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June 2024

Translating conservation and biodiversity research from the field into the real world is a complex problem. This collection discusses issues around economics, policy, and how to do research that answers the questions that decision makers have. The image shows marine iguanas in the Galapagos Islands.

Image Credit: Leah Gerber

Research Articles

Collective movement of schooling fish reduces the costs of locomotion in turbulent conditions

Yangfan Zhang, Hungtang Ko, Michael A. Calicchia, Rui Ni, George V. Lauder

Related Articles

Chromosome-level genome assemblies of 2 hemichordates provide new insights into deuterostome origin and chromosome evolution

Che-Yi Lin, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Alberto Pérez-Posada, Pedro Manuel Martínez-García, Siegfried Schloissnig, Paul Peluso, Greg T. Conception, Paul Bump, Yi-Chih Chen, Cindy Chou, Ching-Yi Lin, Tzu-Pei Fan, Chang-Tai Tsai, José Luis Gómez Skarmeta, Juan J. Tena, Christopher J. Lowe, David R. Rank, Daniel S. Rokhsar, Jr-Kai Yu, Yi-Hsien Su

Comparative genomics of the closely related fungal genera Cryptococcus and Kwoniella reveals karyotype dynamics and suggests evolutionary mechanisms of pathogenesis

Marco A. Coelho, Márcia David-Palma, Terrance Shea, Katharine Bowers, Sage McGinley-Smith, Arman W. Mohammad, Andreas Gnirke, Andrey M. Yurkov, Minou Nowrousian, Sheng Sun, Christina A. Cuomo, Joseph Heitman

The clock-like accumulation of germline and somatic mutations can arise from the interplay of DNA damage and repair

Natanael Spisak, Marc de Manuel, William Milligan, Guy Sella, Molly Przeworski

Humans can infer social preferences from decision speed alone

Sophie Bavard, Erik Stuchlý, Arkady Konovalov, Sebastian Gluth

Disruption of dopamine D2/D3 system function impairs the human ability to understand the mental states of other people

Bianca A. Schuster, Sophie Sowden, Alicia J. Rybicki, Dagmar S. Fraser, Clare Press, Lydia Hickman, Peter Holland, Jennifer L. Cook

A closed-loop auditory stimulation approach selectively modulates alpha oscillations and sleep onset dynamics in humans

Henry Hebron, Beatrice Lugli, Radost Dimitrova, Valeria Jaramillo, Lisa R. Yeh, Edward Rhodes, Nir Grossman, Derk-Jan Dijk, Ines R. Violante

Shared behavioural impairments in visual perception and place avoidance across different autism models are driven by periaqueductal grey hypoexcitability in Setd5 haploinsufficient mice

Laura E. Burnett, Peter Koppensteiner, Olga Symonova, Tomás Masson, Tomas Vega-Zuniga, Ximena Contreras, Thomas Rülicke, Ryuichi Shigemoto, Gaia Novarino, Maximilian Joesch

The human hypothalamus coordinates switching between different survival actions

Jaejoong Kim, Sarah M. Tashjian, Dean Mobbs

Low and high beta rhythms have different motor cortical sources and distinct roles in movement control and spatiotemporal attention

Simon Nougaret, Laura López-Galdo, Emile Caytan, Julien Poitreau, Frédéric V. Barthélemy, Bjørg Elisabeth Kilavik

From hidden hearing loss to supranormal auditory processing by neurotrophin 3-mediated modulation of inner hair cell synapse density

Lingchao Ji, Beatriz C. Borges, David T. Martel, Calvin Wu, M. Charles Liberman, Susan E. Shore, Gabriel Corfas

A mechanical transition from tension to buckling underlies the jigsaw puzzle shape morphogenesis of histoblasts in the Drosophila epidermis

Annafrancesca Rigato, Huicheng Meng, Claire Chardes, Adam Runions, Faris Abouakil, Richard S. Smith, Loïc LeGoff

Maternal obesity increases hypothalamic miR-505-5p expression in mouse offspring leading to altered fatty acid sensing and increased intake of high-fat food

Laura Dearden, Isadora C. Furigo, Lucas C. Pantaleão, L W. P. Wong, Denise S. Fernandez-Twinn, Juliana de Almeida-Faria, Katherine A. Kentistou, Maria V. Carreira, Guillaume Bidault, Antonio Vidal-Puig, Ken K. Ong, John R. B. Perry, Jose Donato Jr, Susan E. Ozanne

KCNK1 promotes proliferation and metastasis of breast cancer cells by activating lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA) and up-regulating H3K18 lactylation

Xiangchan Hou, Jiawei Ouyang, Le Tang, Pan Wu, Xiangying Deng, Qijia Yan, Lei Shi, Songqing Fan, Chunmei Fan, Can Guo, Qianjin Liao, Yong Li, Wei Xiong, Guiyuan Li, Zhaoyang Zeng, Fuyan Wang

Widespread fungal–bacterial competition for magnesium lowers bacterial susceptibility to polymyxin antibiotics

Yu-Ying Phoebe Hsieh, Wanting Sun, Janet M. Young, Robin Cheung, Deborah A. Hogan, Ajai A. Dandekar, Harmit S. Malik

Metabolic reprogramming during Candida albicans planktonic-biofilm transition is modulated by the transcription factors Zcf15 and Zcf26

Laxmi Shanker Rai, Murielle Chauvel, Hiram Sanchez, Lasse van Wijlick, Corinne Maufrais, Thomas Cokelaer, Natacha Sertour, Mélanie Legrand, Kaustuv Sanyal, David R. Andes, Sophie Bachellier-Bassi, Christophe d’Enfert

The Toxoplasma oxygen-sensing protein, TgPhyA, is required for resistance to interferon gamma-mediated nutritional immunity in mice

Charlotte Cordonnier, Msano Mandalasi, Jason Gigley, Elizabeth A. Wohlfert, Christopher M. West, Ira J. Blader

Engineering of a high-fidelity Cas12a nuclease variant capable of allele-specific editing

Jingjing Wei, Jingtong Liu, Ziwen Wang, Yuan Yang, Yuwen Tian, Shengzhou Wang, Bao-Qing Gao, Song Gao, Li Yang, Junnan Tang, Yongming Wang

Short Reports

Commensal E. coli limits Salmonella gut invasion during inflammation by producing toxin-bound siderophores in a tonB-dependent manner

Yassine Cherrak, Miguel Angel Salazar, Koray Yilmaz, Markus Kreuzer, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt

Methods and Resources

The COMBO window: A chronic cranial implant for multiscale circuit interrogation in mice

Bradley J. Edelman, Dominique Siegenthaler, Paulina Wanken, Bethan Jenkins, Bianca Schmid, Andrea Ressle, Nadine Gogolla, Thomas Frank, Emilie Macé

A high-throughput behavioral screening platform for measuring chemotaxis by C. elegans

Emily Fryer, Sujay Guha, Lucero E. Rogel-Hernandez, Theresa Logan-Garbisch, Hodan Farah, Ehsan Rezaei, Iris N. Mollhoff, Adam L. Nekimken, Angela Xu, Lara Selin Seyahi, Sylvia Fechner, Shaul Druckmann, Thomas R. Clandinin, Seung Y. Rhee, Miriam B. Goodman

Meta-Research Article

Analysis of animal-to-human translation shows that only 5% of animal-tested therapeutic interventions obtain regulatory approval for human applications

Benjamin V. Ineichen, Eva Furrer, Servan L. Grüninger, Wolfgang E. Zürrer, Malcolm R. Macleod