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Volume 8;  2010
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When bigger is better
Gregory A Petsko
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 43. Published online 2010 April 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-43.
PMCID: PMC2864101
When failure should be the option
Gregory A Petsko
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 61. Published online 2010 May 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-61.
PMCID: PMC2874522
Commentaries
Taming of the shrewd: novel eukaryotic genes from RNA viruses
Eugene V Koonin
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 2. Published online 2010 January 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-2.
PMCID: PMC2823675
Giant lobelias exemplify convergent evolution
Thomas J Givnish
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 3. Published online 2010 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-3.
PMCID: PMC2826311
Unraveling the mysteries of dog evolution
Rodney L Honeycutt
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 20. Published online 2010 March 9. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-20.
PMCID: PMC2841097
Anaerobic Metazoans: No longer an oxymoron
Lisa A Levin
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 31. Published online 2010 April 6. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-31.
PMCID: PMC2867776
Anaerobic animals from an ancient, anoxic ecological niche
Marek Mentel and William Martin
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 32. Published online 2010 April 6. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-32.
PMCID: PMC2859860
Adherens junctions remain dynamic
Matthias M Falk
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 34. Published online 2010 April 8. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-34.
PMCID: PMC2867777
Hybridization and speciation in angiosperms: a role for pollinator shifts?
Mark W Chase, Ovidiu Paun, and Michael F Fay
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 45. Published online 2010 April 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-45.
PMCID: PMC2858105
Diversity lost: are all Holarctic large mammal species just relict populations?
Michael Hofreiter and Ian Barnes
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 46. Published online 2010 April 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-46.
PMCID: PMC2858106
A central role for p38 MAPK in the early transcriptional response to stress
Alan J Whitmarsh
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 47. Published online 2010 April 24. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-47.
PMCID: PMC2860348
Network integration meets network dynamics
Teresa M Przytycka and Yoo-Ah Kim
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 48. Published online 2010 April 28. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-48.
PMCID: PMC2861031
Unraveling bovin phylogeny: accomplishments and challenges
Faysal Bibi and Elisabeth S Vrba
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 50. Published online 2010 April 29. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-50.
PMCID: PMC2861646
Ecological genomics: steps towards unraveling the genetic basis of inducible defenses in Daphnia
Ralph Tollrian and Florian Leese
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 51. Published online 2010 May 7. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-51.
PMCID: PMC2867779
Transcriptomics and disease vector control
John Vontas, Hilary Ranson, and Luke Alphey
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 52. Published online 2010 May 7. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-52.
PMCID: PMC2867780
Hidden reach of the micromanagers
Peter S Linsley and Aimee L Jackson
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 53. Published online 2010 May 11. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-53.
PMCID: PMC2867781
A modern circadian clock in the common angiosperm ancestor of monocots and eudicots
C Robertson McClung
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 55. Published online 2010 May 7. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-55.
PMCID: PMC2867782
Smart biomaterials - regulating cell behavior through signaling molecules
Aneta J Mieszawska and David L Kaplan
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 59. Published online 2010 May 19. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-59.
PMCID: PMC2873335
Systems-biology dissection of eukaryotic cell growth
Teresa M Przytycka and Justen Andrews
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 62. Published online 2010 May 24. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-62.
PMCID: PMC2875221
Altered cell cycle regulation helps stem-like carcinoma cells resist apoptosis
James Chappell and Stephen Dalton
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 63. Published online 2010 May 25. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-63.
PMCID: PMC2876098
Repetitive elements in parasitic protozoa
Christine Clayton
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 64. Published online 2010 May 24. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-64.
PMCID: PMC2875222
On the scent of sexual attraction
Peter A Brennan
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 71. Published online 2010 June 3. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-71.
PMCID: PMC2880966
Plastid evolution: gene transfer and the maintenance of 'stolen' organelles
Eunsoo Kim and John M Archibald
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 73. Published online 2010 June 10. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-73.
PMCID: PMC2883544
The (r)evolution of cancer genetics
Francesca D Ciccarelli
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 74. Published online 2010 June 11. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-74.
PMCID: PMC2883958
A little bit is better than nothing: the incomplete parthenogenesis of salamanders, frogs and fish
Kathrin P Lampert and Manfred Schartl
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 78. Published online 2010 August 3. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-78.
