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2011-05-21 new articles we read this week

Evolution

  1. Moczek AP. Evolutionary biology: the origins of novelty. Nature. 2011 May 5;473(7345):34-5. PubMed PMID: 21544136.
  2. Tena JJ, Alonso ME, de la Calle-Mustienes E, Splinter E, de Laat W, Manzanares M, Gómez-Skarmeta JL. An evolutionarily conserved three-dimensional structure in the vertebrate Irx clusters facilitates enhancer sharing and coregulation. Nat Commun. 2011;2:310. PubMed PMID: 21556064.
  3. Tirosh I, Reikhav S, Levy AA, Barkai N. A yeast hybrid provides insight into the evolution of gene expression regulation. Science. 2009 May 1;324(5927):659-62. PubMed PMID: 19407207.
  4. Kasowski M, Grubert F, Heffelfinger C, Hariharan M, Asabere A, Waszak SM, Habegger L, Rozowsky J, Shi M, Urban AE, Hong MY, Karczewski KJ, Huber W, Weissman SM, Gerstein MB, Korbel JO, Snyder M. Variation in transcription factor binding among humans. Science. 2010 Apr 9;328(5975):232-5. Epub 2010 Mar 18. PubMed PMID: 20299548; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2938768.
  5. Landry CR, Lemos B, Rifkin SA, Dickinson WJ, Hartl DL. Genetic properties influencing the evolvability of gene expression. Science. 2007 Jul 6;317(5834):118-21. Epub 2007 May 24. PubMed PMID: 17525304.

Systems Biology

  1. Green RA, Kao HL, Audhya A, Arur S, Mayers JR, Fridolfsson HN, Schulman M, Schloissnig S, Niessen S, Laband K, Wang S, Starr DA, Hyman AA, Schedl T, Desai A, Piano F, Gunsalus KC, Oegema K. A High-Resolution C. elegans Essential Gene Network Based on Phenotypic Profiling of a Complex Tissue. Cell. 2011 Apr29;145(3):470-82. PubMed PMID: 21529718; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3086541.
  2. Liu YY, Slotine JJ, Barabási AL. Controllability of complex networks. Nature. 2011 May 12;473(7346):167-73. PubMed PMID: 21562557.
    • Commentary: Egerstedt M. Complex networks: Degrees of control. Nature. 2011 May 12;473(7346):158-9. PubMed PMID: 21562550.

Genomics

  1. Ernst J, Kheradpour P, Mikkelsen TS, Shoresh N, Ward LD, Epstein CB, Zhang X, Wang L, Issner R, Coyne M, Ku M, Durham T, Kellis M, Bernstein BE. Mapping and analysis of chromatin state dynamics in nine human cell types. Nature. 2011 May 5;473(7345):43-9. Epub 2011 Mar 23. PubMed PMID: 21441907; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3088773.
  2. Tasic B, Hippenmeyer S, Wang C, Gamboa M, Zong H, Chen-Tsai Y, Luo L. From the Cover: Site-specific integrase-mediated transgenesis in mice via pronuclear injection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 May 10;108(19):7902-7. Epub 2011 Apr 4. PubMed PMID: 21464299.

Stem cells

  1. Rao M. Keeping things simple. Nat Methods. 2011 May;8(5):389-90. PubMed PMID: 21527929.
  2. Kim J, Efe JA, Zhu S, Talantova M, Yuan X, Wang S, Lipton SA, Zhang K, Ding S. Direct reprogramming of mouse fibroblasts to neural progenitors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 May 10;108(19):7838-43. Epub 2011 Apr 26. PubMed PMID: 21521790.
  3. Brennand KJ, Simone A, Jou J, Gelboin-Burkhart C, Tran N, Sangar S, Li Y, Mu Y, Chen G, Yu D, McCarthy S, Sebat J, Gage FH. Modelling schizophrenia using human induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature. 2011 May 12;473(7346):221-5. Epub 2011 Apr 13. PubMed PMID: 21490598.

Development

  1. Quillien A, Blanco-Sanchez B, Halluin C, Moore JC, Lawson ND, Blader P, Cau E. BMP signaling orchestrates photoreceptor specification in the zebrafish pineal gland in collaboration with Notch. Development. 2011 Jun;138(11):2293-302. PubMed PMID: 21558377.
  2. Clanton JA, Shestopalov I, Chen J, Gamse JT. Lineage labeling of zebrafish cells with laser uncagable fluorescein dextran. J Vis Exp. 2011 Apr 28;(50). pii: 2672. doi: 10.3791/2672. PubMed PMID: 21559005.