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.
Transient intrinsic properties of young neurons enable fast learning and support memory stability as the neurons mature, offering a coherent view of the function of adult neurogenesis in olfaction.
Rebeca de la Fuente, Wladimiro Dı́az-Villanueva ... Andres Moya
Alternative splicing exhibits lineage-specific variability, with mammals and birds reaching the highest levels despite conserved intron-rich architectures, while unicellular eukaryotes and prokaryotes display only minimal values.
Mouse sperm are unable to bind the zebrafish chorion, yet a subset of hyperactivated sperm can enter and cross the micropyle, suggesting a conserved mechanism of gamete interaction across species.
A model of a species-rich neutral ecosystem, perturbed by environmental noise impacting each species differently, predicts that for large noise the community is dominated by a few species, while for weaker noise it is more egalitarian, with many significant species.
The first demonstration that a protein thought to function presynaptically (Rab3a) is required for homeostatic, activity-dependent synaptic plasticity of quantal size in central neurons.
Weaker performance in adolescent mice arises from immature cortical representations and cognitive bias, linking developmental changes in behavior with underlying neural coding.
Gianpaolo Antonio Basile, Augusto Ielo ... Alberto Cacciola
The pulvinar complex harbors multiple representations of cortico-cortical connectivity organized hierarchically across its ventro-dorsal and medio-lateral axes.