PMCID: PMC2914643
Iron testes: sperm mitochondria as a context for dissecting iron metabolism
Karen G Hales
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 79. Published online 2010 June 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-79.
PMCID: PMC2890511
As you weed, so shall you reap: on the origin of algaculture in damselfish
Duur K Aanen
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 81. Published online 2010 June 18. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-81.
PMCID: PMC2887784
The hidden diversity of ribosomal peptide natural products
Eric W Schmidt
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 83. Published online 2010 June 17. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-83.
PMCID: PMC2890512
S28 peptidases: lessons from a seemingly 'dysfunctional' family of two
John W Kozarich
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 87. Published online 2010 June 28. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-87.
PMCID: PMC2893137
Altered metabolism in cancer
Jason W Locasale and Lewis C Cantley
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 88. Published online 2010 June 25. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-88.
PMCID: PMC2892450
Genome-wide association studies in Plasmodium species
Bridget Penman, Caroline Buckee, Sunetra Gupta, and Sean Nee
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 90. Published online 2010 July 13. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-90.
PMCID: PMC2903549
Regulation of lipid droplet turnover by ubiquitin ligases
Philipp Alberts and Daniela Rotin
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 94. Published online 2010 July 19. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-94.
PMCID: PMC2906420
The global dynamics of RNA stability orchestrates responses to cellular activation
Jack D Keene
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 95. Published online 2010 July 8. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-95.
PMCID: PMC2900241
A question of scale: Human migrations writ large and small
Murray P Cox and Michael F Hammer
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 98. Published online 2010 July 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-98.
PMCID: PMC2908064
Mitochondrial dynamics: quantifying mitochondrial fusion in vitro
Alexis Jourdain and Jean-Claude Martinou
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 99. Published online 2010 July 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-99.
PMCID: PMC2909948
Losing the desire: selection can promote obligate asexuality
Kayla C King and Gregory DD Hurst
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 101. Published online 2010 July 28. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-101.
PMCID: PMC2911426
Vertebrate Hedgehog signaling: cilia rule
Christopher W Wilson and Didier YR Stainier
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 102. Published online 2010 July 29. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-102.
PMCID: PMC2912248
Insulators and imprinting from flies to mammals
Chunhui Hou and Victor G Corces
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 104. Published online 2010 July 30. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-104.
PMCID: PMC2912829
Kinesin-14: the roots of reversal
Robert A Cross
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 107. Published online 2010 August 16. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-107.
PMCID: PMC2922096
Paleoclimate and bubonic plague: a forewarning of future risk?
Anthony J McMichael
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 108. Published online 2010 August 27. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-108.
PMCID: PMC2929224
Oestrogen shuts the door on SOX9
Lindsey Mork and Blanche Capel
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 110. Published online 2010 August 31. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-110.
PMCID: PMC2930626
Correspondence
Rapid progress on the vertebrate tree of life
Robert C Thomson and H Bradley Shaffer
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 19. Published online 2010 March 8. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-19.
PMCID: PMC2842240
A New Replicator: A theoretical framework for analysing replication
István Zachar and Eörs Szathmáry
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 21. Published online 2010 March 10. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-21.
PMCID: PMC2850328
Editorials
The hope of progress
Miranda Robertson
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 39. Published online 2010 April 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-39.
PMCID: PMC2864097
Plus ça change
Miranda Robertson
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 44. Published online 2010 April 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-44.
PMCID: PMC2864102
The evolution of gene regulation, the RNA universe, and the vexed questions of artefact and noise
Miranda Robertson
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 97. Published online 2010 July 16. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-97.
PMCID: PMC2905359
Focus
The architecture of RNA polymerase fidelity
Craig D Kaplan
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 85. Published online 2010 June 22. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-85.
PMCID: PMC2889878
Methodology Articles
Monitoring the regulation of gene expression in a growing organ using a fluid mechanics formalism
Rémy Merret, Bruno Moulia, Irène Hummel, David Cohen, Erwin Dreyer, and Marie-Béatrice Bogeat-Triboulot
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 18. Published online 2010 March 4. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-18.
PMCID: PMC2845557
Controlled spatial and conformational display of immobilised bone morphogenetic protein-2 and osteopontin signalling motifs regulates osteoblast adhesion and differentiation in vitro
Elizabeth A Mitchell, Benjamin T Chaffey, Andrew W McCaskie, Jeremy H Lakey, and Mark A Birch
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 57. Published online 2010 May 10. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-57.
