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clock | July 15, 2010There are new articles in four PLoS journals 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Do Humans Optimally Exploit Redundancy to Control Step Variability in Walking?:
Existing principles used to explain how locomotion is controlled predict average, long-term behavior. However,…
clock | July 14, 2010There are 29 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Chimpanzees Extract Social Information from Agonistic Screams:
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) agonistic screams are graded vocal signals that are produced in a context-specific manner. Screams given by…
clock | July 13, 2010There are many new articles in four PLoS journals 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Barcoding Life to Conserve Biological Diversity: Beyond the Taxonomic Imperative:
In the 250 years since the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus first started classifying organisms, taxonomists have…
clock | July 12, 2010There are 26 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
The Clock Genes Period 2 and Cryptochrome 2 Differentially Balance Bone Formation:
Clock genes and their protein products regulate circadian rhythms in mammals but have also been implicated in various…
clock | July 8, 2010Sorry for missing in action. Lots of new articles in various PLoS journals yesterday and 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
A Sinister Bias for Calling Fouls in Soccer:
Distinguishing between a fair and unfair tackle in soccer can be difficult. For referees, choosing to call a…
clock | July 6, 2010There are new articles in four PLoS journals 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Camouflage Effects of Various Colour-Marking Morphs against Different Microhabitat Backgrounds in a Polymorphic Pygmy Grasshopper Tetrix japonica:
Colour-marking polymorphism is widely distributed…
clock | July 2, 2010There 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Radiographs Reveal Exceptional Forelimb Strength in the Sabertooth Cat, Smilodon fatalis:
The sabertooth cat, Smilodon fatalis, was an enigmatic predator without a true living analog. Their elongate canine…
clock | June 30, 2010There are 30 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Bermuda as an Evolutionary Life Raft for an Ancient Lineage of Endangered Lizards:
Oceanic islands are well known for harboring diverse species assemblages and are frequently the basis of research on…
clock | June 29, 2010Lots of new articles in four of seven PLoS journals. 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Impact of Ocean Warming and Ocean Acidification on Larval Development and Calcification in the Sea Urchin Tripneustes gratilla:
As the oceans simultaneously warm, acidify and increase in PCO2,…
clock | June 28, 2010There are 26 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
The Usefulness of Peer Review for Selecting Manuscripts for Publication: A Utility Analysis Taking as an Example a High-Impact Journal:
High predictive validity - that is, a strong association between the…
clock | June 25, 2010There are 28 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Arboreal Ants Use the "Velcro® Principle" to Capture Very Large Prey:
Plant-ants live in a mutualistic association with host plants known as "myrmecophytes" that provide them with a nesting place and…
clock | June 24, 2010There are new articles in four PLoS journals 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Mammalian Sleep Dynamics: How Diverse Features Arise from a Common Physiological Framework:
The field of sleep physiology has made huge strides in recent years, uncovering the neurological…
clock | June 23, 2010There are 31 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Evolutionary Dead End in the Galápagos: Divergence of Sexual Signals in the Rarest of Darwin's Finches:
Understanding the mechanisms underlying speciation remains a challenge in evolutionary biology. The…
clock | June 22, 2010Tuesday - when four out of seven PLoS journals publish new articles. 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Coordinated and Cohesive Movement of Two Small Conspecific Fish Induced by Eliciting a Simultaneous Optomotor Response:
In animal groups such as herds, schools, and flocks, a certain…
clock | June 21, 2010There are 29 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Deathly Drool: Evolutionary and Ecological Basis of Septic Bacteria in Komodo Dragon Mouths:
Komodo dragons, the world's largest lizard, dispatch their large ungulate prey by biting and tearing flesh. If a…
clock | June 18, 2010There are 20 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
A Locomotor Innovation Enables Water-Land Transition in a Marine Fish:
Morphological innovations that significantly enhance performance capacity may enable exploitation of new resources and invasion of new…
clock | June 17, 2010There are new articles in four PLoS journals 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 (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Variable Mutation Rates as an Adaptive Strategy in Replicator Populations:
For evolving populations of replicators, there is much evidence that the effect of mutations on fitness depends on the…
clock | June 16, 2010First piece of news, there is a new PLoS app for iPad. Even if you don't have this new gadget, you can download it and test-run it and post a review here - we appreciate all the feedback.
Second piece of news is that the PLoS physical office in San Francisco is moving to a new location - it was busting at its seams even back in 2007 when I went there, it is just too small to contain all the new employees that needed to be hired in order to keep up with the growth of the operation, especially PLoS ONE.
Third piece of news is that Brian Mossop just got hired as community manager for PLoS Hubs…