Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In June 2025, 9 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.

Bogdanov, G., Strzelecka, A. A., Kaimal, N., Senft, S. L., Lee, S., Hanlon, R. T., & Gorodetsky, A. A. (2025). Gradient refractive indices enable squid structural color and inspire multispectral materials. Science388(6754), 1389–1395. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn1570

Goodheart, J. A., Fiorenza, R., Rio, R., Lopez-Anido, R. N., Martin, N. J., Herrlinger, T. J., Tarvin, R. D., & Lyons, D. C. (2025). A subset of conserved phagocytic genes are likely used for the intracellular theft of cnidarian stinging organelles in nudibranch gastropods. EvoDevo16, 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13227-025-00241-x

Guadarrama, E., Heisse, L. W., Morgan, J. R., & Katz, H. R. (2025). Dynamic microglia/macrophage infiltration during spinal cord regeneration in larval sea lamprey. Annals of the New York Academy of Scienceshttps://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15396

Gendreau, A. J., Boucaud, C., Buresch, K. C., Rooney, A. S., Morris, H., & Hanlon, R. T. (2025). How octopuses use and recruit additional arms to find and manipulate visually hidden items. Biology Open, bio.062011. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.062011

McCarthy-Taylor, J. B., Krug, P. J., Muro, S., Vendetti, J., Maestrati, P., Wong, N. L. W. S., Gosliner, T. M., & Valdes, A. (2025). The slug within the bivalve: Molecular and morphological systematics of the family Juliidae (Gastropoda: Panpulmonata: Sacoglossa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 204(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf056

Narayanasamy, N., Bingham, E., Fadero, T., Bozdag, G. O., Ratcliff, W. C., Yunker, P., & Thutupalli, S. (2025). Metabolically driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast. Science Advances11(25), eadr6399. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr6399 *Physiology course*

Paul, B. G., & DiSalvo, B. (2025). Retracing a tangled tree of archaeal evolution. Nature Microbiologyhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-02040-5

Schoenle, A., Francis, O., Archibald, J. M., Burki, F., de Vries, J., Dumack, K., Eme, L., Florent, I., Hehenberger, E., Hoffmeyer, T. T., Irisarri, I., Lara, E., Leger, M. M., Lukeš, J., Massana, R., Mathur, V., Nitsche, F., Strassert, J. F. H., Worden, A. Z., Yurchenko, V., del Campo, J., & Waldvogel, A.-M. (2025). Protist genomics: Key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Trends in Geneticshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2025.05.004

Hashim, M. S., Conte, M. H., Salter, M. A., Pedrosa-Pamies, R.Weber, J. C., Hayden, M. G., Wilson, R. W., Perry, C. T., Crowley, S. F., Dennis, P. F., Bish, D., & Subhas, A. V. (2025). Fish Carbonates in the North Atlantic and Their Potential Role in the Carbon Cycle. Global Biogeochemical Cycles39(6), e2024GB008387. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008387

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.