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1. Notch is Required for Neural Progenitor Proliferation During Embryonic Eye Regrowth

   This article has 4 authors:

   1. Dylan J. Guerin
   2. Belen Gutierrez
   3. Baoyi Zhang
   4. Kelly Ai-Sun Tseng

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2. Complementary Cytoskeletal Feedback Loops Control Signal Transduction Excitability and Cell Polarity

   This article has 6 authors:

   1. Jonathan Kuhn
   2. Parijat Banerjee
   3. Andrew Haye
   4. Douglas N. Robinson
   5. Pablo A. Iglesias
   6. Peter N. Devreotes

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3. Changes in surface temperatures reveal the thermal challenge associated with catastrophic moult in captive Gentoo penguins

   This article has 3 authors:

   1. Agnès Lewden
   2. Tristan Halna du Fretay
   3. Antoine Stier

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4. FoxO transcription factors actuate the formative pluripotency specific gene expression programme

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Laura Santini
   2. Saskia Kowald
   3. Giovanni Sestini
   4. Nicolas Rivron
   5. Martin Leeb

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5. Digital Microbe: A Genome-Informed Data Integration Framework for Collaborative Research on Emerging Model Organisms

   This article has 16 authors:

   1. Iva Veseli
   2. Michelle A. DeMers
   3. Zachary S. Cooper
   4. Matthew S. Schechter
   5. Samuel Miller
   6. Laura Weber
   7. Christa B. Smith
   8. Lidimarie T. Rodriguez
   9. William F. Schroer
   10. Matthew R. McIlvin
   11. Paloma Z. Lopez
   12. Makoto Saito
   13. Sonya Dyhrman
   14. A. Murat Eren
   15. Mary Ann Moran
   16. Rogier Braakman

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6. Lens Placode Modulates Extracellular Matrix Formation During Early Eye Development

   This article has 4 authors:

   1. Cecília G. De Magalhães
   2. Ales Cvekl
   3. Ruy G. Jaeger
   4. C. Y. Irene Yan

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7. DNA methylation enables recurrent endogenization of giant viruses in an animal relative

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Luke A. Sarre
   2. Iana V. Kim
   3. Vladimir Ovchinnikov
   4. Marine Olivetta
   5. Hiroshi Suga
   6. Omaya Dudin
   7. Arnau Sebé-Pedrós
   8. Alex de Mendoza

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8. Learning a conserved mechanism for early neuroectoderm morphogenesis

   This article has 9 authors:

   1. Matthew Lefebvre
   2. Jonathan Colen
   3. Nikolas Claussen
   4. Fridtjof Brauns
   5. Marion Raich
   6. Noah Mitchell
   7. Michel Fruchart
   8. Vincenzo Vitelli
   9. Sebastian J Streichan

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9. Experience-dependent plasticity of a highly specific olfactory circuit in Drosophila melanogaster

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Benjamin Fabian
   2. Veit Grabe
   3. Rolf G. Beutel
   4. Bill S. Hansson
   5. Silke Sachse

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10. A direct experimental test of Ohno’s hypothesis

    This article has 8 authors:

    1. Ljiljana Mihajlovic
    2. Bharat Ravi Iyengar
    3. Florian Baier
    4. Içvara Barbier
    5. Justyna Iwaszkiewicz
    6. Vincent Zoete
    7. Andreas Wagner
    8. Yolanda Schaerli

    This article has been curated by 1 group:

    • Curated by eLife

      eLife Assessment

      This fundamental study uses a creative experimental system to directly test Ohno's hypothesis, which describes how and why new genes might evolve by duplication of existing ones. In agreement with existing criticism of Ohno's original idea, the authors present compelling evidence that having two gene copies does not speed up the evolution of a new function as posited by Ohno, but instead leads to the rapid inactivation of one of the copies through the accumulation of mostly deleterious mutations. These findings will be of broad interest to evolutionary biologists and geneticists.

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