Recent Scientific Publications

As of February 24, 2025

Guimond, J., Grande, E., Michael, H., Pratt, D., Herndon, E., Noyce, G., Ward, N., Forbrich, I., Regier, P., Berens, M., & Arora, B. (2025). The hidden influence of terrestrial groundwater on salt marsh function and resilience. Nature Water, 1–10.

Martens, K., de Almeida, N. M., Shribak, M., Higuti, J., & Schön, I. (2025). On Cytheridella whitmani sp. Nov. (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, USA), with a reappraisal of the taxonomy of the genus. ZooKeys, 1224, 317–348.

Sow, S. L. S., van de Poll, W. H., Eveleth, R., Rich, J. J., Ducklow, H. W., Rozema, P. D., Luria, C. M., Bolhuis, H., Meredith, M. P., Amaral-Zettler, L. A., & Engelmann, J. C. (2025). Spatial and temporal variation of Antarctic microbial interactions: A study around the west Antarctic Peninsula. Environmental Microbiome, 20(1), 21.

McCoy, D. E., Burns, D. H., Klopfer, E., Herndon, L. K., Ogunlade, B., Dionne, J. A., & Johnsen, S. (2024). Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses. Nature Communications, 15(1), 9445.

 Zhao, Y., Zhou, R., Xie, B., Liu, C., Kalski, M., Cham, C., Jiang, Z., Koval, J., Weber, C., Rubin, D., Sogin, M., Crosson, S., Chen, M., Huang, J., Fiebig, A., Dalal, S., Chang, E., Basu, A., & Pott, S. (2025). Multiomic analysis reveals cellular, transcriptomic and epigenetic changes in intestinal pouches of ulcerative colitis patients. Nature Communications, 16(1), 904.

MacCord, K. (2025). Let’s talk about sex…cell lineages. Biological Theory, 1–14.

Thiruppathy, M., Teubner, L., Roberts, R., Lasser, M., Moscatello, A., Chen, Y.-W., Hochstim, C., Ruffins, S., Sarkar, A., Tassey, J., Evseenko, D., Lozito, T., Willsey, H., Gillis, J., & Crump, J. (2025). Repurposing of a gill gene regulatory program for outer ear evolution. Nature, 1–3.

Jimenez, V., Sudek, S., Eckmann, C., Bachy, C., Poirier, C., Wittmers, F., Santoro, A. E., Follows, M. J., Chavez, F. P., Shilova, I., & Worden, A. Z. (2024). Distinct phytoplankton assemblages underlie hotspots of primary production in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography.

Liu, J., Man, Y., Costello, J. H., & Kanso, E. (2025). Optimal feeding in swimming and attached ciliates. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1003, A26.

Longman, E. K., Merolla, S., Talke, S. A., Trautman, N., Largier, J. L., Harris, L., & Sanford, E. (2025). Evaluating historical changes in a mussel bed community in northern California. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 1930.

Handa, S., Biswas, T., Chakraborty, J., Ghosh, G., Paul, B. G., & Ghosh, P. (2025a). RNA control of reverse transcription in a diversity-generating retroelement. Nature.

Handa, S., Biswas, T., Chakraborty, J., Ghosh, G., Paul, B., & Ghosh, P. (2025b). RNA control of reverse transcription in a diversity-generating retroelement. Nature.

Hinkle, J., Chanton, J., Moynihan, M., Ruff, S., & Teske, A. (2025). Complex bacterial diversity of Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments revealed by synthetic long-read sequencing (LoopSeq). Frontiers in Microbiology, 15, 1491488.

Peredo, E., Thomas, S., & Cardon, Z. (2025). Draft genome sequence of Mycobacterium sp. SA01 isolated from Sporobolus alterniflorus seedlings collected in Cape Cod (USA). Microbiology Resource Announcements, e0102524.

Troman, L., de Gaulejac, E., Biswas, A., Stiens, J., Kuropka, B., Moores, C. A., & Reber, S. (2025). Mechanistic basis of temperature adaptation in microtubule dynamics across frog species. Current Biology.

Almoril-Porras, A., Calvo, A., Niu, L., Beagan, J., Díaz García, M., Hawk, J., Aljobeh, A., Wisdom, E., Ren, I., Wang, Z.-W., & Colón-Ramos, D. (2024). Configuration of electrical synapses filters sensory information to drive behavioral choices. Cell.

