How do mammals convert dynamic odor information into neural maps for landscape navigation?

Anantu Sunil, Olivia Pedroncini, Andreas T. Schaefer, Tobias Ackels

PLOS Biology: published November 21, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002908

Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes

Thomas A. Richards, Laura Eme, John M. Archibald, Guy Leonard, Susana M. Coelho, Alex de Mendoza, Christophe Dessimoz, Pavel Dolezal, Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin, Toni Gabaldón, Vladimír Hampl, Geert J. P. L. Kops, Michelle M. Leger, Purificacion Lopez-Garcia, James O. McInerney, David Moreira, Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Daniel J. Richter, Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, Alyson E. Santoro, Arnau Sebé-Pedrós, Berend Snel, Courtney W. Stairs, Eelco C. Tromer, Jolien J. E. van Hooff, Bill Wickstead, Tom A. Williams, Andrew J. Roger, Joel B. Dacks, Jeremy G. Wideman

PLOS Biology: published November 25, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002917

Queer- and trans-inclusive faculty hiring—A call for change

J. L. Weissman, Callie R. Chappell, Bruno Francesco Rodrigues de Oliveira, Natalya Evans, Anna C. Fagre, Desiree Forsythe, Steven A. Frese, Rachel Gregor, Suzanne L. Ishaq, Juliet Johnston, Bittu K. R., Shayle B. Matsuda, Sam McCarren, Melanie Ortiz Alvarez de la Campa, Troy A. Roepke, Nasa. Sinnott-Armstrong, Cora S. Stobie, Lauren Talluto, José M. Vargas-Muñiz, The Advancing Queer and Trans Equity in Science (AQTES) Consortium

PLOS Biology: published November 22, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002919

A call for research to address the threat of paper mills

Jennifer A. Byrne, Anna Abalkina, Olufolake Akinduro-Aje, Jana Christopher, Sarah E. Eaton, Nitin Joshi, Ulf Scheffler, Nick H. Wise, Jennifer Wright

PLOS Biology: published November 22, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002931

Harnessing plant biosynthesis for the development of next-generation therapeutics

Philip Spence, James Reed, Anne Osbourn

PLOS Biology: published November 5, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002886

Mining biology for antibiotic discovery

Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez

PLOS Biology: published November 26, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002946

Social learning is triggered by environmental cues in immigrant birds

Rachel A. Harrison

PLOS Biology: published November 15, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002904

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Youthful insight: Nitrogen sequestration in larvae provides clues to coral bleaching

Christian R. Voolstra

PLOS Biology: published November 13, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002890

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Gather your neurons and model together: Community times ahead

Maria Diamantaki, Athanasia Papoutsi

PLOS Biology: published November 6, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002839

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Making sense of cilia: The role of intraflagellar transport

Renny Ng, Chih-Ying Su

PLOS Biology: published November 27, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002924

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Climate and ecology predict latitudinal trends in sexual selection inferred from avian mating systems

Robert A. Barber, Jingyi Yang, Chenyue Yang, Oonagh Barker, Tim Janicke, Joseph A. Tobias

PLOS Biology: published November 4, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002856

Coral larvae increase nitrogen assimilation to stabilize algal symbiosis and combat bleaching under increased temperature

Ariana S. Huffmyer, Jill Ashey, Emma Strand, Eric N. Chiles, Xiaoyang Su, Hollie M. Putnam

PLOS Biology: published November 12, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002875

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Turnover of retroelements and satellite DNA drives centromere reorganization over short evolutionary timescales in Drosophila

Cécile Courret, Lucas W. Hemmer, Xiaolu Wei, Prachi D. Patel, Bryce J. Chabot, Nicholas J. Fuda, Xuewen Geng, Ching-Ho Chang, Barbara G. Mellone, Amanda M. Larracuente

PLOS Biology: published November 21, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002911

Microbial occurrence and symbiont detection in a global sample of lichen metagenomes

Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, Paul Saary, Ellen S. Cameron, Carmen C. G. Allen, Arkadiy I. Garber, David Díaz Escandón, Andrew T. Cook, Spencer Goyette, Veera Tuovinen Nogerius, Alfredo Passo, Helmut Mayrhofer, Håkon Holien, Tor Tønsberg, Lisa Y. Stein, Robert D. Finn, Toby Spribille

PLOS Biology: published November 7, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002862

The strength of interspecies interaction in a microbial community determines its susceptibility to invasion

