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Volume 17, issue 12, 2019

High-order interactions distort the functional landscape of microbial consortia pp. 1-34

Alicia Sanchez-Gorostiaga, Djordje Bajić, Melisa L Osborne, Juan F Poyatos and Alvaro Sanchez

Correction: Open science challenges, benefits and tips in early career and beyond pp. 1-1

Christopher Allen and David M A Mehler

The deubiquitinase USP6 affects memory and synaptic plasticity through modulating NMDA receptor stability pp. 1-31

Fanwei Zeng, Xuehai Ma, Lin Zhu, Qiang Xu, Yuzhe Zeng, Yue Gao, Guilin Li, Tiantian Guo, Haibin Zhang, Xiaoyan Tang, Ziqiang Wang, Zesen Ye, Liangkai Zheng, Hongfeng Zhang, Qiuyang Zheng, Kunping Li, Jinfang Lu, Xueting Qi, Hong Luo, Xian Zhang, Zhanxiang Wang, Yulin Zhou, Yi Yao, Rongqin Ke, Ying Zhou, Yan Liu, Hao Sun, Timothy Huang, Zhicheng Shao, Huaxi Xu and Xin Wang

Coinfections by noninteracting pathogens are not independent and require new tests of interaction pp. 1-25

Frédéric M Hamelin, Linda J S Allen, Vrushali A Bokil, Louis J Gross, Frank M Hilker, Michael J Jeger, Carrie A Manore, Alison G Power, Megan A Rúa and Nik J Cunniffe

Viewing the Invisible: Exploring common methodology across disciplines pp. 1-5

Ann Witheridge and Rivka Leah Isaacson

Volume 17, issue 11, 2019

Development, environmental degradation, and disease spread in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 1-8

Marcia C Castro, Andres Baeza, Cláudia Torres Codeço, Zulma M Cucunubá, Ana Paula Dal’Asta, Giulio A De Leo, Andrew P Dobson, Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar, Raquel Martins Lana, Rachel Lowe, Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro, Mercedes Pascual and Mauricio Santos-Vega

Local vulnerability and global connectivity jointly shape neurodegenerative disease propagation pp. 1-27

Ying-Qiu Zheng, Yu Zhang, Yvonne Yau, Yashar Zeighami, Kevin Larcher, Bratislav Misic and Alain Dagher

Neuroimaging-based prediction of mental traits: Road to utopia or Orwell? pp. 1-6

Simon B Eickhoff and Robert Langner

Recurrent functional misinterpretation of RNA-seq data caused by sample-specific gene length bias pp. 1-15

Shir Mandelboum, Zohar Manber, Orna Elroy-Stein and Ran Elkon

Data-driven analyses of motor impairments in animal models of neurological disorders pp. 1-30

Hardeep Ryait, Edgar Bermudez-Contreras, Matthew Harvey, Jamshid Faraji, Behroo Mirza Agha, Andrea Gomez-Palacio Schjetnan, Aaron Gruber, Jon Doan, Majid Mohajerani, Gerlinde A S Metz, Ian Q Whishaw and Artur Luczak

All or nothing: No half-Merge and the evolution of syntax pp. 1-5

Robert C Berwick and Noam Chomsky

Volume 17, issue 10, 2019

The NIH public access policy did not harm biomedical journals pp. 1-7

A Townsend Peterson, Paul E Johnson, Narayani Barve, Ada Emmett, Marc L Greenberg, Josh Bolick and Huijie Qiao

Refining animal research: The Animal Study Registry pp. 1-12

Bettina Bert, Céline Heinl, Justyna Chmielewska, Franziska Schwarz, Barbara Grune, Andreas Hensel, Matthias Greiner and Gilbert Schönfelder

Predicting translational progress in biomedical research pp. 1-25

B Ian Hutchins, Matthew T Davis, Rebecca A Meseroll and George M Santangelo

A neural ensemble correlation code for sound category identification pp. 1-41

Mina Sadeghi, Xiu Zhai, Ian H Stevenson and Monty A Escabí

Alpha oscillations and traveling waves: Signatures of predictive coding? pp. 1-26

Andrea Alamia and Rufin VanRullen

Song playbacks demonstrate slower evolution of song discrimination in birds from Amazonia than from temperate North America pp. 1-19

Jason T Weir and Trevor D Price

The NIH Open Citation Collection: A public access, broad coverage resource pp. 1-6

