Subject Area: Biology & Life Sciences

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the launch of PLOS Pathogens, over 60 Section Editors, all experts on studies of viruses, bacteria, prions, fungi, oomycetes and parasites of animals and plants…

The Genome Network Project/FANTOM3 collection features articles describing findings that redefine the landscape of the mammalian transcriptome by introducing an extensive collection of novel cDNAs and…

The authors of the research presented in this special collection used the first description of the B73 maize genome to probe some of the most intriguing questions in genetics and plant biology. Read…

Jane Gitschier brings her unique conversational style to this collection of interviews of interesting people in the world of science and genetics…

As the world's population continues to expand, and as water resources come under increasing pressure and pathogens that cause devastating crop losses continue to spread, there is a pressing need for…

The ability to live for long periods in the absence of normal gravity requires comprehensive understanding of structural and functional changes that occur in the bodies of humans and other mammals…

In celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of PLOS Biology, this collection showcases ten specially selected research articles, drawn from a decade of publishing excellent science. The articlesare…

This collection of brief provocative discussion papers, initiated and edited by Simon Levin, Professor of Biology at Princeton University, aims to highlight fundamental questions in biology that cut…