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BMC Biology, Volume 7

 

 

 

Research article
The evolution of novel fungal genes from non-retroviral RNA viruses
Derek J. Taylor, Jeremy Bruenn
BMC Biology 2009, 7:88 (18December2009)
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Research article
The obesity and inflammatory marker haptoglobin attracts monocytes via interaction with chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 2 (CCR2)
Margherita Maffei, Marcella Funicello, Teresa Vottari, Olimpia Gamucci, Mario Costa, Simonetta Lisi, Alessandro Viegi, Osele Ciampi, Giuseppe Bardi, Paolo Vitti, Aldo Pinchera, Ferruccio Santini
BMC Biology 2009, 7:87 (17December2009)
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Research article
Characterization of the histone H2A.Z-1 and H2A.Z-2 isoforms in vertebrates
Deanna Dryhurst, Toyotaka Ishibashi, Kristie L Rose, Jose M Eirin-Lopez, Darin McDonald, Begonia Silva-Moreno, Nik Veldhoen, Caren C Helbing, Michael J Hendzel, Jeffrey Shabanowitz, Donald F Hunt, Juan Ausio
BMC Biology 2009, 7:86 (14December2009)
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Research article
Profound human/mouse differences in alpha-dystrobrevin isoforms: a novel syntrophin-binding site and promoter missing in mouse and rat
Sabrina V Bhm, Panayiotis Constantinou, Sipin Tan, Hong Jin, Roland G Roberts
BMC Biology 2009, 7:85 (4December2009)
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Research article
Increasing phylogenetic resolution at low taxonomic levels using massively parallel sequencing of chloroplast genomes
Matthew Parks, Richard Cronn, Aaron Liston
BMC Biology 2009, 7:84 (2December2009)
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Research article
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, David L Stocum
BMC Biology 2009, 7:83 (30November2009)
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Research article
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 Biology 2009, 7:82 (26November2009)
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Methodology article
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based subcellular visualization of pathogen-induced host receptor signaling
Alexander Buntru, Timo Zimmermann, Christof R Hauck
BMC Biology 2009, 7:81 (25November2009)
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Research article
Mapping cortical hubs in tinnitus
Winfried Schlee, Nadia Mueller, Thomas Hartmann, Julian Keil, Isabel Lorenz, Nathan Weisz
BMC Biology 2009, 7:80 (23November2009)
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Research article
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, Denise Kelly
BMC Biology 2009, 7:79 (20November2009)
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Research article
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, Paul Keim
BMC Biology 2009, 7:78 (18November2009)
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Methodology article
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, Sophie A Lelivre
BMC Biology 2009, 7:77 (16November2009)
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Research article
Predominant membrane localization is an essential feature of the bacterial signal recognition particle receptor
Miryana Mircheva, Diana Boy, Benjamin Weiche, Friederike Hucke, Peter Graumann, Hans-Georg Koch
BMC Biology 2009, 7:76 (13November2009)
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Research article
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, Hai Rao
BMC Biology 2009, 7:75 (12November2009)
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Research article
A remarkable diversity of bone-eating worms (Osedax; Siboglinidae; Annelida)
Robert C Vrijenhoek, Shannon B Johnson, Greg W Rouse
BMC Biology 2009, 7:74 (10November2009)
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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, Marc D Lorenzen, Teresa D Shippy, Ernst A Wimmer, Richard W Beeman, Martin Klingler, Gregor Bucher, Susan J Brown
BMC Biology 2009, 7:73 (5November2009)
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Research article
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, Virginia P Edgcomb
BMC Biology 2009, 7:72 (3November2009)
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Research article
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, Neil D Tsutsui
BMC Biology 2009, 7:71 (28October2009)
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Research article
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 Hbner, Matthias Heinig, Michal Pravenec, Jonathan Mangion, Lucie Legault, Maurice Dongier, Katherine M Conigrave, John B Whitfield, John Saunders, Bridget Grant, Paula L Hoffman, WHO/ISBRA Study on State and Trait Markers of Alcoholism
BMC Biology 2009, 7:70 (27October2009)
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Research article
Evidence for the adaptation of protein pH-dependence to subcellular pH
Pedro Chan, Jim Warwicker
BMC Biology 2009, 7:69 (22October2009)
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Research article
TonB-dependent transporters and their occurrence in cyanobacteria
Oliver Mirus, Sascha Strauss, Kerstin Nicolaisen, Arndt von Haeseler, Enrico Schleiff
BMC Biology 2009, 7:68 (12October2009)
