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In our birthday week, we published a lot of new articles and referee reports. Some of the most recently peer reviewed and published articles are below, but make sure to subscribe to the table of contents alert emails if you want to receive all updates. You can also track individual articles to be notified when a comment or referee report is published, or when a published article passes peer review.

Featured article:

Why are neurotransmitters neurotoxic? An evolutionary perspective [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4sz]
Keith D. Harris, Meital Weiss, Amotz Zahavi

 

“In the CNS, minor changes in the concentration of neurotransmitters such as glutamate or dopamine can lead to neurodegenerative diseases. We present an evolutionary perspective on the function of neurotransmitter toxicity in the CNS. We hypothesize that neurotransmitters are selected because of their toxicity, which serves as a test of neuron quality and facilitates the selection of neuronal pathways.”

Selection of new articles to pass peer review:

Metabolomics in psoriatic disease: pilot study reveals metabolite differences in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/3vr]
April W. Armstrong, Julie Wu, Mary Ann Johnson, Dmitry Grapov, Baktazh Azizi, Jaskaran Dhillon, Oliver Fiehn

Stress, rejection, and hormones: Cortisol and progesterone reactivity to laboratory speech and rejection tasks in women and men [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4l7]
Allison E. Gaffey, Michelle M. Wirth

 

Selection of newly published articles:

High reproductive synchrony of Acropora (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea [v1; ref status: approved 1, https://f1000r.es/4yh]
Jessica Bouwmeester, Michael L. Berumen

Observations of membrane fusion in a liposome dispersion: the missing fusion intermediate? [v1; ref status: awaiting peer review, https://f1000r.es/4yg]
Marianna Foldvari