2025 Scientific Publications | Marine Biological Laboratory

December

McParland, E. L., Wittmers, F., Bolaños, L. M., Carlson, C. A., Curry, R., Giovannoni, S. J., Michelsen, M., Parsons, R. J., Kido Soule, M. C., Swarr, G. J., Temperton, B., Vergin, K., Worden, A. Z., Longnecker, K., & Kujawinski, E. B. (2025). Seasonal patterns of DOM molecules are linked to microbial functions in the oligotrophic ocean. mSystems, e01540-25. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01540-25

Anuszczyk, S., Yoder, N., Costello, J., Dabiri, J., Gemmell, B., Rutledge, K., & Colin, S. (2025). Increasing the Reliability and Versatility of Jellyfish Biohybrid Vehicles via Species Selection and Rhopalia Removal. Biomimetics, 10(12), 810. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics10120810

Gattoni, G., Lin, C.-Y., York, J. R., Shew, C., Keitley, D., LaBonne, C., Yu, J.-K., Gillis, J. A., & Benito-Gutiérrez, E. (2025). Evolutionary dynamics of FoxQ2 transcription factors across metazoans reveals three ancient paralogs. Communications Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09368-y

Vallino, J., Ahern, O., & Huber, J. (2025). Deriving microbial food web structure by maximizing entropy production over variable timescales. Interface Focus, 15(6). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2025.0023

Vidal, E., Lindsay, M. R., Bradley, J. A., Osburn, M. R., & Ruff, S. E. (2025). Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries. Microbial Biotechnology, 18(12), e70286. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70286

Freel, K. C., Tucker, S. J., Freel, E. B., Stingl, U., Giovannoni, S. J., Eren, A. M., & Rappé, M. S. (2025). New SAR11 isolate genomes and global marine metagenomes resolve ecologically relevant units within the Pelagibacterales. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67043-6

Peredo, E. L., Thomas, S., & Cardon, Z. G. (2025). Establishment and micropropagation of axenic in vitro cultures of salt marsh grasses within the genus Sporobolus. Applications in Plant Sciences, e70033. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.70033

Villanueva, R., Darmaillacq, A.-S., Kuba, M. J., Roumbedakis, K., Nabhitabhata, J., Almansa, E., Caamal-Monsreal, C., Court, M., Dickel, L., Durante, E. D., Elagoz, A. M., Escolar, O., Fernandez-Alvarez, F. A., Galindo-Sanchez, C. E., Ganias, K., Gibbons, C. J., Goerger, A., Gouveneaux, A., Grasse, B., Guerra, A., Jozet-Alves, C., Lacoue-Labarthe, T., Martinez-Yebra, L., Masucci, G. D., Medeiros, S. L. S., Minet, A., Nakajima, R., Nichols, O. C., Ortiz, N., Peyla, J. F., Rockner, J. L., Rodriguez-Guentes, G., Rosa, R., Rosas, C., Tomano, S., Trueblood, L. A., Vidal, E. A. G., Vilarnau, D. G., & Voss, G. (2025). Collection, handling and care of cephalopod eggs. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 36(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-025-10017-0

Tucker, S. J., Füssel, J., Freel, K. C., Kiefl, E., Freel, E. B., Ramfelt, O., Sullivan, C. E. S., Gajigan, A. P., Mochimaru, H., de Souza, M. R., Quinn, M., Ratum, C., Tran, L. L., Sobczyk, M., Miller, S. E., Trigodet, F., Lolans, K., Morrison, H. G., Fallon, B., Huettel, B., Pan, T., Rappe, M. S., & Eren, A. M. (2025). A high-resolution diel survey of surface ocean metagenomes, metatranscriptomes, and transfer RNA transcripts. Scientific Data, 12, 1913. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06166-3

Zhou, H., Huertas, J., Maristany, M. J., Russell, K., Hwang, J. H., Yao, R.-W., Samanta, N., Hutchings, J., Billur, R., Shiozaki, M., Zhao, X., Doolittle, L. K., Gibson, B. A., Soranno, A., Riggi, M., Espinosa, J. R., Yu, Z., Villa, E., Collepardo-Guevara, R., & Rosen, M. K. (2025). Multiscale structure of chromatin condensates explains phase separation and material properties. Science, 390(6777), eadv6588. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adv6588

Spera, A. C., McClelland, J. W., Demir, C., Cardenas, M. B., & Guimond, J. A. (2025). Saltwater inundation’s concurrent effects on below-ground thermal hydrology and above-ground properties of Arctic coastal tundra. The Science of the Total Environment, 1008, 180906. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180906

