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Volume 21, issue 12, 2023

Sensory processing in humans and mice fluctuates between external and internal modes pp. 1-36

Veith Weilnhammer, Heiner Stuke, Kai Standvoss and Philipp Sterzer

Eukaryotic CD-NTase, STING, and viperin proteins evolved via domain shuffling, horizontal transfer, and ancient inheritance from prokaryotes pp. 1-26

Edward M Culbertson and Tera C Levin

Volume 21, issue 11, 2023

Chimpanzees make tactical use of high elevation in territorial contexts pp. 1-26

Sylvain R T Lemoine, Liran Samuni, Catherine Crockford and Roman M Wittig

Mothers in a cooperatively breeding bird increase investment per offspring at the pre-natal stage when they will have more help with post-natal care pp. 1-32

Pablo Capilla-Lasheras, Alastair J Wilson and Andrew J Young

Corrective feedback guides human perceptual decision-making by informing about the world state rather than rewarding its choice pp. 1-32

Hyang-Jung Lee, Heeseung Lee, Chae Young Lim, Issac Rhim and Sang-Hun Lee

Gender imbalances among top-cited scientists across scientific disciplines over time through the analysis of nearly 5.8 million authors pp. 1-14

John P A Ioannidis, Kevin W Boyack, Thomas A Collins and Jeroen Baas

Differential adhesion during development establishes individual neural stem cell niches and shapes adult behaviour in Drosophila pp. 1-55

Agata Banach-Latapy, Vincent Rincheval, David Briand, Isabelle Guénal and Pauline Spéder

Accurate classification of major brain cell types using in vivo imaging and neural network processing pp. 1-17

Amrita Das Gupta, Livia Asan, Jennifer John, Carlo Beretta, Thomas Kuner and Johannes Knabbe

The regional variation of laminar thickness in the human isocortex is related to cortical hierarchy and interregional connectivity pp. 1-29

Amin Saberi, Casey Paquola, Konrad Wagstyl, Meike D Hettwer, Boris C Bernhardt, Simon B Eickhoff and Sofie L Valk

Postdoctoral scientists are mentors, and it is time to recognize their work pp. 1-4

Gracielle Higino, Ceres Barros, Ellen Bledsoe, Dominique G Roche, Sandra Ann Binning and Timothée Poisot

How can we reduce biomedical research’s carbon footprint? pp. 1-4

Frank J Kelly

How many species are there on Earth? Progress and problems pp. 1-4

John J Wiens

Is N-Hacking Ever OK? The consequences of collecting more data in pursuit of statistical significance pp. 1-15

Pamela Reinagel

Volume 21, issue 10, 2023

Independent insulin signaling modulators govern hot avoidance under different feeding states pp. 1-31

Meng-Hsuan Chiang, Yu-Chun Lin, Sheng-Fu Chen, Peng-Shiuan Lee, Tsai-Feng Fu, Tony Wu and Chia-Lin Wu

Available upon all requests? How and why we should better incentivize the sharing of biomaterials pp. 1-4

Suzannah J Rihn and Alexander Harms

Volume 21, issue 9, 2023

Vaccination against microbiota motility protects mice from the detrimental impact of dietary emulsifier consumption pp. 1-19

Melissa C Kordahi, Clara Delaroque, Marie-Florence Bredèche, Andrew T Gewirtz and Benoit Chassaing

Editorial Note: The Communication Factor EDF and the Toxin–Antitoxin Module mazEF Determine the Mode of Action of Antibiotics pp. 1-1

The PLOS Biology Editors

Key attributes of successful research institutes pp. 1-15

Frank Bradke, Aidan Maartens and Sarah A Teichmann

Predicting the virulence of future emerging zoonotic viruses pp. 1-4

Samuel Alizon

Supporting nonlinear careers to diversify science pp. 1-4

Anna L Vlasits, Monique L Smith, Maria Maldonado and Simone Brixius-Anderko

Volume 21, issue 8, 2023

FBXO7/ntc and USP30 antagonistically set the ubiquitination threshold for basal mitophagy and provide a target for Pink1 phosphorylation in vivo pp. 1-26