Suraya Muzafar, Ramith R. Nair, Dan I. Andersson, Omar M. Warsi

PLOS Biology: published November 7, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002889

Trajectories of human brain functional connectome maturation across the birth transition

Lanxin Ji, Iris Menu, Amyn Majbri, Tanya Bhatia, Christopher J. Trentacosta, Moriah E. Thomason

PLOS Biology: published November 19, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002909

Spatiotemporal integration of contextual and sensory information within the cortical hierarchy in human pain experience

Suhwan Gim, Seok-Jun Hong, Elizabeth A. Reynolds Losin, Choong-Wan Woo

PLOS Biology: published November 13, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002910

Decrease in decision noise from adolescence into adulthood mediates an increase in more sophisticated choice behaviors and performance gain

Vanessa Scholz, Maria Waltmann, Nadine Herzog, Annette Horstmann, Lorenz Deserno

PLOS Biology: published November 14, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002877

High-level visual prediction errors in early visual cortex

David Richter, Tim C. Kietzmann, Floris P. de Lange

PLOS Biology: published November 11, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002829

Thalamic spindles and Up states coordinate cortical and hippocampal co-ripples in humans

Charles W. Dickey, Ilya A. Verzhbinsky, Sophie Kajfez, Burke Q. Rosen, Christopher E. Gonzalez, Patrick Y. Chauvel, Sydney S. Cash, Sandipan Pati, Eric Halgren

PLOS Biology: published November 19, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002855

Dopamine neurons that inform Drosophila olfactory memory have distinct, acute functions driving attraction and aversion

Farhan Mohammad, Yishan Mai, Joses Ho, Xianyuan Zhang, Stanislav Ott, James Charles Stewart, Adam Claridge-Chang

PLOS Biology: published November 18, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002843

Presynaptic cAMP-PKA-mediated potentiation induces reconfiguration of synaptic vesicle pools and channel-vesicle coupling at hippocampal mossy fiber boutons

Olena Kim, Yuji Okamoto, Walter A. Kaufmann, Nils Brose, Ryuichi Shigemoto, Peter Jonas

PLOS Biology: published November 18, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002879

Elevated vesicular Zn²⁺ in dorsal root ganglion neurons expressing the transporter TMEM163 causes age-associated itchy skin in mice

Fang Tong, Shuai Liu, Chen Zhang, Xicheng Gu, Huan Yang, Bin Zhou, Yun-Yun Wang, Jianwei Chen, Qianhui Qu, Ye Gong, Haili Pan, Chen Liang, Changlin Li, Xin Zhang, Qingjian Han

PLOS Biology: published November 27, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002888

Cilia structure and intraflagellar transport differentially regulate sensory response dynamics within and between C. elegans chemosensory neurons

Alison Philbrook, Michael P. O’Donnell, Laura Grunenkovaite, Piali Sengupta

PLOS Biology: published November 26, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002892

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Spatiotemporal requirements of nuclear β-catenin define early sea urchin embryogenesis

Guy Lhomond, Michael Schubert, Jenifer Croce

PLOS Biology: published November 12, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002880

Apoptotic extracellular vesicles carrying Mif regulate macrophage recruitment and compensatory proliferation in neighboring epithelial stem cells during tissue maintenance

Safia A. Essien, Ivanshi Ahuja, George T. Eisenhoffer

PLOS Biology: published November 4, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002194

DRN facilitates WUS transcriptional regulatory activity by chromatin remodeling to regulate shoot stem cell homeostasis in Arabidopsis

Linjie Luo, Li Liu, Lili She, Haoran Zhang, Nannan Zhang, Yaqin Wang, Yuting Ni, Fugui Chen, Fengying Wan, Yuqiu Dai, Guoping Zhu, Zhong Zhao

PLOS Biology: published November 8, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002878

CD74 promotes the formation of an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in triple-negative breast cancer in mice by inducing the expansion of tolerogenic dendritic cells and regulatory B cells

Bianca Pellegrino, Keren David, Stav Rabani, Bar Lampert, Thuy Tran, Edward Doherty, Marta Piecychna, Roberto Meza-Romero, Lin Leng, Dov Hershkovitz, Arthur A. Vandenbark, Richard Bucala, Shirly Becker-Herman, Idit Shachar

PLOS Biology: published November 22, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002905

Mitochondrial calcium uptake orchestrates vertebrate pigmentation via transcriptional regulation of keratin filaments

