Table of Contents | April 2005

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A honeybee (Apis melifera) foraging for nectar.

Honeybees have to navigate through a world containing a bewildering variety of scents in order to identify rewarding flowers. How the honeybee's miniature brain makes sense of the chaos of scents is the subject of recent brain imaging and psychophysical studies (See Guerrieri et al. and the Primer by Chittka and Brockmann)

Image Credit: Photo by Lars Chittka

Editorial

The PLoS Community Journals

Mark Patterson, Catriona MacCallum, Hemai Parthasarathy, Caitlin Sedwick

Feature

As the Antarctic Ice Pack Recedes, a Fragile Ecosystem Hangs in the Balance

Liza Gross

Book Review/Science in the Media

Traversing the Highwire from Pop to Optical

Christopher W Tyler

Primers

Perception Space—The Final Frontier

Lars Chittka, Axel Brockmann

Alchemy and the New Age of Cardiac Muscle Cell Biology

Kenneth R Chien

Research Articles

Gray Wolves as Climate Change Buffers in Yellowstone

Christopher C Wilmers, Wayne M Getz

Lineage-Specific Expansions of Retroviral Insertions within the Genomes of African Great Apes but Not Humans and Orangutans

Chris T Yohn, Zhaoshi Jiang, Sean D McGrath, Karen E Hayden, Philipp Khaitovich, Matthew E Johnson, Marla Y Eichler, John D McPherson, Shaying Zhao, Svante Pääbo, Evan E Eichler

Functional Evolution of a cis-Regulatory Module

Michael Z Ludwig, Arnar Palsson, Elena Alekseeva, Casey M Bergman, Janaki Nathan, Martin Kreitman

The Wolbachia Genome of Brugia malayi: Endosymbiont Evolution within a Human Pathogenic Nematode

Jeremy Foster, Mehul Ganatra, Ibrahim Kamal, Jennifer Ware, Kira Makarova, Natalia Ivanova, Anamitra Bhattacharyya, Vinayak Kapatral, Sanjay Kumar, Janos Posfai, Tamas Vincze, Jessica Ingram, Laurie Moran, Alla Lapidus, Marina Omelchenko, Nikos Kyrpides, Elodie Ghedin, Shiliang Wang, Eugene Goltsman, Victor Joukov, Olga Ostrovskaya, Kiryl Tsukerman, Mikhail Mazur, Donald Comb, Eugene Koonin, Barton Slatko

Light Controls Growth and Development via a Conserved Pathway in the Fungal Kingdom

Alexander Idnurm, Joseph Heitman

The N. gonorrhoeae Type IV Pilus Stimulates Mechanosensitive Pathways and Cytoprotection through a pilT-Dependent Mechanism

Heather L Howie, Michael Glogauer, Magdalene So

Gamma-Herpesvirus Latency Requires T Cell Evasion during Episome Maintenance

Neil J Bennett, Janet S May, Philip G Stevenson

Intravascular Immune Surveillance by CXCR6⁺ NKT Cells Patrolling Liver Sinusoids

Frederic Geissmann, Thomas O Cameron, Stephane Sidobre, Natasha Manlongat, Mitchell Kronenberg, Michael J Briskin, Michael L Dustin, Dan R Littman

Adult Murine Skeletal Muscle Contains Cells That Can Differentiate into Beating Cardiomyocytes In Vitro

Steve O Winitsky, Thiru V Gopal, Shahin Hassanzadeh, Hiroshi Takahashi, Divina Gryder, Michael A Rogawski, Kazuyo Takeda, Zu X Yu, Yu H Xu, Neal D Epstein

PGC-1α Deficiency Causes Multi-System Energy Metabolic Derangements: Muscle Dysfunction, Abnormal Weight Control and Hepatic Steatosis

Teresa C Leone, John J Lehman, Brian N Finck, Paul J Schaeffer, Adam R Wende, Sihem Boudina, Michael Courtois, David F Wozniak, Nandakumar Sambandam, Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi, Zhouji Chen, John O. Holloszy, Denis M Medeiros, Robert E Schmidt, Jeffrey E Saffitz, E. Dale Abel, Clay F Semenkovich, Daniel P Kelly

Two Distinct E3 Ubiquitin Ligases Have Complementary Functions in the Regulation of Delta and Serrate Signaling in Drosophila

Roland Le Borgne, Sylvie Remaud, Sophie Hamel, François Schweisguth