November

Hayn, M., Marino, R., Ganju, N., Howarth, R., & Foreman, K. (2026). Using Multiple Lines of Evidence to Evaluate Spatio-Temporal Trends in Nitrogen Loading to a Eutrophic Estuary. Estuaries and Coasts, 49, 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-025-01630-0

DiSalvo, B., Paul, B. G., & Cardon, Z. G. (2025). Complete genome sequence of Thioclava strain BDS19, isolated from coastal marsh sediment. Microbiology Resource Announcements, e00855-25. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00855-25

Liu, S., Longnecker, K., Vergin, K., Bolaños, L. M., Giovannoni, S., Opalk, K., Halewood, E., Kido Soule, M. C., Swarr, G. J., Parsons, R., Maas, A. E., Gossner, H., Blanco-Bercial, L., Wittmers, F., Worden, A. Z., Kujawinski, E. B., Curry, R., Johnson, R., & Carlson, C. A. (2025). Diel study reveals increased nighttime bacterial activity and its connection to organic compounds in the ocean. Communications Biology, 8, 1688. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09085-6

Pedrosa-Pamies, R., Conte, M. H., Honda, M., & Herndl, G. J. (2025). Editorial: The oceanic particle flux and its cycling within the deep water column, volume II. Frontiers in Earth Science, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1716510

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(47), 20476-20485. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c08832

Hill, K., Griffing, A. H., Palmer, M. A., Lemma, B., Lupo, A. S., Gamble, T., Shylo, N. A., Košmrlj, A., Trainor, P. A., & Nelson, C. M. (2025). Biophysical processes of morphogenesis in lizard lungs. Developmental Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.70097

Kennedy, S. J., Risser, D. D., & Paul, B. G. (2025). Diel expression dynamics in filamentous cyanobacteria. mBio, e03779-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03779-24

Schön, I., Chimileski, S., Mark Welch, J., & Martens, K. (2025). Vertical transmission of Cardinium bacteria in parthenogenetic non-marine ostracods (Crustacea). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 292(2058), 20251193. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1193

Sures, K., Esser, S. P., Bornemann, T. L. V., Moore, C. J., Soares, A. R., Plewka, J., Figueroa-Gonzalez, P. A., Ruff, S. E., Moraru, C., & Probst, A. J. (2025). Acquisition of Spacers from Foreign Prokaryotic Genomes by CRISPR-Cas Systems in Natural Environments. Genome Biology and Evolution, 17(11), evaf201. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf201

Yarger, A. M., Maeda, M., Siwanowicz, I., Kajiyama, H., Walker, S. M., Bomphrey, R. J., & Lin, H.-T. (2025). Structural dynamics and neural representation of wing deformation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(46), e2518032122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518032122

October

Aparicio, N. L., Dryburgh, M., McMaken, C. M., Liguori, A., & Gribble, K. E. (2025). Impact of histone post-translational modification inhibitors on lifespan, reproduction, and stress response in the rotifer Brachionus manjavacas. PLOS One, 20(10), e0324769. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324769

Fitzpatrick, S., & Maienschein, J. (2025). Saving science by the sea. Science, 390(6772), 425. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aed1909

Koonce, N., Emerson, S., Bhaskar, D., Kuchroo, M., Moyle, M., Arroyo-Morales, P., Vázquez-Martínez, N., Emerson, J., Krishnaswamy, S., Mohler, W., & Colón-Ramos, D. (2025). Exploring neurodevelopment via spatiotemporal collation of anatomical networks with NeuroSC. eLife, 13. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.103977.3

Woo, E., Datta, D., Bathla, S., Beatty, H., Caglayan, P., Albizu, A., Lam, T., Kanyo, J., Joyce, M., Leslie, S., Uchendu, S., DeLong, J., Guan, Q., Li, J., Abramson, E., Herman, A., Cooper, D., Licznerski, P., Horvath, T., Jonas, E. A., Nairn, A. C., Arnsten, A. FT., & Sansing, L. (2025). Ryanodine receptor 2-mediated calcium leak is associated with increased glyoxalase I in the aging brain. JCI Insight. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.184041

Elkassas, S. M., Fortunato, C. S., Grim, S. L., Butterfield, D. A., Holden, J. F., Vallino, J. J., Algar, C. K., Zeigler Allen, L., Larson, B. T., Proskurowski, G., Reddington, E., Stewart, L. C., Topcuoglu, B., & Huber, J. A. (2025). Metabolic and population profiles of active subseafloor autotrophs in young oceanic crust at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01868-25

Kee, H. L. (2025). Spontaneous and heritable change in iridescent properties of bacterium Tenacibaculum discolor str. IMLK18. microPublication Biology. https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.001792