Alvaro Sanchez-Martinez, Aitor Martinez and Alexander J Whitworth

Autism-related KLHL17 and SYNPO act in concert to control activity-dependent dendritic spine enlargement and the spine apparatus pp. 1-30

Hsiao-Tang Hu, Yung-Jui Lin, Ueh-Ting Tim Wang, Sue-Ping Lee, Yae-Huei Liou, Bi-Chang Chen and Yi-Ping Hsueh

An interactive deep learning-based approach reveals mitochondrial cristae topologies pp. 1-31

Shogo Suga, Koki Nakamura, Yu Nakanishi, Bruno M Humbel, Hiroki Kawai and Yusuke Hirabayashi

Functional geometry of auditory cortical resting state networks derived from intracranial electrophysiology pp. 1-44

Matthew I Banks, Bryan M Krause, D Graham Berger, Declan I Campbell, Aaron D Boes, Joel E Bruss, Christopher K Kovach, Hiroto Kawasaki, Mitchell Steinschneider and Kirill V Nourski

Behavioral ecology: New technology enables a more holistic view of complex animal behavior pp. 1-5

Gail L Patricelli

Relationship between journal impact factor and the thoroughness and helpfulness of peer reviews pp. 1-18

Anna Severin, Michaela Strinzel, Matthias Egger, Tiago Barros, Alexander Sokolov, Julia Vilstrup Mouatt and Stefan Müller

Volume 21, issue 7, 2023

Intrinsic rewards explain context-sensitive valuation in reinforcement learning pp. 1-31

Gaia Molinaro and Anne G E Collins

An integrated, systems-wide approach is needed for public–private partnerships to drive genetic innovation in crops pp. 1-4

Catherine Feuillet and Kellye Eversole

Policy recommendations to ensure that research software is openly accessible and reusable pp. 1-4

Erin C McKiernan, Lorena Barba, Philip E Bourne, Caitlin Carter, Zach Chandler, Sayeed Choudhury, Stephen Jacobs, Daniel S Katz, Stefanie Lieggi, Beth Plale and Greg Tananbaum

Insights into the coexistence of birds and humans in cropland through meta-analyses of bird exclosure studies, crop loss mitigation experiments, and social surveys pp. 1-22

Cheng Huang, Kaiwen Zhou, Yuanjun Huang, Pengfei Fan, Yang Liu and Tien Ming Lee

The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science pp. 1-27

Tatsuya Amano, Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda, Violeta Berdejo-Espinola, Israel Borokini, Shawan Chowdhury, Marina Golivets, Juan David González-Trujillo, Flavia Montaño-Centellas, Kumar Paudel, Rachel Louise White and Diogo Veríssimo

Volume 21, issue 6, 2023

Attention is required for canonical brain signature of prediction error despite early encoding of the stimuli pp. 1-23

Alie G Male and Robert P O’Shea

Dynamic modulation of subthalamic nucleus activity facilitates adaptive behavior pp. 1-32

Damian M Herz, Manuel Bange, Gabriel Gonzalez-Escamilla, Miriam Auer, Muthuraman Muthuraman, Martin Glaser, Rafal Bogacz, Alek Pogosyan, Huiling Tan, Sergiu Groppa and Peter Brown

Statistical simulations show that scientists need not increase overall sample size by default when including both sexes in in vivo studies pp. 1-14

Benjamin Phillips, Timo N Haschler and Natasha A Karp

Autophagy prevents early proinflammatory responses and neutrophil recruitment during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection without affecting pathogen burden in macrophages pp. 1-24

Rachel L Kinsella, Jacqueline M Kimmey, Asya Smirnov, Reilly Woodson, Margaret R Gaggioli, Sthefany M Chavez, Darren Kreamalmeyer and Christina L Stallings