B Ian Hutchins, Kirk L Baker, Matthew T Davis, Mario A Diwersy, Ehsanul Haque, Robert M Harriman, Travis A Hoppe, Stephen A Leicht, Payam Meyer and George M Santangelo

Pervasive and diverse collateral sensitivity profiles inform optimal strategies to limit antibiotic resistance pp. 1-34

Jeff Maltas and Kevin B Wood

Correction: Loss of Bardet-Biedl syndrome proteins causes synaptic aberrations in principal neurons pp. 1-1

Naila Haq, Christoph Schmidt-Hieber, Fernando J Sialana, Lorenza Ciani, Janosch P Heller, Michelle Stewart, Liz Bentley, Sara Wells, Richard J Rodenburg, Patrick M Nolan, Elizabeth Forsythe, Michael C Wu, Gert Lubec, Patricia C Salinas, Michael Häusser, Philip L Beales and Sofia Christou-Savina

Symmetry breaking in the embryonic skin triggers directional and sequential plumage patterning pp. 1-27

Richard Bailleul, Camille Curantz, Carole Desmarquet-Trin Dinh, Magdalena Hidalgo, Jonathan Touboul and Marie Manceau

Volume 17, issue 9, 2019

Correction: Remote reefs and seamounts are the last refuges for marine predators across the Indo-Pacific pp. 1-1

Tom B Letessier, David Mouillot, Phil J Bouchet, Laurent Vigliola, Marjorie C Fernandes, Chris Thompson, Germain Boussarie, Jemma Turner, Jean-Baptiste Juhel, Eva Maire, M Julian Caley, Heather J Koldewey, Alan Friedlander, Enric Sala and Jessica J Meeuwig

Volume 17, issue 8, 2019

A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field pp. 1-6

John P A Ioannidis, Jeroen Baas, Richard Klavans and Kevin W Boyack

Correction: JMJD5 links CRY1 function and proteasomal degradation pp. 1-1

Anand R Saran, Diana Kalinowska, Sangphil Oh, Ralf Janknecht and Luciano DiTacchio

Artificially selecting microbial communities: If we can breed dogs, why not microbiomes? pp. 1-8

Flor I Arias-Sánchez, Björn Vessman and Sara Mitri

Identification of traits and functional connectivity-based neurotraits of chronic pain pp. 1-24

Etienne Vachon-Presseau, Sara E Berger, Taha B Abdullah, James W Griffith, Thomas J Schnitzer and A Vania Apkarian

Coordinated circadian timing through the integration of local inputs in Arabidopsis thaliana pp. 1-31

Mark Greenwood, Mirela Domijan, Peter D Gould, Anthony J W Hall and James C W Locke

mGluR5/ERK signaling regulated the phosphorylation and function of glycine receptor α1ins subunit in spinal dorsal horn of mice pp. 1-25

Zi-Yang Zhang, Hu-Hu Bai, Zhen Guo, Hu-Ling Li, Yong-Tao He, Xing-Lian Duan, Zhan-Wei Suo, Xian Yang, Yong-Xing He and Xiao-Dong Hu

Strategic deployment of feature-based attentional gain in primate visual cortex pp. 1-28

Vladislav Kozyrev, Mohammad Reza Daliri, Philipp Schwedhelm and Stefan Treue

Cancer cell population growth kinetics at low densities deviate from the exponential growth model and suggest an Allee effect pp. 1-29

Kaitlyn E Johnson, Grant Howard, William Mo, Michael K Strasser, Ernesto A B F Lima, Sui Huang and Amy Brock

Air pollution as cause of mental disease: Appraisal of the evidence pp. 1-7

John P A Ioannidis

Volume 17, issue 7, 2019

True Grit: Passion and persistence make an innovative course design work pp. 1-10

Anne M Casper, Sarah L Eddy and Scott Freeman

Social intolerance is a consequence, not a cause, of dispersal in spiders pp. 1-27

Violette Chiara, Felipe Ramon Portugal and Raphael Jeanson

Spectral fingerprints or spectral tilt? Evidence for distinct oscillatory signatures of memory formation pp. 1-30

Marie-Christin Fellner, Stephanie Gollwitzer, Stefan Rampp, Gernot Kreiselmeyr, Daniel Bush, Beate Diehl, Nikolai Axmacher, Hajo Hamer and Simon Hanslmayr

