In our latest monthly media coverage roundup, we highlight the top mentions that eLife papers generated in October. You can view the coverage, along with the related research articles, below:
Casanovas-Vilar et al.’s Research Article, ‘Oldest skeleton of a fossil flying squirrel casts new light on the phylogeny of the group’, was covered in:
- Science – Early tree gliders
- PLOS Paleo Community – Fossil Friday Roundup: October 12, 2018
- United Press International – Oldest flying squirrel fossil reshapes evolutionary tree
- ABC Science (Spain) – The first squirrel that crossed the sky, discovered in Catalonia (translated)
- ZME Science – Extinct giant flying squirrel sheds light on the evolution of the gliding rodents
Altschul et al.’s Research Article, ‘Personality links with lifespan in chimpanzees’, was highlighted in:
- IFLScience – Chimps' Secret To A Long Life Is Being Nice To Others
- Earth.com – Chimps who are less aggressive live longer
- Daily Mail – Calm chimps with chums live longer: Researchers find strong social bonds can extend the life of apes
- Rambler (Russia) – The goodwill of male chimpanzees influences longevity
Preller et al.’s Research Article, ‘Changes in global and thalamic brain connectivity in LSD-induced altered states of consciousness are attributable to the 5-HT2A receptor’, was featured in:
- Quartz – Yale scientists have new insight on how LSD works in the brain
Squair et al.’s Research Article, ‘Integrated systems analysis reveals conserved gene networks underlying response to spinal cord injury’, was covered in:
- The Hindu – Gene network found for spinal cord injury
- Times NOW (India) – Scientists discover gene signature linked to spinal cord injury
The Research Article by Parks et al., ‘National and regional seasonal dynamics of all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the USA from 1980 to 2016’, was mentioned in:
- Times NOW (India) – Young men more likely to die in summer in US: Study
Yoshizawa et al.’s Research Article, ‘A biological switching valve evolved in the female of a sex-role reversed cave insect to receive multiple seminal packages’, was featured in:
- La Vanguardia (Spain) – The females of this insect have a penis, and now it is known how it works (translated)
- Asian Scientist – Switching It Up: How Sex Role-Reversed Insects Store More Semen
Liu et al.’s Research Article, ‘Ancient mechanisms for the evolution of the bicoid homeodomain's function in fly development’, was picked up in:
- Digital Trends – Biologists create a mutant fly with 140-million-year-old genes
And the Research Article by Filiault et al., ‘The Aquilegia genome provides insight into adaptive radiation and reveals an extraordinarily polymorphic chromosome with a unique history’, was highlighted in:
- Futurity – COLUMBINE GENOME REVEALS ONE REALLY WEIRD CHROMOSOME
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