Koonce, N. L., Emerson, S. E., Bhaskar, D., Kuchroo, M., Moyle, M. W., Arroyo-Morales, P., Vázquez-Martínez, N., Emerson, J. I., Krishnaswamy, S., Mohler, W. A., & Colón-Ramos, D. A. (2025). Exploring neurodevelopment via spatiotemporal collation of anatomical networks with NeuroSC. eLife, 13, RP103977. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103977

Scott, W., Ivorra-Molla, E., Akhuli, D., Massam-Wu, T., Lysyganicz, P. K., Walsh, R., Parent, M., Cook, J., Song, L., Kumar, A., Schneider, F., Mishima, M., Crow, A., & Balasubramanian, M. K. (2025). StayRose: A photostable StayGold derivative red-shifted by genetic code expansion. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 110832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2025.110832

Paul, B. G., & Mekalanos, J. J. (2025). Natural directed evolution in gut microbiota. Science, 390(6769), 129–130. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aeb8597

Tucker, S. J., Freel, K. C., Eren, A. M., & Rappé, M. S. (2025). Habitat-specificity in SAR11 is associated with a few genes under high selection. The ISME Journal, wraf216. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wraf216

Tyler, C., Koganti, L., Liu, J., Ngo, A., Wong, T. W., Zeng, X. (Tina), Seyfarth, E.-A., & Zottoli, S. J. (2025). Supramedullary Neurons in Teleost Fishes: Distribution and Putative Functions. Journal of Morphology, 286(10), e70090. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.70090

September

Hernandez, J., Duval, J., Rauff, T., Hall, E., Gallati, M., Haubrich, B. A., Thoma, M., Aponte, E., Basu, A., DeGiorgis, J. A., & Reid, C. W. (2025). A Lyt at the end of the tunnel? Unraveling the complex interactions of the N-acetylglucosaminidase LytG in cell wall metabolism. RSC Chemical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CB00151J

Vázquez-Delfín, E., Villagrán-Torres, R., Fagundo-Mollineda, A., Freile-Pelegrín, Y., Roberson, L. M., & Robledo, D. (2025). Growth and biochemical composition of the carrageenophyte Eucheumatopsis isiformis (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta) under cultivation at different irradiance levels. Journal of Applied Phycology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-025-03675-x

Jessop, A.-L., Clode, P., Saunders, M., Evans, M., Hyde, S., McPherson, J., Pedersen, K., Kirkensgaard, J., Patel, N., DeMarr, K., McMillan, W., Wilts, B., & Schröder-Turk, G. (2025). Hierarchical woven fibrillar structures in developing single gyroids in butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(40), e2507297122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2507297122

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

Lee, J. A., Vineis, J. H., Poupon, M. A., Resplandy, L., & Ward, B. B. (2025). Phytoplankton community succession and biogeochemistry in a bloom simulation experiment at an estuary–ocean interface. Biogeosciences, 22(18), 4743–4761. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-4743-2025

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, 31875. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10674-y

MacDonald, A. A., Dowling, Q. S., & Cardon, Z. G. (2025). Beech leaf disease reduces nitrogen retranslocation at leaf fall, altering litter chemistry. Oecologia, 207, 153. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05790-5

Gillis, J. A., Criswell, K. E., Palmer, M. A., & Baker, C. V. H. (2025). The skate spiracular organ develops from a unique neurogenic placode, distinct from lateral line placodes. Development, dev.204767. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204767

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(3), 103994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2025.103994

August

Chandler, J., McGraw, J., Moody, M., Tang, J., Voltzow, J., & Fetcher, N. (2025). Reassessing Adaptational Lag in Eriophorum vaginatum: Short-Term Responses to Reciprocal Transplant and Passive Warming Experiments in Northern Alaska. Arctic Science. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2025-0006

Hirata Miyasaki, E., Bajor, A., Pettersson, G., Senftleben, M., Fouke, K., Graham, T., John, D., Morgan, J., Haspel, G., & Abrahamsson, S. (2025). High-speed 3D imaging with a 25-camera multifocus microscope. Optica, 12(8), 1230-1241. https://doi.org/10.1364/optica.563617

Perotti, O. N., Viramontes-Esparza, G., & Booth, D. S. (2025). A red algal polysaccharide influences the multicellular development of the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. Current Biology, 35(15), 3767-3776.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.059

