Table of Contents | January 2012

About This Image

The “Carwash” hydrothermal vent, Isis Dive 138, 2,397m depth (Latitude 60° 02.568'S, Longitude 29° 58.966'W), E9 Segment of the East Scotia Ridge.

Large aggregations of a new species of yeti crab (Kiwa n. sp.), a peltospiroid gastropod and a new species of stalked barnacle (Vulcanolepas n. sp.) can be seen around the base of the chimneys. Vent limpets, Lepetodrilus n. sp. can be seen on the carapaces of the yeti crabs and anemones are also present. See Rogers, et al. (e1001234).

Image Credit: NERC ChEsSo Consortium

Synopses

New Signaling Chemicals Spur Worms to Seek Company

Janelle Weaver

Rise and Fall, and Rise Again: Phagosome Maturation Is Controlled by Two Kinases and One Phosphatase

Richard Robinson

Built-in Timer Delays Differentiation

Liza Gross

Perspective

Opening Up the Politics of Knowledge and Power in Bioscience

Andy Stirling

Primers

Antarctic Marine Biodiversity and Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents

Steven L. Chown

Restoration of Ailing Wetlands

Oswald J. Schmitz

Community Pages

Desperately Seeking Stable 50-Year-Old Landscapes with Patches and Long, Wide Corridors

Paul Beier, Andrew J. Gregory

Putting the Pieces Together: Integrative Modeling Platform Software for Structure Determination of Macromolecular Assemblies

Daniel Russel, Keren Lasker, Ben Webb, Javier Velázquez-Muriel, Elina Tjioe, Dina Schneidman-Duhovny, Bret Peterson, Andrej Sali

Research Articles

The Discovery of New Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities in the Southern Ocean and Implications for Biogeography

Alex D. Rogers, Paul A. Tyler, Douglas P. Connelly, Jon T. Copley, Rachael James, Robert D. Larter, Katrin Linse, Rachel A. Mills, Alfredo Naveira Garabato, Richard D. Pancost, David A. Pearce, Nicholas V. C. Polunin, Christopher R. German, Timothy Shank, Philipp H. Boersch-Supan, Belinda J. Alker, Alfred Aquilina, Sarah A. Bennett, Andrew Clarke, Robert J. J. Dinley, Alastair G. C. Graham, Darryl R. H. Green, Jeffrey A. Hawkes, Laura Hepburn, Ana Hilario, Veerle A. I. Huvenne, Leigh Marsh, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, William D. K. Reid, Christopher N. Roterman, Christopher J. Sweeting, Sven Thatje, Katrin Zwirglmaier

Structural and Functional Loss in Restored Wetland Ecosystems

David Moreno-Mateos, Mary E. Power, Francisco A. Comín, Roxana Yockteng

Rapid Evolution of Enormous, Multichromosomal Genomes in Flowering Plant Mitochondria with Exceptionally High Mutation Rates

Daniel B. Sloan, Andrew J. Alverson, John P. Chuckalovcak, Martin Wu, David E. McCauley, Jeffrey D. Palmer, Douglas R. Taylor

Alternative Splicing of RNA Triplets Is Often Regulated and Accelerates Proteome Evolution

Robert K. Bradley, Jason Merkin, Nicole J. Lambert, Christopher B. Burge

Role of Pleiotropy in the Evolution of a Cryptic Developmental Variation in Caenorhabditis elegans

Fabien Duveau, Marie-Anne Félix

Differentiation of the Lateral Compartment of the Cochlea Requires a Temporally Restricted FGF20 Signal

Sung-Ho Huh, Jennifer Jones, Mark E. Warchol, David M. Ornitz

USP8 Promotes Smoothened Signaling by Preventing Its Ubiquitination and Changing Its Subcellular Localization

Ruohan Xia, Hongge Jia, Junkai Fan, Yajuan Liu, Jianhang Jia

Hedgehog-Regulated Ubiquitination Controls Smoothened Trafficking and Cell Surface Expression in Drosophila

Shuang Li, Yongbin Chen, Qing Shi, Tao Yue, Bing Wang, Jin Jiang

A Modular Library of Small Molecule Signals Regulates Social Behaviors in Caenorhabditis elegans

Jagan Srinivasan, Stephan H. von Reuss, Neelanjan Bose, Alon Zaslaver, Parag Mahanti, Margaret C. Ho, Oran G. O'Doherty, Arthur S. Edison, Paul W. Sternberg, Frank C. Schroeder

Functional Clustering Drives Encoding Improvement in a Developing Brain Network during Awake Visual Learning

Kaspar Podgorski, Derek Dunfield, Kurt Haas

Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex

Brian N. Pasley, Stephen V. David, Nima Mesgarani, Adeen Flinker, Shihab A. Shamma, Nathan E. Crone, Robert T. Knight, Edward F. Chang

Two PI 3-Kinases and One PI 3-Phosphatase Together Establish the Cyclic Waves of Phagosomal PtdIns(3)P Critical for the Degradation of Apoptotic Cells

Nan Lu, Qian Shen, Timothy R. Mahoney, Lukas J. Neukomm, Ying Wang, Zheng Zhou