Mori, Yusuke Shiratsuchi, Naoka Sato, Nanami Chaya, Azusa Tanimura, Nobuyuki Ishikawa, Susumu Kato, Mugihiko Kameda, Ikumi Kon, Shunsuke Haraoka, Yukinari
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For the maintenance of epithelial homeostasis, various aberrant or dysfunctional cells are actively eliminated from epithelial layers. This cell extrusion process mainly falls into two modes: cell-competition-mediated extrusion and apoptotic extrusion. However, it is not clearly understood whether and how these processes are governed by common mole...
Kuziel, Gavin A Rakoff-Nahoum, Seth
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All animals, from cnidarians to humans, are colonized with microbes, and the greatest diversity and magnitude of these host-associated microorganisms resides within the intestine. Referred to as the gut microbiome, membership can be as simple as one species of bacteria or can be composed of hundreds to thousands of different microbes across the dom...
Hoeschele, Marisa Fitch, W Tecumseh
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A new study finds that melodies evolve in similar ways, reminiscent of genetic evolution, across cultures. Patterns of change in music and other aesthetic domains may be the key to understanding how culture evolves when unfettered by physical or ecological constraints. Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Sinclair, Amy N de Graffenried, Christopher L
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How well do we understand the range of mechanisms used by eukaryotes for mitosis? A new study in a highly divergent eukaryote shows that unusual tubulin isoforms can create a mitotic spindle exclusively out of microtubule bundles. Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Blair, David F Manson, Michael D
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David Blair and Michael Manson commemorate the late Howard Berg, who studied, among other things, the biophysics of bacterial motion. Copyright © 2022.
Barredo, Elina Theobald, Jamie
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To avoid fast attackers, animals must move somewhere their pursuer cannot follow or does not expect. A new study shows that female mosquitoes of either a diurnal or a nocturnal species each exhibit a distinct escape strategy matched to the light level they experience as they hunt for blood. Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Fairhall, Adrienne
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Interview with Adrienne Fairhall, who studies the relationship between neuronal circuitry and the functional algorithms of computation at the University of Washington. Copyright © 2022.
Hochstrasser, Mark
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The Wolbachia cidA and cidB genes promote bacterial endosymbiont inheritance through the host female germline. CidB is now shown to load into maturing sperm nuclei. Following fertilization, it disrupts paternal chromosome condensation, triggering embryonic arrest if not countered by CidA in Wolbachia-infected eggs. Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. Al...
Dissmeyer, Nico
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A new study shows that mitochondrial retrograde signaling relies on strongly compartmentalized individual pathways previously not taken into account. This involves a link between mitochondrial oxygen consumption and cytosolic oxygen sensing via the N-degron pathway. Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Sönke Johnsen and Steve Haddock introduce the remarkable deep-sea fish Macropinna microstoma whose transparent head and rotating tubular eyes are two novel adaptations that allow it to see and hunt at depth. Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