Chhabra, A., Hoffmann, C., Aguilar Pérez, G., Korobeinikov, A. A., Rentsch, J., Hümpfer, N., Kokwaro, L., Gnidovec, L., Petrović, A., Wallace, J. N., Tromm, J. V., Román-Vendrell, C., Johnson, E. C., Ranković, B., Perego, E., Volpi, T., Fernández-Busnadiego, R., Köster, S., Rizzoli, S. O., Ewers, H., Morgan, J. R., & Milovanović, D. (2025). Condensates of synaptic vesicles and synapsin-1 mediate actin sequestering and polymerization. The EMBO Journal. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-025-00516-y

Piekniewska, A., Roelandse, M., Lloyd, K. C. K., Korf, I., Voss, S. R., Castro, G. de, Magnani, D. M., Varga, Z., James-Zorn, C., Horb, M., Grethe, J. S., & Bandrowski, A. (2025). Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact. PLOS ONE, 20(8), e0327344. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327344

Thoman, R., Moon, T., Druckenmiller, M., Askjaer, T., Ballinger, T., Bhatt, U., Berner, L., Bernhard, G., Bigalke, S., Bjerke, J., Bliss, A., Box, J., Brady, M., Brettschneider, B., Butler, A., Christiansen, H., Crawford, A., Decharme, B., Derksen, C., Divine, D., Elias Chereque, A., Epstein, H. E., Farrell, S., Fausto, R. S., Fettweis, X., Fioletov, V. E., Forbes, B. C., Frost, G. V., Gerland, S., Grooß, J-U., Hanna, E., Hendricks, S., Howell, S., Ialongo, I., Isaksen, K., Jia, G., Johnsen, B., Kaleschke, L., Kim, S.-J., Labe, Z. M., Lader, R., Lakkala, K., Lara, M. J., Lee, S. H., Loomis, B. D., Luojus, K., Macander, M. J., Magnusson, R. I., Mankoff, K. D., McClelland, J. W., Medley, B., Meier, W. N., Montesano, P. M., Mote, T. L., Motroen Gjelten, H., Mudryk, L., Muller, R., Neigh, C. S. R., Nyland, K. E., Overland, J. E., Perovich, D. K., Petty, A., Phoenix, G. K., Poinar, K., Ricker, R., Romanovsky, V. E., Scheller, J. H., Serreze, M. C., Shiklomanov, A. I., Smith, B. E., Smith, S. L., Spencer, R. G. M., Streletskiy, D. A., Suslova, A., Svendby, T., Tank, S. E., Tian-Kunze, X., Tedesco, M., Timmermans, M.-L., Tommervik, H., Tretiakov, M., Waigl, C. F., Walker, D. A., Walsh, J. E., Wang, M., Webster, M., Yang, D., & Zolkos, S. (2025). State of the Climate in 2024: The Arctic. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106(8), s300–s356. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-25-0104.1

July

Watanabe, S. (2025). Synaptic Vesicle Recycling Through the Lens of Ultrafast Endocytosis. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 48, 297–310. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-neuro-112723-040652

Ruyle, B. J., Merder, J., Spencer, R. G. M., McClelland, J. W., Tank, S. E., & Michalak, A. M. (2025). Changes in the Composition of Nitrogen Yields in Large Arctic Rivers Linked to Temperature and Precipitation. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39(7), e2025GB008639. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GB008639

Di Santo, V., Qi, X., Berio, F., Albi, A., & Akanyeti, O. (2025). Inherent instability leads to high costs of hovering in near-neutrally buoyant fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(28), e2420015122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420015122

Eren, A. M. (2025). Gifting future scientists the past through well-preserved specimens of modern microbial ecosystems. Nature Communications, 16, 6669. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62138-6

Middleton, L., Wu, W., Johnston, T., Tarry, D., Farrar, J., Poulain, P.-M., Özgökmen, T., Shcherbina, A., Pascual, A., McNeill, C., Belgacem, M., Berta, M., Abbott, K., Worden, A., Wittmers, F., Kinsella, A., Centurioni, L., Hormann, V., Cutolo, E., Tintore, J., Ruiz, S., Casas, B., Cheslack, H., CALYPSO Collaboration, D’Asaro, E. A., & Mahadevan, A. (2025). Observations of a splitting ocean cyclone resulting in subduction of surface waters. Sci Adv, 11(30), eadu3221. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adu3221

Vásquez‐Elizondo, R., Vázquez‐Delfín, E., Freile‐Pelegrín, Y., Sánchez‐García, M., Roberson, L., & Robledo, D. (2025). Physiological and growth responses of Eucheumatopsis isiformis morphotypes to different light and temperature regimes. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 56(4), e70043. https://doi.org/10.1111/jwas.70043

