03/28/2025
Research Article
How does sensory information activate and construct representations in the human brain? David Acunzo, Damiano Grignolio and Clayton Hickey show that a neuronal network that includes the prefrontal and posterior parietal cortex and the anterior insula has a key role in the translation of perceptual information to concepts, semantics and action plans.
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Current Issue February 2025
03/21/2025
Research Article
How do worms navigate based on learned experience? Kevin Chen, Anuj Sharma, Jonathan Pillow and Andrew Leifer reveal the flexible behavioral strategies and distributed neural computations that underlie learning-dependent odor navigation in Caenorhabditis elegans.
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03/20/2025
Research Article
Sleep is known to support memory; however, Sheng Huang, Chengji Piao, Stephan Sigrist and colleagues identify an instance where memory hyperfunction may actually provoke sleep deficits. They find that the short-sleep Drosophila mutant, insomniac, has enhanced memory and that PKA signaling balances sleep and memory in these flies.
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03/18/2025
Short Reports
Understanding the consequences of past conservation efforts is essential to inform how we maintain and restore species. An analysis of IUCN Red List data on 67,217 animal species, by Ashley Simkins, Silviu Petrovan and co-workers, reveals that a range of different conservation actions have successfully conserved species that are at greatest risk of extinction, but have rarely resulted in full recovery.
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03/17/2025
Short Reports
The secretion mechanisms of many type VI secretion system (T6SS) effectors in Gram-negative bacteria remain unclear. Chaya Mushka Fridman, Eran Bosis, Dor Salomon and colleagues identify a new class of T6SS effectors which can harbor either one or two toxic domains and use WHIX as a secretion motif.
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03/12/2025
Primer
The diversity of bright colors observed across the animal world are often used during mate choice. Richard Merrill explores a new study in PLOS Biology which reveals genetic and neural mechanisms contributing to the evolution of visual mating decisions in Heliconius butterflies.
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03/28/2025
Perspective
The coming decade might see major cuts to US Government funding for biomedicine and the mainstreaming of pseudoscience. Peter Hotez explores how your biosciences PhD may help you navigate this maelstrom.
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03/27/2025
Essay
Soil biodiversity is critical for supporting the health of humans, animals and the environment. This Essay discusses the importance of soil biodiversity in the face of global stressors, and our major knowledge gaps.
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03/25/2025
Editorial
The term “reviewer fatigue” has become only too familiar in scientific publishing. This editorial discusses how we can ease the burden on reviewers to make the peer review system more sustainable.
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03/19/2025
Community Page
Multiplexed imaging is a powerful approach in spatial biology. This Community Page presents the IBEX Knowledge-Base, a central resource for reagents, protocols and more, to enhance knowledge sharing, optimization and innovation of spatial proteomics techniques.
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Neurotechnology offers unprecedented opportunities to treat neural disorders, restore brain function and enhance cognitive abilities. This collection explores the present and possible futures of neurotechnology to improve human health and cognition.
Translating conservation and biodiversity research from the field into the real world is a complex problem. This collection discusses issues around economics, policy, and how to do research that answers questions that decision makers have.
Symbiosis research has become a holistic and pervasive field with a mature theoretical basis. This collection showcases symbiotic relationships across the tree of life, exploring their evolutionary basis and underlying mechanisms.
PLOS Biology is 20 and we are celebrating with a collection that contains articles that look back at landmark studies that we published, others that look past and future, and others discussing how publishing and open science have evolved and what is to come.
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This collection explores engineering strategies to help us adapt plants to a changing climate, including breeding techniques, genome engineering, synthetic biology and microbiome engineering.
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Meet Senior Editor Richard Hodge (rhodge@plos.org)
April 3 - 4
Meet Senior Editor Luke Smith (lsmith@plos.org)
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Meet Associate Editor Melissa Vazquez Hernandez (mvazquezhernandez@plos.org).
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Meet Senior Editor Roli Roberts (rroberts@plos.org)
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Meet Senior Editor Luke Smith (lsmith@plos.org)
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