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Volume 7;  2009
Commentaries
Lateral gene transfer between prokaryotes and multicellular eukaryotes: ongoing and significant?
Vera ID Ros and Gregory DD Hurst
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 20. Published online 2009 May 5. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-20.
PMCID: PMC2687425
Phylo-evo-devo: combining phylogenetics with evolutionary developmental biology
Alessandro Minelli
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 36. Published online 2009 June 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-36.
PMCID: PMC2707371
Correspondence
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has failed to distinguish between smaller gut regions and larger haemal sinuses in sea urchins (Echinodermata: Echinoidea)
Nicholas D Holland and Michael T Ghiselin
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 39. Published online 2009 July 13. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-39.
PMCID: PMC2729296
Methodology Articles
Factors necessary to produce basoapical polarity in human glandular epithelium formed in conventional and high-throughput three-dimensional culture: example of the breast epithelium
Cedric Plachot, Lesley S Chaboub, Hibret A Adissu, Lei Wang, Albert Urazaev, Jennifer Sturgis, Elikplimi K Asem, and Sophie A Lelièvre
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 77. Published online 2009 November 16. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-77.
PMCID: PMC2784453
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based subcellular visualization of pathogen-induced host receptor signaling
Alexander Buntru, Timo Zimmermann, and Christof R Hauck
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 81. Published online 2009 November 25. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-81.
PMCID: PMC2788528
Research Articles
Microarray and cDNA sequence analysis of transcription during nerve-dependent limb regeneration
James R Monaghan, Leonard G Epp, Srikrishna Putta, Robert B Page, John A Walker, Chris K Beachy, Wei Zhu, Gerald M Pao, Inder M Verma, Tony Hunter, Susan V Bryant, David M Gardiner, Tim T Harkins, and S Randal Voss
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 1. Published online 2009 January 13. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-1.
PMCID: PMC2630914
Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs
Yoshitomo Kikuchi, Takahiro Hosokawa, Naruo Nikoh, Xian-Ying Meng, Yoichi Kamagata, and Takema Fukatsu
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 2. Published online 2009 January 15. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-2.
PMCID: PMC2637841
Assigning strains to bacterial species via the internet
Cynthia J Bishop, David M Aanensen, Gregory E Jordan, Mogens Kilian, William P Hanage, and Brian G Spratt
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 3. Published online 2009 January 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-3.
PMCID: PMC2636762
Conditional embryonic lethality to improve the sterile insect technique in Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Marc F Schetelig, Carlos Caceres, Antigone Zacharopoulou, Gerald Franz, and Ernst A Wimmer
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 4. Published online 2009 January 27. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-4.
PMCID: PMC2662800
Eukaryotic protein production in designed storage organelles
Margarita Torrent, Blanca Llompart, Sabine Lasserre-Ramassamy, Immaculada Llop-Tous, Miriam Bastida, Pau Marzabal, Ann Westerholm-Parvinen, Markku Saloheimo, Peter B Heifetz, and M Dolors Ludevid
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 5. Published online 2009 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-5.
PMCID: PMC2637842
Evolution and diversity of Rickettsia bacteria
Lucy A Weinert, John H Werren, Alexandre Aebi, Graham N Stone, and Francis M Jiggins
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 6. Published online 2009 February 2. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-6.
PMCID: PMC2662801
A large new subset of TRIM genes highly diversified by duplication and positive selection in teleost fish
Lieke M van der Aa, Jean-Pierre Levraud, Malika Yahmi, Emilie Lauret, Valérie Briolat, Philippe Herbomel, Abdenour Benmansour, and Pierre Boudinot
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 7. Published online 2009 February 5. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-7.
PMCID: PMC2657112
Indexing TNF-α gene expression using a gene-targeted reporter cell line
Ziying Yan, Diana Lei-Butters, John F Engelhardt, and Gregory H Leno
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 8. Published online 2009 February 16. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-8.
PMCID: PMC2657777
Double fossilization in eukaryotic microorganisms from Lower Cretaceous amber
Ana Martín-González, Jacek Wierzchos, Juan-Carlos Gutiérrez, Jesús Alonso, and Carmen Ascaso
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 9. Published online 2009 February 20. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-9.
PMCID: PMC2649901
Concerted evolution of male and female display traits in the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis
Jean-Marc Lassance and Christer Löfstedt
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 10. Published online 2009 March 3. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-10.
