Highlights

  • Evolutionary interplay

    The evolutionary history of a family of beetles called Belidae has been influenced by the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana and the rise of angiosperms.

    Xuankun Li, Adriana E Marvaldi ... Duane D McKenna
    Research Article
  • Plasticity and performance

    A mechanism linking the plasticity of a dopaminergic circuit and behavioural performance has been observed in Drosophila.

    Jun Sun, Francisca Rojo-Cortes ... Alicia Hidalgo
    Research Article
  • eLife’s new Editor-in-Chief

    Timothy Behrens has been appointed Editor-in-Chief to lead our efforts to improve research communication for all.

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Latest research

    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Coordinated regulation of chemotaxis and resistance to copper by CsoR in Pseudomonas putida

    Meina He, Yongxin Tao ... Wenli Chen
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Srs2 binding to PCNA and its sumoylation contribute to RPA antagonism during the DNA damage response

    Jiayi Fan, Nalini Dhingra ... Xiaolan Zhao
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Wide Transition-State Ensemble as Key Component for Enzyme Catalysis

    Gabriel Ernesto Jara, Francesco Pontiggia ... Dorothee Kern
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Wag31, a membrane tether, is crucial for lipid homeostasis in mycobacteria

    Yogita Kapoor, Himani Khurana ... Vinay Kumar Nandicoori
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Developmental Biology

    Knockout of cyclin dependent kinases 8 and 19 leads to depletion of cyclin C and suppresses spermatogenesis and male fertility in mice

    Alexandra V Bruter, Ekaterina A Varlamova ... Victor V Tatarskiy
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Unbiased identification of cell identity in dense mixed neural cultures

    Sarah De Beuckeleer, Tim Van De Looverbosch ... Winnok H De Vos
    Morphological profiling allows accurate identification of cell types in dense iPSC-derived cultures, allowing its use for quality control and differentiation monitoring.
    1. Neuroscience

    Prolactin-mediates a lactation-induced suppression of arcuate kisspeptin neuronal activity necessary for lactational infertility in mice

    Eleni Hackwell, Sharon R Ladyman ... David R Grattan
    Lactational infertility in mice is dependent on prolactin action in kisspeptin neurons.
    1. Neuroscience

    Realistic mossy fiber input patterns to unipolar brush cells evoke a continuum of temporal responses comprised of components mediated by different glutamate receptors

    Vincent Huson, Wade G Regehr
    Different glutamate receptors have specialized roles that allow cerebellar unipolar brush cells to transform realistic mossy fiber input patterns into a continuum of temporal responses.