Bower, D., Senft, S., Hanlon, R., & Deravi, L. (2024). Pigment granule architecture varies across yellow, red, and brown chromatophores in squid Doryteuthis pealeii. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 31417.

Hernandez-Rodriguez, Y., Bullard, A. M., Busch, R. J., Marshall, A., & Vargas-Muñiz, J. M. (2024). Strategies for genetic manipulation of the halotolerant black yeast Hortaea werneckii: Ectopic DNA integration and marker-free CRISPR/Cas9 transformation. Microbiology Spectrum, 13(1), e02430-24. 

Arkhipova, I., Burns, K., & Lesage, P. (2024). Controlling and controlled elements: Highlights of the year in mobile DNA research. Mobile DNA, 15(1), 27.

Arrington, E., Tarn, J., Kivenson, V., Nunn, B., Liu, R., Paul, B., & Valentine, D. (2024). Hydrocarbon metabolism and petroleum seepage as ecological and evolutionary drivers for Cycloclasticus. The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology, wrae247.

 Evans, B., Gvozdik, V., Knytl, M., Cauret, C., Herrel, A., Greenbaum, E., Patel, J., Premachandra, T., Papenfuss, T., Parente, J., Horb, M., & Measey, J. (2024). Rapid Sex Chromosome Turnover in African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus) and the Origins of New Sex Chromosomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 41(12).

Guo, M., Wu, Y., Hobson, C., Su, Y., Qian, S., Krueger, E., Christensen, R., Kroeschell, G., Bui, J., Chaw, M., Zhang, L., Liu, J., Hou, X., Han, X., Lu, Z., Ma, X., Zhovmer, A., Combs, C., Moyle, M., Riviere, P., Colon-Ramos, D., … Shroff, H. (2025). Deep learning-based aberration compensation improves contrast and resolution in fluorescence microscopy. Nature Communications, 16(1), 313.

Ruff, S., de Angelis, I., Mullis, M., Payet, J., Magnabosco, C., Lloyd, K., Sheik, C., Steen, A., Shipunova, A., Morozov, A., Reese, B., Bradley, J., Lemonnier, C., Schrenk, M., Joye, S., Huber, J., Probst, A., Morrison, H., Sogin, M., … Colwell, F. (2024). A global comparison of surface and subsurface microbiomes reveals large-scale biodiversity gradients, and a marine-terrestrial divide. Science Advances, 10(51).

Griswold, J. M., Bonilla-Quintana, M., Pepper, R., Lee, C. T., Raychaudhuri, S., Ma, S., Gan, Q., Syed, S., Zhu, C., Bell, M., Suga, M., Yamaguchi, Y., Chereau, R., Valentin Naegerl, U., Knott, G., Rangamani, P., & Watanabe, S. (2024). Membrane mechanics dictate axonal pearls-on-a-string morphology and function. Nature Neuroscience. 

Hernandez, C., van Daalen, S., Liguori, A., Neubert, M., Caswell, H., & Gribble, K. (2024). Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing. Journal of Animal Ecology.

Houghton, R., Davidson, E., Melillo, J., Schlesinger, W., & Shaver, G. (2024). Resolution of Respect: George M. Woodwell (1928–2024). Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.

Wittmers, F., Comstock, J., Poirier, C., Needham, D. M., Schulz, F., Malmstrom, R., Carlson, C. A., & Worden, A. Z. (2024). Non-photosynthetic lineages sibling to Cyanobacteria associate with eukaryotes in the open ocean. Current Biology, 34(22), R1133–R1134.

Demir, C., McClelland, J., Bristol, E., Charette, M., & Cardenas, M. (2024). Coastal Supra‐Permafrost Aquifers of the Arctic and their significant groundwater, carbon, and nitrogen fluxes. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(22), e2024gl109142.

Gherca, W., Forbrich, I., Jacotot, A., Knox, S., Leahy, P., Morrison, R., Sachs, T., & Eichelmann, E. (2025). Biometeorological feedbacks on peatlands: Raising the water table to reduce meteorologically-related stress on cattle. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 360, 110279.

Román‐Vendrell, C., Wallace, J., Watson, A., Celikag, M., Bartels, T., & Morgan, J. (2024). Acute introduction of monomeric or multimeric α‐synuclein induces distinct impacts on synaptic vesicle trafficking at lamprey giant synapses. The Journal of Physiology.

