Selfing is the safest sex for Caenorhabditis tropicalis.

abstract：:Previous research showed that spontaneous neuronal activity presents sloppiness: the collective behavior is strongly determined by a small number of parameter combinations, defined as 'stiff' dimensions, while it is insensitive to many others ('sloppy' dimensions). Here, we analyzed neural population activity from the...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ponce-Alvarez A,Mochol G,Hermoso-Mendizabal A,de la Rocha J,Deco G

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis disproportionately affects the Canadian Inuit. To address this, it is imperative we understand transmission dynamics in this population. We investigate whether 'deep' sequencing can provide additional resolution compared to standard sequencing, using a well-characterized outbreak from the Arctic (2011-201...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lee RS,Proulx JF,McIntosh F,Behr MA,Hanage WP

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A heat exchange mechanism in the head of kissing bugs helps to prevent stress and regulate their temperature while they feed on warm blood. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Benoit JB,Denlinger DL

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Appropriate generalization of learned responses to new situations is vital for adaptive behavior. We provide a circuit-level account of generalization in the electrosensory lobe (ELL) of weakly electric mormyrid fish. Much is already known in this system about a form of learning in which motor corollary discharge sign...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Dempsey C,Abbott LF,Sawtell NB

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced microscopy and labeling techniques reveal that bacteria localize mRNAs within their cells in a similar way to eukaryotes. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jan CH

更新日期：2016-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Though neurotransmitters are essential elements in neuronal signal transduction, techniques for in vivo analysis are still limited. Here, we describe an organic electrochemical transistor array (OECT-array) technique for monitoring catecholamine neurotransmitters (CA-NTs) in rat brains. The OECT-array is an active sen...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Xie K,Wang N,Lin X,Wang Z,Zhao X,Fang P,Yue H,Kim J,Luo J,Cui S,Yan F,Shi P

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms linking maternal stress in pregnancy with infant neurodevelopment in a sexually dimorphic manner are poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity, measured by hair cortisol concentration (HCC), is associated with microstructure, structural connec...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Stoye DQ,Blesa M,Sullivan G,Galdi P,Lamb GJ,Black GS,Quigley AJ,Thrippleton MJ,Bastin ME,Reynolds RM,Boardman JP

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:During mitosis chromosomes reorganise into highly compact, rod-shaped forms, thought to consist of consecutive chromatin loops around a central protein scaffold. Condensin complexes are involved in chromatin compaction, but the contribution of other chromatin proteins, DNA sequence and histone modifications is less un...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Fitz-James MH,Tong P,Pidoux AL,Ozadam H,Yang L,White SA,Dekker J,Allshire RC

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Perforin-2 (MPEG1) is a pore-forming, antibacterial protein with broad-spectrum activity. Perforin-2 is expressed constitutively in phagocytes and inducibly in parenchymal, tissue-forming cells. In vitro, Perforin-2 prevents the intracellular replication and proliferation of bacterial pathogens in these cells. Perfori...

journal_title：eLife

authors： McCormack RM,de Armas LR,Shiratsuchi M,Fiorentino DG,Olsson ML,Lichtenheld MG,Morales A,Lyapichev K,Gonzalez LE,Strbo N,Sukumar N,Stojadinovic O,Plano GV,Munson GP,Tomic-Canic M,Kirsner RS,Russell DG,Podack ER

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:When a plant cell divides, four related proteins control the trafficking of vesicles and ensure that cargo that is normally recycled to the plasma membrane is instead re-routed to the plane of cell division. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Robatzek S

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodents are emerging as increasingly popular models of visual functions. Yet, evidence that rodent visual cortex is capable of advanced visual processing, such as object recognition, is limited. Here we investigate how neurons located along the progression of extrastriate areas that, in the rat brain, run laterally to...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tafazoli S,Safaai H,De Franceschi G,Rosselli FB,Vanzella W,Riggi M,Buffolo F,Panzeri S,Zoccolan D

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue mechanics is important for development; however, the spatio-temporal dynamics of in vivo tissue stiffness is still poorly understood. We here developed tiv-AFM, combining time-lapse in vivo atomic force microscopy with upright fluorescence imaging of embryonic tissue, to show that during development local tissu...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Thompson AJ,Pillai EK,Dimov IB,Foster SK,Holt CE,Franze K

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Why does a first pregnancy after age 35 increase the risk of breast cancer, and what can be done to combat this? ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Chakravarthi BV,Varambally S

更新日期：2013-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cells utilize monitoring substrates, which undergo force-sensitive translation elongation arrest, to feedback-regulate a Sec-related gene. Vibrio alginolyticus VemP controls the expression of SecD/F that stimulates a late step of translocation by undergoing export-regulated elongation arrest. Here, we attemp...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Miyazaki R,Akiyama Y,Mori H

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is critical for updating reward-directed behaviours flexibly when outcomes are devalued or when task contingencies are reversed. Failure to update behaviour in outcome devaluation and reversal learning procedures are considered canonical deficits following OFC lesions in non-human primat...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Panayi MC,Killcross S

更新日期：2018-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Key to CRISPR-Cas adaptive immunity is maintaining an ongoing record of invading nucleic acids, a process carried out by the Cas1-Cas2 complex that integrates short segments of foreign genetic material (spacers) into the CRISPR locus. It is hypothesized that Cas1 evolved from casposases, a novel class of transposases....

