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Volume 16, issue 12, 2018

Reply to “Far away from the lamppost” pp. 1-2

Thomas Stoeger, Martin Gerlach, Richard I Morimoto and Luís A Nunes Amaral

Errors as a primary cause of late-life mortality deceleration and plateaus pp. 1-12

Saul Justin Newman

Plane inclinations: A critique of hypothesis and model choice in Barbi et al pp. 1-4

Saul Justin Newman

Analysis validation has been neglected in the Age of Reproducibility pp. 1-15

Kathleen E Lotterhos, Jason H Moore and Ann E Stapleton

Neural responses to natural and model-matched stimuli reveal distinct computations in primary and nonprimary auditory cortex pp. 1-46

Sam V Norman-Haignere and Josh H McDermott

Volume 16, issue 11, 2018

Heterologous Hsp90 promotes phenotypic diversity through network evolution pp. 1-29

Tracy Chih-Ting Koubkova-Yu, Jung-Chi Chao and Jun-Yi Leu

Volume 16, issue 10, 2018

Population sampling affects pseudoreplication pp. 1-3

Crispin Y Jordan

The Open Source Seed Licence: A novel approach to safeguarding access to plant germplasm pp. 1-7

Johannes Kotschi and Bernd Horneburg

Crafting your scientist brand pp. 1-7

Peter J Hotez

Quantitative assessment of cell population diversity in single-cell landscapes pp. 1-29

Qi Liu, Charles A Herring, Quanhu Sheng, Jie Ping, Alan J Simmons, Bob Chen, Amrita Banerjee, Wei Li, Guoqiang Gu, Robert J Coffey, Yu Shyr and Ken S Lau

Volume 16, issue 9, 2018

Science in the fight to uphold the rights of children pp. 1-5

Arthur L Caplan and Peter J Hotez

Hook length of the bacterial flagellum is optimized for maximal stability of the flagellar bundle pp. 1-19

Imke Spöring, Vincent A Martinez, Christian Hotz, Jana Schwarz-Linek, Keara L Grady, Josué M Nava-Sedeño, Teun Vissers, Hanna M Singer, Manfred Rohde, Carole Bourquin, Haralampos Hatzikirou, Wilson C K Poon, Yann S Dufour and Marc Erhardt

Manipulating the revision of reward value during the intertrial interval increases sign tracking and dopamine release pp. 1-20

Brian Lee, Ronny N Gentry, Gregory B Bissonette, Rae J Herman, John J Mallon, Daniel W Bryden, Donna J Calu, Geoffrey Schoenbaum, Etienne Coutureau, Alain R Marchand, Mehdi Khamassi and Matthew R Roesch

Transcriptional outcomes and kinetic patterning of gene expression in response to NF-κB activation pp. 1-33

Mingming Zhao, Jaimy Joy, Weiqiang Zhou, Supriyo De, William H Wood, Kevin G Becker, Hongkai Ji and Ranjan Sen

Volume 16, issue 8, 2018

Provenance and risk in transfer of biological materials pp. 1-9

Jane Nielsen, Tania Bubela, Don R C Chalmers, Amber Johns, Linda Kahl, Joanne Kamens, Charles Lawson, John Liddicoat, Rebekah McWhirter, Ann Monotti, James Scheibner, Tess Whitton and Dianne Nicol

FusC, a member of the M16 protease family acquired by bacteria for iron piracy against plants pp. 1-21

Rhys Grinter, Iain D Hay, Jiangning Song, Jiawei Wang, Don Teng, Vijay Dhanesakaran, Jonathan J Wilksch, Mark R Davies, Dene Littler, Simone A Beckham, Ian R Henderson, Richard A Strugnell, Gordon Dougan and Trevor Lithgow

Why is congenital Zika syndrome asymmetrically distributed among human populations? pp. 1-11

Jimena Barbeito-Andrés, Lavínia Schuler-Faccini and Patricia Pestana Garcez

Timescales of influenza A/H3N2 antibody dynamics pp. 1-19

Adam J Kucharski, Justin Lessler, Derek A T Cummings and Steven Riley

Best Match: New relevance search for PubMed pp. 1-12

Nicolas Fiorini, Kathi Canese, Grisha Starchenko, Evgeny Kireev, Won Kim, Vadim Miller, Maxim Osipov, Michael Kholodov, Rafis Ismagilov, Sunil Mohan, James Ostell and Zhiyong Lu

