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October 2022

Many issues afflict the ocean, such as loss of biodiversity, overexploitation, acidification, warming and increasing pollution. Recognizing the scope and urgency of this problem, PLOS Biology has developed a new collection of articles under the theme "Ocean solutions for a sustainable, healthy and inclusive future." The collection explores potential solutions to mitigate the impacts of human activity on ocean ecosystems to minimize or reverse degradation, paving the way for the sustainable use of marine resources. Articles highlight some of the key research priorities on mitigation of the anthropogenic effects on the oceans. The image shows waves lapping the shoreline at dawn in South Africa.

Image Credit: Joanna Clarke

Editorial

The search for ocean solutions

Nancy Knowlton, Emanuele Di Lorenzo

Essays

Finding logic models for sustainable marine development that deliver on social equity

Yoshitaka Ota, Gerald G. Singh, Timothy Clark, Marleen S. Schutter, Wilf Swartz, Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor

Tackling the mangrove restoration challenge

Catherine E. Lovelock, Edward Barbier, Carlos M. Duarte

Living in relationship with the Ocean to transform governance in the UN Ocean Decade

Michelle Bender, Rachel Bustamante, Kelsey Leonard

Advancing the protection of marine life through genomics

Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Melinda A. Coleman

Consensus View

Five actionable pillars to engage the next generation of leaders in the co-design of transformative ocean solutions

Erin V. Satterthwaite, Valeriya Komyakova, Natalia G. Erazo, Louise Gammage, Gabriel A. Juma, Rachel Kelly, Daniel Kleinman, Delphine Lobelle, Rachel Sapery James, Norlaila Binti Mohd Zanuri

Perspectives

Reimagining sustainable fisheries

Jennifer Jacquet, Daniel Pauly

Two-eyed seeing: Embracing the power of Indigenous knowledge for a healthy and sustainable Ocean

Kelsey Leonard, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Maui Hudson, Kenneth Paul, Jay Pearlman, S. Kim Juniper

Community Page

Multiomics in the central Arctic Ocean for benchmarking biodiversity change

Thomas Mock, William Boulton, John-Paul Balmonte, Kevin Barry, Stefan Bertilsson, Jeff Bowman, Moritz Buck, Gunnar Bratbak, Emelia J. Chamberlain, Michael Cunliffe, Jessie Creamean, Oliver Ebenhöh, Sarah Lena Eggers, Allison A. Fong, Jessie Gardner, Rolf Gradinger, Mats A. Granskog, Charlotte Havermans, Thomas Hill, Clara J. M. Hoppe, Kerstin Korte, Aud Larsen, Oliver Müller, Anja Nicolaus, Ellen Oldenburg, Ovidiu Popa, Swantje Rogge, Hendrik Schäfer, Katyanne Shoemaker, Pauline Snoeijs-Leijonmalm, Anders Torstensson, Klaus Valentin, Anna Vader, Kerrie Barry, I.-M. A. Chen, Alicia Clum, Alex Copeland, Chris Daum, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Brian Foster, Bryce Foster, Igor V. Grigoriev, Marcel Huntemann, Natalia Ivanova, Alan Kuo, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Supratim Mukherjee, Krishnaveni Palaniappan, T. B. K. Reddy, Asaf Salamov, Simon Roux, Neha Varghese, Tanja Woyke, Dongying Wu, Richard M. Leggett, Vincent Moulton, Katja Metfies

Research Articles

A prebiotic basis for ATP as the universal energy currency

Silvana Pinna, Cäcilia Kunz, Aaron Halpern, Stuart A. Harrison, Sean F. Jordan, John Ward, Finn Werner, Nick Lane

Conflict over fertilization underlies the transient evolution of reinforcement

Catherine A. Rushworth, Alison M. Wardlaw, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Yaniv Brandvain

Shared biophysical mechanisms determine early biofilm architecture development across different bacterial species

Hannah Jeckel, Francisco Díaz-Pascual, Dominic J. Skinner, Boya Song, Eva Jiménez-Siebert, Kerstin Strenger, Eric Jelli, Sanika Vaidya, Jörn Dunkel, Knut Drescher

Differences in temporal processing speeds between the right and left auditory cortex reflect the strength of recurrent synaptic connectivity

Demetrios Neophytou, Diego M. Arribas, Tushar Arora, Robert B. Levy, Il Memming Park, Hysell V. Oviedo

Distinct phosphorylation states of mammalian CaMKIIβ control the induction and maintenance of sleep

Daisuke Tone, Koji L. Ode, Qianhui Zhang, Hiroshi Fujishima, Rikuhiro G. Yamada, Yoshiki Nagashima, Katsuhiko Matsumoto, Zhiqing Wen, Shota Y. Yoshida, Tomoki T. Mitani, Yuki Arisato, Rei-ichiro Ohno, Maki Ukai-Tadenuma, Junko Yoshida Garçon, Mari Kaneko, Shoi Shi, Hideki Ukai, Kazunari Miyamichi, Takashi Okada, Kenta Sumiyama, Hiroshi Kiyonari, Hiroki R. Ueda

