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Selected articles
Review & comment
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Robin WeissHIV receptor gymnastics
Robin Weiss, in an article to mark the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), reviews the complex interactions of the virus with the specialized surface molecules by which it gains entry into cells, and how this has led to drugs that block it.
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Gerard WrightFacing up to antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance is both an ancient phenomenon and a worsening medical problem. Gerard Wright explains why, and what should be done about it.
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Paola Bertucci, Detlev ArendtAncient origins of the duality of the somatic and visceral nervous systems
The idea that vertebrates are composed of a ‘visceral’ and ‘somatic’ self, responding to internal and external stimuli, respectively, was first put forward in the 19th century. Now, molecular fingerprinting indicates a duality between the somatic and visceral nervous systems that appears to predate Bilataria.
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Virginia WalbotPit bulls, pussycats and peer review
In 2009, Virginia Walbot commented ‘Are we training pit bulls to review our manuscripts?’ Revisiting the topic, she asks if we can tame our pit bull reviewers by involving students more in peer review and teaching them to see things from an authors’ perspective and the perspective of the journal that is responsible for making a decision on publication.
Research
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Vladimir Mashanov, Olga Zueva, José García-ArrarásRadial glial cells play a key role in echinoderm neural regeneration
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Aaron Richardson, Danny Rice, Gregory Young, Andrew Alverson, Jeffrey PalmerThe “fossilized” mitochondrial genome of
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Roman Khonsari, Maisa Seppala, Alan Pradel, Hugo Dutel, Gaël Clément, Oleg Lebedev, Sarah Ghafoor, Michaela Rothova, Abigael Tucker, John Maisey, Chen-Ming Fan, Maiko Kawasaki, Atsushi Ohazama, Paul Tafforeau, Brunella Franco, Jill Helms, Courtney Haycraft, Albert David, Philippe Janvier, Martyn Cobourne, Paul SharpeThe buccohypophyseal canal is an ancestral vertebrate trait maintained by modulation in sonic hedgehog signaling
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Alexander Little, Tatsuya Kunisue, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Frank SeebacherThyroid hormone actions are temperature-specific and regulate thermal acclimation in zebrafish (
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Michaela de Clare, Stephen OliverCopy-number variation of cancer-gene orthologs is sufficient to induce cancer-like symptoms in
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Article collections
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HIV thirty years on
Published: 21 May 2013
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From origins to open questions – Ten years of BMC Biology
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Open questions in biology
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Last updated: 28 March 2013
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