PMCID: PMC2671483
Contributions of gut bacteria to Bacillus thuringiensis-induced mortality vary across a range of Lepidoptera
Nichole A Broderick, Courtney J Robinson, Matthew D McMahon, Jonathan Holt, Jo Handelsman, and Kenneth F Raffa
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 11. Published online 2009 March 4. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-11.
PMCID: PMC2653032
Aphids acquired symbiotic genes via lateral gene transfer
Naruo Nikoh and Atsushi Nakabachi
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 12. Published online 2009 March 10. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-12.
PMCID: PMC2662799
The relative ages of ectomycorrhizal mushrooms and their plant hosts estimated using Bayesian relaxed molecular clock analyses
David S Hibbett and P Brandon Matheny
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 13. Published online 2009 March 10. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-13.
PMCID: PMC2660285
Defining behavioral and molecular differences between summer and migratory monarch butterflies
Haisun Zhu, Robert J Gegear, Amy Casselman, Sriramana Kanginakudru, and Steven M Reppert
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 14. Published online 2009 March 31. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-14.
PMCID: PMC2681450
Remarkable convergent evolution in specialized parasitic Thecostraca (Crustacea)
Marcos Pérez-Losada, Jens T Høeg, and Keith A Crandall
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 15. Published online 2009 April 17. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-15.
PMCID: PMC2678073
Immunomodulatory parasites and toll-like receptor-mediated tumour necrosis factor alpha responsiveness in wild mammals
Joseph A Jackson, Ida M Friberg, Luke Bolch, Ann Lowe, Catriona Ralli, Philip D Harris, Jerzy M Behnke, and Janette E Bradley
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 16. Published online 2009 April 22. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-16.
PMCID: PMC2685781
The calcium-sensing receptor regulates parathyroid hormone gene expression in transfected HEK293 cells
Hillel Galitzer, Vardit Lavi-Moshayoff, Morris Nechama, Tomer Meir, Justin Silver, and Tally Naveh-Many
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 17. Published online 2009 April 27. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-17.
PMCID: PMC2681451
Genomic expression dominance in allopolyploids
Ryan A Rapp, Joshua A Udall, and Jonathan F Wendel
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 18. Published online 2009 May 1. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-18.
PMCID: PMC2684529
F-actin-based extensions of the head cyst cell adhere to the maturing spermatids to maintain them in a tight bundle and prevent their premature release in Drosophila testis
Bela S Desai, Seema Shirolikar, and Krishanu Ray
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 19. Published online 2009 May 5. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-19.
PMCID: PMC2683793
Specific retention of the protostome-specific PsGEF may parallel with the evolution of mushroom bodies in insect and lophotrochozoan brains
Nozomu Higuchi, Keigo Kohno, and Tatsuhiko Kadowaki
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 21. Published online 2009 May 7. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-21.
PMCID: PMC2684095
Single molecule resolution of the antimicrobial action of quantum dot-labeled sushi peptide on live bacteria
Sebastian Leptihn, Jia Yi Har, Jianzhu Chen, Bow Ho, Thorsten Wohland, and Jeak Ling Ding
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 22. Published online 2009 May 11. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-22.
PMCID: PMC2685782
Noisy splicing, more than expression regulation, explains why some exons are subject to nonsense-mediated mRNA decay
Zhenguo Zhang, Dedong Xin, Ping Wang, Li Zhou, Landian Hu, Xiangyin Kong, and Laurence D Hurst
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 23. Published online 2009 May 14. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-23.
PMCID: PMC2697156
The cAMP-HMGA1-RBP4 system: a novel biochemical pathway for modulating glucose homeostasis
Eusebio Chiefari, Francesco Paonessa, Stefania Iiritano, Ilaria Le Pera, Dario Palmieri, Giuseppe Brunetti, Angelo Lupo, Vittorio Colantuoni, Daniela Foti, Elio Gulletta, Giovambattista De Sarro, Alfredo Fusco, and Antonio Brunetti
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 24. Published online 2009 May 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-24.
PMCID: PMC2698822
AP-2α regulates migration of GN-11 neurons via a specific genetic programme involving the Axl receptor tyrosine kinase
Francesca Orso, Richard Jäger, Raffaele Adolfo Calogero, Hubert Schorle, Piero Sismondi, Michele De Bortoli, and Daniela Taverna
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 25. Published online 2009 May 22. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-25.
PMCID: PMC2700071
Heterologous cross-seeding mimics cross-species prion conversion in a yeast model
Namitha Vishveshwara and Susan W Liebman
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 26. Published online 2009 May 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-26.
