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1. Subcellular visualization of the distribution of atmospheric dinitrogen fixed by Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus bacteria in maize

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Greg McMahon
   2. Stephanie Rey
   3. Katie Moore
   4. Gina Greenidge
   5. Dhaval Patel
   6. Erik H Murchie
   7. David Dent
   8. Edward Cocking

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     eLife assessment

     This solid and innovative study explores the uptake of fixed nitrogen in maize chloroplasts facilitated by symbiotic Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus bacteria. The findings provide valuable insights into plant-microbe interactions, particularly highlighting a symbiotic mechanism of nitrogen delivery independent nodule formation. Additional controls would help to substantiate the findings and enhance the overall strength of the evidence.

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2. We couldn't get details of this article at this time:
   10.1101/2024.03.17.585387

3. ASBAR: an Animal Skeleton-Based Action Recognition framework. Recognizing great ape behaviors in the wild using pose estimation

   This article has 4 authors:

   1. Michael Fuchs
   2. Emilie Genty
   3. Klaus Zuberbühler
   4. Paul Cotofrei

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     eLife Assessment

     This important study presents a new framework (ASBAR) that combines open-source toolboxes for pose estimation and behavior recognition to automate the process of categorizing behaviors in wild apes from video data. The authors present compelling evidence that this pipeline can categorize simple wild ape behaviors from out-of-context video at a similar level of accuracy as previous models, while simultaneously vastly reducing the size of the model. The study's results should be of particular interest to primatologists and other behavioral biologists working with natural populations.

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4. We couldn't get details of this article at this time:
   10.1101/2021.10.28.465122

5. The Generalized Haldane (GH) model tracking population size changes and resolving paradoxes of genetic drift

   This article has 11 authors:

   1. Yongsen Ruan
   2. Xiaopei Wang
   3. Mei Hou
   4. Liying Huang
   5. Wenjie Diao
   6. Miles Tracy
   7. Shuhua Xu
   8. Weiwei Zhai
   9. Zhongqi Liufu
   10. Haijun Wen
   11. Chung-I Wu

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     eLife Assessment

     This study presents a useful model of genetic drift by incorporating variance in reproductive success, aiming to address several apparent paradoxes in molecular evolution. However, some of the apparent paradoxes only arise in the most basic version of standard models and have been reconciled in more advanced models. Nonetheless, this paper offers intuitive explanations for these apparent paradoxes, by adopting a new perspective and solid modeling and analysis. More broadly, the proposed model provides an alternative framework to address puzzling observations in molecular evolution, which will be of interest to evolutionary and population geneticists.

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6. We couldn't get details of this article at this time:
   10.1101/2024.01.01.573836

7. The title and authors for this article are not available from our external data provider yet:
   10.48550/arxiv.2112.05098v5

8. We couldn't get details of this article at this time:
   10.1101/2024.06.13.598890

9. We couldn't get details of this article at this time:
   10.1101/2024.05.29.594954

10. A toolbox for genetic targeting of the claustrum

    This article has 10 authors:

    1. Joël Tuberosa
    2. Madlaina Boillat
    3. Julien Dal Col
    4. Leonardo Marconi
    5. Julien Codourey
    6. Loris Mannino
    7. Elena Georgiou
    8. Marc Menoud
    9. Alan Carleton
    10. Ivan Rodriguez

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      eLife assessment

      This valuable research identifies Smim32 as a new genetic marker for the claustrum and generates transgenic mouse lines aimed at enhancing specificity when studying this brain region. However, the evidence supporting the increased specificity of this marker and its associated transgenic lines is inadequate, as Smim32's specificity to the claustrum is limited. Nevertheless, this work will be of interest to researchers studying the molecular organization of the claustrum.

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