New Publications: March and April 2020

Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In March and April 2020, 15 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.

Our list of recent publications is updated weekly here.

April

Arenas Gómez, C. M., Sabin, K. Z., & Echeverri, K. (2020). Wound healing across the animal kingdom: crosstalk between the immune system and the extracellular matrix. Dev Dyn. DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.178

Begovich, K., Yelon, D., & Wilhelm, J. E. (2020). PRPS polymerization influences lens fiber organization in zebrafish. Dev Dyn. DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.173

Keya, J. J., Kudoh, H., Kabir, A. M. R., Inoue, D., Miyamoto, N., Tani, T., Kakugo, A., & Shikinaka, K. (2020). Radial alignment of microtubules through tubulin polymerization in an evaporating droplet. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231352

Koike-Tani, M., Tominaga, T., Oldenbourg, R., & Tani, T. (2020). Birefringence Changes of Dendrites in Mouse Hippocampal Slices Revealed with Polarizing Microscopy. Biophys J. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.03.016

Song, Yuyu (2020) Synaptic Actions of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-Associated G85R-SOD1 in the Squid Giant Synapse. eNeuro. DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0369-19.2020

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Thayer, R. C., Allen, F. I., & Patel, N. H. (2020). Structural color in Junonia butterflies evolves by tuning scale lamina thickness. Elife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.52187

Learn More: The Evolution of Color: Team Shows How Butterfly Wings Can Shift in Hue

Watsa, M., Erkenswick, G. A., Pomerantz, A., & Prost, S. (2020). Portable sequencing as a teaching tool in conservation and biodiversity research. PLoS Biol. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000667

Werner, W. J., Sanderman, J., & Melillo, J. M. (2020). Decreased Soil Organic Matter in a Long-Term Soil Warming Experiment Lowers Soil Water Holding Capacity and Affects Soil Thermal and Hydrological Buffering. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. DOI: 10.1029/2019JG005158

Zhang, L., Zhou, L., Wei, J., Xu, H., Tang, Q., & Tang, J. (2020). Integrating cover crops with chicken grazing to improve soil nitrogen in rice fields and increase economic output. Science of the Total Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135218

March

Murphy, A. E., Bulseco, A. N., Ackerman, R., Vineis, J. H., & Bowen, J. L. (2020). Sulphide addition favours respiratory ammonification (DNRA) over complete denitrification and alters the active microbial community in salt marsh sediments. Environmental Microbiology. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14969

Smith, J.A., Curry, E.G., Blue, R.E., Roden, C., Dundon, S.E.R., Rodríguez-Vargas, A., Jordan, D.C., Chen, X., Lyons, S.H., Crutchley, J., Anderson, P., Horb, M.E., Gladfelter, A.S., and Giudice, J. (2020) FXR1 splicing is important for muscle development and biomolecular condensates in muscle cells. Journal of Cell Biology. DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201911129

Rastetter, E. B., & Kwiatkowski, B. L. (2020). An approach to modeling resource optimization for substitutable and interdependent resources. Ecological Modeling. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109033

Rodenfels, J., Sartori, P., Golfier, S., Nagendra, K., Neugebauer, K. M., & Howard, J. (2020). Contribution of increasing plasma membrane to the energetic cost of early zebrafish embryogenesis. Molecular Biology of the Cell. DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E19-09-0529

Vallecillo-Viejo, I. C., Liscovitch-Brauer, N., Diaz Quiroz, J. F., Montiel-Gonzalez, Maria F., Nemes, Sonya E., Rangan, K. J., Levinson, S. R., Eisenberg, E., & Rosenthal, J. J. C. (2020). Spatially regulated editing of genetic information within a neuron. Nucleic Acids Research. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa172

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Wilbert, S. A., Mark Welch, J. L., & Borisy, G. G. (2020). Spatial Ecology of the Human Tongue Dorsum Microbiome. Cell Reports. DOI: 10.1016

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