You know the sort, I'm sure: the stories that get a whole conference buzzing, end up being published back to back in the big journals, and sometimes even make it into the newspapers.
In 1996, the results of whole-genome screens for linkage to multiple sclerosis from the UK, the US and Canada were published back to back (Ebers et al., 1996; Haines et al., 1996; Sawcer et al., 1996).
It is also noteworthy that Zetterstrom's work contributed to both an excess albumin mortality [ 14] and an excess non-albumin mortality [ 18] in the systematic review but these two papers were published back to back and were two parts of a single ongoing investigation.
This resulted in the unusual circumstance of two manuscripts on the same topic from the same institution with no overlapping authorship being published back-to-back in the same medical journal [8, 9].
Two studies were published back-to-back recently addressing the role of adjuvant chemoradiotherapy (Bernier et al, 2004; Cooper et al, 2004).
The pace of traditional taxonomy is, in some instances, catching up with genome sequencing, as was demonstrated with a new Strepsiptera genome [ 2] which was published back-to-back with its species description in Zookeys[ 3].
The earliest two attempts at reconstructing a red algal tree of life based on single genes (18S rDNA and rbcL) were published back-to-back in PNAS in 1994 [ 36, 37] and indicated the paraphyly of the Bangiophyceae, which was confirmed and detailed in later work [ 38, 39].
Hare counters that he hoped and expected that the Skeem and Cooke paper, and his response, would be published back in 2008.
The first book in the saga was published back in 1996 and slowly began to develop cult status ever since.
The classic first volume of Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" enters the hardcover advice and how-to list at No. 1 this week — its first appearance on any Times list since it was published back in 1961.
