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abstract：:Most cellular features have a range of states, but understanding the mechanisms responsible for interspecific divergence is a challenge for evolutionary cell biology. Models are developed for the distribution of mean phenotypes likely to evolve under the joint forces of mutation and genetic drift in the face of consta...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lynch M

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Maternal Embryonic Leucine Zipper Kinase (MELK) has been identified as a promising therapeutic target in multiple cancer types. MELK over-expression is associated with aggressive disease, and MELK has been implicated in numerous cancer-related processes, including chemotherapy resistance, stem cell renewal, and tu...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Giuliano CJ,Lin A,Smith JC,Palladino AC,Sheltzer JM

更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippo signalling integrates diverse stimuli related to epithelial architecture to regulate tissue growth and cell fate decisions. The Hippo kinase cascade represses the growth-promoting transcription co-activator Yorkie. The FERM protein Expanded is one of the main upstream Hippo signalling regulators in Drosophila as...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Fulford AD,Holder MV,Frith D,Snijders AP,Tapon N,Ribeiro PS

更新日期：2019-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated induced excitatory neurons (iNeurons, iNs) from chimpanzee, bonobo, and human stem cells by expressing the transcription factor neurogenin-2 (NGN2). Single-cell RNA sequencing showed that genes involved in dendrite and synapse development are expressed earlier during iNs maturation in the chimpanzee and b...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Schörnig M,Ju X,Fast L,Ebert S,Weigert A,Kanton S,Schaffer T,Nadif Kasri N,Treutlein B,Peter BM,Hevers W,Taverna E

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA is a remarkably precise medium for copying and storing biological information. This high fidelity results from the action of hundreds of genes involved in replication, proofreading, and damage repair. Evolutionary theory suggests that in such a system, selection has limited ability to remove genetic variants that ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Harris K,Pritchard JK

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Journals and other scientific organizations produce a diverse variety of plain-language summaries. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Shailes S

更新日期：2017-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent illness that can be precipitated by acute or chronic stress. Studies of patients with Wolfram syndrome and carriers have identified Wfs1 mutations as causative for MDD. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is known to be involved in depression and behavioral resilience, al...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Shrestha P,Mousa A,Heintz N

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms are biological oscillations that schedule daily changes in physiology. Outside the laboratory, circadian clocks do not generally free-run but are driven by daily cues whose timing varies with the seasons. The principles that determine how circadian clocks align to these external cycles are not well u...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Leypunskiy E,Lin J,Yoo H,Lee U,Dinner AR,Rust MJ

更新日期：2017-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Many microbial populations rapidly adapt to changing environments with multiple variants competing for survival. To quantify such complex evolutionary dynamics in vivo, time resolved and genome wide data including rare variants are essential. We performed whole-genome deep sequencing of HIV-1 populations in 9 untreate...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zanini F,Brodin J,Thebo L,Lanz C,Bratt G,Albert J,Neher RA

更新日期：2015-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep oscillations in the neocortex and hippocampus are critical for the integration of new memories into stable generalized representations in neocortex. However, the role of the thalamus in this process is poorly understood. To determine the thalamic contribution to non-REM oscillations (sharp-wave ripples, SWRs; sl...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Varela C,Wilson MA

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： DeAngelis BD,Zavatone-Veth JA,Clark DA

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a longstanding debate on whether original fear memory is inhibited or erased after extinction. One possibility that reconciles this uncertainty is that the inhibition and erasure mechanisms are engaged in different phases (early or late) of extinction. In this study, using single-session extinction trai...

journal_title：eLife

authors： An B,Kim J,Park K,Lee S,Song S,Choi S

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Different coding strategies are used to represent odor information at various stages of the mammalian olfactory system. A temporal latency code represents odor identity in olfactory bulb (OB), but this temporal information is discarded in piriform cortex (PCx) where odor identity is instead encoded through ensemble me...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Stern M,Bolding KA,Abbott LF,Franks KM

更新日期：2018-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans can run without falling down, usually despite uneven terrain or occasional pushes. Even without such external perturbations, intrinsic sources like sensorimotor noise perturb the running motion incessantly, making each step variable. Here, using simple and generalizable models, we show that even such small step...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Seethapathi N,Srinivasan M

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their importance in sexual differentiation and reproduction, Y chromosome genes are rarely described because they reside in repeat-rich regions that are difficult to study. Here, we show that Guy1, a unique Y chromosome gene of a major urban malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi, confers 100% female lethality w...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Criscione F,Qi Y,Tu Z