PMCID: PMC2880964
A rapid and scalable method for selecting recombinant mouse monoclonal antibodies
Cécile Crosnier, Nicole Staudt, and Gavin J Wright
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 76. Published online 2010 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-76.
PMCID: PMC2898661
Characterization of a heat resistant ß-glucosidase as a new reporter in cells and mice
Susan C McCutcheon, Ken Jones, Sarah A Cumming, Richard Kemp, Heather Ireland-Zecchini, John C Saunders, Carol A Houghton, Louise A Howard, and Douglas J Winton
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 89. Published online 2010 June 22. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-89.
PMCID: PMC2909947
A novel cell-free mitochondrial fusion assay amenable for high-throughput screenings of fusion modulators
Astrid C Schauss, Huiyan Huang, Seok-Yong Choi, Liqun Xu, Sébastien Soubeyrand, Patricia Bilodeau, Rodolfo Zunino, Peter Rippstein, Michael A Frohman, and Heidi M McBride
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 100. Published online 2010 July 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-100.
PMCID: PMC2919466
Opinion
The edges of understanding
Arthur D Lander
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 40. Published online 2010 April 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-40.
PMCID: PMC2864098
Caenorhabditis elegans behavioral genetics: where are the knobs?
Leon Avery
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 69. Published online 2010 June 8. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-69.
PMCID: PMC2882361
Question & Answer
Q&A: Promise and pitfalls of genome-wide association studies
John FY Brookfield
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 41. Published online 2010 April 12.
PMCID: PMC2864099
Video Q&A: What is autism? - A personal view
Martin Raff
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 42. Published online 2010 April 12.
PMCID: PMC2864100
Q&A: ChIP-seq technologies and the study of gene regulation
Edison T Liu, Sebastian Pott, and Mikael Huss
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 56. Published online 2010 May 14. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-56.
PMCID: PMC2871264
Video Q&A: Non-coding RNAs and eukaryotic evolution - a personal view
John Mattick
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 67. Published online 2010 July 16. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-67.
PMCID: PMC2905358
Q&A: Life, synthetic biology and risk
Steven A Benner
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 77. Published online 2010 June 14. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-77.
PMCID: PMC2885331
Q&A: Robotics as a tool to understand the brain
Daniel M Wolpert and J Randall Flanagan
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 92. Published online 2010 July 23. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-92.
PMCID: PMC2909176
Q&A: Single-molecule localization microscopy for biological imaging
Ann L McEvoy, Derek Greenfield, Mark Bates, and Jan Liphardt
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 106. Published online 2010 August 11. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-106.
PMCID: PMC2920249
Research Articles
Disruption of insulin signalling preserves bioenergetic competence of mitochondria in ageing Caenorhabditis elegans
Kristel Brys, Natascha Castelein, Filip Matthijssens, Jacques R Vanfleteren, and Bart P Braeckman
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 91. Published online 2010 June 28. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-91.
PMCID: PMC2914644
Bumblebee foraging rhythms under the midnight sun measured with radiofrequency identification
Ralph J Stelzer and Lars Chittka
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 93. Published online 2010 June 29. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-93.
PMCID: PMC2907328
Serious limitations of the QTL/Microarray approach for QTL gene discovery
Ricardo A Verdugo, Charles R Farber, Craig H Warden, and Juan F Medrano
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 96. Published online 2010 July 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-96.
PMCID: PMC2919467
How 5000 independent rowers coordinate their strokes in order to row into the sunlight: Phototaxis in the multicellular green alga Volvox
Noriko Ueki, Shigeru Matsunaga, Isao Inouye, and Armin Hallmann
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 103. Published online 2010 July 27. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-103.
PMCID: PMC2920248
The Drosophila homolog of the mammalian imprint regulator, CTCF, maintains the maternal genomic imprint in Drosophila melanogaster
William A MacDonald, Debashish Menon, Nicholas J Bartlett, G Elizabeth Sperry, Vanya Rasheva, Victoria Meller, and Vett K Lloyd
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 105. Published online 2010 July 30. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-105.