PMCID: PMC2694167
A single muscle moves a crustacean limb joint rhythmically by acting against a spring containing resilin
Malcolm Burrows
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 27. Published online 2009 May 29. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-27.
PMCID: PMC2694168
Candidate chemoreceptor subfamilies differentially expressed in the chemosensory organs of the mollusc Aplysia
Scott F Cummins, Dirk Erpenbeck, Zhihua Zou, Charles Claudianos, Leonid L Moroz, Gregg T Nagle, and Bernard M Degnan
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 28. Published online 2009 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-28.
PMCID: PMC2700072
Mutations in many genes affect aggressive behavior in Drosophila melanogaster
Alexis C Edwards, Liesbeth Zwarts, Akihiko Yamamoto, Patrick Callaerts, and Trudy FC Mackay
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 29. Published online 2009 June 11. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-29.
PMCID: PMC2707370
Early calcium increase triggers the formation of olfactory long-term memory in honeybees
Emmanuel Perisse, Valérie Raymond-Delpech, Isabelle Néant, Yukihisa Matsumoto, Catherine Leclerc, Marc Moreau, and Jean-Christophe Sandoz
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 30. Published online 2009 June 16. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-30.
PMCID: PMC2713209
Hibernation-like state induced by an opioid peptide protects against experimental stroke
Cesar V Borlongan, Teruo Hayashi, Peter R Oeltgen, Tsung-Ping Su, and Yun Wang
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 31. Published online 2009 June 17. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-31.
PMCID: PMC2708132
Microbial modification of host long-distance dispersal capacity
Sara L Goodacre, Oliver Y Martin, Dries Bonte, Linda Hutchings, Chris Woolley, Kamal Ibrahim, CF George Thomas, and Godfrey M Hewitt
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 32. Published online 2009 June 19. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-32.
PMCID: PMC2706808
Coordination of opposing sex-specific and core muscle groups regulates male tail posture during Caenorhabditis elegans male mating behavior
Allyson J Whittaker and Paul W Sternberg
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 33. Published online 2009 June 22. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-33.
PMCID: PMC2715377
Single-copy nuclear genes resolve the phylogeny of the holometabolous insects
Brian M Wiegmann, Michelle D Trautwein, Jung-Wook Kim, Brian K Cassel, Matthew A Bertone, Shaun L Winterton, and David K Yeates
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 34. Published online 2009 June 24. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-34.
PMCID: PMC2709105
Effect of hydroxyurea on the promoter occupancy profiles of tumor suppressor p53 and p73
Vera Huang, Xin Lu, Yong Jiang, and Jean YJ Wang
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 35. Published online 2009 June 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-35.
PMCID: PMC2711048
Erythropoietin improves operant conditioning and stability of cognitive performance in mice
Ahmed El-Kordi, Konstantin Radyushkin, and Hannelore Ehrenreich
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 37. Published online 2009 July 8. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-37.
PMCID: PMC2715378
Expression of the peroxisome proliferator activated receptor γ gene is repressed by DNA methylation in visceral adipose tissue of mouse models of diabetes
Katsunori Fujiki, Fumi Kano, Kunio Shiota, and Masayuki Murata
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 38. Published online 2009 July 10. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-38.
PMCID: PMC2715379
Proliferation of Ty3/gypsy-like retrotransposons in hybrid sunflower taxa inferred from phylogenetic data
Mark C Ungerer, Suzanne C Strakosh, and Kaitlin M Stimpson
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 40. Published online 2009 July 14. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-40.
PMCID: PMC2715380
Remodeling of the chromatin structure of the facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) locus and upregulation of FSHD-related gene 1 (FRG1) expression during human myogenic differentiation
Beatrice Bodega, Gabriella Di Capua Ramirez, Florian Grasser, Stefania Cheli, Silvia Brunelli, Marina Mora, Raffaella Meneveri, Anna Marozzi, Stefan Mueller, Elena Battaglioli, and Enrico Ginelli
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 41. Published online 2009 July 16. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-41.
PMCID: PMC2719609
Ontogeny and phylogeny: molecular signatures of selection, constraint, and temporal pleiotropy in the development of Drosophila
Carlo G Artieri, Wilfried Haerty, and Rama S Singh
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 42. Published online 2009 July 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-42.
