Metabolic synergy in Camelina reproductive tissues for seed development
Published in Science Advances
Flux analysis indicates that camelina pod photosynthesis contributes to seed yield.
Metabolic synergy in Camelina reproductive tissues for seed development
Many roads lead to CASM: Diverse stimuli of noncanonical autophagy share a unifying molecular mechanism.
Published in Science advances
Autophagy is a fundamental catabolic process coordinated by a network of autophagy-related (ATG) proteins. These ATG proteins also perform an important parallel role in "noncanonical" autophagy, a lysosome-associated signaling pathway with key functions in immunity, inflammation, cancer, and neurodegeneration. While the noncanonical autophagy pathw...
Spectral multiplexing of telecom emitters with stable transition frequency.
Published in Science advances
In a quantum network, coherent emitters can be entangled over large distances using photonic channels. In solid-state devices, the required efficient light-emitter interface can be implemented by confining the light in nanophotonic structures. However, fluctuating charges and magnetic moments at the nearby interface then lead to spectral instabilit...
Beyond autophagy: LC3-associated phagocytosis and endocytosis.
Published in Science advances
Noncanonical functions of the autophagy machinery in pathways including LC3-associated phagocytosis and LC3-associated endocytosis have garnered increasing interest in both normal physiology and pathobiology. New discoveries over the past decade of noncanonical uses of the autophagy machinery in these distinct molecular mechanisms have led to robus...
Wireless, fully implantable cardiac stimulation and recording with on-device computation for closed-loop pacing and defi...
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Published in Science advances
Monitoring and control of cardiac function are critical for investigation of cardiovascular pathophysiology and developing life-saving therapies. However, chronic stimulation of the heart in freely moving small animal subjects, which offer a variety of genotypes and phenotypes, is currently difficult. Specifically, real-time control of cardiac func...
Diversity dependence is a ubiquitous phenomenon across Phanerozoic oceans
Published in Science Advances
Large-scale diversity dynamics in oceans is universally regulated by diversity-dependent origination and extinction rates.
An internal expectation guides Drosophila egg-laying decisions.
Published in Science advances
To better understand how animals make ethologically relevant decisions, we studied egg-laying substrate choice in Drosophila. We found that flies dynamically increase or decrease their egg-laying rates while exploring substrates so as to target eggs to the best, recently visited option. Visiting the best option typically yielded inhibition of egg l...
Tight inner ring architecture and quantum motion of nuclei enable efficient energy transfer in bacterial light harvestin...
Published in Science advances
The efficient, directional transfer of absorbed solar energy between photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes continues to pose intriguing questions. In this work, we identify the pathways of energy flow between the B800 and B850 rings in the LH2 complex of Rhodopseudomonas molischianum using fully quantum mechanical path integral methods to simul...
Interconnectedness and (in)coherence as a signature of conspiracy worldviews.
Published in Science advances
Conspiracy theories may arise out of an overarching conspiracy worldview that identifies common elements of subterfuge across unrelated or even contradictory explanations, leading to networks of self-reinforcing beliefs. We test this conjecture by analyzing a large natural language database of conspiracy and nonconspiracy texts for the same events,...
Elephant facial motor control.
Published in Science advances
We studied facial motor control in elephants, animals with muscular dexterous trunks. Facial nucleus neurons (~54,000 in Asian elephants, ~63,000 in African elephants) outnumbered those of other land-living mammals. The large-eared African elephants had more medial facial subnucleus neurons than Asian elephants, reflecting a numerically more extens...
