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2011-04-02 New articles we read this week

Neuroscience

  1. Rothenaigner I, Krecsmarik M, Hayes JA, Bahn B, Lepier A, Fortin G, Götz M, Jagasia R, Bally-Cuif L. Clonal analysis by distinct viral vectors identifies bona fide neural stem cells in the adult zebrafish telencephalon and characterizes their division properties and fate. Development. 2011Apr;138(8):1459-69. Epub 2011 Mar 2. PubMed PMID: 21367818.

Eye disease

  1. Leung CK, Weinreb RN, Li ZW, Liu S, Lindsey JD, Choi N, Liu L, Cheung CY, Ye C, Qiu K, Chen LJ, Yung WH, Crowston JG, Pu M, So KF, Pang CP, Lam DS. Long-term in vivo imaging and measurement of dendritic shrinkage of retinal ganglion cells.Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Mar 1;52(3):1539-47. Print 2011. PubMed PMID:21245394.

Retina

  1. Cederlund ML, Morrissey ME, Baden T, Scholz D, Vendrell V, Lagnado L, Connaughton VP, Kennedy BN. Zebrafish Tg(7.2mab21l2:EGFP)ucd2 Transgenics Reveal a Unique Population of Retinal Amacrine Cells. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011Mar 1;52(3):1613-21. Print 2011. PubMed PMID: 21051702.

Genomics

  1. Thompson JF, Milos PM. The properties and applications of single-molecule DNA sequencing. Genome Biol. 2011 Feb 24;12(2):217. [Epub ahead of print] PubMedPMID: 21349208.
  2. Commentary: Furlong EE. Molecular biology: A fly in the face of genomics. Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):458-9. PubMed PMID: 21430772.
    1. Kharchenko PV, Alekseyenko AA, Schwartz YB, Minoda A, Riddle NC, Ernst J, Sabo PJ, Larschan E, Gorchakov AA, Gu T, Linder-Basso D, Plachetka A, Shanower G, Tolstorukov MY, Luquette LJ, Xi R, Jung YL, Park RW, Bishop EP, Canfield TK, Sandstrom R, Thurman RE, MacAlpine DM, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Kellis M, Elgin SC, Kuroda MI, Pirrotta V, Karpen GH, Park PJ. Comprehensive analysis of the chromatin landscape in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):480-5. Epub 2010 Dec 22. PubMed PMID: 21179089.
    2. Graveley BR, Brooks AN, Carlson JW, Duff MO, Landolin JM, Yang L, Artieri CG, van Baren MJ, Boley N, Booth BW, Brown JB, Cherbas L, Davis CA, Dobin A, Li R, Lin W, Malone JH, Mattiuzzo NR, Miller D, Sturgill D, Tuch BB, Zaleski C, Zhang D, Blanchette M, Dudoit S, Eads B, Green RE, Hammonds A, Jiang L, Kapranov P, Langton L, Perrimon N, Sandler JE, Wan KH, Willingham A, Zhang Y, Zou Y, Andrews J, Bickel PJ, Brenner SE, Brent MR, Cherbas P, Gingeras TR, Hoskins RA, Kaufman TC, Oliver B, Celniker SE. The developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster. Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):473-9. Epub 2010 Dec 22. PubMed PMID: 21179090.
    3. Nègre N, Brown CD, Ma L, Bristow CA, Miller SW, Wagner U, Kheradpour P, Eaton ML, Loriaux P, Sealfon R, Li Z, Ishii H, Spokony RF, Chen J, Hwang L, Cheng C, Auburn RP, Davis MB, Domanus M, Shah PK, Morrison CA, Zieba J, Suchy S, Senderowicz L, Victorsen A, Bild NA, Grundstad AJ, Hanley D, MacAlpine DM, Mannervik M, Venken K, Bellen H, White R, Gerstein M, Russell S, Grossman RL, Ren B, Posakony JW, Kellis M, White KP. A cis-regulatory map of the Drosophila genome. Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):527-31. PubMed PMID: 21430782.

