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1. 1. Genetics and Genomics

   

   Quantitative Genetics: A Collection of Articles

   Edited by Patricia Wittkopp et al.

   eLife publishes advances in quantitative genetics, including the genetic basis of complex traits, the maintenance of genetic variation, and their roles in evolution.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Antibiotic Resistance: Bacterial evolution on demand

   Pål J Johnsen et al.

   Bacteria carry antibiotic resistant genes on movable sections of DNA that allow them to select the relevant genes on demand.
3. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Malaria: What happens when forests fall?

   Mercedes Pascual, Andres Baeza

   Combining spatial and temporal data is helping researchers to understand how deforestation influences the risk of malaria.
4. 1. Neuroscience

   Remodeling Synapses: From mice to men

   J Christian Althaus, Michael A Sutton

   All-trans retinoic acid induces functional and structural plasticity of synapses in human cortical circuits through the engagement of the spine apparatus.

5. Meta-Research: Weak evidence of country- and institution-related status bias in the peer review of abstracts

   Mathias Wullum Nielsen et al.

   A preregistered survey experiment spanning six disciplines has found weak evidence of bias in favour of authors from high-status countries and institutions.
6. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Medicine

   COVID-19: Rare variants increase the risk of severe COVID-19

   Frank L van de Veerdonk, Mihai G Netea

   Evidence is mounting that rare loss-of-function variants in the TLR7 gene predispose men with no medical history to severe forms of COVID-19.
7. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Microbiome: Taming the beasts inside

   Erica P Ryu, Emily R Davenport

   Changes in diet associated with domestication may have shaped the composition of microbes found in the guts of animals.
8. 1. Ecology

   Climate Classification: Exploring a new way to think about climate regions

   Barnabas H Daru

   A new system for classifying climates emerges from modeling the environmental conditions that 26,000 species of tetrapods experience in their home range.
9. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health

   Quarantine: Should I stay or should I go?

   Mirjam Kretzschmar, Johannes Müller

   Analysing the characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus makes it possible to estimate the length of quarantine that reduces the impact on society and the economy, while minimising infections.
10. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Alzheimer’s Disease: Exploring the origins of nucleation

    Katarzyna Marta Zoltowska, Lucía Chávez-Gutiérrez

    An approach called deep mutational scanning is improving our understanding of amyloid beta aggregation.