The Human Brain Project—Synergy between neuroscience, computing, informatics, and brain-inspired technologies pp. 1-7

Katrin Amunts, Alois C Knoll, Thomas Lippert, Cyriel M A Pennartz, Philippe Ryvlin, Alain Destexhe, Viktor K Jirsa, Egidio D’Angelo and Jan G Bjaalie

Successful validation of a larval dispersal model using genetic parentage data pp. 1-13

Michael Bode, Jeffrey M Leis, Luciano B Mason, David H Williamson, Hugo B Harrison, Severine Choukroun and Geoffrey P Jones

Volume 17, issue 6, 2019

Evolution or revolution? Changing the way science is published and communicated pp. 1-5

Buzz Baum and Enrico Coen

Challenges and recommendations to improve the installability and archival stability of omics computational tools pp. 1-16

Serghei Mangul, Thiago Mosqueiro, Richard J Abdill, Dat Duong, Keith Mitchell, Varuni Sarwal, Brian Hill, Jaqueline Brito, Russell Jared Littman, Benjamin Statz, Angela Ka-Mei Lam, Gargi Dayama, Laura Grieneisen, Lana S Martin, Jonathan Flint, Eleazar Eskin and Ran Blekhman

Complement alone drives efficacy of a chimeric antigonococcal monoclonal antibody pp. 1-29

Sunita Gulati, Frank J Beurskens, Bart-Jan de Kreuk, Marcel Roza, Bo Zheng, Rosane B DeOliveira, Jutamas Shaughnessy, Nancy A Nowak, Ronald P Taylor, Marina Botto, Xianbao He, Robin R Ingalls, Trent M Woodruff, Wen-Chao Song, Janine Schuurman, Peter A Rice and Sanjay Ram

Applying the science of measurement to biology: Why bother? pp. 1-7

Carmen H Coxon, Colin Longstaff and Chris Burns

Inferring the distribution of fitness effects of spontaneous mutations in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii pp. 1-24

Katharina B Böndel, Susanne A Kraemer, Toby Samuels, Deirdre McClean, Josianne Lachapelle, Rob W Ness, Nick Colegrave and Peter D Keightley

Fast calcium transients in dendritic spines driven by extreme statistics pp. 1-26

Kanishka Basnayake, David Mazaud, Alexis Bemelmans, Nathalie Rouach, Eduard Korkotian and David Holcman

Plan U: Universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates pp. 1-4

Richard Sever, Michael Eisen and John Inglis

Plant health emergencies demand open science: Tackling a cereal killer on the run pp. 1-6

Sophien Kamoun, Nicholas J Talbot and M Tofazzal Islam

Improving big citizen science data: Moving beyond haphazard sampling pp. 1-11

Corey T Callaghan, Jodi J L Rowley, William K Cornwell, Alistair G B Poore and Richard E Major

Competition for hosts modulates vast antigenic diversity to generate persistent strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum pp. 1-23

Shai Pilosof, Qixin He, Kathryn E Tiedje, Shazia Ruybal-Pesántez, Karen P Day and Mercedes Pascual

Pleiotropy and synergistic cooperation pp. 1-3

David C Queller

Scientific Community Image Forum: A discussion forum for scientific image software pp. 1-3

Curtis T Rueden, Jeanelle Ackerman, Ellen T Arena, Jan Eglinger, Beth A Cimini, Allen Goodman, Anne E Carpenter and Kevin W Eliceiri

Volume 17, issue 5, 2019

Open science challenges, benefits and tips in early career and beyond pp. 1-14

Christopher Allen and David M A Mehler

Animal models of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: A machine-assisted systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-34

Gillian L Currie, Helena N Angel-Scott, Lesley Colvin, Fala Cramond, Kaitlyn Hair, Laila Khandoker, Jing Liao, Malcolm Macleod, Sarah K McCann, Rosie Morland, Nicki Sherratt, Robert Stewart, Ezgi Tanriver-Ayder, James Thomas, Qianying Wang, Rachel Wodarski, Ran Xiong, Andrew S C Rice and Emily S Sena

Transition bias influences the evolution of antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis pp. 1-23

Joshua L Payne, Fabrizio Menardo, Andrej Trauner, Sonia Borrell, Sebastian M Gygli, Chloe Loiseau, Sebastien Gagneux and Alex R Hall

Rxivist.org: Sorting biology preprints using social media and readership metrics pp. 1-10

