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1. Tree species and genetic diversity increase productivity via functional diversity and trophic feedbacks

   This article has 18 authors:

   1. Ting Tang
   2. Naili Zhang
   3. Franca J Bongers
   4. Michael Staab
   5. Andreas Schuldt
   6. Felix Fornoff
   7. Hong Lin
   8. Jeannine Cavender-Bares
   9. Andrew L Hipp
   10. Shan Li
   11. Yu Liang
   12. Baocai Han
   13. Alexandra-Maria Klein
   14. Helge Bruelheide
   15. Walter Durka
   16. Bernhard Schmid
   17. Keping Ma
   18. Xiaojuan Liu

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     Evaluation Summary:

     Using an impressive experimental design, Tang et al. analyzed the effects of intraspecific (genetic) and interspecific (species) diversity in ecosystem processes carried out by forest communities. The results show that both species and genotype diversity influence productivity via changes in overall functional diversity, herbivory, and soil fungal diversity. This study will be important to ecologists and environmentalists interested in ecosystem processes and restoration efforts.

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2. Centrally expressed Cav3.2 T-type calcium channel is critical for the initiation and maintenance of neuropathic pain

   This article has 14 authors:

   1. Sophie L Fayad
   2. Guillaume Ourties
   3. Benjamin Le Gac
   4. Baptiste Jouffre
   5. Sylvain Lamoine
   6. Antoine Fruquière
   7. Sophie Laffray
   8. Laila Gasmi
   9. Bruno Cauli
   10. Christophe Mallet
   11. Emmanuel Bourinet
   12. Thomas Bessaih
   13. Régis C Lambert
   14. Nathalie Leresche

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     Evaluation Summary:

     The manuscript shows an important role for Cav2.3 channels in SNI-mediated allodynia and firing properties of PV-expressing APT neurons. Mechanisms that underlie adaptations in chronic pain models are extremely important for the development of novel therapeutics for chronic pain and this could be a significant contribution in that regard. However, the discussion asserts that these studies are the "first direct evidence that supra-spinal Cav3.2 channels play a fundamental role in pain pathophysiology." This is an overstatement as Chen and colleagues examined the role of these channels in the anterior cingulate cortex in CCI-mediated neuropathic pain (Shen, et al., 2015, Molecular Pain).

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3. GPR183 mediates the capacity of the novel CD47-CD19 bispecific antibody TG-1801 to heighten ublituximab-umbralisib (U2) anti-lymphoma activity

   This article has 12 authors:

   1. Marcelo Lima Ribeiro
   2. Núria Profitós-Pelejà
   3. Juliana Carvalho Santos
   4. Pedro Blecua
   5. Diana Reyes Garau
   6. Marc Armengol
   7. Miranda Fernández-Serrano
   8. Hari P. Miskin
   9. Francesc Bosch
   10. Manel Esteller
   11. Emmanuel Normant
   12. Gael Roué

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     Evaluation Summary:

     Ribeiro M et al investigate the ability of a novel bispecific CD19-CD47 antibody to enhance the cell mediated killing mediated by existing drug combinations - anti-CD20 plus PIK3d/CK1E inhibitor. The novelty of this study is the restriction to CD19 positive lymphoma cells, thus potentially avoiding toxicity to non-lymphoma lineages, and the gene expression profiling to identify up regulation of GPR183 after combined treatment of CD19/47 plus CD20/PI3K/CK1E vs CD19/47 alone. Genetic and drug studies suggest that GPR183 is essential for the full activity of the triplet drug combination.

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4. Neural dynamics of causal inference in the macaque frontoparietal circuit

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Guangyao Qi
   2. Wen Fang
   3. Shenghao Li
   4. Junru Li
   5. Liping Wang

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     Evaluation summary:

     This study investigates the neural basis of the hidden causal structure between visual and proprioceptive signals in the primate premotor and parietal circuit during reaching tasks executed in a virtual reality environment, where information between the two modalities can be dissociated. Modelling is used to characterize the proprioceptive drift of the monkeys when integrating bimodal information. The key novel result is that premotor neurons represent the integration of bimodal information for small disparities and the segregation for large disparities between the proprioceptive and visual information, while parietal cells show reaching tuning changes that support the updating sensory uncertainty between tasks. Overall, the experiments are technically sound, and the conclusions are mostly well supported. However, a simpler framing of the paper could make the main message easier to grasp, the analysis of Bayesian models seems to lack major details, the statistical reporting is below standard, and a large part of the extensive literature on the role of premotor and parietal cortex in visuomotor behavior is lacking.