PMCID: PMC2722573
Features of the ancestral bilaterian inferred from Platynereis dumerilii ParaHox genes
Jerome HL Hui, Florian Raible, Natalia Korchagina, Nicolas Dray, Sylvie Samain, Ghislaine Magdelenat, Claire Jubin, Béatrice Segurens, Guillaume Balavoine, Detlev Arendt, and David EK Ferrier
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 43. Published online 2009 July 23. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-43.
PMCID: PMC2723086
A Dictyostelium chalone uses G proteins to regulate proliferation
Deenadayalan Bakthavatsalam, Jonathan M Choe, Nana E Hanson, and Richard H Gomer
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 44. Published online 2009 July 27. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-44.
PMCID: PMC2726123
TBP2 is a substitute for TBP in Xenopus oocyte transcription
Waseem Akhtar and Gert Jan C Veenstra
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 45. Published online 2009 August 3. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-45.
PMCID: PMC2731028
Roles of octopaminergic and dopaminergic neurons in appetitive and aversive memory recall in an insect
Makoto Mizunami, Sae Unoki, Yasuhiro Mori, Daisuke Hirashima, Ai Hatano, and Yukihisa Matsumoto
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 46. Published online 2009 August 4. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-46.
PMCID: PMC2729297
Evidence for inhibition of cholinesterases in insect and mammalian nervous systems by the insect repellent deet
Vincent Corbel, Maria Stankiewicz, Cédric Pennetier, Didier Fournier, Jure Stojan, Emmanuelle Girard, Mitko Dimitrov, Jordi Molgó, Jean-Marc Hougard, and Bruno Lapied
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 47. Published online 2009 August 5. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-47.
PMCID: PMC2739159
Selective entrainment of the Drosophila circadian clock to daily gradients in environmental temperature
Jake Currie, Tadahiro Goda, and Herman Wijnen
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 49. Published online 2009 August 11. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-49.
PMCID: PMC2745372
Mapping the human membrane proteome: a majority of the human membrane proteins can be classified according to function and evolutionary origin
Markus Sällman Almén, Karl JV Nordström, Robert Fredriksson, and Helgi B Schiöth
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 50. Published online 2009 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-50.
PMCID: PMC2739160
Two mycoheterotrophic orchids from Thailand tropical dipterocarpacean forests associate with a broad diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi
Mélanie Roy, Santi Watthana, Anna Stier, Franck Richard, Suyanee Vessabutr, and Marc-André Selosse
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 51. Published online 2009 August 14. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-51.
PMCID: PMC2745373
Connexin channels and phospholipids: association and modulation
Darren Locke and Andrew L Harris
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 52. Published online 2009 August 17. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-52.
PMCID: PMC2733891
Control of chicken CR1 retrotransposons is independent of Dicer-mediated RNA interference pathway
Sung-Hun Lee, Preethi Eldi, Soo-Young Cho, and Danny Rangasamy
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 53. Published online 2009 August 19. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-53.
PMCID: PMC2734521
Antibiotic treatment leads to the elimination of Wolbachia endosymbionts and sterility in the diplodiploid collembolan Folsomia candida
Nathan Pike and Rachel Kingcombe
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 54. Published online 2009 August 24. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-54.
PMCID: PMC2739161
δ-Opioid receptor activation attenuates oxidative injury in the ischemic rat brain
Yilin Yang, Xiwei Xia, Yi Zhang, Qiang Wang, Lu Li, Guanghua Luo, and Ying Xia
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 55. Published online 2009 August 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-55.
PMCID: PMC2754429
Golgi localisation of GMAP210 requires two distinct cis-membrane binding mechanisms
Jesus Cardenas, Sabrina Rivero, Bruno Goud, Michel Bornens, and Rosa M Rios
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 56. Published online 2009 August 28. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-56.
PMCID: PMC2744908
Phylogeographic analysis reveals association of tick-borne pathogen, Anaplasma marginale, MSP1a sequences with ecological traits affecting tick vector performance
Agustín Estrada-Peña, Victoria Naranjo, Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse, Atilio J Mangold, Katherine M Kocan, and José de la Fuente
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 57. Published online 2009 September 1. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-57.
PMCID: PMC2741432
Light-dependent roles of the G-protein α subunit GNA1 of Hypocrea jecorina (anamorph Trichoderma reesei)
Christian Seibel, Gabriela Gremel, Roberto do Nascimento Silva, André Schuster, Christian P Kubicek, and Monika Schmoll
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 58. Published online 2009 September 3. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-58.
