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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
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    Viruses: How avian influenza viruses spill over to mammals

    Arturo Barbachano-Guerrero, Daniel R Perez, Sara L Sawyer
    The H3N2 canine influenza virus – which originally came from birds – is evolving to become more transmissible between dogs.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
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    Competition between lysogenic and sensitive bacteria is determined by the fitness costs of the different emerging phage-resistance strategies

    Olaya Rendueles, Jorge AM de Sousa, Eduardo PC Rocha
    The emergence and evolution of different phage-resistance strategies during coevolution between a phage-sensitive strain and a polylysogenic competitor depend on the amount of phage pressure, the fitness costs of resistance, and how these may change at different time scales.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
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    Selection of HIV-1 for resistance to fifth-generation protease inhibitors reveals two independent pathways to high-level resistance

    Ean Spielvogel, Sook-Kyung Lee ... Ronald Swanstrom
    New HIV-1 protease inhibitor designs result in more potent inhibitors with high genetic barriers to resistance and the ability to lead virus evolution down less fit pathways when resistance occurs.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
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    Rescue of Escherichia coli auxotrophy by de novo small proteins

    Arianne M Babina, Serhiy Surkov ... Michael Knopp
    De novo-generated small proteins can cause deattenuation of an amino acid biosynthetic operon by direct protein–RNA interactions.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Hypoxia-induced tracheal elasticity in vector beetle facilitates the loading of pinewood nematode

    Xuan Tang, Jiao Zhou ... Jianghua Sun
    An insect-transmissible plant pathogen, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, uniquely excavates hypoxia to increase vector capacity via Muc91C-enhanced elasticity of tracheal tubes.
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    Plasmodium falciparum adapts its investment into replication versus transmission according to the host environment

    Abdirahman I Abdi, Fiona Achcar ... Matthias Marti
    We investigate how parasites adapt to environmental changes in the context of changing transmission patterns, for example by increasing investment in transmission stages at low endemicity such as elimination settings.
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    Promoting Fc-Fc interactions between anti-capsular antibodies provides strong immune protection against Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Leire Aguinagalde Salazar, Maurits A den Boer ... Suzan HM Rooijakkers
    Fc engineering of monoclonal antibodies strongly improves immune clearance of pneumococcus.
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    Viral Replication: Learning more about hepatitis E virus

    Altaira D Dearborn, Ashish Kumar, Joseph Marcotrigiano
    A domain in the ORF1 polyprotein of the hepatitis E virus that was previously thought to be a protease is actually a zinc-binding domain.
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    Antibiotic-induced accumulation of lipid II synergizes with antimicrobial fatty acids to eradicate bacterial populations

    Ashelyn E Sidders, Katarzyna M Kedziora ... Brian P Conlon
    Palmitoleic acid not only potentiates vancomycin killing of Gram-positive bacteria, but the insertion of palmitoleic acid into the membrane leads to the unexpected accumulation of membrane-bound cell wall precursors, representing a novel mechanism of action for unsaturated fatty acids.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
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    Network-based multi-omics integration reveals metabolic at-risk profile within treated HIV-infection

    Flora Mikaeloff, Marco Gelpi ... Ujjwal Neogi
    Multi-omics-driven patient stratification identify at-risk profile of metabolic complications in people living with HIV on suppressive therapy that need clinical attention.