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Vernalization in cereals

Elizabeth S Dennis and W James Peacock

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:57
(22 June 2009)
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Clocks, cryptochromes and Monarch migrations

Charalambos P Kyriacou

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:55
(18 June 2009)
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Richard Bartz

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Do unicolonial wood ants favor kin?

Heikki Helanterä

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:56
(18 June 2009)
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Q&A: Cooperativity

James E Ferrell Jr

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:53
(16 June 2009)
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Oxidative stress, thermogenesis and evolution of uncoupling proteins

Eduardo Rial and Rafael Zardoya

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:58
(16 June 2009)
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Transcription in mosquito hemocytes in response to pathogen exposure

Julián F Hillyer

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:51
(5 June 2009)
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Research article

Conservation of core gene expression in vertebrate tissues

Esther T Chan, Gerald T Quon, Gordon Chua, Tomas Babak, Miles Trochesset, Ralph A Zirngibl, Jane Aubin, Michael JH Ratcliffe, Andrew Wilde, Michael Brudno, Quaid D Morris and Timothy R Hughes

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:33
(16 April 2009)
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Fish 'n' TRIMs

Louis Du Pasquier / 29 May 2009

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Letting go: modification of cell adhesion during apoptosis

Magali Suzanne and Hermann Steller / 28 May 2009

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Andre Karwat

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Can modular analysis identify disease-associated candidate genes for therapeutics?

Jesper Tegnér / 28 May 2009

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Q&A: What do we know about influenza and what can we do about it?

Peter C Doherty and Stephen J Turner / 26 May 2009

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Prion variants, species barriers, generation and propagation

Reed B Wickner, Herman K Edskes, Frank Shewmaker, Dmitry Kryndushkin and Julie Nemecek / 26 May 2009

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Review

Notch signaling, the segmentation clock, and the patterning of vertebrate somites

Julian Lewis, Anja Hanisch and Maxine Holder / 22 May 2009

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Question & Answer

Q&A: Epistasis

Frederick P Roth, Howard D Lipshitz and Brenda J Andrews / 22 May 2009

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