New Publications: January 2026 | Marine Biological Laboratory

Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In January 2026, 8 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.

Liu, J., Man, Y., Costello, J., & Kanso, E. (2026). Feeding rates in sessile versus motile ciliates are hydrodynamically equivalent. Elife, 13. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.99003

Savage, K., Natali, S., Minions, C., Rastetter, E., Schuur, E., Watts, J., & Sistla, S. (2026). Inclusion of Explicit Soil Freeze‐Thaw Dynamics in an Arctic Ecosystem Model Constrains Winter Warming Driven Carbon Loss. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 131(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025jg008877

Kendall, O., Hoang, O. T., Wort, J. L., Hamzeh, H., Körschen, H. G., Pascal, R., Korsching, K., Wu-Lu, M., Bönigk, W., Kambach, C., Alvarez, L., Seifert, R., Strünker, T., Mroginski, M. A., & Kaupp, U. B. (2026). Soluble adenylyl cyclase in nonmammalian sperm is directly controlled by pH, not by HCO3− or Ca2+. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(5), e2505026123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505026123

Vidal, E., Cario, A., Jouvin, M., Abadie, M., Nguyen, O., Erriguible, A., Ranchou-Peyruse, A., & Marre, S. (2026). Real time monitoring of hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis under deep saline aquifers conditions. Journal of Biological Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13036-025-00584-y

Bristol, E. M., Behnke, M. I., Spencer, R. G. M., McKenna, A. M., Charette, M. A., Cardenas, M. B., & McClelland, J. W. (2026). Supra-Permafrost Groundwater is a Source of Highly Biodegradable Dissolved Organic Matter to the Arctic Ocean. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c08206

Kukoly, L. M., Porter, S. R., Jordan, D. C., Murphy, H. A., Knytl, M., Shaidani, N., Thomas, W. R., Anderson, C., Dworkin, I., Horb, M. E., & Evans, B. J. (2026). Sex-specific functional evolution of Dmrt1 in African clawed frogs (Xenopus), and the importance of genetic tipping points in developmental biology. PLOS Genetics, 22(1), e1011992. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011992

Premachandra, T., Gvoždík, V., Anele, E. U., Kučka, M., Chan, Y. F., Horb, M. E., Chifundera, Z. K., Badjedjea, G., Measey, J., & Evans, B. J. (2026). Persistence of an unusual triple sex chromosome system through allopolyploidization in African clawed frogs (Xenopus, subgenus Silurana). Evolution, qpaf246. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf246

Trigodet, F., Sachdeva, R., Banfield, J. F., & Eren, A. M. (2026). Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes. Nature Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02971-8

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.