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September 2017

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Simple rules can guide whether land- or ocean-based conservation will best benefit marine ecosystems
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Many coastal marine ecosystems are threatened by anthropogenic activities, but often, the best way to restore and protect these important ecosystems is unclear. This study by Saunders et al. developed a model based on seagrass meadows and adjacent catchments in Queensland, Australia, using it to ask whether, in order to maximize the extent to coastal marine ecosystems, we should restore or protect, on either the coastal land or in the ocean. The answer was that direct, active marine restoration can be the most cost-effective approach to maximizing extent of marine ecosystems over longer (decades-long) timescales. This image shows a seagrass meadow and adjacent landscape at Carp Island, Palau.

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Essay

60 years ago, Francis Crick changed the logic of biology

Matthew Cobb

PLOS Biology: published September 18, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003243

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The Experimental Design Assistant

Nathalie Percie du Sert, Ian Bamsey, Simon T. Bate, Manuel Berdoy, Robin A. Clark, Innes Cuthill, Derek Fry, Natasha A. Karp, Malcolm Macleod, Lawrence Moon, S. Clare Stanford, Brian Lings

PLOS Biology: published September 28, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003779

Research Articles

Simple rules can guide whether land- or ocean-based conservation will best benefit marine ecosystems

Megan I. Saunders, Michael Bode, Scott Atkinson, Carissa J. Klein, Anna Metaxas, Jutta Beher, Maria Beger, Morena Mills, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Vivitskaia Tulloch, Hugh P. Possingham

PLOS Biology: published September 6, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001886

Identifying genetic variants that affect viability in large cohorts

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

PLOS Biology: published September 5, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002458

Place field assembly distribution encodes preferred locations

Omar Mamad, Lars Stumpp, Harold M. McNamara, Charu Ramakrishnan, Karl Deisseroth, Richard B. Reilly, Marian Tsanov

PLOS Biology: published September 12, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002365

Development of rat female genital cortex and control of female puberty by sexual touch

Constanze Lenschow, Johanna Sigl-Glöckner, Michael Brecht

PLOS Biology: published September 21, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001283

Reduced insulin signaling maintains electrical transmission in a neural circuit in aging flies

Hrvoje Augustin, Kieran McGourty, Marcus J. Allen, Sirisha Kudumala Madem, Jennifer Adcott, Fiona Kerr, Chi Tung Wong, Alec Vincent, Tanja Godenschwege, Emmanuel Boucrot, Linda Partridge

PLOS Biology: published September 13, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001655

Dynamic patterning by the Drosophila pair-rule network reconciles long-germ and short-germ segmentation

Erik Clark

PLOS Biology: published September 27, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002439

A new discrete dynamic model of ABA-induced stomatal closure predicts key feedback loops

Réka Albert, Biswa R. Acharya, Byeong Wook Jeon, Jorge G. T. Zañudo, Mengmeng Zhu, Karim Osman, Sarah M. Assmann

PLOS Biology: published September 22, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003451

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Methods and Resources

Systematic analysis of transcription start sites in avian development

Marina Lizio, Ruslan Deviatiiarov, Hiroki Nagai, Laura Galan, Erik Arner, Masayoshi Itoh, Timo Lassmann, Takeya Kasukawa, Akira Hasegawa, Marian A. Ros, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Piero Carninci, Alistair R. R. Forrest, Hideya Kawaji, Oleg Gusev, Guojun Sheng

PLOS Biology: published September 5, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002887

Genome-wide identification of bacterial plant colonization genes

Benjamin J. Cole, Meghan E. Feltcher, Robert J. Waters, Kelly M. Wetmore, Tatiana S. Mucyn, Elizabeth M. Ryan, Gaoyan Wang, Sabah Ul-Hasan, Meredith McDonald, Yasuo Yoshikuni, Rex R. Malmstrom, Adam M. Deutschbauer, Jeffery L. Dangl, Axel Visel

PLOS Biology: published September 22, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002860

Extreme genome diversity in the hyper-prevalent parasitic eukaryote Blastocystis

Eleni Gentekaki, Bruce A. Curtis, Courtney W. Stairs, Vladimír Klimeš, Marek Eliáš, Dayana E. Salas-Leiva, Emily K. Herman, Laura Eme, Maria C. Arias, Bernard Henrissat, Frédérique Hilliou, Mary J. Klute, Hiroshi Suga, Shehre-Banoo Malik, Arthur W. Pightling, Martin Kolisko, Richard A. Rachubinski, Alexander Schlacht, Darren M. Soanes, Anastasios D. Tsaousis, John M. Archibald, Steven G. Ball, Joel B. Dacks, C. Graham Clark, Mark van der Giezen, Andrew J. Roger

PLOS Biology: published September 11, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003769

A map of protein dynamics during cell-cycle progression and cell-cycle exit

Sara Gookin, Mingwei Min, Harsha Phadke, Mingyu Chung, Justin Moser, Iain Miller, Dylan Carter, Sabrina L. Spencer

PLOS Biology: published September 11, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003268

Meta-Research Article

‘Spin’ in published biomedical literature: A methodological systematic review

Kellia Chiu, Quinn Grundy, Lisa Bero

PLOS Biology: published September 11, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002173

Formal Comments

Dance to the rhythm, cautiously: Isolating unique indicators of oscillatory entrainment

Assaf Breska, Leon Y. Deouell

PLOS Biology: published September 19, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003534

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What do we talk about when we talk about rhythm?

Jonas Obleser, Molly J. Henry, Peter Lakatos

PLOS Biology: published September 19, 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002794

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