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Research article
Retinoic acid enhances skeletal muscle progenitor formation and bypasses inhibition by bone morphogenetic protein 4 but not dominant negative -catenin
Karen AM Kennedy, Tammy Porter, Virja Mehta, Scott D Ryan, Feodor Price, Vian Peshdary, Christina Karamboulas, Jose Savage, Thomas A Drysdale, Shun-Cheng Li, Steffany AL Bennett, Ilona S Skerjanc
BMC Biology 2009, 7:67 (8October2009)
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Research article
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, John C Detter
BMC Biology 2009, 7:66 (5October2009)
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Research article
Coordinated spatial and temporal expression of Hox genes during embryogenesis in the acoel Convolutriloba longifissura
Andreas Hejnol, Mark Q Martindale
BMC Biology 2009, 7:65 (1October2009)
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Research article
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, Hiroshi Mitani
BMC Biology 2009, 7:64 (29September2009)
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Research article
c-Myc affects mRNA translation, cell proliferation and progenitor cell function in the mammary gland
Tina Stoelzle, Patrick Schwarb, Andreas Trumpp, Nancy E Hynes
BMC Biology 2009, 7:63 (28September2009)
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Research article
scribble mutants promote aPKC and JNK-dependent epithelial neoplasia independently of Crumbs
Gregory R Leong, Karen R Goulding, Nancy Amin, Helena E Richardson, Anthony M Brumby
BMC Biology 2009, 7:62 (24September2009)
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Research article
Genes encoding novel secreted and transmembrane proteins are temporally and spatially regulated during Drosophila melanogaster embryogenesis
Alejandro Ziga, Christian Hdar, Patricia Hanna, Freddy Ibez, Pablo Moreno, Rodrigo Pulgar, Luis Pastenes, Mauricio Gonzlez, Vernica Cambiazo
BMC Biology 2009, 7:61 (22September2009)
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Research article
Genetic determinants of mate recognition in Brachionus manjavacas (Rotifera)
Terry W Snell, Tonya L Shearer, Hilary A Smith, Julia Kubanek, Kristin E Gribble, David B Mark Welch
BMC Biology 2009, 7:60 (9September2009)
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Research article
Receptor oligomerization and beyond: a case study in bone morphogenetic proteins
Kai Heinecke, Axel Seher, Werner Schmitz, Thomas D Mueller, Walter Sebald, Joachim Nickel
BMC Biology 2009, 7:59 (7September2009)
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Research article
Light-dependent roles of the G-protein subunit GNA1 of Hypocrea jecorina (anamorph Trichoderma reesei)
Christian Seibel, Gabriela Gremel, Roberto do Nascimento Silva, Andr Schuster, Christian P Kubicek, Monika Schmoll
BMC Biology 2009, 7:58 (3September2009)
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Research article
Phylogeographic analysis reveals association of tick-borne pathogen, Anaplasma marginale, MSP1a sequences with ecological traits affecting tick vector performance
Agustn Estrada-Pea, Victoria Naranjo, Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse, Atilio J Mangold, Katherine M Kocan, Jos de la Fuente
BMC Biology 2009, 7:57 (1September2009)
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Research article
Golgi localisation of GMAP210 requires two distinct cis-membrane binding mechanisms
Jesus Cardenas, Sabrina Rivero, Bruno Goud, Michel Bornens, Rosa M Rios
BMC Biology 2009, 7:56 (28August2009)
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Research article
-Opioid receptor activation attenuates oxidative injury in the ischemic rat brain
Yilin Yang, Xiwei Xia, Yi Zhang, Qiang Wang, Lu Li, Guanghua Luo, Ying Xia
BMC Biology 2009, 7:55 (26August2009)
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Research article
Antibiotic treatment leads to the elimination of Wolbachia endosymbionts and sterility in the diplodiploid collembolan Folsomia candida
Nathan Pike, Rachel Kingcombe
BMC Biology 2009, 7:54 (24August2009)
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Research article
Control of chicken CR1 retrotransposons is independent of Dicer-mediated RNA interference pathway
Sung-Hun Lee, Preethi Eldi, Soo-Young Cho, Danny Rangasamy
BMC Biology 2009, 7:53 (19August2009)
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Research article
Connexin channels and phospholipids: association and modulation
Darren Locke, Andrew L Harris
BMC Biology 2009, 7:52 (17August2009)
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Research article
Two mycoheterotrophic orchids from Thailand tropical dipterocarpacean forests associate with a broad diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi
Mlanie Roy, Santi Watthana, Anna Stier, Franck Richard, Suyanee Vessabutr, Marc-Andr Selosse
BMC Biology 2009, 7:51 (14August2009)
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Research article
Mapping the human membrane proteome: a majority of the human membrane proteins can be classified according to function and evolutionary origin
Markus Sllman Almn, Karl JV Nordstrm, Robert Fredriksson, Helgi B Schith