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5. β2-subunit alternative splicing stabilizes Cav2.3 Ca2+ channel activity during continuous midbrain dopamine neuron-like activity

   This article has 19 authors:

   1. Anita Siller
   2. Nadja T Hofer
   3. Giulia Tomagra
   4. Nicole Burkert
   5. Simon Hess
   6. Julia Benkert
   7. Aisylu Gaifullina
   8. Desiree Spaich
   9. Johanna Duda
   10. Christina Poetschke
   11. Kristina Vilusic
   12. Eva Maria Fritz
   13. Toni Schneider
   14. Peter Kloppenburg
   15. Birgit Liss
   16. Valentina Carabelli
   17. Emilio Carbone
   18. Nadine Jasmin Ortner
   19. Jörg Striessnig

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     Evaluation Summary:

     This paper suggests that assembly of CaV2.3 with b2a/b2e splice variants confers biophysical properties that enable these channels to contribute to calcium-dependent pacemaking in dopaminergic neurons. The findings could have implications for why these neurons are vulnerable to degeneration in Parkinson's disease. The work will be of interest to ion channel biophysicists and neuroscientists.

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6. Vision-related convergent gene losses reveal SERPINE3’s unknown role in the eye

   This article has 10 authors:

   1. Henrike Indrischek
   2. Juliane Hammer
   3. Anja Machate
   4. Nikolai Hecker
   5. Bogdan Kirilenko
   6. Juliana Roscito
   7. Stefan Hans
   8. Caren Norden
   9. Michael Brand
   10. Michael Hiller

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     Evaluation Summary:

     The authors use a comparative genomics approach to predict gene function, in particular genes that have a role in eye development. After identifying the convergent loss of SERPINE3 with vision loss across mammals, the authors confirmed its involvement in eye development by characterizing zebrafish knockouts. This work highlights the power of comparative genomics to generate hypotheses that can be experimentally validated. This work is relevant to a broad audience interested in evolution and adaptation as well as for those studying eye development and eye pathologies.

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7. Transcriptome network analysis implicates CX3CR1-positive type 3 dendritic cells in non-infectious uveitis

   This article has 11 authors:

   1. Sanne Hiddingh
   2. Aridaman Pandit
   3. Fleurieke Verhagen
   4. Rianne Rijken
   5. Nila Hendrika Servaas
   6. Rina CGK Wichers
   7. Ninette H ten Dam-van Loon
   8. Saskia M Imhof
   9. Timothy RDJ Radstake
   10. Joke H de Boer
   11. Jonas JW Kuiper

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     Evaluation Summary:

     The authors provide evidence suggesting the gene expression profile of a specific subset of dendritic cells define features of specific forms of non-infectious uveitis. This work suggests specific pathways in these cells that may have mechanistic import in inflammatory eye disease. This manuscript is of interested to immunologists studying autoimmunity and ocular immunity. While the paper is largely descriptive, the data it presents should serve as a valuable resource for generating hypotheses about the pathogenesis of ocular autoimmune disease.

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8. Robust and Efficient Assessment of Potency (REAP) as a quantitative tool for dose-response curve estimation

   This article has 9 authors:

   1. Shouhao Zhou
   2. Xinyi Liu
   3. Xinying Fang
   4. Vernon M Chinchilli
   5. Michael Wang
   6. Hong-Gang Wang
   7. Nikolay V Dokholyan
   8. Chan Shen
   9. J Jack Lee

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     Evaluation Summary:

     This article proposes methodology and accompanying software for robustly fitting dose-response curves where response is a number between 0 and 1. When response is transformed using the common logistic transformation, values close to 0 or 1 become large in magnitude, unduly influencing the fitted curve after back-transformation and introducing bias in the estimate of certain parameters. The proposed approach, called Robust and Efficient Assessment of Potency, is less perturbed by these extreme measurements.

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9. The evolution and biological correlates of hand preferences in anthropoid primates

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Kai R Caspar
   2. Fabian Pallasdies
   3. Larissa Mader
   4. Heitor Sartorelli
   5. Sabine Begall

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     Evaluation Summary:

     This paper combines new and previously generated data on hand preference to show that hand preference strength, but not direction, is predicted by ecology and phylogeny across primates. By drawing on the most expansive data set to date on experimentally determined hand preference, it calls existing hypotheses on the evolution of hand preference into question and shows that the strength of lateralization in humans is uniquely extreme. Its results are of interest to evolutionary anthropologists, primatologists, and evolutionary morphologists. However, concerns about intraspecific variation and the accuracy of handedness estimates for poorly sampled species are incompletely addressed by the manuscript in its current form.

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10. Human WDR5 promotes breast cancer growth and metastasis via KMT2-independent translation regulation

    This article has 19 authors:

    1. Wesley L Cai
    2. Jocelyn Fang-Yi Chen
    3. Huacui Chen
    4. Emily Wingrove
    5. Sarah J Kurley
    6. Lok Hei Chan
    7. Meiling Zhang
    8. Anna Arnal-Estape
    9. Minghui Zhao
    10. Amer Balabaki
    11. Wenxue Li
    12. Xufen Yu
    13. Ethan D Krop
    14. Yali Dou
    15. Yansheng Liu
    16. Jian Jin
    17. Thomas F Westbrook
    18. Don X Nguyen
    19. Qin Yan

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      Evaluation Summary:

      The authors of this manuscript, which is of interest to the cancer community, identify the chromatin regulator WDR5 as a possible new drug target in triple negative breast cancer. Targeted therapeutics for this patient population are of high scientific and clinical interest, and the authors provide a compelling case that co-targeting WDR5 along with mTOR provides a promising new therapeutic strategy.

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