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Biology Understanding Images: MicroRNAs Control Molting of Locusts
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Cell biology Brain Dynamics during Sleep, the Worm Connectome, and eQTL Networks: the PLOS Comp Biol September Issue
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Biology Slice of PLOS: A Fungus Among Us
Fungi are essential elements of all ecosystems and provide many important services, most notably decomposition. While the classic role of fungi is…
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Announcement PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2016: Winner Announced
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Environment One super-susceptible clone, a versatile fungus and failing fungicides – black Sigatoka and banana
Why do we accept just one banana variety in Western supermarkets? It’s unsustainable and threatens livelihoods and food security. By Gert HJ…
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Announcement 2nd Gordon Research Conference on Centromere Biology (24-29 July 2016): Beth Sullivan
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings…
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Biology Understanding Images: Coat of Invisibility – How Trypanosoma brucei Evades Recognition
Author: Galadriel Hovel-Miner, George Washington University, Washington DC, United States. Competing Interests: Galadriel Hovel-Miner is an author of the article discussed…
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Genetics Scientific transitions: Mammalian meiosis expert Paula Cohen’s journey from uterus to gonad
In science, as in life, chance opportunities have the potential to open up exciting new doors. Paula Cohen, a researcher at Cornell…
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Announcement PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2016: Nominations open
With the launch of the PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2016, I talked to João Barroso-Batista, one of the first authors of last…
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Epigenetics PLOS Genetics editor – Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid
Since its definition in the mid-20th century, epigenetics – the study of stable heritable yet reversible changes in gene expression or phenotype…
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Biology Understanding Images: Watching New Species Evolve in Real Time
Author: David A. Marques, University of Bern and Eawag, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland. Competing interests: David A. Marques is an author of the article…
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Biology Slice of PLOS: 57 Varieties of Tomato
This beautiful berry, domesticated in the Americas more than 2500 years ago, and introduced to the Old World in the 16th…