BMC Biology 2009, 7:50 (13August2009)
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Research article
Selective entrainment of the Drosophila circadian clock to daily gradients in environmental temperature
Jake Currie, Tadahiro Goda, Herman Wijnen
BMC Biology 2009, 7:49 (11August2009)
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Research article
Induction of protein body formation in plant leaves by elastin-like polypeptide fusions
Andrew J Conley, Jussi J Joensuu, Rima Menassa, Jim E Brandle
BMC Biology 2009, 7:48 (7August2009)
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Research article
Evidence for inhibition of cholinesterases in insect and mammalian nervous systems by the insect repellent deet
Vincent Corbel, Maria Stankiewicz, Cdric Pennetier, Didier Fournier, Jure Stojan, Emmanuelle Girard, Mitko Dimitrov, Jordi Molg, Jean-Marc Hougard, Bruno Lapied
BMC Biology 2009, 7:47 (5August2009)
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Research article
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, Yukihisa Matsumoto
BMC Biology 2009, 7:46 (4August2009)
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Research article
TBP2 is a substitute for TBP in Xenopus oocyte transcription
Waseem Akhtar, Gert Jan C Veenstra
BMC Biology 2009, 7:45 (3August2009)
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Research article
A Dictyostelium chalone uses G proteins to regulate proliferation
Deenadayalan Bakthavatsalam, Jonathan M Choe, Nana E Hanson, Richard H Gomer
BMC Biology 2009, 7:44 (27July2009)
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Research article
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, Batrice Segurens, Guillaume Balavoine, Detlev Arendt, David EK Ferrier
BMC Biology 2009, 7:43 (23July2009)
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Research article
Ontogeny and phylogeny: molecular signatures of selection, constraint, and temporal pleiotropy in the development of Drosophila
Carlo G Artieri, Wilfried Haerty, Rama S Singh
BMC Biology 2009, 7:42 (21July2009)
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Research article
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, Enrico Ginelli
BMC Biology 2009, 7:41 (16July2009)
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Research article
Proliferation of Ty3/gypsy-like retrotransposons in hybrid sunflower taxa inferred from phylogenetic data
Mark C Ungerer, Suzanne C Strakosh, Kaitlin M Stimpson
BMC Biology 2009, 7:40 (14July2009)
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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, Michael T Ghiselin
BMC Biology 2009, 7:39 (13July2009)
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Research article
Expression of the peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gene is repressed by DNA methylation in visceral adipose tissue of mouse models of diabetes
Katsunori Fujiki, Fumi Kano, Kunio Shiota, Masayuki Murata
BMC Biology 2009, 7:38 (10July2009)
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Research article
Erythropoietin improves operant conditioning and stability of cognitive performance in mice
Ahmed El-Kordi, Konstantin Radyushkin, Hannelore Ehrenreich
BMC Biology 2009, 7:37 (8July2009)
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Commentary
Phylo-evo-devo: combining phylogenetics with evolutionary developmental biology
Alessandro Minelli
BMC Biology 2009, 7:36 (26June2009)
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Research article
Effect of hydroxyurea on the promoter occupancy profiles of tumor suppressor p53 and p73
Vera Huang, Xin Lu, Yong Jiang, Jean YJ Wang
BMC Biology 2009, 7:35 (26June2009)
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Research article
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, David K Yeates
BMC Biology 2009, 7:34 (24June2009)
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Research article
Coordination of opposing sex-specific and core muscle groups regulates male tail posture during Caenorhabditis elegans male mating behavior
Allyson J Whittaker, Paul W Sternberg
BMC Biology 2009, 7:33 (22June2009)
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Research article
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, Godfrey M Hewitt
BMC Biology 2009, 7:32 (19June2009)
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Research article
Hibernation-like state induced by an opioid peptide protects against experimental stroke
Cesar V Borlongan, Teruo Hayashi, Peter R Oeltgen, Tsung-Ping Su, Yun Wang
BMC Biology 2009, 7:31 (17June2009)
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Research article
Early calcium increase triggers the formation of olfactory long-term memory in honeybees
Emmanuel Perisse, Valrie Raymond-Delpech, Isabelle Nant, Yukihisa Matsumoto, Catherine Leclerc, Marc Moreau, Jean-Christophe Sandoz
BMC Biology 2009, 7:30 (16June2009)
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Research article
Mutations in many genes affect aggressive behavior in Drosophila melanogaster
Alexis C Edwards, Liesbeth Zwarts, Akihiko Yamamoto, Patrick Callaerts, Trudy FC Mackay
BMC Biology 2009, 7:29 (11June2009)
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Research article
