Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In November 2021, 13 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.

Our list of recent publications is updated weekly here.


November 2021

Combs, B., Christensen, K. R., Richards, C., Kneynsberg, A., Mueller, R. L., Morris, S. L., Morfini, G. A., Brady, S. T., & Kanaan, N. M. (2021). Frontotemporal Lobar Dementia Mutant Tau Impairs Axonal Transport through a Protein Phosphatase 1 gamma-Dependent Mechanism. Journal of Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1914-20.2021

Cronin-Golomb, O., Harringmeyer, J. P., Weiser, M. W., Zhu, X., Ghosh, N., Novak, A. B., Forbrich, I., & Fichot, C. G. (2021). Modeling benthic solar exposure (UV and visible) in dynamic coastal systems to better inform seagrass habitat suitability. Science of the Total Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151481

Duarte Moreno, H., Reuter, H., Kase, A., & Teichberg, M. (2021). Seaweed farming and land-use impacts on seagrass meadows in the region of Rote Island, Indonesia. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107635

Fies, J., Gemmell, B. J., Fogerson, S. M., Morgan, J. R., Tytell, E. D., & Colin, S. P. (2021). Swimming kinematics and performance of spinal transected lampreys with different levels of axon regeneration. Journal of Experimental Biology. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.242639

Fouke, K. E., Wegman, M. E., Weber, S. A., Brady, E. B., Román-Vendrell, C., & Morgan, J. R. (2021). Synuclein Regulates Synaptic Vesicle Clustering and Docking at a Vertebrate Synapse. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.774650

Kuehn, E., Clausen, D. S., Null, R. W., Metzger, B. M., Willis, A. D., & Özpolat, B. D. (2021). Segment number threshold determines juvenile onset of germline cluster expansion in Platynereis dumerilii. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.23100

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Naert, T., Çiçek, Ö., Ogar, P., Bürgi, M., Shaidani, N. I., Kaminski, M. M., Xu, Y., Grand, K., Vujanovic, M., Prata, D., Hildebrandt, F., Brox, T., Ronneberger, O., Voigt, F. F., Helmchen, F., Loffing, J., Horb, M. E., Willsey, H. R., & Lienkamp, S. S. (2021). Deep learning is widely applicable to phenotyping embryonic development and disease. Development. DOI: 10.1242/dev.199664

Perera, D., McLean, A., Morillo-López, V., Cloutier-Leblanc, K., Almeida, E., Cabana, K., Mark Welch, J., & Ramsey, M. (2021). Mechanisms underlying interactions between two abundant oral commensal bacteria. ISME J. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-01141-3

Pold, G., Kwiatkowski, B. L., Rastetter, E. B., & Sistla, S. A. (2021). Sporadic P limitation constrains microbial growth and facilitates SOM accumulation in the stoichiometrically coupled, acclimating microbe–plant–soil model. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108489

Swartz, S. Z., Tan, T. H., Perillo, M., Fakhri, N., Wessel, G. M., Wikramanayake, A. H., & Cheeseman, I. M. (2021). Polarized Dishevelled dissolution and reassembly drives embryonic axis specification in sea star oocytes. Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.10.022

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Trouche, B., Brandt, M. I., Belser, C., Orejas, C., Pesant, S., Poulain, J., Wincker, P., Auguet, J. C., Arnaud-Haond, S., & Maignien, L. (2021). Diversity and Biogeography of Bathyal and Abyssal Seafloor Bacteria and Archaea Along a Mediterranean—Atlantic Gradient. Frontiers in Microbiology. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.702016

Wu, Y., Han, X., Su, Y., Glidewell, M., Daniels, J. S., Liu, J., Sengupta, T., Rey-Suarez, I., Fischer, R., Patel, A., Combs, C., Sun, J., Wu, X., Christensen, R., Smith, C., Bao, L., Sun, Y., Duncan, L. H., Chen, J., Pommier, Y., Shi, Y. B., Murphy, E., Roy, S., Upadhyaya, A., Colón-Ramos, D., La Riviere, P., & Shroff, H. (2021). Multiview confocal super-resolution microscopy. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04110-0

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Zottoli, S. J., Faber, D. S., Hering, J., Dannhauer, A. C., & Northen, S. (2021). Survival and Axonal Outgrowth of the Mauthner Cell Following Spinal Cord Crush Does Not Drive Post-injury Startle Responses. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.  DOi: 10.3389/fcell.2021.744191


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