MBE Editor's Report

Interim Editors’ report

When the interim editorial team took over from the former Editors in September 2002, there were many aspects of the production and editing process for us to understand. This initial period also involved setting up a new system of administration that would clearly track all correspondence with authors and reviewers. Of the new papers received since September 2002, two-thirds were submitted by fe...

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...

Bucket Errors in MBE Trees

Microsoft Word - 2011-moury-mbe

The dN/dS ratio between nonsynonymous and synonymous substitution rates has been used extensively to identify codon positions involved in adaptive processes. However, the accuracy of this approach has been questioned and very few studies have attempted to validate experimentally its predictions. Using the coat protein (CP) of Potato virus Y (PVY; genus Potyvirus, family Potyviridae) as a case s...

Measuring liability to schizophrenia: progress report 1994: editors' introduction.

The first aim of this issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is to provide an up-to-date review of the major domains of research in the experimental psychopathology of schizophrenia, in which important contributions to our understanding of putative pathophysiologic mechanisms have been made. This research has identified several biobehavioral traits as measures of enhanced liability to schizophreni...