Research Articles published by eLife are full-length studies that present important breakthroughs across the life sciences and biomedicine. There is no maximum length and no limits on the number of display items.
At moderate densities, small mammalian herbivores can enhance livestock weight gains by suppressing toxic plants and improving both the abundance and nutritional quality of palatable forage in rangelands.
Nahir Guadalupe Gazal, Maria Jose Castellanos-Montiel ... Nicolás Unsain
An actin-nucleation-dependent assembly of the axonal membrane skeleton reveals that βII-spectrin gap-and-patch patterns in human motor neurons represent an intermediate stage of cytoskeletal maturation.
Layer 6b neurons shape state-dependent brain rhythms and responses to orexin, revealing an underappreciated cortical mechanism that may help explain disrupted sleep-wake regulation in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders more broadly.
Single-cell observations refute the expectation that centrosome positioning is critical for epithelial cell polarization while showing that proper positioning enhances polarization efficiency.
In complex life cycle taxa, the relationship between functional traits and threat status varies across developmental stages, making adult‑based threat predictions insufficient to reflect risks faced during other life stages.
Justin D Shin, Michael Satchell ... Shantanu P Jadhav
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep organizes sparse, sequential cortical reactivation through chains of prefrontal high-frequency oscillations coupled to hippocampal theta, an inter-regional dialogue distinct from that of non-REM ripples.
Anda de Witte, Anouck Matthijs ... Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry
Cerebellar-dependent functions are mostly maintained or even enhanced across the lifespan, with cerebellar-mediated motor abilities remaining intact despite degeneration, in contrast to non-cerebellar measures.
Warm temperature promotes gonadal transformation of ricefield eel by inducing the expression of male pathway genes in ovaries via the Trpv4-pStat3-Kdm6b-Dmrt1 axis.
Polo-like kinase phosphorylation of the centrin arm-localized orphan kinesin KIN-G disrupts its microtubule-binding activity and inhibits centrin arm biogenesis in trypanosomes.
Extracellular DNA degrades at markedly different rates across soils and sequences, substantially biasing estimates of prokaryotic abundance, diversity, and community composition.