Ferretti, P., Martignoni, M. M., McManus, L. C., Sakal, T., Liaghat, A., Stevens, B., Dahlin, K. J.-M., Souza, L. S., Cardon, Z. G., Silveira, C. B., Bordenstein, S. R., & Roughgarden, J. (2025). Theory of host-microbe symbioses: Challenges and opportunities. Cell Host & Microbe, 33(7), 1052–1056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2025.05.001

Mutemi, K. N., Simakov, O., Pan, L., Santangeli, L., Null, R. W., Handberg-Thorsager, M., Vellutini, B. C., Peterson, K. J., Fromm, B., Larsson, T., Savage, E., Lopez, M. O., Hercog, R., Provaznik, J., Ordoñez-Rueda, D., Azevedo, N., Gazave, E., Vervoort, M., Tomancak, P., Tan, W., Winkler, S., Benes, V., Hui, J., Helm, C., Ozpolat, B. D., & Arendt, D. (2025). A genome resource for the marine annelid Platynereis spp. BMC Genomics, 26, 665. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-025-11727-2

Ogunmowo, T. H., Hoffmann, C., Patel, C., Pepper, R., Wang, H., Gowrisankaran, S., Idel, J., Ho, A., Raychaudhuri, S., Maher, B. J., Cooper, B. H., Milosevic, I., Milovanovic, D., & Watanabe, S. (2025). Intersectin and endophilin condensates prime synaptic vesicles for release site replenishment. Nature Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-02002-4

Singh, M., Wolfe, A. D., Vishwanath, A. A., Tsives, A., Gonzalez, I. J., Emerson, S. E., Goodman, R., & Colón-Ramos, D. (2025). Glycogen supports glycolytic plasticity in neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(28), e2509003122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2509003122

Chen, L., Maristany, M. J., Farr, S. E., Luo, J., Gibson, B. A., Doolittle, L. K., Espinosa, J. R., Huertas, J., Redding, S., Collepardo-Guevara, R., & Rosen, M. K. (2025). Nucleosome spacing can fine-tune higher-order chromatin assembly. Nature Communications, 16, 6315. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61482-x

Imes, A., Pavelsky, M., Badal, K., Kamp, D., Briseño, J., Sakmar, T., Vogt, M., Nyholm, S., Heath-Heckman, E., Grasse, B., Septer, A., & Mandel, M. (2025). Euprymna berryi as a comparative model host for Vibrio fischeri light organ symbiosis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, e0000125. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00001-25

Bölscher, T., Cardon, Z. G., Garcia Arredondo, M., Grand, S., Griffen, G., Hestrin, R., Imboden, J., Jamoteau, F., Lacroix, E. M., Pérez Castro, S., Persson, P., Riley, W. J., & Keiluweit, M. (2025). Vulnerability of mineral-organic associations in the rhizosphere. Nature Communications, 16, 5527. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61273-4

June

Bogdanov, G., Strzelecka, A. A., Kaimal, N., Senft, S. L., Lee, S., Hanlon, R. T., & Gorodetsky, A. A. (2025). Gradient refractive indices enable squid structural color and inspire multispectral materials. Science, 388(6754), 1389–1395. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn1570

Goodheart, J. A., Fiorenza, R., Rio, R., Lopez-Anido, R. N., Martin, N. J., Herrlinger, T. J., Tarvin, R. D., & Lyons, D. C. (2025). A subset of conserved phagocytic genes are likely used for the intracellular theft of cnidarian stinging organelles in nudibranch gastropods. EvoDevo, 16, 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13227-025-00241-x

Guadarrama, E., Heisse, L. W., Morgan, J. R., & Katz, H. R. (2025). Dynamic microglia/macrophage infiltration during spinal cord regeneration in larval sea lamprey. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15396

Gendreau, A. J., Boucaud, C., Buresch, K. C., Rooney, A. S., Morris, H., & Hanlon, R. T. (2025). How octopuses use and recruit additional arms to find and manipulate visually hidden items. Biology Open, bio.062011. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.062011

McCarthy-Taylor, J. B., Krug, P. J., Muro, S., Vendetti, J., Maestrati, P., Wong, N. L. W. S., Gosliner, T. M., & Valdes, A. (2025). The slug within the bivalve: Molecular and morphological systematics of the family Juliidae (Gastropoda: Panpulmonata: Sacoglossa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 204(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf056

Narayanasamy, N., Bingham, E., Fadero, T., Bozdag, G. O., Ratcliff, W. C., Yunker, P., & Thutupalli, S. (2025). Metabolically driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast. Science Advances, 11(25), eadr6399. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr6399 *Physiology course*

Paul, B. G., & DiSalvo, B. (2025). Retracing a tangled tree of archaeal evolution. Nature Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-02040-5

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