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Small changes, big results: evolution of morphological discontinuity in mammals
Rodney L Honeycutt Journal of Biology 2008, 7:9 (18 March 2008)
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Are we training pit bulls to review our manuscripts?
Virginia Walbot Journal of Biology 2009, 8:24 (9 March 2009)
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Virginia Walbot accepts some of the blame for remorselessly negative reviewers, and suggests a training program for graduate students and post docs that will deliver a fairer assessment of manuscripts.
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Growth control of the eukaryote cell: a systems biology study in yeast
Juan I Castrillo, Leo A Zeef, David C Hoyle, Nianshu Zhang, Andrew Hayes, David CJ Gardner, Michael J Cornell, June Petty, Luke Hakes, Leanne Wardleworth, Bharat Rash, Marie Brown, Warwick B Dunn, David Broadhurst, Kerry O'Donoghue, Svenja S Hester, Tom PJ Dunkley, Sarah R Hart, Neil Swainston, Peter Li, Simon J Gaskell, Norman W Paton, Kathryn S Lilley, Douglas B Kell, Stephen G Oliver Journal of Biology 2007, 6:4 (30 April 2007)
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The first comprehensive systems biology study on growth rate control in yeast integrates information from the transcriptome, proteome and metabolome to reveal how cell growth underlies key cellular and development processes.
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402 Accesses
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Top dogs: wolf domestication and wealth
Carlos A Driscoll, David W Macdonald Journal of Biology 2010, 9:10 (24 February 2010)
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Commenting on a phylogeographic analysis in BMC Biology that supports a Middle Eastern origin of small dogs, Driscoll and Macdonald speculate on the implications of wolf domestication and size reduction occurring at a time of transition between hunter-gatherer and sedentary societies.
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374 Accesses
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Music, memory and emotion
Lutz Jäncke Journal of Biology 2008, 7:21 (8 August 2008)
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344 Accesses
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Open access to the scientific journal literature
Peter Suber Journal of Biology 2002, 1:3 (18 June 2002)
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Dynamic rerouting of the carbohydrate flux is key to counteracting oxidative stress
Markus Ralser, Mirjam M Wamelink, Axel Kowald, Birgit Gerisch, Gino Heeren, Eduard A Struys, Edda Klipp, Cornelis Jakobs, Michael Breitenbach, Hans Lehrach, Sylvia Krobitsch Journal of Biology 2007, 6:10 (21 December 2007)
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Yeast and C. elegans share a conserved cellular mechanism that counteracts the fatal consequences of oxidative stress by enabling the redirection of metabolic flux from glycolysis to the pentose phosphate pathway.
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332 Accesses
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Comprehensive curation and analysis of global interaction networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Teresa Reguly, Ashton Breitkreutz, Lorrie Boucher, Bobby-Joe Breitkreutz, Gary C Hon, Chad L Myers, Ainslie Parsons, Helena Friesen, Rose Oughtred, Amy Tong, Chris Stark, Yuen Ho, David Botstein, Brenda Andrews, Charles Boone, Olga G Troyanskya, Trey Ideker, Kara Dolinski, Nizar N Batada, Mike Tyers Journal of Biology 2006, 5:11 (8 June 2006)
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A new literature-based yeast database documents over 33,000 biological interactions, manually curated from the primary literature, and provides an invaluable resource to benchmark high-throughput methods in the study of complex networks.
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329 Accesses
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Acoel and platyhelminth models for stem-cell research
Alexandra E Bely, James M Sikes Journal of Biology 2010, 9:14 (16 February 2010)
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The bodies of platyhelminth and acoel worms are continually renewed from large pools of somatic stem cells. Bely and Sikes discuss their consequent attractiveness for stem cell research, and how recent studies, including one in BMC Developmental Biology, reveal aspects of the cellular dynamics and molecular basis of stem-cell function in these animals.
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Madm (Mlf1 adapter molecule) cooperates with Bunched A to promote growth in Drosophila
Silvia Gluderer, Erich Brunner, Markus Germann, Virginija Jovaisaite, Changqing Li, Cyrill A Rentsch, Ernst Hafen, Hugo Stocker Journal of Biology 2010, 9:9 (11 February 2010)
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Stocker and colleagues identify and analyze a growth-promoting complex in Drosophila, formed between the putative transcription factor BunA, for which human homologs can functionally substitute, and the adaptor protein Madm.
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308 Accesses
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A global analysis of genetic interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans
Alexandra B Byrne, Matthew T Weirauch, Victoria Wong, Martina Koeva, Scott J Dixon, Joshua M Stuart, Peter J Roy Journal of Biology 2007, 6:8 (26 September 2007)
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A C. elegans genetic-interaction network built by combining gene mutants and knockdowns is the largest animal network to date, revealing redundancy among functional modules and surprisingly little conservation of network connections compared to yeast.
