Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In October 2021, 15 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.

Our list of recent publications is updated weekly here.


October 2021

Cesare, B., Campomenosi, N., & Shribak, M. (2021). Polychromatic polarization: Boosting the capabilities of the good old petrographic microscope. Geology. DOI: 10.1130/g49303.1

Combs, B., Christensen, K. R., Richards, C., Kneynsberg, A., Mueller, R. L., Morris, S. L., Morfini, G., Brady, S. T., & Kanaan, N. M. (2021). FTLD mutant tau impairs axonal transport through a protein phosphatase 1γ-dependent mechanism. J Neurosci: The Journal of Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1914-20.2021

Coppenrath K., Tavares A. L. P., Shaidani N.Wlizla M., Moody S. A., and Horb M. (2021). Generation of a new six1-null line in Xenopus tropicalis for study of development and congenital disease. Genesis: The Journal of Genetics and Development. DOI: 10.1002/dvg.23453

Delmont, T. O., Pierella Karlusich, J. J., Veseli, I., Fuessel, J., Eren, A. M., Foster, R. A., Bowler, C., Wincker, P., & Pelletier, E. (2021). Heterotrophic bacterial diazotrophs are more abundant than their cyanobacterial counterparts in metagenomes covering most of the sunlit ocean. The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology. DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-01135-1

El Baidouri, F., Zalar, P., James, T. Y., Gladfelter, A. S., & Amend, A. (2021). Evolution and Physiology of Amphibious Yeasts. Annual Review of Microbiology. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-051421-121352

Komatsu, V., Doddihal, V., Chang, C. (2021). Imaging of dynamic actin remodeling reveals distinct behaviors of head and trunk mesoderm in gastrulating Xenopus laevis. microPublication Biology. DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000483.

Learn More: Imaging Cell Migration in Xenopus

Lagache, T., Hanson, A., Pérez-Ortega, J. E., Fairhall, A., & Yuste, R. (2021). Tracking calcium dynamics from individual neurons in behaving animals. PLoS Computational Biology. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009432

Leech, V., Hazel, J. W., Gatlin, J. C., Lindsay, A. E., & Manhart, A. (2021). Mathematical modeling accurately predicts the dynamics and scaling of nuclear growth in discrete cytoplasmic volumes. Journal of Theoretical Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110936

Mika K., Okamoto A. S., Shubin N. H., Mark Welch D. B. (2021). Bacterial community dynamics during embryonic development of the little skate (Leucoraja erinacea). Animal Microbiome. DOI: 10.1186/s42523-021-00136-x

Learn More: Nature or Nurture: How Does an Animal Get its Microbiome?

Mitchison, T. J., & Field, C. M. (2021). Self-Organization of Cellular Units. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-120319-025356

Pold, G., Baillargeon, N., Lepe, A., Rastetter, E. B., & Sistla, S. A. (2021). Warming effects on arctic tundra biogeochemistry are limited but habitat‐dependent: a meta‐analysis. Ecosphere. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3777

Pyle, R. L., Barik, S. K., Christidis, L., Conix, S., Costello, M. J., van Dijk, P. P., Garnett, S. T., Hobern, D., Kirk, P. M., Lien, A. M., Orrell, T. M., Remsen, D., Thomson, S. A., Wambiji, N., Zachos, F. E., Zhang, Z. Q., & Thiele, K. R. (2021). Towards a global list of accepted species V. The devil is in the detail. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-021-00504-0

Rastetter, E. B., Griffin, K. L., Rowe, R. J., Gough, L., McLaren, J. R., & Boelman, N. T. (2021). Model responses to CO2 and warming are underestimated without explicit representation of Arctic small‐mammal grazing. Ecological Adaptations. DOI: 10.1002/eap.2478

Ribeiro, R. P., & Aguado, M. T. (2021). Effects of GSK3β inhibition in the regeneration of Syllis malaquini (Syllidae, Annelida). Development Genes and Evolution. DOI: 10.1007/s00427-021-00681-0

Yuan, W., Liu, G. D., Bulseco, A., & Zhou, X. X. (2021). Iron speciation in organic-rich shales from the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, Northern China: Implications for depositional environment. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104917


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