PMCID: PMC2922095
Research articles
THOC5/FMIP, an mRNA export TREX complex protein, is essential for hematopoietic primitive cell survival in vivo
Annalisa Mancini, Susanne C Niemann-Seyde, Rüdiger Pankow, Omar El Bounkari, Sabine Klebba-Färber, Alexandra Koch, Ewa Jaworska, Elaine Spooncer, Achim D Gruber, Anthony D Whetton, and Teruko Tamura
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 1. Published online 2010 January 5. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-1.
PMCID: PMC2806247
Early evolution of the LIM homeobox gene family
Mansi Srivastava, Claire Larroux, Daniel R Lu, Kareshma Mohanty, Jarrod Chapman, Bernard M Degnan, and Daniel S Rokhsar
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 4. Published online 2010 January 18. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-4.
PMCID: PMC2828406
Regeneration and reprogramming compared
Bea Christen, Vanesa Robles, Marina Raya, Ida Paramonov, and Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 5. Published online 2010 January 20. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-5.
PMCID: PMC2826312
Mild folate deficiency induces genetic and epigenetic instability and phenotype changes in prostate cancer cells
Gaia Bistulfi, Erika VanDette, Sei-Ichi Matsui, and Dominic J Smiraglia
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 6. Published online 2010 January 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-6.
PMCID: PMC2845099
A role for NRAGE in NF-κB activation through the non-canonical BMP pathway
Nicholas Matluk, Jennifer A Rochira, Aldona Karaczyn, Tamara Adams, and Joseph M Verdi
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 7. Published online 2010 January 25. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-7.
PMCID: PMC2829509
Evolution of a unique predatory feeding apparatus: functional anatomy, development and a genetic locus for jaw laterality in Lake Tanganyika scale-eating cichlids
Thomas A Stewart and R Craig Albertson
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 8. Published online 2010 January 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-8.
PMCID: PMC2828976
Reconstructing the ups and downs of primate brain evolution: implications for adaptive hypotheses and Homo floresiensis
Stephen H Montgomery, Isabella Capellini, Robert A Barton, and Nicholas I Mundy
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 9. Published online 2010 January 27. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-9.
PMCID: PMC2825212
Ontogenetic development of auditory sensitivity and sound production in the squeaker catfish Synodontis schoutedeni
Walter Lechner, Lidia Eva Wysocki, and Friedrich Ladich
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 10. Published online 2010 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-10.
PMCID: PMC2824629
Adherens junctions connect stress fibres between adjacent endothelial cells
Jaime Millán, Robert J Cain, Natalia Reglero-Real, Carolina Bigarella, Beatriz Marcos-Ramiro, Laura Fernández-Martín, Isabel Correas, and Anne J Ridley
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 11. Published online 2010 February 2. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-11.
PMCID: PMC2845098
Coevolution of activating and inhibitory receptors within mammalian carcinoembryonic antigen families
Robert Kammerer and Wolfgang Zimmermann
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 12. Published online 2010 February 4. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-12.
PMCID: PMC2832619
Stone formation in peach fruit exhibits spatial coordination of the lignin and flavonoid pathways and similarity to Arabidopsis dehiscence
Christopher D Dardick, Ann M Callahan, Remo Chiozzotto, Robert J Schaffer, M Claudia Piagnani, and Ralph Scorza
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 13. Published online 2010 February 9. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-13.
PMCID: PMC2830173
A metabolic signature of long life in Caenorhabditis elegans
Silke Fuchs, Jacob G Bundy, Sarah K Davies, Jonathan M Viney, Jonathan S Swire, and Armand M Leroi
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 14. Published online 2010 February 10. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-14.
PMCID: PMC2829508
Evidence that a West-East admixed population lived in the Tarim Basin as early as the early Bronze Age
Chunxiang Li, Hongjie Li, Yinqiu Cui, Chengzhi Xie, Dawei Cai, Wenying Li, Victor H Mair, Zhi Xu, Quanchao Zhang, Idelisi Abuduresule, Li Jin, Hong Zhu, and Hui Zhou
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 15. Published online 2010 February 17. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-15.
PMCID: PMC2838831
The IGF1 small dog haplotype is derived from Middle Eastern grey wolves
Melissa M Gray, Nathan B Sutter, Elaine A Ostrander, and Robert K Wayne
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 16. Published online 2010 February 24. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-16.
