During the peer-review process the editor and reviewers write an eLife assessment that summarises the significance of the findings reported in the article (on a scale ranging from landmark to useful) ...

This work describes a valuable method, SICKO, for real-time longitudinal quantification of bacterial colonization in the gut of individual C. elegans. The authors present convincing evidence to ...

Five mg of lyophilized seedlings and tissue samples were disrupted with glass beads and extracted with chloroform:10 mM HCl 1:1 (v/v) (1 ml final volume) and 40 μ M of norvaline was added to the ...