Correction: Song playbacks demonstrate slower evolution of song discrimination in birds from Amazonia than from temperate North America.

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：:Eukaryotic cells respond to accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) by activating the unfolded protein response (UPR), a signal transduction pathway that communicates between the ER and the nucleus. In yeast, a large set of UPR target genes has been experimentally determined, but the previo...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Patil CK,Li H,Walter P

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The illusion of apparent motion can be induced when visual stimuli are successively presented at different locations. It has been shown in previous studies that motion-sensitive regions in extrastriate cortex are relevant for the processing of apparent motion, but it is unclear whether primary visual cortex (V1) is al...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Muckli L,Kohler A,Kriegeskorte N,Singer W

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha thalassemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked chromatin remodeler (ATRX), a DAXX (death domain-associated protein) interacting protein, is often lost in cells using the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) pathway, but it is not known how ATRX loss leads to ALT. We report that ATRX deletion from mouse c...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lovejoy CA,Takai K,Huh MS,Picketts DJ,de Lange T

更新日期：2020-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hippo pathway plays a key role in regulating cell turnover in adult tissues, and abnormalities in this pathway are consistently associated with human cancers. Hippo was initially implicated in the control of cell proliferation and death, and its inhibition is linked to the expansion of stem cells and progenitors, ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： de Sousa N,Rodríguez-Esteban G,Rojo-Laguna JI,Saló E,Adell T

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization and the mechanisms of condensation of mitotic chromosomes remain unsolved despite many decades of efforts. The lack of resolution, tight compaction, and the absence of function-specific chromatin labels have been the key technical obstacles. The correlation between DNA sequence composition and its con...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Strukov YG,Sural TH,Kuroda MI,Sedat JW

更新日期：2011-01-11 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：: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：:Robust biological systems are expected to accumulate cryptic genetic variation that does not affect the system output in standard conditions yet may play an evolutionary role once phenotypically expressed under a strong perturbation. Genetic variation that is cryptic relative to a robust trait may accumulate neutrally...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Duveau F,Félix MA

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:The Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE) guidelines were developed to address the lack of reproducibility in biomedical animal studies and improve the communication of research findings. While intended to guide the preparation of peer-reviewed manuscripts, the principles of transparent reporting ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Karp NA,Meehan TF,Morgan H,Mason JC,Blake A,Kurbatova N,Smedley D,Jacobsen J,Mott RF,Iyer V,Matthews P,Melvin DG,Wells S,Flenniken AM,Masuya H,Wakana S,White JK,Lloyd KC,Reynolds CL,Paylor R,West DB,Svenson KL,

更新日期：2015-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimivirus is the largest known virus whose genome and physical size are comparable to some small bacteria, blurring the boundary between a virus and a cell. Structural studies of Mimivirus have been difficult because of its size and long surface fibers. Here we report the use of enzymatic digestions to remove the surf...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Xiao C,Kuznetsov YG,Sun S,Hafenstein SL,Kostyuchenko VA,Chipman PR,Suzan-Monti M,Raoult D,McPherson A,Rossmann MG

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Newborn granule cells become functionally integrated into the synaptic circuitry of the adult dentate gyrus after a morphological and electrophysiological maturation process. The molecular mechanisms by which immature neurons and the neurites extending from them find their appropriate position and target area remain l...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Jessberger S,Aigner S,Clemenson GD Jr,Toni N,Lie DC,Karalay O,Overall R,Kempermann G,Gage FH

更新日期：2008-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this Open Highlight, Senior Editor Lauren Richardson features exciting new Open Access research into how species evolve their characteristic traits. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Richardson LA

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs) form the cellular scaffold of lymph nodes (LNs) and establish distinct microenvironmental niches to provide key molecules that drive innate and adaptive immune responses and control immune regulatory processes. Here, we have used a graph theory-based systems biology approach to dete...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Novkovic M,Onder L,Cupovic J,Abe J,Bomze D,Cremasco V,Scandella E,Stein JV,Bocharov G,Turley SJ,Ludewig B

更新日期：2016-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal welfare requires the adequate housing of animals to ensure health and well-being. The application of environmental enrichment is a way to improve the well-being of laboratory animals. However, it is important to know whether these enrichment items can be incorporated in experimental mouse husbandry without crea...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： André V,Gau C,Scheideler A,Aguilar-Pimentel JA,Amarie OV,Becker L,Garrett L,Hans W,Hölter SM,Janik D,Moreth K,Neff F,Östereicher M,Racz I,Rathkolb B,Rozman J,Bekeredjian R,Graw J,Klingenspor M,Klopstock T,Ollert M