PMCID: PMC2837629
Identification and characterization of Dlc1 isoforms in the mouse and study of the biological function of a single gene trapped isoform
Mohammad G Sabbir, Nichola Wigle, Shauna Loewen, Yuan Gu, Cordula Buse, Geoffrey G Hicks, and Michael RA Mowat
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 17. Published online 2010 March 3. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-17.
PMCID: PMC2839985
Geographic and ecologic heterogeneity in elimination thresholds for the major vector-borne helminthic disease, lymphatic filariasis
Manoj Gambhir, Moses Bockarie, Daniel Tisch, James Kazura, Justin Remais, Robert Spear, and Edwin Michael
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 22. Published online 2010 March 17. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-22.
PMCID: PMC2848205
ASB9 interacts with ubiquitous mitochondrial creatine kinase and inhibits mitochondrial function
Sanghoon Kwon, Dongbum Kim, Jae Won Rhee, Jeong-A Park, Dae-Won Kim, Doo-Sik Kim, Younghee Lee, and Hyung-Joo Kwon
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 23. Published online 2010 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-23.
PMCID: PMC2852384
Denitrification in human dental plaque
Frank Schreiber, Peter Stief, Armin Gieseke, Ines M Heisterkamp, Willy Verstraete, Dirk de Beer, and Paul Stoodley
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 24. Published online 2010 March 22. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-24.
PMCID: PMC2859859
To signal or not to signal? Chemical communication by urine-borne signals mirrors sexual conflict in crayfish
Fiona C Berry and Thomas Breithaupt
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 25. Published online 2010 March 30. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-25.
PMCID: PMC2867775
Molecular evidence for increased regulatory conservation during metamorphosis, and against deleterious cascading effects of hybrid breakdown in Drosophila
Carlo G Artieri and Rama S Singh
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 26. Published online 2010 March 31. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-26.
PMCID: PMC2907589
In vivo trans-specific gene silencing in fungal cells by in planta expression of a double-stranded RNA
Maria Laine P Tinoco, Bárbara BA Dias, Rebeca C Dall'Astta, João A Pamphile, and Francisco JL Aragão
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 27. Published online 2010 March 31. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-27.
PMCID: PMC2907587
The zebra finch neuropeptidome: prediction, detection and expression
Fang Xie, Sarah E London, Bruce R Southey, Suresh P Annangudi, Andinet Amare, Sandra L Rodriguez-Zas, David F Clayton, and Jonathan V Sweedler
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 28. Published online 2010 April 1. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-28.
PMCID: PMC2873334
Gene duplication and fragmentation in the zebra finch major histocompatibility complex
Christopher N Balakrishnan, Robert Ekblom, Martin Völker, Helena Westerdahl, Ricardo Godinez, Holly Kotkiewicz, David W Burt, Tina Graves, Darren K Griffin, Wesley C Warren, and Scott V Edwards
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 29. Published online 2010 April 1. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-29.
PMCID: PMC2907588
The first metazoa living in permanently anoxic conditions
Roberto Danovaro, Antonio Dell'Anno, Antonio Pusceddu, Cristina Gambi, Iben Heiner, and Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 30. Published online 2010 April 6. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-30.
PMCID: PMC2907586
The lethal giant larvae tumour suppressor mutation requires dMyc oncoprotein to promote clonal malignancy
Francesca Froldi, Marcello Ziosi, Flavio Garoia, Andrea Pession, Nicola A Grzeschik, Paola Bellosta, Dennis Strand, Helena E Richardson, Annalisa Pession, and Daniela Grifoni
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 33. Published online 2010 April 7. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-33.
PMCID: PMC2877678
Quality prevails over identity in the sexually selected vocalisations of an ageing mammal
Elodie Briefer, Elisabetta Vannoni, and Alan G McElligott
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 35. Published online 2010 April 9. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-35.
PMCID: PMC2858104
Localized direction selective responses in the dendrites of visual interneurons of the fly
Christian Spalthoff, Martin Egelhaaf, Philip Tinnefeld, and Rafael Kurtz
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 36. Published online 2010 April 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-36.
PMCID: PMC2876097
Stepwise mechanism for transcription fidelity
Yulia Yuzenkova, Aleksandra Bochkareva, Vasisht R Tadigotla, Mohammad Roghanian, Savva Zorov, Konstantin Severinov, and Nikolay Zenkin
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 54. Published online 2010 May 7. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-54.
