New Publications: March 2021

Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In March 2021, 12 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.

Our list of recent publications is updated weekly here.

March 2021

Hoover, A. P., Xu, N. W., Gemmell, B. J., Colin, S. P., Costello, J. H., Dabiri, J. O., & Miller, L. A. (2021). Neuromechanical wave resonance in jellyfish swimming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2020025118

Jakuba, R. W., Williams, T., Neill, C., Costa, J. E., McHorney, R., Scott, L., Howes, B. L., Ducklow, H., Erickson, M., & Rasmussen, M. (2021). Water quality measurements in Buzzards Bay by the Buzzards Bay Coalition Baywatchers Program from 1992 to 2018. Sci Data. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-00856-4

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Keenen, M. M., Brown, D., Brennan, L. D., Renger, R., Khoo, H., Carlson, C. R., Huang, B., Grill, S. W., Narlikar, G. J., & Redding, S. (2021). HP1 proteins compact DNA into mechanically and positionally stable phase separated domains. Elife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.64563

Lai, N. Y., Bell, J. M., & Bodznick, D. (2021). Multiple behavior-specific cancellation signals contribute to suppressing predictable sensory reafference in a cerebellum-like structure. Journal of Experimental Biology. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.240143

Mueller, R. L., Combs, B., Alhadidy, M. M., Brady, S. T., Morfini, G. A., & Kanaan, N. M. (2021). Tau: A Signaling Hub Protein. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2021.647054

Schnell, A. K., Boeckle, M., Rivera, M., Clayton, N. S., & Hanlon, R. T. (2021). Cuttlefish exert self-control in a delay of gratification task. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.3161

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Schön, I., Rodriguez, F., Dunn, M., Martens, K., Shribak, M., & Arkhipova, I. R. (2021). A Survey of Transposon Landscapes in the Putative Ancient Asexual Ostracod Darwinula stevensoni. Genes. DOI: 10.3390/genes12030401

Squyres, G. R., Holmes, M. J., Barger, S. R., Pennycook, B. R., Ryan, J., Yan, V. T., & Garner, E. C. (2021). Single-molecule imaging reveals that Z-ring condensation is essential for cell division in Bacillus subtilis. Nature Microbiology. DOI: 10.1038/s41564-021-00878-z

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Sugizaki, A., Sato, K., Chiba, K., Saito, K., Kawagishi, M., Tomabechi, Y., Mehta, S. B., Ishii, H., Sakai, N., Shirouzu, M., Tani, T., & Terada, S. (2021). POLArIS, a versatile probe for molecular orientation, revealed actin filaments associated with microtubule asters in early embryos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2019071118

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Tendolkar, A., Pomerantz, A. F., Heryanto, C., Shirk, P. D., Patel, N. H., & Martin, A. (2021). Ultrabithorax Is a Micromanager of Hindwing Identity in Butterflies and Moths. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.643661

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Torres, J. P., Lin, Z., Watkins, M., Salcedo, P. F., Baskin, R. P., Elhabian, S., Safavi-Hemami, H., Taylor, D., Tun, J., Concepcion, G. P., Saguil, N., Yanagihara, A. A., Fang, Y., McArthur, J. R., Tae, H. S., Finol-Urdaneta, R. K., Özpolat, B. D., Olivera, B. M., & Schmidt, E. W. (2021). Small-molecule mimicry hunting strategy in the imperial cone snail, Conus imperialis. Scientific Advances. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf2704

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Vitkunaite, A., Laurinaviciene, A., Plancoulaine, B., Rasmusson, A., Levenson, R., Shribak, M., & Laurinavicius, A. (2021). Intranuclear birefringent inclusions in paraffin sections by polychromatic polarization microscopy. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-85667-8

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