PMCID: PMC2749820
Receptor oligomerization and beyond: a case study in bone morphogenetic proteins
Kai Heinecke, Axel Seher, Werner Schmitz, Thomas D Mueller, Walter Sebald, and Joachim Nickel
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 59. Published online 2009 September 7. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-59.
PMCID: PMC2749821
Genetic determinants of mate recognition in Brachionus manjavacas (Rotifera)
Terry W Snell, Tonya L Shearer, Hilary A Smith, Julia Kubanek, Kristin E Gribble, and David B Mark Welch
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 60. Published online 2009 September 9. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-60.
PMCID: PMC2746195
Genes encoding novel secreted and transmembrane proteins are temporally and spatially regulated during Drosophila melanogaster embryogenesis
Alejandro Zúñiga, Christian Hödar, Patricia Hanna, Freddy Ibáñez, Pablo Moreno, Rodrigo Pulgar, Luis Pastenes, Mauricio González, and Verónica Cambiazo
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 61. Published online 2009 September 22. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-61.
PMCID: PMC2761875
scribble mutants promote aPKC and JNK-dependent epithelial neoplasia independently of Crumbs
Gregory R Leong, Karen R Goulding, Nancy Amin, Helena E Richardson, and Anthony M Brumby
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 62. Published online 2009 September 24. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-62.
PMCID: PMC2760524
c-Myc affects mRNA translation, cell proliferation and progenitor cell function in the mammary gland
Tina Stoelzle, Patrick Schwarb, Andreas Trumpp, and Nancy E Hynes
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 63. Published online 2009 September 28. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-63.
PMCID: PMC2761394
Dual control by a single gene of secondary sexual characters and mating preferences in medaka
Shoji Fukamachi, Masato Kinoshita, Kouichi Aizawa, Shoji Oda, Axel Meyer, and Hiroshi Mitani
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 64. Published online 2009 September 29. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-64.
PMCID: PMC2761876
Coordinated spatial and temporal expression of Hox genes during embryogenesis in the acoel Convolutriloba longifissura
Andreas Hejnol and Mark Q Martindale
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 65. Published online 2009 October 1. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-65.
PMCID: PMC2761877
Recombination and insertion events involving the botulinum neurotoxin complex genes in Clostridium botulinum types A, B, E and F and Clostridium butyricum type E strains
Karen K Hill, Gary Xie, Brian T Foley, Theresa J Smith, Amy C Munk, David Bruce, Leonard A Smith, Thomas S Brettin, and John C Detter
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 66. Published online 2009 October 5. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-66.
PMCID: PMC2764570
Retinoic acid enhances skeletal muscle progenitor formation and bypasses inhibition by bone morphogenetic protein 4 but not dominant negative β-catenin
Karen AM Kennedy, Tammy Porter, Virja Mehta, Scott D Ryan, Feodor Price, Vian Peshdary, Christina Karamboulas, Josée Savage, Thomas A Drysdale, Shun-Cheng Li, Steffany AL Bennett, and Ilona S Skerjanc
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 67. Published online 2009 October 8. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-67.
PMCID: PMC2764571
TonB-dependent transporters and their occurrence in cyanobacteria
Oliver Mirus, Sascha Strauss, Kerstin Nicolaisen, Arndt von Haeseler, and Enrico Schleiff
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 68. Published online 2009 October 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-68.
PMCID: PMC2771747
Evidence for the adaptation of protein pH-dependence to subcellular pH
Pedro Chan and Jim Warwicker
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 69. Published online 2009 October 22. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-69.
PMCID: PMC2770037
Genetical genomic determinants of alcohol consumption in rats and humans
Boris Tabakoff, Laura Saba, Morton Printz, Pam Flodman, Colin Hodgkinson, David Goldman, George Koob, Heather N Richardson, Katerina Kechris, Richard L Bell, Norbert Hübner, Matthias Heinig, Michal Pravenec, Jonathan Mangion, Lucie Legault, Maurice Dongier, Katherine M Conigrave, John B Whitfield, John Saunders, Bridget Grant, Paula L Hoffman, and WHO/ISBRA Study on State and Trait Markers of Alcoholism
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 70. Published online 2009 October 27. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-70.
PMCID: PMC2777866
The scent of supercolonies: the discovery, synthesis and behavioural verification of ant colony recognition cues
Miriam Brandt, Ellen van Wilgenburg, Robert Sulc, Kenneth J Shea, and Neil D Tsutsui
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 71. Published online 2009 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-71.