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302 Accesses
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Systemic 5-fluorouracil treatment causes a syndrome of delayed myelin destruction in the central nervous system
Ruolan Han, Yin M Yang, Joerg Dietrich, Anne Luebke, Margot Mayer-Pröschel, Mark Noble Journal of Biology 2008, 7:12 (22 April 2008)
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The chemotherapy drug, 5-fluorouracil, causes delayed degeneration in the central nervous system of animals, a newly identified type of damage that helps explain the cognitive defects or `chemobrain` symptoms associated with cancer treatment.
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284 Accesses
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The Drosophila Forkhead transcription factor FOXO mediates the reduction in cell number associated with reduced insulin signaling
Martin A Jünger, Felix Rintelen, Hugo Stocker, Jonathan D Wasserman, Mátyás Végh, Thomas Radimerski, Michael E Greenberg, Ernst Hafen Journal of Biology 2003, 2:20 (7 August 2003)
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277 Accesses
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The origin and evolution of lactation
Anthony V Capuco, R Michael Akers Journal of Biology 2009, 8:37 (24 April 2009)
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Capuco and Akers review the biology of lactation and discuss a new report in Genome Biology that compares the bovine genome with six other mammalian genomes to study how lactation and its regulation evolved.
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274 Accesses
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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, Timothy R Hughes Journal of Biology 2009, 8:33 (16 April 2009)
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High conservation of tissue-specific expression is found across vertebrates yet there is a lack of conservation in common regulatory sequences/signatures.
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Complexes between the LKB1 tumor suppressor, STRADα/β and MO25α/β are upstream kinases in the AMP-activated protein kinase cascade
Simon A Hawley, Jérôme Boudeau, Jennifer L Reid, Kirsty J Mustard, Lina Udd, Tomi P Mäkelä, Dario R Alessi, D Grahame Hardie Journal of Biology 2003, 2:28 (24 September 2003)
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SnoPatrol: how many snoRNA genes are there?
Paul P Gardner, Alex Bateman, Anthony M Poole Journal of Biology 2010, 9:4 (25 January 2010)
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Gardner, Bateman and Poole review the current knowledge of small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) and discuss two BMC Genomic papers reporting the identification of novel snoRNAs and the likelihood that there are many more out there.
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266 Accesses
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The mathematics of sexual attraction
José A Feijó Journal of Biology 2010, 9:18 (29 March 2010)
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Bridge helix and trigger loop perturbations generate superactive RNA polymerases
Lin Tan, Simone Wiesler, Dominika Trzaska, Hannah C Carney, Robert OJ Weinzierl Journal of Biology 2008, 7:40 (2 December 2008)
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Mutations targeted to key functional areas of RNA polymerases can generate superactive enzymes that suggest how conformational changes in specialized domains of the enzyme contribute to the catalytic cycle.
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Evolution underground: shedding light on the diversification of subterranean insects
Carlos Juan, Brent C Emerson Journal of Biology 2010, 9:17 (11 March 2010)
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Juan and Emerson discuss the reconstruction of the molecular phylogeny of a large Mediterranean cave-dwelling beetle clade recently presented in BMC Evolutionary Biology, and the implications for the evolutionary origin of the beetle ancestor.
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Endothelial adherens junctions and the actin cytoskeleton: an 'infinity net'?
Maria Grazia Lampugnani Journal of Biology 2010, 9:16 (8 April 2010)
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Genome of a songbird unveiled
Raphael Pinaud Journal of Biology 2010, 9:19 (1 April 2010)
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Pinaud heralds the publication of the zebra finch genome, reviewing some of the most exciting findings of this pioneering effort and explaining how this songbird model offers unique insights into auditory learning, singing behaviour and other biological phenomena.
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Making progress in genetic kin recognition among vertebrates
Jane L Hurst, Robert J Beynon Journal of Biology 2010, 9:13 (17 February 2010)
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Highlighting recent research in BMC Evolutionary Biology that analyzes the scent profiles of ring-tailed lemurs in relation to their genetic distance, Hurst and Benyon discuss recent progress and remaining challenges in deciphering how vertebrates recognise kin by their smell.
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The bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes: an emerging model in prokaryotic transcriptomics
Pascale Cossart, Cristel Archambaud Journal of Biology 2009, 8:107 (30 December 2009)
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Cossart and Archambaud discuss the implications of the outcome of deep RNA sequencing used to probe the virulence toolkit of Listeria monocytogenes, reported in a recent paper in BMC Genomics.
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The short coiled-coil domain-containing protein UNC-69 cooperates with UNC-76 to regulate axonal outgrowth and normal presynaptic organization in Caenorhabditis elegans
Cheng-Wen Su, Suzanne Tharin, Yishi Jin, Bruce Wightman, Mona Spector, David Meili, Nancy Tsung, Christa Rhiner, Dimitris Bourikas, Esther Stoeckli, Gian Garriga, H Robert Horvitz, Michael O Hengartner Journal of Biology 2006, 5:9 (25 May 2006)
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Newly characterized in C. elegans, the protein UNC-69 interacts with kinesin–binding protein UNC-76 in a complex associated with trafficking vesicles along axons - a process that drives axon growth and helps synapse formation.
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