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BMC Cell Biology UPDATE

April 4th, 2008

Research article    
Epidermal growth factor receptor levels are reduced in mice with targeted disruption of the protein kinase A catalytic subunit
Oksvold MP, Funderud A, Kvissel AK, Skarpen E, Henanger H, Huitfeldt HS, Skalhegg BS, Orstavik S
BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9:16 (1 April 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

 

Research article    
A novel semi-automatic image processing approach to determine Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia in Giemsa-stained thin blood smears
Le MT, Bretschneider TR, Kuss C, Preiser PR
BMC Cell Biology 2008, 9:15 (28 March 2008)
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Nature Cell Biology UPDATE, April 2008 Volume 10 Number 4, pp 371 – 497

April 2nd, 2008

Sirt1 contributes critically to the redox-dependent fate of neural progenitors pp385 – 394
Timour Prozorovski, Ulf Schulze-Topphoff, Robert Glumm, Jan Baumgart, Friederike Schröter, Olaf Ninnemann, Elise Siegert, Ivo Bendix, Oliver Brüstle, Robert Nitsch, Frauke Zipp and Orhan Aktas
doi:10.1038/ncb1700
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Inn1 couples contraction of the actomyosin ring to membrane ingression during cytokinesis in budding yeast pp395 – 406
Alberto Sanchez-Diaz, Vanessa Marchesi, Stephen Murray, Richard Jones, Gislene Pereira, Ricky Edmondson, Terry Allen and Karim Labib
doi:10.1038/ncb1701
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BMC Evolutionary Biology UPDATE

March 27th, 2008

Research article   
Sequence and organization of coelacanth neurohypophysial hormone genes: evolutionary history of the vertebrate neurohypophysial hormone gene locus
Gwee PC, Amemiya CT., Brenner S, Venkatesh B
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:93 (26 March 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

 

Research article   
The evolution of core proteins involved in microRNA biogenesis
Murphy D, Dancis B, Brown JR
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:92 (25 March 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

 

Research article   
Molecular evolution of dimeric alpha-amylase inhibitor genes in wild emmer wheat and its ecological association
Wang JR, Wei YM, Long XY, Nevo E, Baum B, Zheng YL
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:91 (24 March 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

 

Software   
PhyloFinder: an intelligent search engine for phylogenetic tree databases
Chen D, Burleigh JG, Bansal MS., Fernandez-Baca D
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:90 (21 March 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

 

Research article   
Selection against tandem splice sites affecting structured protein regions
Hiller M, Szafranski K, Huse K, Backofen R, Platzer M
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:89 (21 March 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

 

Research article   
Quantifying the threat of extinction from Muller’s ratchet in the diploid Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa)
Loewe L, Lamatsch DK
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:88 (19 March 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

BMC Developmental Biology UPDATE

March 27th, 2008

Research article   
Histamine metabolism influences blood vessel branching in zebrafish reg6 mutants
Huang C, Huang CW, Cheng YSE, Yu J
BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8:31 (25 March 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

 

Teneurin-1 is expressed in interconnected regions of the developing brain and is processed in vivo
Kenzelmann D, Chiquet-Ehrismann R, Leachman NT, Tucker RP
BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8:30 (25 March 2008)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]