Richard J Abdill and Ran Blekhman

AccessLab: Workshops to broaden access to scientific research pp. 1-12

Amber G F Griffiths, Ivvet Modinou, Clio Heslop, Charlotte Brand, Aidan Weatherill, Kate Baker, Anna E Hughes, Jen Lewis, Lee de Mora, Sara Mynott, Katherine E Roberts and David J Griffiths

Caveat Pre-Emptor: Contextualising peer review and publication pp. 1-4

The PLOS Biology Staff Editors

Microstructural and functional gradients are increasingly dissociated in transmodal cortices pp. 1-28

Casey Paquola, Reinder Vos De Wael, Konrad Wagstyl, Richard A I Bethlehem, Seok-Jun Hong, Jakob Seidlitz, Edward T Bullmore, Alan C Evans, Bratislav Misic, Daniel S Margulies, Jonathan Smallwood and Boris C Bernhardt

Volume 17, issue 4, 2019

Questioning the evidence for BCI-based communication in the complete locked-in state pp. 1-5

Martin Spüler

Getting serious about the challenge of regulating germline gene therapy pp. 1-5

Arthur Caplan

Gene-edited babies: What went wrong and what could go wrong pp. 1-5

Haoyi Wang and Hui Yang

The amplitude in periodic neural state trajectories underlies the tempo of rhythmic tapping pp. 1-32

Jorge Gámez, Germán Mendoza, Luis Prado, Abraham Betancourt and Hugo Merchant

Thought-based interaction: Same data, same methods, different results? pp. 1-7

Reinhold Scherer

Request a woman scientist: A database for diversifying the public face of science pp. 1-11

Elizabeth A McCullagh, Katarzyna Nowak, Anne Pogoriler, Jessica L Metcalf, Maryam Zaringhalam and T Jane Zelikova

Item-specific delay activity demonstrates concurrent storage of multiple active neural representations in working memory pp. 1-25

David W Sutterer, Joshua J Foster, Kirsten C S Adam, Edward K Vogel and Edward Awh

To integrate or not to integrate: Temporal dynamics of hierarchical Bayesian causal inference pp. 1-31

Máté Aller and Uta Noppeney

Exact replication: Foundation of science or game of chance? pp. 1-9

Sophie K Piper, Ulrike Grittner, Andre Rex, Nico Riedel, Felix Fischer, Robert Nadon, Bob Siegerink and Ulrich Dirnagl

Broadening the scope of PLOS Biology: Short Reports and Methods and Resources pp. 1-3

The PLOS Biology Staff Editors

Volume 17, issue 3, 2019

Evolthon: A community endeavor to evolve lab evolution pp. 1-17

Sivan Kaminski Strauss, Dvir Schirman, Ghil Jona, Aaron N Brooks, Aditya M Kunjapur, Alex N Nguyen Ba, Alice Flint, Andras Solt, Andreas Mershin, Atray Dixit, Avihu H Yona, Bálint Csörgő, Bede Phillip Busby, Bianca P Hennig, Csaba Pál, Daniel Schraivogel, Daniel Schultz, David G Wernick, Deepa Agashe, Dikla Levi, Dmitry Zabezhinsky, Dor Russ, Ehud Sass, Einat Tamar, Elad Herz, Emmanuel D Levy, George M Church, Idan Yelin, Iftach Nachman, Jeffrey E Gerst, Joseph M Georgeson, Katarzyna P Adamala, Lars M Steinmetz, Marc Rübsam, Markus Ralser, Michael Klutstein, Michael M Desai, Nilima Walunjkar, Ning Yin, Noa Aharon Hefetz, Noah Jakimo, Olga Snitser, Omri Adini, Prashant Kumar, Rachel Soo Hoo Smith, Razi Zeidan, Ronen Hazan, Roni Rak, Roy Kishony, Shannon Johnson, Shira Nouriel, Sibylle C Vonesch, Simmie Foster, Tal Dagan, Tanita Wein, Thrasyvoulos Karydis, Timothy M Wannier, Timothy Stiles, Viridiana Olin-Sandoval, William F Mueller, Yinon M Bar-On, Orna Dahan and Yitzhak Pilpel

PlotsOfData—A web app for visualizing data together with their summaries pp. 1-8

Marten Postma and Joachim Goedhart

Chronotopic maps in human supplementary motor area pp. 1-34

Foteini Protopapa, Masamichi J Hayashi, Shrikanth Kulashekhar, Wietske van der Zwaag, Giovanni Battistella, Micah M Murray, Ryota Kanai and Domenica Bueti

