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1. Postural adaptations may contribute to the unique locomotor energetics seen in hopping kangaroos

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Lauren Thornton
   2. Taylor Dick
   3. John R Hutchinson
   4. Glen A Lichtwark
   5. Craig P McGowan
   6. Jonas Rubenson
   7. Alexis Wiktorowicz-Conroy
   8. Christofer J Clemente

   This article has been curated by 1 group:

   • Curated by eLife

     eLife Assessment

     This valuable biomechanical analysis of kangaroo kinematics and kinetics across a range of hopping speeds and masses is a step towards understanding a long-standing problem in locomotion biomechanics: the mechanism for how kangaroos, unlike other mammals, can increase hopping speed without a concomitant increase in metabolic cost. The authors convincingly demonstrate that changes in kangaroo posture with speed increase tendon stress/strain and hence elastic energy storage/return. This greater tendon elastic energy storage/return may counteract the increased cost of generating muscular force at faster speeds and thus allows for the invariance in metabolic cost. This methodologically impressive study sets the stage for further work to investigate the relation of hopping speed to metabolic cost more definitively.

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2. Aurora B controls microtubule stability to regulate abscission dynamics in stem cells

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Snježana Kodba
   2. Amber Öztop
   3. Eri van Berkum
   4. Eugene A. Katrukha
   5. Malina K. Iwanski
   6. Wilco Nijenhuis
   7. Lukas C. Kapitein
   8. Agathe Chaigne

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3. Evolution of tandem repeats in putative CSP to enhance its function: A recent and exclusive event in Plasmodium vivax in India

   This article has 4 authors:

   1. Manoswini Dash
   2. Veena Pande
   3. Aparup Das
   4. Abhinav Sinha

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4. A tension-induced morphological transition shapes the avian extra-embryonic territory

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Arthur Michaut
   2. Alexander Chamolly
   3. Aurélien Villedieu
   4. Francis Corson
   5. Jérôme Gros

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5. A choroid plexus apocrine secretion mechanism shapes CSF proteome and embryonic brain development

   This article has 7 authors:

   1. Ya’el Courtney
   2. Joshua P. Head
   3. Elizabeth D. Yimer
   4. Neil Dani
   5. Frederick B. Shipley
   6. Towia A. Libermann
   7. Maria K. Lehtinen

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6. A revised single-cell transcriptomic atlas of Xenopus embryo reveals new differentiation dynamics

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Kseniya Petrova
   2. Maksym Tretiakov
   3. Aleksandr Kotov
   4. Anne H. Monsoro-Burq
   5. Leonid Peshkin

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7. An actin bracket-induced elastoplastic transition determines epithelial folding irreversibility

   This article has 6 authors:

   1. Aki Teranishi
   2. Misato Mori
   3. Rihoko Ichiki
   4. Satoshi Toda
   5. Go Shioi
   6. Satoru Okuda

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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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