Table of Contents | August 2009

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Sculpting the brainscapes.

An ink drawing for a research article in this issue of PLoS Biology (see Fuentes-Medel et al., e1000184) showing that synaptic growth at the neuromuscular junction entails substantial shedding of membranes, which are removed through a collaboration between muscles and glial cells.

Image Credit: Vivian Budnik, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Synopses

Metabolism Predicts Ecological Response to Warming

Liza Gross

“Induced” Eyes Suggest a Path to Retinal Repair

William Mair

Perspective

Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing

Stuart M. Shieber

Obituary

Don Fawcett (1917–2009): Unlocking Nature's Closely Guarded Secrets

Elizabeth Marincola

Primers

Neural Substrates of Mounting Temporal Expectation

Jennifer T. Coull

Selective Remodeling: Refining Neural Connectivity at the Neuromuscular Junction

Won-Suk Chung, Ben A. Barres

Community Page

It's Elementary: Science Buddies Bring Biology to Life

Rachel D. Fink

Research Articles

Warming and Resource Availability Shift Food Web Structure and Metabolism

Mary I. O'Connor, Michael F. Piehler, Dina M. Leech, Andrea Anton, John F. Bruno

Formal Correction:

Correction to Figure S2 (More...)

Host Niches and Defensive Extended Phenotypes Structure Parasitoid Wasp Communities

Richard Bailey, Karsten Schönrogge, James M. Cook, George Melika, György Csóka, Csaba Thuróczy, Graham N. Stone

Rapid Evolution of Sex Pheromone-Producing Enzyme Expression in Drosophila

Troy R. Shirangi, Héloïse D. Dufour, Thomas M. Williams, Sean B. Carroll

Ready…Go: Amplitude of the fMRI Signal Encodes Expectation of Cue Arrival Time

Xu Cui, Chess Stetson, P. Read Montague, David M. Eagleman

Formal Correction:

Correction to Author Affiliations (More...)

Distinct Parietal and Temporal Pathways to the Homologues of Broca's Area in the Monkey

Michael Petrides, Deepak N. Pandya

Hippocampus Leads Ventral Striatum in Replay of Place-Reward Information

Carien S. Lansink, Pieter M. Goltstein, Jan V. Lankelma, Bruce L. McNaughton, Cyriel M. A. Pennartz

Glia and Muscle Sculpt Neuromuscular Arbors by Engulfing Destabilized Synaptic Boutons and Shed Presynaptic Debris

Yuly Fuentes-Medel, Mary A. Logan, James Ashley, Bulent Ataman, Vivian Budnik, Marc R. Freeman

Generation of Functional Eyes from Pluripotent Cells

Andrea S. Viczian, Eduardo C. Solessio, Yung Lyou, Michael E. Zuber

β1 Integrin Maintains Integrity of the Embryonic Neocortical Stem Cell Niche

Karine Loulier, Justin D. Lathia, Veronique Marthiens, Jenne Relucio, Mohamed R. Mughal, Sung-Chun Tang, Turhan Coksaygan, Peter E. Hall, Srinivasulu Chigurupati, Bruce Patton, Holly Colognato, Mahendra S. Rao, Mark P. Mattson, Tarik F. Haydar, Charles ffrench-Constant