Reconciling corruption with conservation triage: Should investments shift from the last best places? pp. 1-6

Craig Packer and Stephen Polasky

Volume 16, issue 6, 2018

Classes and continua of hippocampal CA1 inhibitory neurons revealed by single-cell transcriptomics pp. 1-37

Kenneth D Harris, Hannah Hochgerner, Nathan G Skene, Lorenza Magno, Linda Katona, Carolina Bengtsson Gonzales, Peter Somogyi, Nicoletta Kessaris, Sten Linnarsson and Jens Hjerling-Leffler

Reporting bias in the literature on the associations of health-related behaviors and statins with cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality pp. 1-19

Leandro Fórnias Machado de Rezende, Juan Pablo Rey-López, Thiago Hérick de Sá, Nicholas Chartres, Alice Fabbri, Lauren Powell, Emmanuel Stamatakis and Lisa Bero

Volume 16, issue 5, 2018

High-dimensional single-cell phenotyping reveals extensive haploinsufficiency pp. 1-23

Shinsuke Ohnuki and Yoshikazu Ohya

Volume 16, issue 4, 2018

The neural system of metacognition accompanying decision-making in the prefrontal cortex pp. 1-27

Lirong Qiu, Jie Su, Yinmei Ni, Yang Bai, Xuesong Zhang, Xiaoli Li and Xiaohong Wan

The gender gap in science: How long until women are equally represented? pp. 1-20

Luke Holman, Devi Stuart-Fox and Cindy E Hauser

Dissecting the null model for biological invasions: A meta-analysis of the propagule pressure effect pp. 1-15

Phillip Cassey, Steven Delean, Julie L Lockwood, Jason S Sadowski and Tim M Blackburn

Meta-research matters: Meta-spin cycles, the blindness of bias, and rebuilding trust pp. 1-4

Lisa Bero

Agent-specific learning signals for self–other distinction during mentalising pp. 1-32

Sam Ereira, Raymond J Dolan and Zeb Kurth-Nelson

Volume 16, issue 3, 2018

Experiments in interdisciplinarity: Responsible research and innovation and the public good pp. 1-8

Ana Delgado and Heidrun Åm

Meta-research: Why research on research matters pp. 1-6

John P A Ioannidis

Autophagy is essential for maintaining the growth of a human (mini-)organ: Evidence from scalp hair follicle organ culture pp. 1-22

Chiara Parodi, Jonathan A Hardman, Giulia Allavena, Roberto Marotta, Tiziano Catelani, Marta Bertolini, Ralf Paus and Benedetto Grimaldi

The Plasmodium falciparum transcriptome in severe malaria reveals altered expression of genes involved in important processes including surface antigen–encoding var genes pp. 1-40

Gerry Q Tonkin-Hill, Leily Trianty, Rintis Noviyanti, Hanh H T Nguyen, Boni F Sebayang, Daniel A Lampah, Jutta Marfurt, Simon A Cobbold, Janavi S Rambhatla, Malcolm J McConville, Stephen J Rogerson, Graham V Brown, Karen P Day, Ric N Price, Nicholas M Anstey, Anthony T Papenfuss and Michael F Duffy

Science-based taxonomy still needs better governance: Response to Thomson et al pp. 1-2

Stephen Thomas Garnett and Les Christidis

Volume 16, issue 2, 2018

Reproducibility of preclinical animal research improves with heterogeneity of study samples pp. 1-13

Bernhard Voelkl, Lucile Vogt, Emily S Sena and Hanno Würbel

Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning pp. 1-18

Kirsty E Graham, Catherine Hobaiter, James Ounsley, Takeshi Furuichi and Richard W Byrne

Volume 16, issue 1, 2018

Structure, function, and control of the human musculoskeletal network pp. 1-27

Andrew C Murphy, Sarah F Muldoon, David Baker, Adam Lastowka, Brittany Bennett, Muzhi Yang and Danielle S Bassett