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, Bernard M Degnan
BMC Biology 2009, 7:28 (4June2009)
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Research article
A single muscle moves a crustacean limb joint rhythmically by acting against a spring containing resilin
Malcolm Burrows
BMC Biology 2009, 7:27 (29May2009)
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Research article
Heterologous cross-seeding mimics cross-species prion conversion in a yeast model
Namitha Vishveshwara, Susan W Liebman
BMC Biology 2009, 7:26 (26May2009)
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Research article
AP-2 regulates migration of GN-11 neurons via a specific genetic programme involving the Axl receptor tyrosine kinase
Francesca Orso, Richard Jger, Raffaele Adolfo Calogero, Hubert Schorle, Piero Sismondi, Michele De Bortoli, Daniela Taverna
BMC Biology 2009, 7:25 (22May2009)
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Research article
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, Antonio Brunetti
BMC Biology 2009, 7:24 (21May2009)
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Research article
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, Laurence D Hurst
BMC Biology 2009, 7:23 (14May2009)
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Research article
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, Jeak Ling Ding
BMC Biology 2009, 7:22 (11May2009)
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Research article
Specific retention of the protostome-specific PsGEF may parallel with the evolution of mushroom bodies in insect and lophotrochozoan brains
Nozomu Higuchi, Keigo Kohno, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki
BMC Biology 2009, 7:21 (7May2009)
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Commentary
Lateral gene transfer between prokaryotes and multicellular eukaryotes: ongoing and significant?
Vera ID Ros, Gregory DD Hurst
BMC Biology 2009, 7:20 (5May2009)
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Research article
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, Krishanu Ray
BMC Biology 2009, 7:19 (5May2009)
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Research article
Genomic expression dominance in allopolyploids
Ryan A Rapp, Joshua A Udall, Jonathan F Wendel
BMC Biology 2009, 7:18 (1May2009)
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Research article
The calcium-sensing receptor regulates parathyroid hormone gene expression in transfected HEK293 cells
Hillel Galitzer, Vardit Lavi-Moshayoff, Morris Nechama, Tomer Meir, Justin Silver, Tally Naveh-Many
BMC Biology 2009, 7:17 (27April2009)
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Research article
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, Janette E Bradley
BMC Biology 2009, 7:16 (22April2009)
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Research article
Remarkable convergent evolution in specialized parasitic Thecostraca (Crustacea)
Marcos Prez-Losada, Jens T Heg, Keith A Crandall
BMC Biology 2009, 7:15 (17April2009)
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Research article
Defining behavioral and molecular differences between summer and migratory monarch butterflies
Haisun Zhu, Robert J Gegear, Amy Casselman, Sriramana Kanginakudru, Steven M Reppert
BMC Biology 2009, 7:14 (31March2009)
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Research article
The relative ages of ectomycorrhizal mushrooms and their plant hosts estimated using Bayesian relaxed molecular clock analyses
David S Hibbett, P Brandon Matheny
BMC Biology 2009, 7:13 (10March2009)
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Research article
Aphids acquired symbiotic genes via lateral gene transfer
Naruo Nikoh, Atsushi Nakabachi
BMC Biology 2009, 7:12 (10March2009)
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Research article
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, Kenneth F Raffa
BMC Biology 2009, 7:11 (4March2009)
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Research article
Concerted evolution of male and female display traits in the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis
Jean-Marc Lassance, Christer Lfstedt
BMC Biology 2009, 7:10 (3March2009)
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Research article
Double fossilization in eukaryotic microorganisms from Lower Cretaceous amber
Ana Martn-Gonzlez, Jacek Wierzchos, Juan-Carlos Gutirrez, Jess Alonso, Carmen Ascaso
BMC Biology 2009, 7:9 (20February2009)
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Research article
Indexing TNF- gene expression using a gene-targeted reporter cell line
Ziying Yan, Diana Lei-Butters, John F Engelhardt, Gregory H Leno
BMC Biology 2009, 7:8 (16February2009)
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Research article
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, Valrie Briolat, Philippe Herbomel, Abdenour Benmansour, Pierre Boudinot
BMC Biology 2009, 7:7 (5February2009)
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Research article
Evolution and diversity of Rickettsia bacteria
Lucy A Weinert, John H Werren, Alexandre Aebi, Graham N Stone, Francis M Jiggins
BMC Biology 2009, 7:6 (2February2009)
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