Cell shape anisotropy contributes to self-organized feather pattern fidelity in birds

Camille Curantz, Richard Bailleul, María Castro-Scherianz, Magdalena Hidalgo, Melina Durande, François Graner, Marie Manceau

A caspase–RhoGEF axis contributes to the cell size threshold for apoptotic death in developing Caenorhabditis elegans

Aditya Sethi, Hai Wei, Nikhil Mishra, Ioannis Segos, Eric J. Lambie, Esther Zanin, Barbara Conradt

Parafibromin governs cell polarity and centrosome assembly in Drosophila neural stem cells

Qiannan Deng, Cheng Wang, Chwee Tat Koe, Jan Peter Heinen, Ye Sing Tan, Song Li, Cayetano Gonzalez, Wing-Kin Sung, Hongyan Wang

Phosphoinositide species and filamentous actin formation mediate engulfment by senescent tumor cells

Wesley D. Frey, Ashlyn Y. Anderson, Hyemin Lee, Julie B. Nguyen, Emma L. Cowles, Hua Lu, James G. Jackson

A genome-wide screen identifies SCAI as a modulator of the UV-induced replicative stress response

Jean-François Lemay, Edlie St-Hilaire, Daryl A. Ronato, Yuandi Gao, François Bélanger, Sari Gezzar-Dandashi, Aimé Boris Kimenyi Ishimwe, Christina Sawchyn, Dominique Lévesque, Mary McQuaid, François-Michel Boisvert, Frédérick A. Mallette, Jean-Yves Masson, Elliot A. Drobetsky, Hugo Wurtele

Global genome decompaction leads to stochastic activation of gene expression as a first step toward fate commitment in human hematopoietic cells

Romuald Parmentier, Laëtitia Racine, Alice Moussy, Sophie Chantalat, Ravi Sudharshan, Nan Papili Gao, Daniel Stockholm, Guillaume Corre, Geneviève Fourel, Jean-François Deleuze, Rudiyanto Gunawan, Andras Paldi

LRRC15 inhibits SARS-CoV-2 cellular entry in trans

Jaewon Song, Ryan D. Chow, Mario A. Peña-Hernández, Li Zhang, Skylar A. Loeb, Eui-Young So, Olin D. Liang, Ping Ren, Sidi Chen, Craig B. Wilen, Sanghyun Lee

Cryo-EM structures of LolCDE reveal the molecular mechanism of bacterial lipoprotein sorting in Escherichia coli

Weiwei Bei, Qingshan Luo, Huigang Shi, Haizhen Zhou, Min Zhou, Xinzheng Zhang, Yihua Huang

Short Reports

Enhanced mosquito vectorial capacity underlies the Cape Verde Zika epidemic

Noah H. Rose, Stéphanie Dabo, Silvânia da Veiga Leal, Massamba Sylla, Cheikh T. Diagne, Oumar Faye, Ousmane Faye, Amadou A. Sall, Carolyn S. McBride, Louis Lambrechts

Baseline oxygen consumption decreases with cortical depth

Philipp Mächler, Natalie Fomin-Thunemann, Martin Thunemann, Marte Julie Sætra, Michèle Desjardins, Kıvılcım Kılıç, Layth N. Amra, Emily A. Martin, Ichun Anderson Chen, Ikbal Şencan-Eğilmez, Baoqiang Li, Payam Saisan, John X. Jiang, Qun Cheng, Kimberly L. Weldy, David A. Boas, Richard B. Buxton, Gaute T. Einevoll, Anders M. Dale, Sava Sakadžić, Anna Devor

The inner nuclear membrane protein NEMP1 supports nuclear envelope openings and enucleation of erythroblasts

Didier Hodzic, Jun Wu, Karen Krchma, Andrea Jurisicova, Yonit Tsatskis, Yijie Liu, Peng Ji, Kyunghee Choi, Helen McNeill

Methods and Resources

OrthoSNAP: A tree splitting and pruning algorithm for retrieving single-copy orthologs from gene family trees

Jacob L. Steenwyk, Dayna C. Goltz, Thomas J. Buida III, Yuanning Li, Xing-Xing Shen, Antonis Rokas

Circadian regulation of the transcriptome in a complex polyploid crop

Hannah Rees, Rachel Rusholme-Pilcher, Paul Bailey, Joshua Colmer, Benjamen White, Connor Reynolds, Sabrina Jaye Ward, Benedict Coombes, Calum A. Graham, Luíza Lane de Barros Dantas, Antony N. Dodd, Anthony Hall

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Meta-Research Article

The rearing environment persistently modulates mouse phenotypes from the molecular to the behavioural level

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Discovery Report

Heliorhodopsin binds and regulates glutamine synthetase activity

Shin-Gyu Cho, Myungchul Song, Kimleng Chuon, Jin-gon Shim, Seanghun Meas, Kwang-Hwan Jung