Evaluated articles

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

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

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

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

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

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Epithelial Folding Irreversibility is Controlled by Elastoplastic Transition via Mechanosensitive Actin Bracket Formation

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

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Notch is Required for Neural Progenitor Proliferation During Embryonic Eye Regrowth

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

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Complementary Cytoskeletal Feedback Loops Control Signal Transduction Excitability and Cell Polarity

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

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

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FoxO transcription factors actuate the formative pluripotency specific gene expression programme

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

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

1. Iva Veseli
2. Zachary S. Cooper
3. Michelle A. DeMers
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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Lens Placode Modulates Extracellular Matrix Formation During Early Eye Development

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

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

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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Learning a conserved mechanism for early neuroectoderm morphogenesis

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

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

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A direct experimental test of Ohno's hypothesis

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

• 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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Characterization of Identified Dopaminergic Neurons in the Mouse Forebrain and Midbrain

1. Maggy Yu Hei Lau
2. Sana Gadiwalla
3. Susan Jones
4. Elisa Galliano

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Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery

1. Jayne Aiken
2. Erika L. F. Holzbaur

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Inference of drug off-target effects on cellular signaling using Interactome-Based Deep Learning

1. Nikolaos Meimetis
2. Douglas A. Lauffenburger
3. Avlant Nilsson

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Hibernating ribosomes tether to mitochondria as an adaptive response to cellular stress during glucose depletion

1. Olivier Gemin
2. Maciej Gluc
3. Michael Purdy
4. Higor Rosa
5. Moritz Niemann
6. Yelena Peskova
7. Simone Mattei
8. Ahmad Jomaa

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Structured RhoGEF recruitment drives myosin II organization on large exocytotic vesicles

1. Kumari Kamalesh
2. Dagan Segal
3. Ori Avinoam
4. Eyal D. Schejter
5. Ben-Zion Shilo

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The loss of DNA polymerase epsilon accessory subunits POLE3-POLE4 leads to BRCA1-independent PARP inhibitor sensitivity

1. Hasan Mamar
2. Roberta Fajka-Boja
3. Mónika Mórocz
4. Eva Pinto Jurado
5. Siham Zentout
6. Alexandra Mihuț
7. Anna Georgina Kopasz
8. Mihály Mérey
9. Rebecca Smith
10. Lajos Haracska
11. Sébastien Huet
12. Gyula Timinszky

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