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical chemokine receptor 2 (ACKR2) is a chemokine-scavenging receptor. ACKR2-/-embryos display a reduction in size of a novel, to our knowledge, embryonic skin macrophage population referred to as 'intermediate' cells. CC chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2)-/-embryos display an identical phenotype, indicating that these ce...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Lee KM,Wilson GJ,Pingen M,Fukuoka A,Hansell CAH,Bartolini R,Medina-Ruiz L,Graham GJ

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Movements overtly sample sensory information, making sensory analysis an active-sensing process. In this study, we show that visual information sampling is not just locked to the (overt) movement dynamics but to the internal (covert) dynamics of cortico-motor control. We asked human participants to perform continuous ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Tomassini A,Maris E,Hilt P,Fadiga L,D'Ausilio A

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002436.]. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： PLOS Biology Staff.

更新日期：2016-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To successfully negotiate a complex environment, an animal must control the timing of motor behaviors in coordination with dynamic sensory information. Here, we report on adaptive temporal control of vocal-motor behavior in an echolocating bat, Eptesicus fuscus, as it captured tethered insects close to background vege...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Moss CF,Bohn K,Gilkenson H,Surlykke A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Do neuronal oscillations play a causal role in brain function? In a study in this issue of PLOS Biology, Helfrich and colleagues address this long-standing question by attempting to drive brain oscillations using transcranial electrical current stimulation. Remarkably, they were able to manipulate visual perception by...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Thut G

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:During biogenesis of the 40S and 60S ribosomal subunits, the pre-40S particles are exported to the cytoplasm prior to final cleavage of the 20S pre-rRNA to mature 18S rRNA. Amongst the factors involved in this maturation step, Fap7 is unusual, as it both interacts with ribosomal protein Rps14 and harbors adenylate kin...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Loc'h J,Blaud M,Réty S,Lebaron S,Deschamps P,Bareille J,Jombart J,Robert-Paganin J,Delbos L,Chardon F,Zhang E,Charenton C,Tollervey D,Leulliot N

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:What explains why some groups of organisms, like birds, are so species rich? And what explains their extraordinary ecological diversity, ranging from large, flightless birds to small migratory species that fly thousand of kilometers every year? These and similar questions have spurred great interest in adaptive radiat...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Moen D,Morlon H

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Organisms evolve two routes to surviving infections-they can resist pathogen growth (resistance) and they can endure the pathogenesis of infection (tolerance). The sum of these two properties together defines the defensive capabilities of the host. Typically, studies of animal defenses focus on either understanding re...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Ayres JS,Schneider DS

更新日期：2008-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent analyses of the fossil record and molecular phylogenies suggest that there are fundamental limits to biodiversity, possibly arising from constraints in the availability of space, resources, or ecological niches. Under this hypothesis, speciation rates decay over time and biodiversity eventually saturates, with ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Morlon H,Potts MD,Plotkin JB

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the history of living and extinct elephantids, we generated 39,763 bp of aligned nuclear DNA sequence across 375 loci for African savanna elephant, African forest elephant, Asian elephant, the extinct American mastodon, and the woolly mammoth. Our data establish that the Asian elephant is the closest livi...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Rohland N,Reich D,Mallick S,Meyer M,Green RE,Georgiadis NJ,Roca AL,Hofreiter M

更新日期：2010-12-21 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：:In this Formal Comment, the authors of the recent publication "Large-scale investigation of the reasons why potentially important genes are ignored" maintain that it can be read as an opportunity to explore the unknown. ...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Stoeger T,Gerlach M,Morimoto RI,Amaral LAN

更新日期：2018-12-11 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：:While the role of cortical microstructure in organising neural function is well established, it remains unclear how structural constraints can give rise to more flexible elements of cognition. While nonhuman primate research has demonstrated a close structure-function correspondence, the relationship between microstru...

journal_title：PLoS biology

authors： Paquola C,Vos De Wael R,Wagstyl K,Bethlehem RAI,Hong SJ,Seidlitz J,Bullmore ET,Evans AC,Misic B,Margulies DS,Smallwood J,Bernhardt BC

更新日期：2019-05-20 00:00:00