New Publications: March and April 2020 | Marine Biological Laboratory

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

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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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