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PLOS Biology’s XV Collection: 15 Years of Open Science

Published January 17, 2019 Curated Collections

To commemorate 15 years of PLOS Biology, this collection will showcase a series of twelve blog posts, one each month, featuring an article selected by one of our hard-working Editorial Board Members. Each post will highlight that editor’s favorite article along with a commentary on the importance of the article in the respective field.

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Editorial

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10.1371/journal.pbio.3000049

PLOS Biology Fifteen years in, what next for PLOS Biology?
October 15, 2018 The PLOS Biology Staff Editors

The XV Collection: 15 Years of Open Science

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Maxipixel

PLOS Biologue The PLOS Biology XV Collection: Celebrating 15 years of Outstanding Open Science across Disciplines | PLOS Biologue
January 12, 2018 Lauren Richardson

December

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Robert Streiffer

PLOS Biologue The XV Collection: Ethical Oversights in Ethical Oversight of Animal Research | PLOS Biologue
January 11, 2019 Jonathan Kimmelman
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Understanding Animal Research, Flickr

PLOS Biology Authorization of Animal Experiments Is Based on Confidence Rather than Evidence of Scientific Rigor
December 2, 2016 Lucile Vogt, Thomas S. Reichlin, Christina Nathues, Hanno Würbel

November

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Welcome Trust

PLOS Biologue The XV Collection: A Spotlight on Spottiness | PLOS Biologue
November 15, 2018 Sally Lowell
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Amy Chiang, Flickr

PLOS Biology Hierarchical patterning modes orchestrate hair follicle morphogenesis
July 11, 2017 James D. Glover, Kirsty L. Wells, Franziska Matthäus, Kevin J. Painter, William Ho, Jon Riddell, Jeanette A. Johansson, Matthew J. Ford, Colin A. B. Jahoda, Vaclav Klika, Richard L. Mort, Denis J. Headon

October

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Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD

PLOS Biologue The XV Collection: Auxin Transport — more a River Delta than a Stream | PLOS Biologue
October 11, 2018 Mark Estelle
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002446

PLOS Biology Connective Auxin Transport in the Shoot Facilitates Communication between Shoot Apices
April 27, 2016 Tom Bennett, Geneviève Hines, Martin van Rongen, Tanya Waldie, Megan G. Sawchuk, Enrico Scarpella, Karin Ljung, Ottoline Leyser

September

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Aida de la Cruz

PLOS Biologue The XV Collection: Living l’AVIDA loca: origins of multicellularity | PLOS Biologue
September 17, 2018 Harmit Malik
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001858

PLOS Biology The Evolutionary Origin of Somatic Cells under the Dirty Work Hypothesis
May 13, 2014 Heather J. Goldsby, David B. Knoester, Charles Ofria, Benjamin Kerr

August

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Brad Ziegler

PLOS Biologue The XV Collection: Perverse Outcomes of Novel Therapies | PLOS Biologue
August 10, 2018 Andrew Read
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Flickr user: NIAID

PLOS Biology Limiting Damage during Infection: Lessons from Infection Tolerance for Novel Therapeutics
January 21, 2014 Pedro F. Vale, Andy Fenton, Sam P. Brown

July

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Ann Stock

PLOS Biologue The XV Collection: Anatomy of a Protein Kinase Spine and How to Break It | PLOS Biologue
July 13, 2018 Ann Stock
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001680

PLOS Biology Deciphering the Structural Basis of Eukaryotic Protein Kinase Regulation
October 15, 2013 Hiruy S. Meharena, Philip Chang, Malik M. Keshwani, Krishnadev Oruganty, Aishwarya K. Nene, Natarajan Kannan, Susan S. Taylor, Alexandr P. Kornev

June

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Chad Nusbaum

PLOS Biologue The XV Collection: Re-Interpreting Pheromone Signaling | PLOS Biologue
June 12, 2018 Piali Sengupta
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pbio.1001546

PLOS Biology Ligands for Pheromone-Sensing Neurons Are Not Conformationally Activated Odorant Binding Proteins
April 30, 2013 Carolina Gomez-Diaz, Jaime H. Reina, Christian Cambillau, Richard Benton

May

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Georgina Mace

PLOS Biologue The XV Collection: Effective Conservation Requires Science-Based Decisions | PLOS Biologue
May 16, 2018 Georgina Mace
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10.1371/journal.pbio.2001886

PLOS Biology Simple rules can guide whether land- or ocean-based conservation will best benefit marine ecosystems
September 6, 2017 Megan I. Saunders, Michael Bode, Scott Atkinson, Carissa J. Klein, Anna Metaxas, Jutta Beher, Maria Beger, Morena Mills, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Vivitskaia Tulloch, Hugh P. Possingham
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Flickr user Roberto Verzo

PLOS Biology Optimal Conservation Outcomes Require Both Restoration and Protection
January 27, 2015 Hugh P. Possingham, Michael Bode, Carissa J. Klein

April

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Kalman Zabarsky

PLOS Biologue The XV Collection: What Happens when the Antibiotic 1-2 Punch Backfires? | PLOS Biologue
April 13, 2018 Michael Laub
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Pixabay

PLOS Biology When the Most Potent Combination of Antibiotics Selects for the Greatest Bacterial Load: The Smile-Frown Transition
April 23, 2013 Rafael Pena-Miller, David Laehnemann, Gunther Jansen, Ayari Fuentes-Hernandez, Philip Rosenstiel, Hinrich Schulenburg, Robert Beardmore

March

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Susanne Åkesson

PLOS Biologue The XV Collection: How Bats Land Head-Over-Heels | PLOS Biologue
March 14, 2018 Anders Hedenström
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002297

PLOS Biology Falling with Style: Bats Perform Complex Aerial Rotations by Adjusting Wing Inertia
November 16, 2015 Attila J. Bergou, Sharon M. Swartz, Hamid Vejdani, Daniel K. Riskin, Lauren Reimnitz, Gabriel Taubin, Kenneth S. Breuer

February

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Devin Kenney

PLOS Biologue The XV Collection: The Exquisite Precision of T Cell Receptors | PLOS Biologue
February 19, 2018 Avinash Bhandoola and Christelle Harly
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Flickr user NIAID

PLOS Biology Modeling T Cell Antigen Discrimination Based on Feedback Control of Digital ERK Responses
October 25, 2005 Grégoire Altan-Bonnet, Ronald N Germain

January

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PLOS Biologue The XV Collection: Watching a Vesicle Form | PLOS Biologue
January 12, 2018 Sandra Schmid
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PLOS Biology A High Precision Survey of the Molecular Dynamics of Mammalian Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis
March 22, 2011 Marcus J. Taylor, David Perrais, Christien J. Merrifield

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