Control of recollection by slow gamma dominating mid-frequency gamma in hippocampus CA1 pp. 1-27

Dino Dvorak, Basma Radwan, Fraser T Sparks, Zoe Nicole Talbot and André A Fenton

Volume 15, issue 12, 2017

The unsteady state and inertia of chemical regulation under the US Toxic Substances Control Act pp. 1-10

Sheldon Krimsky

The Ink4a/Arf locus operates as a regulator of the circadian clock modulating RAS activity pp. 1-34

Rukeia El-Athman, Nikolai N Genov, Jeannine Mazuch, Kaiyang Zhang, Yong Yu, Luise Fuhr, Mónica Abreu, Yin Li, Thomas Wallach, Achim Kramer, Clemens A Schmitt and Angela Relógio

Task relevance modulates the behavioural and neural effects of sensory predictions pp. 1-27

Ryszard Auksztulewicz, Karl J Friston and Anna C Nobre

Saccades are phase-locked to alpha oscillations in the occipital and medial temporal lobe during successful memory encoding pp. 1-15

Tobias Staudigl, Elisabeth Hartl, Soheyl Noachtar, Christian F Doeller and Ole Jensen

Volume 15, issue 11, 2017

Mutualism in museums: A model for engaging undergraduates in biodiversity science pp. 1-11

Anna E Hiller, Carla Cicero, Monica J Albe, Theresa L W Barclay, Carol L Spencer, Michelle S Koo, Rauri C K Bowie and Eileen A Lacey

Conservation demands safe gene drive pp. 1-8

Kevin M Esvelt and Neil J Gemmell

The prehistory of biology preprints: A forgotten experiment from the 1960s pp. 1-12

Matthew Cobb

Rate, not selectivity, determines neuronal population coding accuracy in auditory cortex pp. 1-22

Wensheng Sun and Dennis L Barbour

Volume 15, issue 10, 2017

Crowd vocal learning induces vocal dialects in bats: Playback of conspecifics shapes fundamental frequency usage by pups pp. 1-14

Yosef Prat, Lindsay Azoulay, Roi Dor and Yossi Yovel

A molecular atlas of the developing ectoderm defines neural, neural crest, placode, and nonneural progenitor identity in vertebrates pp. 1-44

Jean-Louis Plouhinec, Sofía Medina-Ruiz, Caroline Borday, Elsa Bernard, Jean-Philippe Vert, Michael B Eisen, Richard M Harland and Anne H Monsoro-Burq

Imagining the “open” university: Sharing scholarship to improve research and education pp. 1-25

Erin C McKiernan

Additional support for RCR: A validated article-level measure of scientific influence pp. 1-3

B Ian Hutchins, Travis A Hoppe, Rebecca A Meseroll, James M Anderson and George M Santangelo

A critical evaluation of the algorithm behind the Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) pp. 1-5

A Cecile J W Janssens, Michael Goodman, Kimberly R Powell and Marta Gwinn

Volume 15, issue 9, 2017

Identifying genetic variants that affect viability in large cohorts pp. 1-29

Hakhamanesh Mostafavi, Tomaz Berisa, Felix R Day, John R B Perry, Molly Przeworski and Joseph K Pickrell

‘Spin’ in published biomedical literature: A methodological systematic review pp. 1-16

Kellia Chiu, Quinn Grundy and Lisa Bero

Volume 15, issue 8, 2017

Different patterns of neuronal activity trigger distinct responses of oligodendrocyte precursor cells in the corpus callosum pp. 1-32

Balint Nagy, Anahit Hovhannisyan, Ruxandra Barzan, Ting-Jiun Chen and Maria Kukley

Perceived effort for motor control and decision-making pp. 1-6

Ignasi Cos

Volume 15, issue 7, 2017

The costs of saving nature: Does it make “cents”? pp. 1-7

Andrew J Tanentzap

Global economic trade-offs between wild nature and tropical agriculture pp. 1-22

L. Roman Carrasco, Edward L Webb, William S Symes, Lian P Koh and Navjot S Sodhi

Genes, cells, and biobanks: Yes, there’s still a consent problem pp. 1-9

Timothy Caulfield and Blake Murdoch

Building the biomedical data science workforce pp. 1-9

Michelle C Dunn and Philip E Bourne

Volume 15, issue 6, 2017

Can cancer researchers accurately judge whether preclinical reports will reproduce? pp. 1-17

