duggal, Li Hua Wang, Stephen J O'Brien, Sharyne Donfield, James J Goedert, John Phair, Susan Buchbinder, Gregory D Kirk, Cheryl A Winkler

PLOS Genetics: published January 26, 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030019

Cover

Insect fat body cells