Angelika Stollewerk
Angelika Stollewerk
Daphnia pulex is the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced. Availability of the genome sequence will have implications for research in aquatic ecology and evolution in particular, as addressed by a series of papers published recentl...
Marie Csete
Marie Csete
Endothelial adherens junctions and the actin cytoskeleton: an 'infinity net'? [0.03%]
内皮细胞黏着带连接与肌动蛋白细胞骨架：一个“无限网”？
Maria Grazia Lampugnani
Maria Grazia Lampugnani
A recent paper in BMC Biology reports that actin stress fibers in adjacent cultured endothelial cells are linked through adherens junctions. This organization might provide a super-cellular network that could enable coordinated signaling an...
Samrat T Kundu,Frank J Slack
Samrat T Kundu
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate the expression of numerous target genes. Yet, while hundreds of miRNAs have been identified, little is known about their functions. In a recent report published in Silence, Zheng an...
Raphael Pinaud
Raphael Pinaud
An international collaborative effort has recently uncovered the genome of the zebra finch, a songbird model that has provided unique insights into an array of biological phenomena.
José A Feijó
José A Feijó
Pollen tubes follow attractants secreted by the ovules. In a recent paper in BMC Plant Biology, Stewman and colleagues have quantified the parameters of this attraction and used them to calibrate a mathematical model that reproduces the pro...
A Richard Palmer
A Richard Palmer
Two recent studies in BMC Biology and Evolution raise important questions about a textbook case of frequency-dependent selection in scale-eating cichlid fishes. They also suggest a fascinating new line of research testing the effects of han...
Carlos A Driscoll,David W Macdonald
Carlos A Driscoll
A phylogeographic analysis of gene sequences important in determining body size in dogs, recently published in BMC Biology, traces the appearance of small body size to the Neolithic Middle East. This finding strengthens the association of t...
Richard D Hayward,Jon D Goguen,John M Leong
Richard D Hayward
Understanding the spatio-temporal subversion of host cell signaling by bacterial virulence factors is key to combating infectious diseases. Following a recent study by Buntru and co-workers published in BMC Biology, we review how fluorescen...
Jane L Hurst,Robert J Beynon
Jane L Hurst
A recent study in BMC Evolutionary Biology has shown that genetically similar individual ring-tailed lemurs are also more similar in their scent composition, suggesting a possible mechanism of kin recognition. Theoretical and experimental s...