New Publications: November 2020

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

Our list of recent publications is updated weekly here.

November 2020

Arkhipova, I. R. (2020). Metagenome Proteins and Database Contamination. mSphere. DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00854-20

Banks, S. L., Morgan, J., Medeiros, A., Sousa, R., & Lafer, E. (2021). Chaperone proteins as ameliorators of α-synuclein-induced synaptic pathologies: insights into Parkinson’s disease. Neural Regen Res. DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.300431

Furman, B. L. S., Cauret, C. M. S., Knytl, M., Song, X. Y., Premachandra, T., Ofori-Boateng, C., Jordan, D. C., Horb, M. E., & Evans, B. J. (2020). A frog with three sex chromosomes that co-mingle together in nature: Xenopus tropicalis has a degenerate W and a Y that evolved from a Z chromosome. PLOS Genetics. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009121

Kennedy, E. B. L., Buresch, K. C., Boinapally, P., & Hanlon, R. T. (2020). Octopus arms exhibit exceptional flexibility. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-77873-7

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Krueger, J. N., Wilmot, J. H., Teratani-Ota, Y., Puhger, K. R., Nemes, S. E., Crestani, A. P., Lafreniere, M. M., & Wiltgen, B. J. (2020). Amnesia for context fear is caused by widespread disruption of hippocampal activity. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107295

Sleight, V. A., & Gillis, J. A. (2020). Embryonic origin and serial homology of gill arches and paired fins in the skate, Leucoraja erinacea. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.60635

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Vallino, J. J., & Tsakalakis, I. (2020). Phytoplankton Temporal Strategies Increase Entropy Production in a Marine Food Web Model. Entropy (Basel). DOI: 10.3390/e22111249

Woods, B. L., & Gladfelter, A. S. (2020). The state of the septin cytoskeleton from assembly to function. Curr Opin Cell Biol. DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2020.10.007

Xu, N. W., Townsend, J. P., Costello, J. H., Colin, S. P., Gemmell, B. J., & Dabiri, J. O. (2020). Field Testing of Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish to Demonstrate Enhanced Swimming Speeds. Biomimetics (Basel). DOI: 10.3390/biomimetics5040064