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1. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Aging: A new defense in the battle of the sexes

   George L Sutphin

   Young Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodites use their own sperm to protect against the negative consequences of mating.
2. 1. Neuroscience

   Decision Making: Remembering to choose the future

   Lesley K Fellows

   A brain region known as the hippocampus is required when people assess different options before making a value-based choice.
3. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Cell Signaling: Learning from ancestors

   Suk ho Hong, Neel H Shah

   Applying ancestral sequence reconstruction techniques to protein kinases reveals the mutations that underlie different modes of activation.
4. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Anaerobic Bacteria: Solving a shuttle mystery

   Bridget Conley, Jeffrey Gralnick

   Shewanella oneidensis bacteria use an abiotic reaction to help shuttle electrons outside of the cell.
5. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Neurogenesis: Silencing the alternative

   Priya Sivaramakrishnan, John Isaac Murray

   The transcription factor ztf-11 promotes neuronal differentiation by repressing other cell fates in the nematode worm C. elegans.
6. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Reproduction: Parasites opt for the best of both worlds

   Ellen Decaestecker, Lore Bulteel

   The fungal parasite Podosphaera plantaginis employs both sexual and asexual reproduction to increase its chances of infecting the plant Plantago lanceolata.
7. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Gene Drive: A family of killers

   Mickaël De Carvalho, Sarah E Zanders

   Spok genes are meiotic drivers that increase their own chances of transmission by killing gametes that do not inherit them.
8. 1. Developmental Biology

   Transcriptional Reporters: Watching gene expression in color

   Julie H Simpson

   A combination of two fluorescent proteins with different half-lives allows gene expression to be followed with improved time resolution.
9. 1. Ecology

   Symbiosis: Algae and fungi move from the past to the future

   Paola Bonfante

   The ability of photosynthetic algae to enter the hyphae of a soil fungus could tell us more about the evolution of these species.
10. 1. Evolutionary Biology

    Gene Transfer: Adapting for life in the extreme

    Carolin M Kobras, Daniel Falush

    Red algae have adapted to extreme environments by acquiring genes from bacteria and archaea.