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The central complex is a highly conserved insect brain region composed of morphologically stereotyped neurons that arborize in distinctively shaped substructures. The region is implicated in a wide range of behaviors and several modeling studies have explored its circuit computations. Most studies have relied on assum...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Franconville R,Beron C,Jayaraman V

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on mutant tobacco plants shows that a pigment called β-carotene is not necessary for photosynthesis. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Telfer A

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-virus arms races are inherently asymmetric; viruses evolve much more rapidly than host genomes. Thus, there is high interest in discovering mechanisms by which host genomes keep pace with rapidly evolving viruses. One family of restriction factors, the APOBEC3 (A3) cytidine deaminases, has undergone positive sele...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Yang L,Emerman M,Malik HS,McLaughlin RN Jnr

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid and flexible interpretation of conflicting sensory inputs in the context of current goals is a critical component of cognitive control that is orchestrated by frontal cortex. The relative roles of distinct subregions within frontal cortex are poorly understood. To examine the dynamics underlying cognitive contro...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tang H,Yu HY,Chou CC,Crone NE,Madsen JR,Anderson WS,Kreiman G

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic oxygen restriction (SOR) is prevalent in numerous clinical conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and is associated with increased susceptibility to viral infections. However, the influence of SOR on T cell immunity remains uncharacterized. Here we show the detrimental effect of h...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Saragovi A,Abramovich I,Omar I,Arbib E,Toker O,Gottlieb E,Berger M

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of subpopulations that perform distinct metabolic roles has been observed in populations of genetically identical bacteria. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Dal Co A,Brannon C,Ackermann M

更新日期：2018-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pathogens possess the capacity for sex through outcrossing, despite being able to reproduce also asexually and/or via selfing. Given that sex is assumed to come at a cost, these mixed reproductive strategies typical of pathogens have remained puzzling. While the ecological and evolutionary benefits of outcrossing...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Laine AL,Barrès B,Numminen E,Siren JP

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several sleep-regulating neuronal populations have been identified, little is known about how they interact with each other to control sleep/wake states. We previously identified neuropeptide VF (NPVF) and the hypothalamic neurons that produce it as a sleep-promoting system (Lee et al., 2017). Here we show us...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lee DA,Oikonomou G,Cammidge T,Andreev A,Hong Y,Hurley H,Prober DA

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic adhesion molecules regulate synapse development and function. However, whether and how presynaptic adhesion molecules regulate postsynaptic NMDAR function remains largely unclear. Presynaptic LAR family receptor tyrosine phosphatases (LAR-RPTPs) regulate synapse development through mechanisms that include tra...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kim K,Shin W,Kang M,Lee S,Kim D,Kang R,Jung Y,Cho Y,Yang E,Kim H,Bae YC,Kim E

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Most funding agencies rely on peer review to evaluate grant applications and proposals, but research into the use of this process by funding agencies has been limited. Here we explore if two changes to the organization of peer review for proposals submitted to various funding actions by the European Union has an influ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Pina DG,Buljan I,Hren D,Marušić A

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Most evolutionary thinking is based on the notion of fitness and related ideas such as fitness landscapes and evolutionary optima. Nevertheless, it is often unclear what fitness actually is, and its meaning often depends on the context. Here we argue that fitness should not be a basal ingredient in verbal or mathemati...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Doebeli M,Ispolatov Y,Simon B

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Centering and decentering of cellular components is essential for internal organization of cells and their ability to perform basic cellular functions such as division and motility. How cells achieve proper localization of their organelles is still not well-understood, especially in large cells such as oocytes. Here, ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ierushalmi N,Malik-Garbi M,Manhart A,Abu Shah E,Goode BL,Mogilner A,Keren K

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transcription can be activated by decreasing the duration of RNA polymerase II pausing in the promoter-proximal region, but how this is achieved remains unclear. Here we use a 'multi-omics' approach to demonstrate that the duration of polymerase pausing generally limits the productive frequency of transcription i...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gressel S,Schwalb B,Decker TM,Qin W,Leonhardt H,Eick D,Cramer P

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes are essential regulators of embryonic development. Their step-wise transcriptional activation follows their genomic topology and the various states of activation are subsequently memorized into domains of progressively overlapping gene products. We have analyzed the 3D chromatin organization of Hox clusters ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Noordermeer D,Leleu M,Schorderet P,Joye E,Chabaud F,Duboule D

更新日期：2014-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Presence of multiple copies of the microtubule-binding NDC80 complex is an evolutionary conserved feature of kinetochores, points of attachment of chromosomes to spindle microtubules. This may enable multivalent attachments to microtubules, with implications that remain unexplored. Using recombinant human kinetochore ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Volkov VA,Huis In 't Veld PJ,Dogterom M,Musacchio A

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00