Ecology

Dopamine and its receptor DcDop2 are involved in the coevolution between ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ and Diaphorina citri

1. Xiaoge Nian
2. Jiayun Li
3. Jilei Huang
4. Weiwei Yuan
5. Paul Holford
6. George Andrew Charles Beattie
7. Jielan He
8. Yijing Cen
9. Yurong He
10. Songdou Zhang

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  Insects can act as vectors of plant diseases, hence the study of insect-pathogen interactions is relevant for agriculture. This important study identifies in Diaphorina citri a dopamine receptor responsive to 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' infection, demonstrate direct regulation of this receptor by a microRNA, and integrate dopamine signaling into an established insect reproductive hormone framework. Multiple complementary experimental approaches convincingly support for the findings, although key conclusions rely on correlative data and the mechanistic evidence for the proposed linear signaling cascade is limited. This work will be of interest for insect physiology and vector-pathogen biology, and more broadly for citrus agriculture.

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Disentangling different sources of variation in functional responses: between-individual variability, measurement error and inherent stochasticity of the prey-predator interaction process

1. Charlotte Baey
2. Sylvain Billiard
3. Maud Delattre

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Camera trap monitoring of unmarked animals: a map of the relationships between population size estimators

1. Clément Calenge

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Using a sequential sampling algorithm to apply the niche-neutral model to species occurrence patterns

1. Nadiah P. Kristensen
2. Yong Chee Keita Sin
3. Hyee Shynn Lim
4. Frank E. Rheindt
5. Ryan A. Chisholm

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Tracking changes in birds' interaction milieu

1. Stanislas Rigal
2. Vincent Devictor
3. Vasilis Dakos

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities

1. Juan Diaz-Colunga
2. Pablo Catalan
3. Magdalena San Roman
4. Andrea Arrabal
5. Alvaro Sanchez

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  eLife Assessment

  This manuscript introduces a new low-cost and accessible method for assembling combinatorially complete microbial consortia using basic laboratory equipment, which is a valuable contribution to the field of microbial ecology and biotechnology. The evidence presented is compelling, demonstrating the method's effectiveness through empirical testing on both synthetic colorants and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains.

Reviewed by eLife, Arcadia Science

Characterising a species-rich and understudied tropical insect fauna using DNA barcoding

1. David R. Hemprich-Bennett
2. Ezekiel Donkor
3. Bernard Adams
4. Naana Afua Acquaah
5. Eva D. Ofori
6. Samuel Anie-Amoah
7. Abigail Bailey
8. H. Charles J. Godfray
9. Owen T. Lewis
10. Fred Aboagye-Antwi
11. Talya D. Hackett

Reviewed by GigaScience

Developmental constraints mediate the reversal of temperature effects on the autumn phenology of European beech after the summer solstice

1. Dominic Rebindaine
2. Thomas W Crowther
3. Susanne S Renner
4. Zhaofei Wu
5. Yibiao Zou
6. Lidong Mo
7. Haozhi Ma
8. Raymo Bucher
9. Constantin M Zohner

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  eLife Assessment

  This article presents valuable findings on how the timing of cooling affects autumn bud set in European beech saplings. The study leverages extensive experimental data and provides an interesting conceptual framework for the various ways in which warming can affect bud set timing. The statistical analysis is very well considered, while indicating some factors that may temper the authors' claims. The factorial experiments offer solid support.

Reviewed by eLife

Population size estimation when multiple samples carrying the risk of misidentification are taken within the same capture occasion from the same individual

1. Remi Fraysse
2. Remi Choquet
3. Roger Pradel

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Seasonal variation in insect assemblages at flowers of Balanites aegyptiaca, an ecologically and socially important tree species in the Ferlo region of Senegal’s Great Green Wall corridor

1. Natalia Medina-Serrano
2. Anne-Geneviève Bagnères
3. Mouhamadou Moustapha Ndiaye
4. Valentin Vrecko
5. Doyle McKey
6. Martine Hossaert-McKey

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology