by Gaurav Baruah, Meike Wittmann Mutualistic ecological networks can suddenly transition to undesirable states due to small changes in environmental conditions. Recovering from such a collapse can be difficult as restoring the original environmental conditions may be infeasible. Additionally, such networks can also exhibit a phenomenon known as...

by Fuyin Yang, Hao Zhu, Xinyi Cao, Hui Li, Xinyu Fang, Lingfang Yu, Siqi Li, Zenan Wu, Chunbo Li, Chen Zhang, Xing Tian Distinguishing reality from hallucinations requires efficient monitoring of agency. It has been hypothesized that a copy of motor signals, termed efference copy (EC) or corollary discharge (CD), suppresses sensory responses to...

by Suresha G. Prabhu, Vineeta N. Pillai, Lizna Mohamed Ali, Valérie Vivet-Boudou, Akhil Chameettachal, Serena Bernacchi, Farah Mustafa, Roland Marquet, Tahir A. Rizvi The packaging of genomic RNA (gRNA) into retroviral particles relies on the specific recognition by the Gag precursor of packaging signals (Psi), which maintain a complex secondary...

by Eloïse C. Déaux, Théophane Piette, Florence Gaunet, Thierry Legou, Luc Arnal, Anne-Lise Giraud Within species, vocal and auditory systems presumably coevolved to converge on a critical temporal acoustic structure that can be best produced and perceived. While dogs cannot produce articulated sounds, they respond to speech, raising the question...

by Vanessa Kay Miller, Kendal Broadie The optimization of brain circuit connectivity based on initial environmental input occurs during critical periods characterized by sensory experience-dependent, temporally restricted, and transiently reversible synapse elimination. This precise, targeted synaptic pruning mechanism is mediated by glial phagocytosis....

by Jacob A. Mayfield, Sahadevan Raman, Alexandrea K. Ramnarine, Vivek K. Mishra, Annie D. Huang, Sandrine Dudoit, Jeffrey Buter, Tan-Yun Cheng, David C. Young, Yashodhan M. Nair, Isobel G. Ouellet, Braden T. Griebel, Shuyi Ma, David R. Sherman, Ludovic Mallet, Kyu Y. Rhee, Adriaan J. Minnaard, D. Branch Moody Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) releases...