(Updated: Aug. 10, 2023) — Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In June 2023, 18 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.

Our list of recent publications is updated weekly here.


June 2023

Ahuja, N., Hwaun, E., Pungor, J. R., Rafiq, R., Nemes, S., Sakmar, T., Vogt, M. A., Grasse, B., Quiroz, J. D., Montague, T. G., Null, R. W., Dallis, D. N., Gavriouchkina, D., Marletaz, F., Abbo, L., Rokhsar, D. S., Niell, C. M., Soltesz, I., Albertin, C. B., & Rosenthal, J. J. C. (2023). Creation of an albino squid line by CRISPR-Cas9 and its application for in vivo functional imaging of neural activity. Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.066

Learn More: See-through Squid Lets Scientists Study Cephalopod Nervous System

Arkhipova, I., Yushenova, I., & Rodriguez, F. (2023). Shaping eukaryotic epigenetic systems by horizontal gene transfer. Bioessays. DOI: 10.1002/bies.202200232

Baden, T., Briseño, J., Coffing, G., Cohen-Bodénès, S., Courtney, A., Dickerson, D., Dölen, G., Fiorito, G., Gestal, C., Gustafson, T., Heath-Heckman, E., Hua, Q., Imperadore, P., Kimbara, R., Król, M., Lajbner, Z., Lichilín, N., Macchi, F., McCoy, M. J., Nishiguchi, M. K., Nyholm, S. V., Otjacques, E., Perez-Ferrer, P. A., Ponte, G., Pungor, J. R., Rogers, T. F., Rosenthal, J. J. C., Rouressol, L., Rubas, N., Sanchez, G., Santos, C. P., Schultz, D. T., Seuntjens, E., Songco-Casey, J. O., Stewart, I. E., Styfhals, R., Tuanapaya, S., Vijayan, N., Weissenbacher, A., Zifcakova, L., Schulz, G., Weertman, W., Simakov, O., & Albertin, C. (2023). Cephalopod-omics: Emerging Fields and Technologies in Cephalopod Biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icad087

Birk, M. A., Liscovitch-Brauer, N., Dominguez, M. J., McNeme, S., Yue, Y., Hoff, J. D., Twersky, I., Verhey, K. J., Sutton, R. B., Eisenberg, E., & Rosenthal, J. J. C. (2023). Temperature-dependent RNA editing in octopus extensively recodes the neural proteome. Cell. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.004

Learn more: Masters of Acclimation: Octopuses Adjust to Cold by Editing their RNA

Eckmann, C. A., Eberle, J. S., Wittmers, F., Wilken, S., Bergauer, K., Poirier, C., Blum, M., Makareviciute-Fichtner, K., Jimenez, V., Bachy, C., Vermeij, M. J. A., & Worden, A. Z. (2023). Eukaryotic algal community composition in tropical environments from solar salterns to the open sea. Frontiers in Marine ScienceDOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1131351

Imperadore, P., Jones, K. M., Morgan, J. R., De Sio, F., & Stahnisch, F. W. (2023). Editorial: Regeneration from cells to limbs: past, present, and future. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1229613

Itano, M. S., Kumar, A., & Maddox, P. S. (2023). Editorial: Live cell imaging: Cell and developmental research bridging education, optical engineering, industry, software, shared facilities. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1191235

Jeffery, W. R., Li, B., Ng, M., Li, L., Gorički, Š., & Ma, L. (2023). Differentially expressed chaperone genes reveal a stress response required for unidirectional regeneration in the basal chordate Ciona. BMC Biology. DOI: 10.1186/s12915-023-01633-y

Koop-Jakobsen, K., & Dolch, T. (2023). Future climate conditions alter biomass of salt marsh plants in the Wadden Sea. Marine Biodiversity. DOI: 10.1007/s12526-023-01347-y

Linklater, D., Vailionis, A., Ryu, M., Kamegaki, S., Morikawa, J., Mu, H., Smith, D., Maasoumi, P., Ford, R., Katkus, T., Blamires, S., Kondo, T., Nishijima, Y., Moraru, D., Shribak, M., O’Connor, A., Ivanova, E. P., Ng, S. H., Masuda, H., & Juodkazis, S. (2023). Structure and Optical Anisotropy of Spider Scales and Silk: The Use of Chromaticity and Azimuth Colors to Optically Characterize Complex Biological  Structures. Nanomaterials. DOI: 10.3390/nano13121894

Miller, S. E., Colman, A. S., & Waldbauer, J. R. (2023). Metaproteomics reveals functional partitioning and vegetational variation among permafrost-affected Arctic soil bacterial communities. MSystems. DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01238-22

Ruff, S. E., Humez, P., de Angelis, I. H., Diao, M., Nightingale, M., Cho, S., Connors, L., Kuloyo, O. O., Seltzer, A., Bowman, S., Wankel, S. D., McClain, C. N., Mayer, B., & Strous, M. (2023). Hydrogen and dark oxygen drive microbial productivity in diverse groundwater ecosystems. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38523-4

Learn more: Life Below Our Feet: Team Discovers Microbes Thriving in Groundwater, Producing Oxygen in the Dark

Strauss, J., Choi, C. J., Grone, J., Wittmers, F., Jimenez, V., Makareviciute-Fichtner, K., Bachy, C., Jaeger, G. S., Poirier, C., Eckmann, C., Spezzano, R., Löscher, C. R., Sarma, V. V. S. S., Mahadevan, A., & Worden, A. Z. (2023). The Bay of Bengal exposes abundant photosynthetic picoplankton and newfound diversity along salinity-driven gradients. Environmental Microbiology. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16431

Torres-Morales, J., Mark Welch, J. L., Dewhirst, F. E., & Borisy, G. G. (2023). Site-specialization of human oral Gemella species. Journal of Oral Microbiology. DOI: 10.1080/20002297.2023.2225261

Vallecillo-Viejo, I. C., Voss, G., Albertin, C. B., Liscovitch-Brauer, N., Eisenberg, E., & Rosenthal, J. J. C. (2023). Squid express conserved ADAR orthologs that possess novel features. Frontiers in Genome Editing. DOI: 10.3389/fgeed.2023.1181713

Vicente-Rodríguez, L. C., Torres-Arroyo, A. C., Hernández-Vázquez, A., Rosa-Casillas, M., Bracho-Rincón, D. P., de Jesús, P. M., Behra, M. L., Habib, M. R., Zhou, X.-N., Rosenthal, J. J. C., & Miller, M. W. (2023). The FMRF-NH2 gated sodium channel of Biomphalaria glabrata: Localization and expression following infection by Schistosoma mansoni. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. DOI:10.1371/journal.pntd.0011249

von Montfort, G. M., Costello, J. H., Colin, S. P., Morandini, A. C., Migotto, A. E., Maronna, M. M., Reginato, M., Miyake, H., & Nagata, R. M. (2023). Ontogenetic transitions, biomechanical trade-offs and macroevolution of scyphozoan medusae swimming patterns. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-34927-w

Wilken, S., Yung, C. C. M., Poirier, C., Massana, R., Jimenez, V., & Worden, A. Z. (2023). Choanoflagellates alongside diverse uncultured predatory protists consume the abundant open-ocean cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2302388120

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