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Table of Contents | May 2007

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A Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster) showing the expression pattern of Obp57d and Obp57e genes visualized by green fluorescent protein (GFP)

Expression of the Obp57d and Obp57e genes at the terminal segments of legs in Drosophila melanogaster are visualized by green fluorescent protein (GFP). These genes are involved in the evolution of host-plant preference for D. sechellia, a specialized species that breeds exclusively on the ripe fruit of Morinda citrifolia. (see Matsuo et al.).

Synopses

Can a Taste for Poison Drive Speciation?

Liza Gross

When Bacteria Lose a Single DNA Base, Aphids Suffer

Mary Hoff

Novel Technique Shows When the Fertilized Egg’s Genome Comes into Its Own

Liza Gross

Non-Random Chromosome Segregation in Stem Cells

Richard Robinson

Essays

Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition

Lori Marino, Richard C Connor, R. Ewan Fordyce, Louis M Herman, Patrick R Hof, Louis Lefebvre, David Lusseau, Brenda McCowan, Esther A Nimchinsky, Adam A Pack, Luke Rendell, Joy S Reidenberg, Diana Reiss, Mark D Uhen, Estel Van der Gucht, Hal Whitehead

The Failure of Environmental Education (and How We Can Fix It)

Daniel T Blumstein, Charlie Saylan

Feature

Survival of the Likeliest?

John Whitfield

Book Review/Science in the Media

A Cultural and Natural History of the Fly

Andreas Keller

Community Page

The Undergraduate Genomics Research Initiative

Cheryl A Kerfeld, Robert W Simons

Research Articles

Odorant-Binding Proteins OBP57d and OBP57e Affect Taste Perception and Host-Plant Preference in Drosophila sechellia

Takashi Matsuo, Shigeru Sugaya, Jyunichiro Yasukawa, Toshiro Aigaki, Yoshiaki Fuyama

From Parasite to Mutualist: Rapid Evolution of Wolbachia in Natural Populations of Drosophila

Andrew R Weeks, Michael Turelli, William R Harcombe, K. Tracy Reynolds, Ary A Hoffmann

Aphid Thermal Tolerance Is Governed by a Point Mutation in Bacterial Symbionts

Helen E Dunbar, Alex C. C Wilson, Nicole R Ferguson, Nancy A Moran

A Dominant, Recombination-Defective Allele of Dmc1 Causing Male-Specific Sterility

Laura A Bannister, Roberto J Pezza, Janet R Donaldson, Dirk G de Rooij, Kerry J Schimenti, R. Daniel Camerini-Otero, John C Schimenti

Whole-Genome Analysis of Histone H3 Lysine 27 Trimethylation in Arabidopsis

Xiaoyu Zhang, Oliver Clarenz, Shawn Cokus, Yana V Bernatavichute, Matteo Pellegrini, Justin Goodrich, Steven E Jacobsen

Unmasking Activation of the Zygotic Genome Using Chromosomal Deletions in the Drosophila Embryo

Stefano De Renzis, Olivier Elemento, Saeed Tavazoie, Eric F Wieschaus

Peptides Encoded by Short ORFs Control Development and Define a New Eukaryotic Gene Family

Máximo Ibo Galindo, José Ignacio Pueyo, Sylvaine Fouix, Sarah Anne Bishop, Juan Pablo Couso

Structural and Chemical Profiling of the Human Cytosolic Sulfotransferases

Abdellah Allali-Hassani, Patricia W Pan, Ludmila Dombrovski, Rafael Najmanovich, Wolfram Tempel, Aiping Dong, Peter Loppnau, Fernando Martin, Janet Thonton, Aled M Edwards, Alexey Bochkarev, Alexander N Plotnikov, Masoud Vedadi, Cheryl H Arrowsmith

Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of Selective Ion Binding in a K⁺ Channel

Steve W Lockless, Ming Zhou, Roderick MacKinnon

A Helical Structural Nucleus Is the Primary Elongating Unit of Insulin Amyloid Fibrils

Bente Vestergaard, Minna Groenning, Manfred Roessle, Jette S Kastrup, Marco van de Weert, James M Flink, Sven Frokjaer, Michael Gajhede, Dmitri I Svergun

Selective Translational Repression of Truncated Proteins from Frameshift Mutation-Derived mRNAs in Tumors

Kwon Tae You, Long Shan Li, Nam-Gyun Kim, Hyun Ju Kang, Kwi Hye Koh, Yong-Joon Chwae, Kyoung Mi Kim, Yoon Ki Kim, Sung Mi Park, Sung Key Jang, Hoguen Kim