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Current Status of a Model System: The Gene Gp-9 and Its Association with Social Organization in Fire Ants: The Gp-9 gene in fire ants represents an important model system for studying the evolution of social organization in insects as...
There are 22 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
There are 14 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
New this morning in PLoS ONE, PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers: Mandatory Disclosure of Pharmaceutical Industry-Funded Events for Health Professionals:...
Do Colony-Based Differences in Foraging Distribution Lead to Increased Plastic Ingestion in Laysan Albatrosses? Why Does Public Transport Not Arrive on Time? Could Work Be a Source of Behavioural Disorders? A Study in Horses; World Records Evolution through a Geopolitical Prism; and more....
Extreme Cranial Ontogeny in the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus; Timing of Locomotor Activity Circadian Rhythms in Caenorhabditis elegans; A Validated Methodology for Genetic Identification of Tuna Species (Genus Thunnus); and many more...
There are 18 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
There are 19 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
There are 19 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
Five Years of Access and Activism: In April 2009, we marked the five year anniversary of PLoS Medicine's first call for papers with an editorial titled "A Medical Journal for the World's Health Priorities" [1]. The editorial was a...