PMCID: PMC2874521
Ultra-high throughput sequencing-based small RNA discovery and discrete statistical biomarker analysis in a collection of cervical tumours and matched controls
Daniela Witten, Robert Tibshirani, Sam Guoping Gu, Andrew Fire, and Weng-Onn Lui
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 58. Published online 2010 May 11. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-58.
PMCID: PMC2880020
Rapid sympatric ecological differentiation of crater lake cichlid fishes within historic times
Kathryn R Elmer, Topi K Lehtonen, Andreas F Kautt, Chris Harrod, and Axel Meyer
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 60. Published online 2010 May 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-60.
PMCID: PMC2880021
Gli2a protein localization reveals a role for Iguana/DZIP1 in primary ciliogenesis and a dependence of Hedgehog signal transduction on primary cilia in the zebrafish
Hyejeong Rosemary Kim, Joanna Richardson, Freek van Eeden, and Philip W Ingham
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 65. Published online 2010 April 19. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-65.
PMCID: PMC2890509
Phylostratigraphic tracking of cancer genes suggests a link to the emergence of multicellularity in metazoa
Tomislav Domazet-Lošo and Diethard Tautz
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 66. Published online 2010 May 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-66.
PMCID: PMC2880965
Nutrient control of eukaryote cell growth: a systems biology study in yeast
Alex Gutteridge, Pınar Pir, Juan I Castrillo, Philip D Charles, Kathryn S Lilley, and Stephen G Oliver
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 68. Published online 2010 May 24. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-68.
PMCID: PMC2895586
Expansion of ribosomally produced natural products: a nitrile hydratase- and Nif11-related precursor family
Daniel H Haft, Malay Kumar Basu, and Douglas A Mitchell
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 70. Published online 2010 May 25. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-70.
PMCID: PMC2887384
Spartin activates atrophin-1-interacting protein 4 (AIP4) E3 ubiquitin ligase and promotes ubiquitination of adipophilin on lipid droplets
Christopher Hooper, Swamy S Puttamadappa, Zak Loring, Alexander Shekhtman, and Joanna C Bakowska
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 72. Published online 2010 May 26. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-72.
PMCID: PMC2887783
Darcin: a male pheromone that stimulates female memory and sexual attraction to an individual male's odour
Sarah A Roberts, Deborah M Simpson, Stuart D Armstrong, Amanda J Davidson, Duncan H Robertson, Lynn McLean, Robert J Beynon, and Jane L Hurst
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 75. Published online 2010 June 3. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-75.
PMCID: PMC2890510
A new strategy for isolating genes controlling dosage compensation in Drosophila using a simple epigenetic mosaic eye phenotype
Mahalakshmi Prabhakaran and Richard L Kelley
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 80. Published online 2010 June 10. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-80.
PMCID: PMC2893135
Downstream of tyrosine kinase/docking protein 6, as a novel substrate of tropomyosin-related kinase C receptor, is involved in neurotrophin 3-mediated neurite outgrowth in mouse cortex neurons
Wei qi Li, Lei Shi, Yuan gang You, Yan hua Gong, Bin Yin, Jian gang Yuan, and Xiao zhong Peng
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 86. Published online 2010 June 18. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-86.
PMCID: PMC2901200
Reviews
Immune mechanisms of protection: can adjuvants rise to the challenge?
Amy S McKee, Megan KL MacLeod, John W Kappler, and Philippa Marrack
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 37. Published online 2010 April 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-37.
PMCID: PMC2864095
Biology-driven cancer drug development: back to the future
Christopher J Lord and Alan Ashworth
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 38. Published online 2010 April 12. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-38.
PMCID: PMC2864096
Assessing the human immune system through blood transcriptomics
Damien Chaussabel, Virginia Pascual, and Jacques Banchereau
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 84. Published online 2010 July 1. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-84.
PMCID: PMC2895587
Software
MochiView: versatile software for genome browsing and DNA motif analysis
Oliver R Homann and Alexander D Johnson
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 49. Published online 2010 April 21. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-49.
PMCID: PMC2867778
Correction
Correction: Exploiting the promiscuity of imatinib
Shun J Lee and Jean YJ Wang
BMC Biol. 2010; 8: 82. Published online 2010 June 10. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-82.
PMCID: PMC2893136
Corrects: Shun J Lee, et al. Exploiting the promiscuity of imatinib. J Biol. 2009; 8(3): 30.
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