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January 2012

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The “Carwash” hydrothermal vent, Isis Dive 138, 2,397m depth (Latitude 60° 02.568'S, Longitude 29° 58.966'W), E9 Segment of the East Scotia Ridge.

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Large aggregations of a new species of yeti crab (Kiwa n. sp.), a peltospiroid gastropod and a new species of stalked barnacle (Vulcanolepas n. sp.) can be seen around the base of the chimneys. Vent limpets, Lepetodrilus n. sp. can be seen on the carapaces of the yeti crabs and anemones are also present. See Rogers, et al. (e1001234).

Image Credit: NERC ChEsSo Consortium

Synopses

New Signaling Chemicals Spur Worms to Seek Company

Janelle Weaver

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Rise and Fall, and Rise Again: Phagosome Maturation Is Controlled by Two Kinases and One Phosphatase

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PLOS Biology: published January 17, 2012 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001246

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Perspective

Opening Up the Politics of Knowledge and Power in Bioscience

Andy Stirling

PLOS Biology: published January 3, 2012 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001233

Primers

Antarctic Marine Biodiversity and Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents

Steven L. Chown

PLOS Biology: published January 3, 2012 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001232

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Restoration of Ailing Wetlands

Oswald J. Schmitz

PLOS Biology: published January 24, 2012 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001248

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Community Pages

Desperately Seeking Stable 50-Year-Old Landscapes with Patches and Long, Wide Corridors

Paul Beier, Andrew J. Gregory

PLOS Biology: published January 31, 2012 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001253

Putting the Pieces Together: Integrative Modeling Platform Software for Structure Determination of Macromolecular Assemblies

Daniel Russel, Keren Lasker, Ben Webb, Javier Velázquez-Muriel, Elina Tjioe, Dina Schneidman-Duhovny, Bret Peterson, Andrej Sali

PLOS Biology: published January 17, 2012 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001244

Research Articles

The Discovery of New Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities in the Southern Ocean and Implications for Biogeography

Alex D. Rogers, Paul A. Tyler, Douglas P. Connelly, Jon T. Copley, Rachael James, Robert D. Larter, Katrin Linse, Rachel A. Mills, Alfredo Naveira Garabato, Richard D. Pancost, David A. Pearce, Nicholas V. C. Polunin, Christopher R. German, Timothy Shank, Philipp H. Boersch-Supan, Belinda J. Alker, Alfred Aquilina, Sarah A. Bennett, Andrew Clarke, Robert J. J. Dinley, Alastair G. C. Graham, Darryl R. H. Green, Jeffrey A. Hawkes, Laura Hepburn, Ana Hilario, Veerle A. I. Huvenne, Leigh Marsh, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, William D. K. Reid, Christopher N. Roterman, Christopher J. Sweeting, Sven Thatje, Katrin Zwirglmaier

PLOS Biology: published January 3, 2012 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001234

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Structural and Functional Loss in Restored Wetland Ecosystems

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Rapid Evolution of Enormous, Multichromosomal Genomes in Flowering Plant Mitochondria with Exceptionally High Mutation Rates

Daniel B. Sloan, Andrew J. Alverson, John P. Chuckalovcak, Martin Wu, David E. McCauley, Jeffrey D. Palmer, Douglas R. Taylor

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Alternative Splicing of RNA Triplets Is Often Regulated and Accelerates Proteome Evolution

Robert K. Bradley, Jason Merkin, Nicole J. Lambert, Christopher B. Burge

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Role of Pleiotropy in the Evolution of a Cryptic Developmental Variation in Caenorhabditis elegans

Fabien Duveau, Marie-Anne Félix

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Differentiation of the Lateral Compartment of the Cochlea Requires a Temporally Restricted FGF20 Signal

Sung-Ho Huh, Jennifer Jones, Mark E. Warchol, David M. Ornitz

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USP8 Promotes Smoothened Signaling by Preventing Its Ubiquitination and Changing Its Subcellular Localization

Ruohan Xia, Hongge Jia, Junkai Fan, Yajuan Liu, Jianhang Jia

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Jagan Srinivasan, Stephan H. von Reuss, Neelanjan Bose, Alon Zaslaver, Parag Mahanti, Margaret C. Ho, Oran G. O'Doherty, Arthur S. Edison, Paul W. Sternberg, Frank C. Schroeder

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Functional Clustering Drives Encoding Improvement in a Developing Brain Network during Awake Visual Learning

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Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex

Brian N. Pasley, Stephen V. David, Nima Mesgarani, Adeen Flinker, Shihab A. Shamma, Nathan E. Crone, Robert T. Knight, Edward F. Chang

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Two PI 3-Kinases and One PI 3-Phosphatase Together Establish the Cyclic Waves of Phagosomal PtdIns(3)P Critical for the Degradation of Apoptotic Cells

Nan Lu, Qian Shen, Timothy R. Mahoney, Lukas J. Neukomm, Ying Wang, Zheng Zhou

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Substrate Specificity within a Family of Outer Membrane Carboxylate Channels

Elif Eren, Jagamya Vijayaraghavan, Jiaming Liu, Belete R. Cheneke, Debra S. Touw, Bryan W. Lepore, Mridhu Indic, Liviu Movileanu, Bert van den Berg

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The Chromosomal Passenger Complex Activates Polo Kinase at Centromeres

Mar Carmena, Xavier Pinson, Melpi Platani, Zeina Salloum, Zhenjie Xu, Anthony Clark, Fiona MacIsaac, Hiromi Ogawa, Ulrike Eggert, David M. Glover, Vincent Archambault, William C. Earnshaw

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Stochastic Expression of the Interferon-β Gene

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Pulsed Feedback Defers Cellular Differentiation

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