New Publications: February 2026 | Marine Biological Laboratory

Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In February 2026, 7 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.

Evans, L. J., Zhang, R., Medina, M. C., Fitzgerald, E. A., Sylvester, A. W., Chuck, G., Leiboff, S., & Scanlon, M. J. (2026). Cell fate acquisition at a de novo developmental boundary in the maize leaf. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(9), e2533591123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2533591123

Rajan, D. H., Lee, B., Albright, A., Tang, E., Ressler, K., Maravillas, A., Vargas, C., Marshall, W. F., & Cortes, D. B. (2026). Stentor stipatus is a new unicellular species that demonstrates habituation and unique phototaxis. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-40277-0

Eddings, C. R., Fan, M., Imoto, Y., Itoh, K., McDonald, X., Eilers, J., Anderson, W. S., Worley, P. F., Lippmann, K., Nauen, D. W., & Watanabe, S. (2026). Ultrastructural membrane dynamics of mouse and human cortical synapses. Neuron, 114(3), 408-421.e8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.10.030

Jokura, K., Jasek, S., Niederhaus, L., Burkhardt, P., & Jékely, G. (2026). Neural connectome of the ctenophore statocyst. eLife, 14, RP108420. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.108420

Jiang, X., Schaeffer, L., Patni, D., Russo, T., Lee, C.-Z., Aguilar, C., Marques, C., Jansen-West, K., Hruska-Plochan, M., Ray-Soni, A., Lim, S. M., Held, A., Yue, M., Castellanos Otero, P., Aryal, S., Beaussant, H. D. A. M., Basu, H., Takakuwa, H., Daughrity, L. M., Ramesh, N., Da Costa, P., Quadros, A. R. A. A., Nolan, M., Reyes, C. J. F., Wheeler, H., Moran, L. C., Griesman, G., Wymann, B., Trombetta, B. A., Lopez-de-Silanes, E. S., Canori, M., Krishnan, G., Da Silva, Y. V. S., Eriani, G., Albers, M. W., Arnold, S. E., Song, Y., Jain, A., Chiu, I. M., Zhang, Y.-J., Gao, F.-B., Wainger, B. J., Polymenidou, M., Petrucelli, L., Martin, F., & Lagier-Tourenne, C. (2026). Blocking RAN translation without altering repeat RNAs rescues C9ORF72-related ALS and FTD phenotypes. Science, 391(6785), eadv2600. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adv2600

Klementz, B., Neu, S., Laumer, E., Hinne, I., Setton, E., Verma, N., Hämmerle, M., Rallis, J., Barnett, A., Brenneis, G., Gulia-Nuss, M., Pavlopoulos, A., & Sharma, P. (2026). Developmental system drift in the patterning of the arthropod tarsus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 293(2064), 20252557. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2557

Wang, Y., Yang, Q., Chen, J., Chen, Q., Chen, N., He, C., Shi, Q., Lin, T.-H., Cong, Y., Jiao, N., Worden, A. Z., & Zheng, Q. (2026). Warming and River Discharge Accelerate Coastal Heterotrophy and Increase Dissolved Organic Matter Recalcitrance. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c17340

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