Correction: A proposal for the future of scientific publishing in the life sciences pp. 1-1

The PLOS Biology Staff

Biodiversity data integration—the significance of data resolution and domain pp. 1-16

Christian König, Patrick Weigelt, Julian Schrader, Amanda Taylor, Jens Kattge and Holger Kreft

Volume 17, issue 2, 2019

Scrutinizing assortative mating in birds pp. 1-20

Daiping Wang, Wolfgang Forstmeier, Mihai Valcu, Niels J Dingemanse, Martin Bulla, Christiaan Both, Renée A Duckworth, Lynna Marie Kiere, Patrik Karell, Tomáš Albrecht and Bart Kempenaers

Fast near-whole–brain imaging in adult Drosophila during responses to stimuli and behavior pp. 1-31

Sophie Aimon, Takeo Katsuki, Tongqiu Jia, Logan Grosenick, Michael Broxton, Karl Deisseroth, Terrence J Sejnowski and Ralph J Greenspan

Genetic redundancy fuels polygenic adaptation in Drosophila pp. 1-31

Neda Barghi, Raymond Tobler, Viola Nolte, Ana Marija Jakšić, François Mallard, Kathrin Anna Otte, Marlies Dolezal, Thomas Taus, Robert Kofler and Christian Schlötterer

A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity pp. 1-30

Stilianos Louca, Florent Mazel, Michael Doebeli and Laura Wegener Parfrey

Microglia exit the CNS in spinal root avulsion pp. 1-30

Lauren A Green, Julia C Nebiolo and Cody J Smith

A proposal for the future of scientific publishing in the life sciences pp. 1-10

Bodo M Stern and Erin K O’Shea

Reliable novelty: New should not trump true pp. 1-10

Björn Brembs

On the value of preprints: An early career researcher perspective pp. 1-12

Sarvenaz Sarabipour, Humberto J Debat, Edward Emmott, Steven J Burgess, Benjamin Schwessinger and Zach Hensel

Late-life mortality is underestimated because of data errors pp. 1-7

Leonid A Gavrilov and Natalia S Gavrilova

A single pair of leucokinin neurons are modulated by feeding state and regulate sleep–metabolism interactions pp. 1-26

Maria E Yurgel, Priyanka Kakad, Meet Zandawala, Dick R Nässel, Tanja A Godenschwege and Alex C Keene

Attention promotes the neural encoding of prediction errors pp. 1-22

Cooper A Smout, Matthew F Tang, Marta I Garrido and Jason B Mattingley

A novel nonosteocytic regulatory mechanism of bone modeling pp. 1-22

Lior Ofer, Mason N Dean, Paul Zaslansky, Shiri Kult, Yulia Shwartz, Janna Zaretsky, Shelley Griess-Fishheimer, Efrat Monsonego-Ornan, Elazar Zelzer and Ron Shahar

Volume 17, issue 1, 2019

Triplet-pore structure of a highly divergent TOM complex of hydrogenosomes in Trichomonas vaginalis pp. 1-32

Abhijith Makki, Petr Rada, Vojtěch Žárský, Sami Kereïche, Lubomír Kováčik, Marian Novotný, Tobias Jores, Doron Rapaport and Jan Tachezy

Evidence that nonsignificant results are sometimes preferred: Reverse P-hacking or selective reporting? pp. 1-7

Pierre J C Chuard, Milan Vrtílek, Megan L Head and Michael D Jennions

Open notebook science can maximize impact for rare disease projects pp. 1-4

Rachel J Harding

Developing a modern data workflow for regularly updated data pp. 1-12

Glenda M Yenni, Erica M Christensen, Ellen K Bledsoe, Sarah R Supp, Renata M Diaz, Ethan P White and S K Morgan Ernest

Contest models highlight inherent inefficiencies of scientific funding competitions pp. 1-15

Kevin Gross and Carl T Bergstrom

A transient helix in the disordered region of dynein light intermediate chain links the motor to structurally diverse adaptors for cargo transport pp. 1-33

Ricardo Celestino, Morkos A Henen, José B Gama, Cátia Carvalho, Maxwell McCabe, Daniel J Barbosa, Alexandra Born, Parker J Nichols, Ana X Carvalho, Reto Gassmann and Beat Vögeli