Astrocytic calcium dynamics has been implicated in the encoding of sensory information 1 ,
2 , 3 , 4 – 5 , and modulation of calcium in astrocytes has been shown to affect behaviour 6 , …

Astrocytes respond to neuronal activity and were shown to be necessary for plasticity and
memory. To test whether astrocytic activity is also sufficient to generate synaptic potentiation …

… Adi Doron … Ron Refaeli and Adi Doron authors have contributed equally to this
research. … The authors thank Ami Citri and Adi Kol for the critical reading of the manuscript. …

Remote memories, weeks to decades long, are usually the ones most important to the
organism, as the longevity of a memory is tightly connected to its significance. Retrograde …

A considerable number of fungal homologues of human apoptotic genes have been identified
in recent years. Nevertheless, we are far from being able to connect the different pieces …

Polyploidy often confers emergent properties, such as the higher fibre productivity and quality
of tetraploid cottons than diploid cottons bred for the same environments 1 . Here we show …

Ruminants have the remarkable ability to convert human-indigestible plant biomass into
human-digestible food products, due to a complex microbiome residing in the rumen …

Biologically significant sites in a protein may be identified by contrasting the rates of
synonymous (K s ) and non-synonymous (K a ) substitutions. This enables the inference of site-…

Ancestral sequence reconstruction is essential to a variety of evolutionary studies. Here, we
present the FastML web server, a user-friendly tool for the reconstruction of ancestral …

Plasmids are self-replicating genetic elements capable of mobilization between different
hosts. Plasmids often serve as mediators of lateral gene transfer, a process considered to be a …