New Publications: February 2021

Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In February 2021, 13 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.

Our list of recent publications is updated weekly here.

February 2021

Fortunato, C. S., Butterfield, D. A., Larson, B., Lawrence-Slavas, N., Algar, C. K., Zeigler Allen, L., Holden, J. F., Proskurowski, G., Reddington, E., Stewart, L. C., Topçuoğlu, B. D., Vallino, J. J., & Huber, J. A. (2021). Seafloor incubation experiment with deep-sea hydrothermal vent fluid reveals effect of pressure and lag time on autotrophic microbial communities. Applied Environmental Microbiology. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00078-21

Gerbich, T. M., & Gladfelter, A. S. (2021). Moving beyond disease to function: Physiological roles for polyglutamine-rich sequences in cell decisions. Curr Opin Cell Biol. DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2021.01.003

Han, X., Su, Y., White, H., O'Neill, K. M., Morgan, N. Y., Christensen, R., Potarazu, D., Vishwasrao, H. D., Xu, S., Sun, Y., Huang, S. Y., Moyle, M. W., Dai, Q., Pommier, Y., Giniger, E., Albrecht, D. R., Probst, R., & Shroff, H. (2021). A polymer index-matched to water enables diverse applications in fluorescence microscopy. Lab Chip. DOI: 10.1039/d0lc01233e

Howarth, R. W., Chan, F., Swaney, D. P., Marino, R. M., & Hayn, M. (2021). Role of external inputs of nutrients to aquatic ecosystems in determining prevalence of nitrogen vs. phosphorus limitation of net primary productivity. Biogeochemistry. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-021-00765-z

Ishii, H., & Tani, T. (2020). Dynamic organization of cortical actin filaments during the ooplasmic segregation of ascidian Ciona eggs. Molecular Biology of the Cell. DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E20-01-0083

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Li, H., Bölscher, T., Winnick, M., Tfaily, M. M., Cardon, Z. G., & Keiluweit, M. (2021). Simple Plant and Microbial Exudates Destabilize Mineral-Associated Organic Matter via Multiple Pathways. Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c04592

Melillo, J. M. (2021). Disruption of the global nitrogen cycle: A grand challenge for the twenty-first century : This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Eutrophication. AMBIO. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-020-01429-2

Messenger, S., Lloret, J., Galloway, J. N., & Giblin, A. (2021). Identifying and assessing effectiveness of alternative low-effort nitrogen footprint reductions in small research institutions. Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abd9f6

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Möbius, W., Hümmert, S., Ruhwedel, T., Kuzirian, A., & Gould, R. (2021). New Species Can Broaden Myelin Research: Suitability of Little Skate, Leucoraja erinacea. Life. DOI: 10.3390/life11020136

Moyle, M. W., Barnes, K. M., Kuchroo, M., Gonopolskiy, A., Duncan, L. H., Sengupta, T., Shao, L., Guo, M., Santella, A., Christensen, R., Kumar, A., Wu, Y., Moon, K. R., Wolf, G., Krishnaswamy, S., Bao, Z., Shroff, H., Mohler, W. A., & Colón-Ramos, D. A. (2021). Structural and developmental principles of neuropil assembly in C. elegans. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-03169-5

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Nowell, R. W., Wilson, C. G., Almeida, P., Schiffer, P. H., Fontaneto, D., Becks, L., Rodriguez, F., Arkhipova, I. R., & Barraclough, T. G. (2021). Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in bdelloid rotifers. Elife, 10. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.63194

Peredo, E. L., & Simmons, S. (2021). Leaf-FISH: In Situ Hybridization Method for Visualizing Bacterial Taxa on Plant Surfaces. Methods in Molecular Biology. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1115-9_8

Román-Vendrell, C., Medeiros, A. T., Sanderson, J. B., Jiang, H., Bartels, T., & Morgan, J. R. (2021). Effects of Excess Brain-Derived Human α-Synuclein on Synaptic Vesicle Trafficking. Frontiers in Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.639414

Are you an MBL scientist with a paper that came out this month and was not included on this list? We apologize for the oversight. Please email comm@mbl.edu