Buschbaum, C., Shama, L. N. S., Amorim, F. L. L., Brand, S., Broquard, C. M. A., Camillini, N., Cornelius, A., Dolch, T., Dummermuth, A., Feldner, J., Guignard, M. S., Habedank, J., Hoffmann, J. J. L., Horn, S., Konyssova, G., Koop-Jakobsen, K., Lauerburg, R., Mehler, K., Odongo, V., Petri, M., Reents, S., Rick, J. J., Rubinetti, S., Salahi, M., Sander, L., Sidorenko, V., Spence-Jones, H. C., van Beusekom, J. E. E., Waser, A. M., Wegner, K. M., & Wiltshire, K. H. (2024). Climate change impacts on a sedimentary coast—A regional synthesis from genes to ecosystems. Marine Biodiversity, 54(4), 64.

Dames, N. R., Rocke, E., Pitcher, G., Rybicki, E., Pfaff, M., & Moloney, C. L. (2024). Ecological roles of nano-picoplankton in stratified waters of an embayment in the southern Benguela. FEMS Microbiology Letters, fnae094.

Haviland, K., Howarth, R., Giblin, A., & Marino, R. (2024). The potential role of sediment iron and sulfur speciation in seagrass meadow loss and recovery. Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 3, 0069.

Iuffrida, L., Spezzano, R., Trapella, G., Cinti, N., Parma, L., De Marco, A., Palladino, G., Bonaldo, A., Candela, M., & Franzellitti, S. (2024). Physiological plasticity and life history traits affect Chamelea gallina acclimatory responses during a marine heatwave. Environmental Research, 263(Part 3), 120287.

Kim, J., Buffenstein, R., Bronikowski, A. M., Pilar Vanegas, N.-D., Rosas, L., Agudelo-Garcia, P., Mora, A. L., Rojas, M., Englund, D. A., LeBrasseur, N. K., Nunes, A., Robbins, P. D., Kohut, M. L., Kothadiya, S., Bardhan, R., Camell, C. D., Sturmlechner, I., Goronzy, J. J., Yeh, C.-Y., Lamming, D. W., Huang, S., Leiser, S. F., Escorcia, W., Gill, M., S., Taylor, J. R., Helfand, S. L., Korm, S., Gribble, K. E., Pehar, M., Blaszkiewicz, M., Townsend, K. L., McGregor, E. R., Anderson, R. M., Stilgenbauer, L., Sadagurski, M., Taylor, A., McNeill, E., Stoeger, T., & Bai, H. (2024). The Fourth Annual Symposium of the Midwest Aging Consortium. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 79(11), glae236.

Ni, Z., Neifert, C., Rosete, A., Albeely, A. M., Yang, Y., Pratelli, M., Brecht, M., & Clemens, A. M. (2024). Tactile mechanisms and afferents underlying the rat pup transport response. Current Biology.

Seaver, G. A., & Kuzirian, A. M. (2024). Estuary Nitrate Sources and Trends in Buzzards Bay. Journal of Coastal Research, 40(6), 1055–1067.

Kwiatkowski, E. R., Rosenthal, J. J. C., & Emery, P. (2024). Crosstalk between the circatidal and circadian clocks mediates behavioral adaptation to tidal patterns. Current Biology.

Oikawa, P. Y., Sihi, D., Forbrich, I., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Najarro, M., Thomas, O., Shahan, J., Arias-Ortiz, A., Russell, S., Knox, S. H., Mcnicol, G., Wolfe, J., Windham-Myers, L., Stuart-Haentjens, E., Bridgham, S. D., Needelman, B., Vargas, R., Schafer, K., Ward, E. J., Megonigal, P., & Holmquist, J. (2024). A New Coupled Biogeochemical Modeling Approach Provides Accurate Predictions of Methane and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Across Diverse Tidal Wetlands. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129(10), e2023JG007943.

Attah, A. T., Negrón-Moreno, P. N., Amigo-Duran, M., Zhang, L., Kenngott, M., Brecht, M., & Clemens, A. M. (2024). Sensory cues, behavior and fur-based drying in the rat wetness response. Scientific Reports, 14, 24550. 

Gemmell, B. J., Colin, S. P., & Costello, J. H. (2024). Hydromechanical properties of metachronal swimming in polychaetes. Scientific Reports, 14, 24374.