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hickman AB,Kailasan S,Genzor P,Haase AD,Dyda F

更新日期：2020-01-08 00:00:00

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journal_title：eLife

authors： Hayasaka N,Hirano A,Miyoshi Y,Tokuda IT,Yoshitane H,Matsuda J,Fukada Y

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a small-molecule communication mechanism was discovered in a range of Bacillus-infecting bacteriophages, which these temperate phages use to inform their lysis-lysogeny decision. We present a mathematical model of the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of such viral communication, and show that a communica...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Doekes HM,Mulder GA,Hermsen R

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepcidin is the master regulator of systemic iron homeostasis. Derived primarily from the liver, it inhibits the iron exporter ferroportin in the gut and spleen, the sites of iron absorption and recycling respectively. Recently, we demonstrated that ferroportin is also found in cardiomyocytes, and that its cardiac-spe...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lakhal-Littleton S,Wolna M,Chung YJ,Christian HC,Heather LC,Brescia M,Ball V,Diaz R,Santos A,Biggs D,Clarke K,Davies B,Robbins PA

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic placement of the morphologically simple placozoans is crucial to understanding the evolution of complex animal traits. Here, we examine the influence of adding new genomes from placozoans to a large dataset designed to study the deepest splits in the animal phylogeny. Using site-heterogeneous substitu...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Laumer CE,Gruber-Vodicka H,Hadfield MG,Pearse VB,Riesgo A,Marioni JC,Giribet G

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in DNA sequencing have revolutionized our ability to read genomes. However, even in the most well-studied of organisms, the bacterium Escherichia coli, for ≈65% of promoters we remain ignorant of their regulation. Until we crack this regulatory Rosetta Stone, efforts to read and write genomes will remain haph...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ireland WT,Beeler SM,Flores-Bautista E,McCarty NS,Röschinger T,Belliveau NM,Sweredoski MJ,Moradian A,Kinney JB,Phillips R

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipocyte differentiation is a strictly controlled process regulated by a series of transcriptional activators. Adipogenic signals activate early adipogenic activators and facilitate the transient formation of early enhanceosomes at target genes. These enhancer regions are subsequently inherited by late enhanceosomes....

journal_title：eLife

authors： Watanabe M,Takahashi H,Saeki Y,Ozaki T,Itoh S,Suzuki M,Mizushima W,Tanaka K,Hatakeyama S

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease involving cytotoxic conformations of Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1). A major challenge in understanding ALS disease pathology has been the identification and atomic-level characterization of these conformers. Here, we use a combination ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sekhar A,Rumfeldt JA,Broom HR,Doyle CM,Bouvignies G,Meiering EM,Kay LE

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:C-type inactivation of potassium channels fine-tunes the electrical signaling in excitable cells through an internal timing mechanism that is mediated by a hydrogen bond network in the channels' selectively filter. Previously, we used nonsense suppression to highlight the role of the conserved Trp434-Asp447 indole hyd...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lueck JD,Mackey AL,Infield DT,Galpin JD,Li J,Roux B,Ahern CA

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A spring-loaded mechanism can explain the activation process for a protein that has a crucial role in maintaining the genomic integrity of immature eggs cells. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Amelio I,Melino G

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermittent hypoxia (IH) is the predominant pathophysiological disturbance in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), known to be independently associated with cardiovascular diseases. However, the effect of IH on cardiac fibrosis and molecular events involved in this process are unclear. Here, we tested IH in angiotensin II ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bao Q,Zhang B,Suo Y,Liu C,Yang Q,Zhang K,Yuan M,Yuan M,Zhang Y,Li G

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve tissue contains a high density of chemical synapses, about 1 per µm3 in the mammalian cerebral cortex. Thus, even for small blocks of nerve tissue, dense connectomic mapping requires the identification of millions to billions of synapses. While the focus of connectomic data analysis has been on neurite reconstru...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Staffler B,Berning M,Boergens KM,Gour A,Smagt PV,Helmstaedter M

更新日期：2017-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:TMEM16F is activated by elevated intracellular Ca2+, and functions as a small-conductance ion channel and as a phospholipid scramblase. In contrast to its paralogs, the TMEM16A/B calcium-activated chloride channels, mouse TMEM16F has been reported as a cation-, anion-, or non-selective ion channel, without a definite ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ye W,Han TW,He M,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：2019-07-18 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：:A strain of budding yeast that contains one large chromosome reveals how the telomere capping complex CST maintains linear but not circular chromosomes. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Nugent C,Sugimoto K

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00