Daniel Benjamin, David R Mandel and Jonathan Kimmelman

What makes a reach movement effortful? Physical effort discounting supports common minimization principles in decision making and motor control pp. 1-23

Pierre Morel, Philipp Ulbrich and Alexander Gail

Practices and promises of Facebook for science outreach: Becoming a “Nerd of Trust” pp. 1-9

Craig R McClain

CACNA1C gene regulates behavioral strategies in operant rule learning pp. 1-27

Georgia Koppe, Anne Stephanie Mallien, Stefan Berger, Dusan Bartsch, Peter Gass, Barbara Vollmayr and Daniel Durstewitz

Volume 15, issue 5, 2017

Teaching genetics prior to teaching evolution improves evolution understanding but not acceptance pp. 1-30

Rebecca Mead, Momna Hejmadi and Laurence D Hurst

Local introduction and heterogeneous spatial spread of dengue-suppressing Wolbachia through an urban population of Aedes aegypti pp. 1-28

Tom L Schmidt, Nicholas H Barton, Gordana Rašić, Andrew P Turley, Brian L Montgomery, Inaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe, Peter E Cook, Peter A Ryan, Scott A Ritchie, Ary A Hoffmann, Scott L O’Neill and Michael Turelli

The co-production of what? Knowledge, values, and social relations in health care pp. 1-6

Angela Filipe, Alicia Renedo and Cicely Marston

AEDT: A new concept for ecological dynamics in the ever-changing world pp. 1-13

Peter Chesson

Volume 15, issue 4, 2017

A novel mechanism of cone photoreceptor adaptation pp. 1-28

Marcus H C Howlett, Robert G Smith and Maarten Kamermans

The credibility crisis in research: Can economics tools help? pp. 1-13

Thomas Gall, John P A Ioannidis and Zacharias Maniadis

Volume 15, issue 3, 2017

Increasing efficiency of preclinical research by group sequential designs pp. 1-9

Konrad Neumann, Ulrike Grittner, Sophie K Piper, Andre Rex, Oscar Florez-Vargas, George Karystianis, Alice Schneider, Ian Wellwood, Bob Siegerink, John P A Ioannidis, Jonathan Kimmelman and Ulrich Dirnagl

Empirical assessment of published effect sizes and power in the recent cognitive neuroscience and psychology literature pp. 1-18

Denes Szucs and John P A Ioannidis

Volume 15, issue 2, 2017

A new explanation for unexpected evolution in body size pp. 1-6

Loeske E B Kruuk

Beyond negative valence: 2-week administration of a serotonergic antidepressant enhances both reward and effort learning signals pp. 1-30

Jacqueline Scholl, Nils Kolling, Natalie Nelissen, Michael Browning, Matthew F S Rushworth and Catherine J Harmer

Neural mechanisms of rhythm-based temporal prediction: Delta phase-locking reflects temporal predictability but not rhythmic entrainment pp. 1-30

Assaf Breska and Leon Y Deouell

Narciclasine attenuates diet-induced obesity by promoting oxidative metabolism in skeletal muscle pp. 1-28

Sofi G Julien, Sun-Yee Kim, Reinhard Brunmeir, Joanna R Sinnakannu, Xiaojia Ge, Hongyu Li, Wei Ma, Jadegoud Yaligar, Bhanu Prakash Kn, Sendhil S Velan, Pia V Röder, Qiongyi Zhang, Choon Kiat Sim, Jingyi Wu, Marta Garcia-Miralles, Mahmoud A Pouladi, Wei Xie, Craig McFarlane, Weiping Han and Feng Xu

Volume 15, issue 1, 2017

Brain–Computer Interface–Based Communication in the Completely Locked-In State pp. 1-25

Ujwal Chaudhary, Bin Xia, Stefano Silvoni, Leonardo G Cohen and Niels Birbaumer