Goda, M., Shribak, M., Ikeda, Z., Okada, N., Tani, T., Goshima, G., Oldenbourg, R., & Kimura, A. (2024). Live-cell imaging under centrifugation characterized the cellular force for nuclear centration in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(43), e2402759121.

Nagata, R., D’Ambra, I., Lauritano, C., von Montfort, G., Djeghri, N., Jordano, M., Colin, S., Costello, J., & Leoni, V. (2024). Physiology and functional biology of Rhizostomeae jellyfish. Elsevier.

Aguilar-Camacho, J. M., Harry, N. D., & Zakas, C. (2024). Comparative Hox genes expression within the dimorphic annelid Streblospio benedicti reveals patterning variation during development. EvoDevo, 15, 12.

Allard, C. A. H., Herbert, A. L., Krueger, S. P., Liang, Q., Walsh, B. L., Rhyne, A. L., Gourlay, A. N., Seminara, A., Baldwin, M. W., Kingsley, D. M., & Bellono, N. W. (2024). Evolution of novel sensory organs in fish with legs. Current Biology, 34(19), 4349-4356.e7. 

Garcia Arredondo, M., Kew, W., Chu, R., Jones, M. E., Boiteau, R. M., Cardon, Z. G., & Keiluweit, M. (2024). Differential Exudation Creates Biogeochemically Distinct Microenvironments during Rhizosphere Evolution. Environmental Science & Technology.

Jokura, K., Anttonen, T., Rodriguez-Santiago, M., & Arenas, O. M. (2024). Rapid physiological integration of fused ctenophores. Current Biology, 34(19), R889–R890.

Machmuller, M. B., Lynch, L. M., Mosier, S. L., Shaver, G. R., Calderon, F., Gough, L., Haddix, M. L., McLaren, J. R., Paul, E. A., Weintraub, M. N., Cotrufo, M. F., & Wallenstein, M. D. (2024). Arctic soil carbon trajectories shaped by plant–microbe interactions. Nature Climate Change.

Chung, C. S., Kou, Y., Shemtov, S. J., Verheijen, B. M., Flores, I., Love, K., Del Dosso, A., Thorwald, M. A., Liu, Y., Hicks, D., Sun, Y., Toney, R. G., Carrillo, L., Nguyen, M. M., Biao, H., Jin, Y., Jauregui, A. M., Quiroz, J. D., Head, E., Moore, D. L., Simpson, S., Thomas, K. W., Coba, M. P., Li, Z., Benayoun, B. A., Rosenthal, J. J. C., Kennedy, S. R., Quadrato, G., Gout, J.-F., & Vermulst, M. (2024). Transcript errors generate amyloid-like proteins in huwman cells. Nature Communications, 15, 8676.

Zakon, H. H. (2024). Evolution: Sea robins get a leg up. Current Biology, 34(19), R898–R901.

Zhang, Y., McCarthy, L., Ruff, S. E., & Elhaik, E. (2024). Microbiome Geographic Population Structure (mGPS) Detects Fine-Scale Geography. Genome Biology and Evolution, evae209.

Agrawal, A., Pathak, A., Ngwa, D. N., Thirumalai, A., Armstrong, P. B., & Singh, S. K. (2024). An evolutionarily conserved function of C-reactive protein is to prevent the formation of amyloid fibrils. Frontiers in Immunology, 15.

Herbert, A. L., Allard, C. A. H., McCoy, M. J., Wucherpfennig, J. I., Krueger, S. P., Chen, H. I., Gourlay, A. N., Jackson, K. D., Abbo, L. A., Bennett, S. H., Sears, J. D., Rhyne, A. L., Bellono, N. W., & Kingsley, D. M. (2024). Ancient developmental genes underlie evolutionary novelties in walking fish. Current Biology.

Ruff, S. E., Schwab, L., Vidal, E., Hemingway, J., Kraft, B., & Murali, R. (2024). Widespread occurrence of dissolved oxygen anomalies, aerobic microbes, and oxygen-producing metabolic pathways in apparently anoxic environments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, fiae132.

Child, T., Costello, J. H., Gemmell, B. J., Sutherland, K. R., & Colin, S. P. (2024). High prey capture efficiencies of oceanic epipelagic lobate and cestid ctenophores. Journal of Plankton Research, fbae044.