PMCID: PMC2775022
Massively parallel tag sequencing reveals the complexity of anaerobic marine protistan communities
Thorsten Stoeck, Anke Behnke, Richard Christen, Linda Amaral-Zettler, Maria J Rodriguez-Mora, Andrei Chistoserdov, William Orsi, and Virginia P Edgcomb
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 72. Published online 2009 November 3. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-72.
PMCID: PMC2777867
A genome-wide synthetic dosage lethality screen reveals multiple pathways that require the functioning of ubiquitin-binding proteins Rad23 and Dsk2
Chang Liu, Dewald van Dyk, Yue Li, Brenda Andrews, and Hai Rao
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 75. Published online 2009 November 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-75.
PMCID: PMC2777868
Research article
Large-scale insertional mutagenesis of a coleopteran stored grain pest, the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, identifies embryonic lethal mutations and enhancer traps
Jochen Trauner, Johannes Schinko, Marcé D Lorenzen, Teresa D Shippy, Ernst A Wimmer, Richard W Beeman, Martin Klingler, Gregor Bucher, and Susan J Brown
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 73. Published online 2009 November 5. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-73.
PMCID: PMC2779179
A remarkable diversity of bone-eating worms (Osedax; Siboglinidae; Annelida)
Robert C Vrijenhoek, Shannon B Johnson, and Greg W Rouse
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 74. Published online 2009 November 10. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-74.
PMCID: PMC2780999
Predominant membrane localization is an essential feature of the bacterial signal recognition particle receptor
Miryana Mircheva, Diana Boy, Benjamin Weiche, Friederike Hucke, Peter Graumann, and Hans-Georg Koch
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 76. Published online 2009 November 13. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-76.
PMCID: PMC2780400
Phylogeographic reconstruction of a bacterial species with high levels of lateral gene transfer
Talima Pearson, Philip Giffard, Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg, Raymond Auerbach, Heidie Hornstra, Apichai Tuanyok, Erin P Price, Mindy B Glass, Benjamin Leadem, James S Beckstrom-Sternberg, Gerard J Allan, Jeffrey T Foster, David M Wagner, Richard T Okinaka, Siew Hoon Sim, Ofori Pearson, Zaining Wu, Jean Chang, Rajinder Kaul, Alex R Hoffmaster, Thomas S Brettin, Richard A Robison, Mark Mayo, Jay E Gee, Patrick Tan, Bart J Currie, and Paul Keim
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 78. Published online 2009 November 18. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-78.
PMCID: PMC2784454
Environmentally-acquired bacteria influence microbial diversity and natural innate immune responses at gut surfaces
Imke E Mulder, Bettina Schmidt, Christopher R Stokes, Marie Lewis, Mick Bailey, Rustam I Aminov, James I Prosser, Bhupinder P Gill, John R Pluske, Claus-Dieter Mayer, Corran C Musk, and Denise Kelly
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 79. Published online 2009 November 20. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-79.
PMCID: PMC2785767
Mapping cortical hubs in tinnitus
Winfried Schlee, Nadia Mueller, Thomas Hartmann, Julian Keil, Isabel Lorenz, and Nathan Weisz
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 80. Published online 2009 November 23. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-80.
PMCID: PMC2787501
Have giant lobelias evolved several times independently? Life form shifts and historical biogeography of the cosmopolitan and highly diverse subfamily Lobelioideae (Campanulaceae)
Alexandre Antonelli
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 82. Published online 2009 November 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-82.
PMCID: PMC2789055
Proteomic analysis of blastema formation in regenerating axolotl limbs
Nandini Rao, Deepali Jhamb, Derek J Milner, Bingbing Li, Fengyu Song, Mu Wang, S Randal Voss, Mathew Palakal, Michael W King, Behnaz Saranjami, Holly LD Nye, Jo Ann Cameron, and David L Stocum
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 83. Published online 2009 November 30. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-83.
PMCID: PMC2794268
Increasing phylogenetic resolution at low taxonomic levels using massively parallel sequencing of chloroplast genomes
Matthew Parks, Richard Cronn, and Aaron Liston
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 84. Published online 2009 December 2. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-84.
PMCID: PMC2793254
Profound human/mouse differences in alpha-dystrobrevin isoforms: a novel syntrophin-binding site and promoter missing in mouse and rat
Sabrina V Böhm, Panayiotis Constantinou, Sipin Tan, Hong Jin, and Roland G Roberts
BMC Biol. 2009; 7: 85. Published online 2009 December 4. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-85.
PMCID: PMC2796648
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