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A successfully returning forager communicates using the waggle dance where she found resources. Scientists decode this message to determine where bees are collecting food. Significant and consistent trends in intra-dance variation may be used to devise an efficient, effective, and cheap methodology for dance decoding. See the article by Couvillon et al. (doi: 10.1242/bio.20121099). Image courtesy of Christoph Grüter.
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Fast & Fair peer review
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Interviews with Biologists @ 100 conference speakers
Explore our interviews with keynote speakers from the Biologists @ 100 conference, hosted to celebrate our publisher’s 100th anniversary, where we discuss climate change and biodiversity with Hans-Otto Pörtner and Jane Francis, health and disease with Charles Swanton and Sadaf Farooqi, and emerging technologies with Manu Prakash and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz.
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A novel role for glycogen synthase during heat stress
Pratibha Bhadauriya, Akanksha Onkar and colleagues highlight a novel role for glycogen synthase (GS) in regulating autophagy during heat stress via heat shock factor 1 in neuronal cells. Moreover, they show that GS-mediated glycogen metabolism is not only a reservoir of energy but an active molecular player in heat stress responses.
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