Bell Center Publications

Recent Publications

Premachandra T., Gvozdik V., Anele E. U., Kucka 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. doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf246

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:e1011992. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011992

Choi D., Lee W., Choi S., Roberson L. M., Avalos J. L., Moment A. J. (2025). Waste Sargassum Seaweed as a Sustainable Resource for Rare Earth Element Recovery. Acs Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 13:20476-20485. doi: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c08832

Li J., Eliceiri K., Shribak M., Loeffler A., Wang Y. (2025). 51 Seeing Beyond H&E: Polychromatic PolScope Microscopy Visualizes Distinct Collagen Fiber Signatures in Colorectal Adenocarcinoma. American Journal Of Clinical Pathology. 164:aqaf121.119. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqaf121.119

Fitzpatrick S., Maienschein J. (2025). Saving science by the sea. Science. 390:425. doi: 10.1126/science.aed1909

Vazquez-Delfin E., Villagran-Torres R., Fagundo-Mollineda A., Freile-Pelegrin Y., Roberson L. M., Robledo D. (2025). Growth and biochemical composition of the carrageenophyte <i>Eucheumatopsis isiformis</i> (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta) under cultivation at different irradiance levels. Journal Of Applied Phycology. 37:3119-3133. doi: 10.1007/s10811-025-03675-x

Holzinger C., Ritschard E. A., Imperadore P., Ponte G., Albertin C. B., Fiorito G., Simakov O. (2025). Characterization of C2H2 superfamily expansions in cephalopods and their contribution to nervous system evolution. Iscience. 28:113561. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113561

Kim Y., Tanner H. M., Rosenthal J. J. C., Brangwynne C. P. (2025). Protocol for the isolation, culture, and transfection of squid primary cells. Star Protocols. 6:103994. doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2025.103994

Bennice C. O., Buresch K. C., Grossman J. H., Morano T. D., Hanlon R. T. (2025). Octopus arm flexibility facilitates complex behaviors in diverse natural environments. Scientific Reports. 15. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-10674-y

Chhabra A., Hoffmann C., Aguilar Perez G., Korobeinikov A. A., Rentsch J., Huempfer N., Kokwaro L., Gnidovec L., Petrovic A., Wallace J. N., Tromm J. V., Roman-Vendrell C., Johnson E. C., Rankovic B., Perego E., Volpi T., Fernandez-Busnadiego R., Koester S., Rizzoli S. O., Ewers H., Morgan J. R., Milovanovic D. (2025). Condensates of synaptic vesicles and synapsin-1 mediate actin sequestering and polymerization. Embo Journal. 44:5112-5148. doi: 10.1038/s44318-025-00516-y

Velloso I., Araujo R., Horb M., Abreu J. G. Cell division during Xenopus gastrulation influences neuroectoderm patterning. doi: 10.1101/2025.11.11.687238

Rogers T. F., Stock J., Schulz N. G., Yalçin G., Rencken S., Weissenbacher A., Clarence T., Schultz D. T., Ragsdale C. W., Albertin C. B., Simakov O. Genome reorganisation and expansion shape 3D genome architecture and define a distinct regulatory landscape in coleoid cephalopods. doi: 10.1101/2025.08.29.672809

Sugarman A., Vanselow D., Northover D., Senft S. L., Zaino C., Yakovlev M. A., Christ J., Silverman J. D., Ngu M. S., Ang K. C., Wang S., Chung W.-S., La Riviere P., Hanlon R. T., Cheng K. C. Long-range neural pathways for octopus chemotactile processing revealed from periphery-to-brain by centimeter-field microCT. doi: 10.64898/2026.01.02.697341

Bao Y., Marin Z., Chen X., Liu Q., Tuna Y., Stoller S., Schueder F., Zhang C., Fung S. Y. S., Wu M., Neugebauer K. M., Howard J., Liu C., Baddeley D., Shribak M., Bewersdorf J. A correlative quantitative phase contrast and fluorescence super-resolution microscope for imaging molecules in their cellular context. doi: 10.1101/2025.10.13.682186