Structural basis for proapoptotic activation of Bak by the noncanonical BH3-only protein Pxt1 pp. 1-27

Dahwan Lim, So-Hui Choe, Sein Jin, Seulgi Lee, Younjin Kim, Ho-Chul Shin, Joon Sig Choi, Doo-Byoung Oh, Seung Jun Kim, Jinho Seo and Bonsu Ku

Volume 21, issue 5, 2023

Atlas of the anatomical localization of atypical chemokine receptors in healthy mice pp. 1-27

Serena Melgrati, Egle Radice, Rafet Ameti, Elin Hub, Sylvia Thelen, Pawel Pelczar, David Jarrossay, Antal Rot and Marcus Thelen

Optimal restoration for pollination services increases forest cover while doubling agricultural profits pp. 1-19

Sofía López-Cubillos, Eve McDonald-Madden, Margaret M Mayfield and Rebecca K Runting

Life history optimisation drives latitudinal gradients and responses to global change in marine fishes pp. 1-19

Mariana Álvarez-Noriega, Craig R White, Jan Kozłowski, Troy Day and Dustin J Marshall

A multi-lab experimental assessment reveals that replicability can be improved by using empirical estimates of genotype-by-lab interaction pp. 1-28

Iman Jaljuli, Neri Kafkafi, Eliezer Giladi, Ilan Golani, Illana Gozes, Elissa J Chesler, Molly A Bogue and Yoav Benjamini

Volume 21, issue 4, 2023

BDNF signaling in correlation-dependent structural plasticity in the developing visual system pp. 1-24

Elena Kutsarova, Anne Schohl, Martin Munz, Alex Wang, Yuan Yuan Zhang, Olesia M Bilash and Edward S Ruthazer

A double dissociation between savings and long-term memory in motor learning pp. 1-32

Alkis M Hadjiosif, J Ryan Morehead and Maurice A Smith

Volume 21, issue 3, 2023

A field-wide assessment of differential expression profiling by high-throughput sequencing reveals widespread bias pp. 1-27

Taavi Päll, Hannes Luidalepp, Tanel Tenson and Ülo Maiväli

Phenotypic plasticity evolves at multiple biological levels in response to environmental predictability in a long-term experiment with a halotolerant microalga pp. 1-18

Christelle Leung, Daphné Grulois, Leandro Quadrana and Luis-Miguel Chevin

CMPK2 is a host restriction factor that inhibits infection of multiple coronaviruses in a cell-intrinsic manner pp. 1-28

Mingjun Zhu, Jiahuang Lv, Wei Wang, Rongli Guo, Chunyan Zhong, Avan Antia, Qiru Zeng, Jizong Li, Qingtao Liu, Jinzhu Zhou, Xuejiao Zhu, Baochao Fan, Siyuan Ding and Bin Li

Is it realistic to use microbial photosynthesis to produce electricity directly? pp. 1-4

Christopher J Howe and Paolo Bombelli

Volume 21, issue 2, 2023

Extreme original data yield extreme decline effects pp. 1-5

Jeff C Clements, Josefin Sundin, Timothy D Clark and Fredrik Jutfelt

Improve how science advice is provided to governments by learning from “experts in expert advice” pp. 1-3

Roger Pielke

Volume 21, issue 1, 2023

Is more always better when it comes to mating? pp. 1-3

Hanna Kokko and Michael D Jennions

Neural responses in macaque prefrontal cortex are linked to strategic exploration pp. 1-29

Caroline I Jahn, Jan Grohn, Steven Cuell, Andrew Emberton, Sebastien Bouret, Mark E Walton, Nils Kolling and Jérôme Sallet

Strategic priorities for reproducibility reform pp. 1-4

Tony Ross-Hellauer

Sexual selection in females and the evolution of polyandry pp. 1-20

Salomé Fromonteil, Lucas Marie-Orleach, Lennart Winkler and Tim Janicke