Scientific Correspondence

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1. 1. Neuroscience

   Response to comment on ‘Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness’

   Johannes Jacobus Fahrenfort, Philippa A Johnson ... Simon van Gaal

   This response counters arguments given in a commentary by Sandberg and Overgaard, 2025 regarding an article in eLife about criterion confounds in neural measures of consciousness based on subjective measures by Fahrenfort et al, 2025.
2. 1. Neuroscience

   Comment on ‘Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness’

   Kristian Sandberg, Morten Overgaard

   We are writing to comment on the article by Fahrenfort et al., 2025 about neural measures of consciousness.
3. 1. Neuroscience

   Comment on 'Accumbens cholinergic interneurons dynamically promote dopamine release and enable motivation'

   James Taniguchi, Riccardo Melani ... Nicolas X Tritsch

   We are writing to comment on the article by Mohebi et al., 2023: we show that blue light alters the fluorescent properties of a genetically-encoded dopamine sensor in a manner that may be misconstrued as phasic dopamine release.
4. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Response to comment on 'The clinical pharmacology of tafenoquine in the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria: An individual patient data meta-analysis'

   James A Watson, Robert J Commons ... Nicholas J White

   We are writing to respond to comment by Sharma et al, 2024 on our article about the antimalarial drug tafenoquine.
5. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Comment on 'The clinical pharmacology of tafenoquine in the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria: An individual patient data meta-analysis'

   Raman Sharma, Chao Chen ... Panayota Bird

   We are writing to comment on the article by Watson et al., 2022 about the antimalarial drug tafenoquine.
6. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Response to comment on 'Parasite defensive limb movements enhance acoustic signal attraction in male little torrent frogs'

   Longhui Zhao, Wouter Halfwerk, Jianguo Cui

   We are writing to respond to the comment by Anderson et al., 2023 on our article about limb movements in male little torrent frogs (Zhao et al., 2022).
7. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Comment on 'Parasite defensive limb movements enhance acoustic signal attraction in male little torrent frogs'

   Nigel K Anderson, Doris Preininger, Matthew J Fuxjager

   We are writing to comment on the article by Zhao et al., 2023 about limb movements in male little torrent frogs.
8. 1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

   Comment on 'A conserved strategy for inducing appendage regeneration in moon jellyfish, Drosophila, and mice'

   Anne Sustar, John C Tuthill

   We are writing to comment on the article by Abrams et al., 2021 about appendage regeneration in jellyfish, fruit flies, and mice.
9. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

   Response to comment on 'A conserved strategy for inducing appendage regeneration in moon jellyfish, Drosophila, and mice'

   Yutian Li, Anish A Sarma ... Lea Goentoro

   We are writing to respond to the comment by Sustar and Tuthill, 2023 on our article about appendage regeneration in jellyfish, fruit flies, and mice (Abrams et al., 2021).
10. 1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Comment on ‘Unexpected plasticity in the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei’

    Keith R Matthews, Stephen Larcombe

    We are writing to comment on the article by Schuster et al., 2021 about the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei.