New Publications: January 2025

Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In January 2025, 10 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.

Our list of recent publications is updated weekly here.

Zhao, Y., Zhou, R., Xie, B., Liu, C., Kalski, M., Cham, C., Jiang, Z., Koval, J., Weber, C., Rubin, D., Sogin, M., Crosson, S., Chen, M., Huang, J., Fiebig, A., Dalal, S., Chang, E., Basu, A., & Pott, S. (2025). Multiomic analysis reveals cellular, transcriptomic and epigenetic changes in intestinal pouches of ulcerative colitis patients. Nature Communications, 16(1), 904. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56212-2

MacCord, K. (2025). Let’s talk about sex…cell lineages. Biological Theory, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-024-00488-y

Thiruppathy, M., Teubner, L., Roberts, R., Lasser, M., Moscatello, A., Chen, Y.-W., Hochstim, C., Ruffins, S., Sarkar, A., Tassey, J., Evseenko, D., Lozito, T., Willsey, H., Gillis, J., & Crump, J. (2025). Repurposing of a gill gene regulatory program for outer ear evolution. Nature, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08577-5

iu, J., Man, Y., Costello, J. H., & Kanso, E. (2025). Optimal feeding in swimming and attached ciliates. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1003, A26. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.1139

Longman, E. K., Merolla, S., Talke, S. A., Trautman, N., Largier, J. L., Harris, L., & Sanford, E. (2025). Evaluating historical changes in a mussel bed community in northern California. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 1930. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-86105-9

Handa, S., Biswas, T., Chakraborty, J., Ghosh, G., Paul, B. G., & Ghosh, P. (2025a). RNA control of reverse transcription in a diversity-generating retroelement. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08405-w

Handa, S., Biswas, T., Chakraborty, J., Ghosh, G., Paul, B., & Ghosh, P. (2025b). RNA control of reverse transcription in a diversity-generating retroelement. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08405-w

Hinkle, J., Chanton, J., Moynihan, M., Ruff, S., & Teske, A. (2025). Complex bacterial diversity of Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments revealed by synthetic long-read sequencing (LoopSeq). Frontiers in Microbiology, 15, 1491488. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1491488

Peredo, E., Thomas, S., & Cardon, Z. (2025). Draft genome sequence of Mycobacterium sp. SA01 isolated from Sporobolus alterniflorus seedlings collected in Cape Cod (USA). Microbiology Resource Announcements, e0102524. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01025-24

Almoril-Porras, A., Calvo, A., Niu, L., Beagan, J., Díaz García, M., Hawk, J., Aljobeh, A., Wisdom, E., Ren, I., Wang, Z.-W., & Colón-Ramos, D. (2024). Configuration of electrical synapses filters sensory information to drive behavioral choices. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.11.037

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