Jyoti Tanwar, Kriti Ahuja, Akshay Sharma, Paras Sehgal, Gyan Ranjan, Farina Sultan, Anushka Agrawal, Donato D’Angelo, Anshu Priya, Vamsi K. Yenamandra, Archana Singh, Anna Raffaello, Muniswamy Madesh, Rosario Rizzuto, Sridhar Sivasubbu, Rajender K. Motiani

PLOS Biology: published November 11, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002895

Reconstructed influenza A/H3N2 infection histories reveal variation in incidence and antibody dynamics over the life course

James A. Hay, Huachen Zhu, Chao Qiang Jiang, Kin On Kwok, Ruiyin Shen, Adam Kucharski, Bingyi Yang, Jonathan M. Read, Justin Lessler, Derek A. T. Cummings, Steven Riley

PLOS Biology: published November 7, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002864

A cytoplasmic form of EHMT1^N methylates viral proteins to enable inclusion body maturation and efficient viral replication

Kriti Kestur Biligiri, Nishi Raj Sharma, Abhishek Mohanty, Debi Prasad Sarkar, Praveen Kumar Vemula, Shravanti Rampalli

PLOS Biology: published November 7, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002871

Rho1 and Rgf1 establish a new actin-dependent signal to determine growth poles in yeast independently of microtubules and the Tea1–Tea4 complex

Patricia Garcia, Ruben Celador, Tomas Edreira, Yolanda Sanchez

PLOS Biology: published November 7, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002491

Quorum sensing in Vibrio controls carbon metabolism to optimize growth in changing environmental conditions

Chelsea A. Simpson, Zach R. Celentano, Nicholas W. Haas, James B. McKinlay, Carey D. Nadell, Julia C. van Kessel

PLOS Biology: published November 11, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002891

Systematic characterization of plant-associated bacteria that can degrade indole-3-acetic acid

Lanxiang Wang, Yue Liu, Haoran Ni, Wenlong Zuo, Haimei Shi, Weixin Liao, Hongbin Liu, Jiajia Chen, Yang Bai, Hong Yue, Ancheng Huang, Jonathan Friedman, Tong Si, Yinggao Liu, Moxian Chen, Lei Dai

PLOS Biology: published November 26, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002921

Niche-specific metabolic phenotypes can be used to identify antimicrobial targets in pathogens

Emma M. Glass, Lillian R. Dillard, Glynis L. Kolling, Andrew S. Warren, Jason A. Papin

PLOS Biology: published November 18, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002907

Deep mutational scanning of H5 hemagglutinin to inform influenza virus surveillance

Bernadeta Dadonaite, Jenny J. Ahn, Jordan T. Ort, Jin Yu, Colleen Furey, Annie Dosey, William W. Hannon, Amy L. Vincent Baker, Richard J. Webby, Neil P. King, Yan Liu, Scott E. Hensley, Thomas P. Peacock, Louise H. Moncla, Jesse D. Bloom

PLOS Biology: published November 12, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002916

A strategy to design protein-based antagonists against type I cytokine receptors

Timo Ullrich, Olga Klimenkova, Christoph Pollmann, Asma Lasram, Valeriia Hatskovska, Kateryna Maksymenko, Matej Milijaš-Jotić, Lukas Schenk, Claudia Lengerke, Marcus D. Hartmann, Jacob Piehler, Julia Skokowa, Mohammad ElGamacy

PLOS Biology: published November 26, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002883

Immigrant birds learn from socially observed differences in payoffs when their environment changes

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PLOS Biology: published November 14, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002699

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Excess mortality of infected ectotherms induced by warming depends on pathogen kingdom and evolutionary history

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PLOS Biology: published November 18, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002900

The human posterior parietal cortices orthogonalize the representation of different streams of information concurrently coded in visual working memory

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PLOS Biology: published November 21, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002915

Evolutionarily conserved brainstem architecture enables gravity-guided vertical navigation

Yunlu Zhu, Hannah Gelnaw, Franziska Auer, Kyla R. Hamling, David E. Ehrlich, David Schoppik

PLOS Biology: published November 12, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002902

Community-based reconstruction and simulation of a full-scale model of the rat hippocampus CA1 region

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PLOS Biology: published November 5, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002861

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Transcriptomic analysis of the 12 major human breast cell types reveals mechanisms of cell and tissue function

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Stochastic models allow improved inference of microbiome interactions from time series data

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