eLife

1 week ago | elifesciences.org | Sarah R Mullinax |Andrea M Darby |Anjali Gupta |Patrick Chan

eLife Assessment This valuable study investigates evolutionary aspects around a single amino acid polymorphism, known to be under long-term balancing selection, in an immune peptide of Drosophila melanogaster. Using alleles with different substitutions, the investigators demonstrate that while one allele provides better survival after systemic infections by a bacterial pathogen, the alternative allele endows its carriers with a longer lifespan under certain conditions.

1 week ago | elifesciences.org | Emily Phillips |Louise Goupil |Megan Whitehorn |Emma Bruce-Gardyne

Partial autocorrelation function Request a detailed protocol The partial auto-correlation function (PACF) of the caregiver and infant gaze time series was computed separately, over a range of time intervals, from 100 to 1000ms. First, the gaze time series was converted to a continuous binary variable, with either a 1 or 0 inserted into the time series for the duration of each attention episode, alternated for each consecutive look.

2 weeks ago | elifesciences.org | Michael Pereira |Nathan Faivre |Fosco Bernasconi |Nicholas J. Brandmeir

eLife Assessment This important study reports human single-neuron recordings in subcortical structures while participants performed a tactile detection task around the perceptual threshold. The study and the analyses are well conducted and provide convincing evidence that the thalamus and the subthalamic nucleus contain neurons whose activity correlates with the task, with stimulus presentation, and even with whether the stimulation is consciously detected or not.

2 weeks ago | elifesciences.org | Mohammad Zeeshan |Igor Blatov |Ryuji Yanase |David Ferguson

eLife Assessment In Plasmodium male gametocytes, rapid nuclear division occurs with an intact nuclear envelope, requiring precise coordination between nuclear and cytoplasmic events to ensure proper packaging of each nucleus into a developing gamete. This valuable study characterizes two proteins involved in the formation of Plasmodium berghei male gametes.

2 weeks ago | elifesciences.org | Makaela Nartker |Chaz Firestone |Howard E. Egeth |Ian Phillips

Stimuli and procedure Request a detailed protocol As shown in Figure 2, Experiment 1 contained four trials, with the fourth trial differing from the first three in several ways. All trials took place in a display with dimensions 600 px x 600 px.