Cancer

  1. Buchen L. Cancer: Missing the mark. Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):428-32.PubMed PMID: 21430749.
  2. Chapman MA, Lawrence MS, Keats JJ, Cibulskis K, Sougnez C, Schinzel AC, Harview CL, Brunet JP, Ahmann GJ, Adli M, Anderson KC, Ardlie KG, Auclair D, Baker A, Bergsagel PL, Bernstein BE, Drier Y, Fonseca R, Gabriel SB, Hofmeister CC, Jagannath S, Jakubowiak AJ, Krishnan A, Levy J, Liefeld T, Lonial S, Mahan S, Mfuko B, Monti S, Perkins LM, Onofrio R, Pugh TJ, Rajkumar SV, Ramos AH, Siegel DS, Sivachenko A, Stewart AK, Trudel S, Vij R, Voet D, Winckler W, Zimmerman T, Carpten J, Trent J, Hahn WC, Garraway LA, Meyerson M, Lander ES, Getz G, Golub
    TR. Initial genome sequencing and analysis of multiple myeloma. Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):467-72. PubMed PMID: 21430775.
  3. White RM, Cech J, Ratanasirintrawoot S, Lin CY, Rahl PB, Burke CJ, Langdon E,  Tomlinson ML, Mosher J, Kaufman C, Chen F, Long HK, Kramer M, Datta S, Neuberg D, Granter S, Young RA, Morrison S, Wheeler GN, Zon LI. DHODH modulates transcriptional elongation in the neural crest and melanoma. Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):518-22. PubMed PMID: 21430780.
  4. Ceol CJ, Houvras Y, Jane-Valbuena J, Bilodeau S, Orlando DA, Battisti V, Fritsch L, Lin WM, Hollmann TJ, Ferré F, Bourque C, Burke CJ, Turner L, Uong A, Johnson LA, Beroukhim R, Mermel CH, Loda M, Ait-Si-Ali S, Garraway LA, Young RA, Zon LI. The histone methyltransferase SETDB1 is recurrently amplified in melanoma and accelerates its onset. Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):513-7. PubMed PMID: 21430779.

Reproduction

  1. Seandel M, Rafii S. Reproductive biology: In vitro sperm maturation. Nature.2011 Mar 24;471(7339):453-5. PubMed PMID: 21430767.

Disease gene mapping

  1. Piggins HD. Schizophrenia: Zooming in on a gene. Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):455-6. PubMed PMID: 21430769.

Development

  1. Rossant J. Developmental biology: A mouse is not a cow. Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):457-8. PubMed PMID: 21430771.
  2. Mou C, Pitel F, Gourichon D, Vignoles F, Tzika A, Tato P, Yu L, Burt DW, Bed’hom B, Tixier-Boichard M, Painter KJ, Headon DJ. Cryptic patterning of avian skin confers a developmental facility for loss of neck feathering. PLoS Biol. 2011 Mar;9(3):e1001028. Epub 2011 Mar 15. PubMed PMID: 21423653; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3057954.

Evolution

  1. Woods RJ, Barrick JE, Cooper TF, Shrestha U, Kauth MR, Lenski RE. Second-order selection for evolvability in a large Escherichia coli population. Science. 2011 Mar 18;331(6023):1433-6. PubMed PMID: 21415350.
  2. Philippe H, Brinkmann H, Lavrov DV, Littlewood DT, Manuel M, Wörheide G, Baurain D. Resolving difficult phylogenetic questions: why more sequences are not enough. PLoS Biol. 2011 Mar;9(3):e1000602. Epub 2011 Mar 15. PubMed PMID: 21423652; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3057953.

Medicine

  1. Physicians as guardians of genetic knowledge. Lancet. 2011 Mar 19;377(9770):967. PubMed PMID: 21420539.
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