Multiple locus linkage analysis of genomewide expression in yeast.

abstract：:We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study neural correlates of a robust somatosensory illusion that can dissociate tactile perception from physical stimulation. Repeated rapid stimulation at the wrist, then near the elbow, can create the illusion of touches at intervening locations along the arm, a...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Blankenburg F,Ruff CC,Deichmann R,Rees G,Driver J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood-brain barrier (BBB) defects and cerebrovascular dysfunction contribute to amyloid-β (Aβ) brain accumulation and drive Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology. By regulating vascular functions and inflammation in the microvasculature, a disintegrin and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type I motif, member 13 (ADAMTS1...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Cao Y,Xu H,Zhu Y,Shi MJ,Wei L,Zhang J,Cheng S,Shi Y,Tong H,Kang L,Lu L,Luo H,Yang X,Bai X,Wang R,Ma Y,Wang Y,Wang Z,Zhong K,Zhao BQ,Fan W

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Both endocrine and exocrine pancreatic cells arise from pancreatic-duodenal homeobox 1 (pdx1)-positive progenitors. The molecular mechanisms controlling cell fate determination and subsequent proliferation, however, are poorly understood. Unlike endocrine cells, less is known about exocrine cell specification. We repo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Jiang Z,Song J,Qi F,Xiao A,An X,Liu NA,Zhu Z,Zhang B,Lin S

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage modulation of microbial populations impacts critical processes in ocean, soil, and animal ecosystems. However, the role of bacteriophages with RNA genomes (RNA bacteriophages) in these processes is poorly understood, in part because of the limited number of known RNA bacteriophage species. Here, we ident...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Krishnamurthy SR,Janowski AB,Zhao G,Barouch D,Wang D

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we present the use of ethoscopes, which are machines for high-throughput analysis of behavior in Drosophila and other animals. Ethoscopes provide a software and hardware solution that is reproducible and easily scalable. They perform, in real-time, tracking and profiling of behavior by using a supervised machine...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Geissmann Q,Garcia Rodriguez L,Beckwith EJ,French AS,Jamasb AR,Gilestro GF

更新日期：2017-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Putting a name to a face is a highly common activity in our daily life that greatly enriches social interactions. Although this specific person-identity association becomes automatic with learning, it remains difficult and can easily be disrupted in normal circumstances or neurological conditions. To shed light on the...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Volfart A,Jonas J,Maillard L,Colnat-Coulbois S,Rossion B

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Central mechanisms by which specific motor programs are selected to achieve meaningful behaviors are not well understood. Using electrophysiological recordings from pharyngeal nerves upon central activation of neurotransmitter-expressing cells, we show that distinct neuronal ensembles can regulate different feeding mo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Schoofs A,Hückesfeld S,Schlegel P,Miroschnikow A,Peters M,Zeymer M,Spieß R,Chiang AS,Pankratz MJ

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease-associated misfolded proteins or proteins damaged due to cellular stress are generally disposed via the cellular protein quality-control system. However, under saturating conditions, misfolded proteins will aggregate. In higher eukaryotes, these aggregates can be transported to accumulate in aggresomes at the ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rujano MA,Bosveld F,Salomons FA,Dijk F,van Waarde MA,van der Want JJ,de Vos RA,Brunt ER,Sibon OC,Kampinga HH

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endosomal trafficking of receptors and associated proteins plays a critical role in signal processing. Until recently, it was thought that trafficking was shut down during cell division. Thus, remarkably, the regulation of trafficking during division remains poorly characterized. Here we delineate the role of mitotic ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Cota CD,Dreier MS,Colgan W,Cha A,Sia T,Davidson B

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription rate of a gene is often controlled by several regulators that bind specific sites in the gene's cis-regulatory region. The combined effect of these regulators is described by a cis-regulatory input function. What determines the form of an input function, and how variable is it with respect to mutatio...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Mayo AE,Setty Y,Shavit S,Zaslaver A,Alon U

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent report by the Institute of Medicine leaves few urgent reasons standing for the continued use of chimpanzees in biomedical research. It is high time to think about their retirement, Frans de Waal argues, without neglecting prospects for non-invasive research on behavior, cognition, and genetics. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： de Waal FB

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the molecular events that underlie the evolution of morphological diversity is a major challenge in biology. Here, to identify genes whose expression correlates with species-specific morphologies, we compared transcriptomes of two closely related Hydra species. We find that species-specific differences i...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Khalturin K,Anton-Erxleben F,Sassmann S,Wittlieb J,Hemmrich G,Bosch TC

更新日期：2008-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional MRI (fMRI) studies have traditionally relied on intersubject normalization based on global brain morphology, which cannot establish proper functional correspondence between subjects due to substantial intersubject variability in functional organization. Here, we reliably identified a set of discrete, homolo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Li M,Wang D,Ren J,Langs G,Stoecklein S,Brennan BP,Lu J,Chen H,Liu H

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:PolD is an archaeal replicative DNA polymerase (DNAP) made of a proofreading exonuclease subunit (DP1) and a larger polymerase catalytic subunit (DP2). Recently, we reported the individual crystal structures of the DP1 and DP2 catalytic cores, thereby revealing that PolD is an atypical DNAP that has all functional pro...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Raia P,Carroni M,Henry E,Pehau-Arnaudet G,Brûlé S,Béguin P,Henneke G,Lindahl E,Delarue M,Sauguet L

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To complete cell division with high fidelity, cytokinesis must be coordinated with chromosome segregation. Mammalian Polo-like kinase 1, Plk1, may function as a critical link because it is required for chromosome segregation and establishment of the cleavage plane following anaphase onset. A central spindle-localized ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Wolfe BA,Takaki T,Petronczki M,Glotzer M

更新日期：2009-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference is triggered by double-stranded RNA that is processed into small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) by Dicer enzyme. Endogenously, RNA interference triggers are created from small noncoding RNAs called microRNAs (miRNAs). RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISC) in human cells can be programmed by exogenously in...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Chu CY,Rana TM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell differentiation is remarkably stable but can be reversed by somatic cell nuclear transfer, cell fusion, and iPS. Nuclear transfer to amphibian oocytes provides a special opportunity to test transcriptional reprogramming without cell division. We show here that, after nuclear transfer to amphibian oocytes, mitotic...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Halley-Stott RP,Jullien J,Pasque V,Gurdon J

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposable elements comprise a huge portion of most animal genomes. Unlike many pathogens, these elements leave a mark of their impact via their insertion into host genomes. With proper teasing, these sequences can relay information about the evolutionary history of transposons and their hosts. In a new publication,...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： McLaughlin RN Jr

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral cortex performs complex cognitive functions at the expense of tremendous energy consumption. Blood vessels in the brain are known to form stereotypic patterns that facilitate efficient oxygen and nutrient delivery. Yet little is known about how vessel development in the brain is normally regulated. Radial...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ma S,Kwon HJ,Johng H,Zang K,Huang Z

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present Knowledge Engine for Genomics (KnowEnG), a free-to-use computational system for analysis of genomics data sets, designed to accelerate biomedical discovery. It includes tools for popular bioinformatics tasks such as gene prioritization, sample clustering, gene set analysis, and expression signature analysis...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Blatti C 3rd,Emad A,Berry MJ,Gatzke L,Epstein M,Lanier D,Rizal P,Ge J,Liao X,Sobh O,Lambert M,Post CS,Xiao J,Groves P,Epstein AT,Chen X,Srinivasan S,Lehnert E,Kalari KR,Wang L,Weinshilboum RM,Song JS,Jongeneel

更新日期：2020-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus proliferation involves gene replication inside infected cells and transmission to new target cells. Once positive-strand RNA virus has infected a cell, the viral genome serves as a template for copying ("stay-strategy") or is packaged into a progeny virion that will be released extracellularly ("leave-strategy")...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Iwanami S,Kitagawa K,Ohashi H,Asai Y,Shionoya K,Saso W,Nishioka K,Inaba H,Nakaoka S,Wakita T,Diekmann O,Iwami S,Watashi K

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is associated with changes in the plasma lipids. Although simple lipid quantification is routinely used, plasma lipids are rarely investigated at the level of individual molecules. We aimed at predicting different measures of obesity based on the plasma lipidome in a large population cohort using advanced mach...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Gerl MJ,Klose C,Surma MA,Fernandez C,Melander O,Männistö S,Borodulin K,Havulinna AS,Salomaa V,Ikonen E,Cannistraci CV,Simons K

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomes are ubiquitous acidified organelles that degrade intracellular and extracellular material trafficked via multiple pathways. Lysosomes also sense cellular nutrient levels to regulate target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase, a signaling enzyme that drives growth and suppresses activity of the MiT/TFE family of transc...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Murphy JT,Liu H,Ma X,Shaver A,Egan BM,Oh C,Boyko A,Mazer T,Ang S,Khopkar R,Javaheri A,Kumar S,Jiang X,Ory D,Mani K,Matkovich SJ,Kornfeld K,Diwan A

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Centromeres are differentiated chromatin domains, present once per chromosome, that direct segregation of the genome in mitosis and meiosis by specifying assembly of the kinetochore. They are distinct genetic loci in that their identity in most organisms is determined not by the DNA sequences they are associated with,...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Prendergast L,van Vuuren C,Kaczmarczyk A,Doering V,Hellwig D,Quinn N,Hoischen C,Diekmann S,Sullivan KF

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primates sample their visual environment actively through saccades and microsaccades (MSs). Saccadic eye movements not only modulate neural spike rates but might also affect temporal correlations (synchrony) among neurons. Neural synchrony plays a role in neural coding and modulates information transfer between cortic...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lowet E,Gips B,Roberts MJ,De Weerd P,Jensen O,van der Eerden J

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors of "Relatedness, Conflict, and the Evolution of Eusociality" respond to objections raised by Martin Nowak and Benjamin Allen. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Queller DC,Rong S,Liao X

更新日期：2015-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Amazon is Brazil's greatest natural resource and invaluable to the rest of the world as a buffer against climate change. The recent election of Brazil's president brought disputes over development plans for the region back into the spotlight. Historically, the development model for the Amazon has focused on exploi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Castro MC,Baeza A,Codeço CT,Cucunubá ZM,Dal'Asta AP,De Leo GA,Dobson AP,Carrasco-Escobar G,Lana RM,Lowe R,Monteiro AMV,Pascual M,Santos-Vega M

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:All organisms live in temporally fluctuating environments. Theory predicts that the evolution of deterministic maternal effects (i.e., anticipatory maternal effects or transgenerational phenotypic plasticity) underlies adaptation to environments that fluctuate in a predictably alternating fashion over maternal-offspri...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Dey S,Proulx SR,Teotónio H

更新日期：2016-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A new study identifies an unexpected role for lysophosphatidic acid in modulating the strength of both excitatory and inhibitory synapses in the brain, but by different mechanisms. Read the accompanying Research Article. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Robinson R

更新日期：2015-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Changing environmental conditions cause changes in the distributions of phenotypic traits in natural populations. However, determining the mechanisms responsible for these changes-and, in particular, the relative contributions of phenotypic plasticity versus evolutionary responses-is difficult. To our knowledge, no st...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Bonnet T,Morrissey MB,Morris A,Morris S,Clutton-Brock TH,Pemberton JM,Kruuk LEB

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00