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Isotope analysis of birds’ eye lens provides early-life information
(Springer Nature, 2025)Early-life environment has a long-lasting effect on later life, though its estimation is often prevented in the wild because of a lack of available methods. Recently, isotope analysis of eye lenses has attracted considerable ... -
Glacial retreat driving enhanced methane emissions in the high Arctic
(Copernicus Publications, 2023)Permafrost and glaciers in the high Arctic form an impermeable ‘cryospheric cap’ that traps a large reservoir of sub-surface methane and hinders it from reaching the atmosphere. The vulnerability of the cryosphere to climate ... -
Charge Scaling in Potassium Channel Simulations: Conductance, Ion Occupancy, Voltage Response, and Selectivity
(bioRxiv, 2024)Potassium (K+) channels are widely distributed in many types of organisms. Potassium channels combine high efficiency (K+ ions permeation rates ∼100 pS) and exquisite K+/Na+ selectivity by a conserved selectivity filter ... -
Socially Induced Infertility in Naked and Damaraland Mole-Rats: A Tale of Two Mechanisms of Social Suppression
(MDPI, 2022)The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) and the Damaraland mole-rat (Fukomys damarensis) possess extreme reproductive skew with a single reproductive female responsible for reproduction. In this review, we synthesize ... -
Tissue Oxidative Ecology along an Aridity Gradient in a Mammalian Subterranean Species
(MDPI, 2022)Climate change has caused aridification which can alter habitat vegetation, soil and precipitation profiles potentially affecting resident species. Vegetation and soil profiles are important for subterranean mole-rats as ... -
Patterns of Genetic Diversity and Gene Flow Associated With an Aridity Gradient in Populations of Common Mole-rats, Cryptomys hottentotus hottentotus.
(Oxford University Press, 2024-07-03)Genetic adaptation is the change of a population toward a phenotype that best fits the present ecological conditions of the environment it inhabits. As environmental conditions change, allele frequencies shift, resulting ... -
New insights into morphological adaptation in common mole-rats (Cryptomys hottentotus hottentotus) along an aridity gradient.
(WIley, 2024-04)Morphological adaptation is the change in the form of an organism that benefits the individual in its current habitat. Mole-rats (family Bathyergidae), despite being subterranean, are impacted by both local and broad-scale ... -
Arf6 determines tissue architecture by stabilizing intercellular adhesion.
(Royal Society, 2020-10-12)Correct cell shape is indispensable for tissue architecture, with cell shape being determined by cortical actin and surface adhesion. The role of adhesion in remodelling tissue is to counteract the deformation of cells by ... -
Contemporary morphogenesis.
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Multifaceted control of E-cadherin dynamics by the Adaptor Protein Complex 1 during epithelial morphogenesis
(arXiv, 2021)Intracellular trafficking regulates the distribution of transmembrane proteins including the key determinants of epithelial polarity and adhesion. The Adaptor Protein 1 (AP-1) complex is the key regulator of vesicle sorting, ... -
Biosynthesis of Arcyriaflavin F from Streptomyces venezuelae ATCC 10712
(bioaRxiv, 2024)Indolocarbazoles are natural products with a broad spectrum of reported bioactivities. A distinct feature of indolocarbazole biosynthesis is the modification of the indole and maleimide rings by regioselective tailoring ... -
Strategic Design, Synthesis, and Computational Characterization of Hole Transport Materials for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells
(American Chemical Society, 2025-01-01)Lead-free perovskites based on nontoxic titanium(IV) are promising candidates for photovoltaic applications due to their improved intrinsic/environmental stability compared to the lead analogues in metal halide perovskite ... -
A giant specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri and comments on the ontogeny of rhamphorhynchines.
(PeerJ, 2025)Rhamphorhynchus is one of the best-known pterosaurs, with well over 100 specimens being held in public collections. Most of these represent juvenile animals, and the adults known are typically around 1 m in wingspan. Here ... -
Rapid Plasma Exsolution from an A-site Deficient Perovskite Oxide at Room Temperature
(2022-12-01)High-performance nanoparticle platforms can drive catalysis progress to new horizons, delivering environmental and energy targets. Nanoparticle exsolution offers unprecedented opportunities that are limited by current ... -
Genome size influences plant growth and biodiversity responses to nutrient fertilisations in diverse grassland communities
(Public Library of Science, 2024)Experiments comparing diploids with polyploids and in single grassland sites show that nitrogen and/or phosphorus availability influences plant growth and community composition dependent on genome size; specifically, plants ... -
Exploring Factors Related to the Development and Implementation of a Local Intervention Program for Syrian Refugee Children
(Taylor & Francis, 2024)Many interventions have been developed to improve educational and developmental outcomes in Syrian refugee children. Here, we focus on one such intervention, We Love Reading, a community-led, shared book-reading program ... -
Scaling up neodomestication for climate-ready crops.
(Elsevier, 2022-04)We can increase the stability of our food systems against environmental variability and climate change by following the footsteps of our ancestors and domesticating edible wild plants. Reinforced by recent advances in ... -
Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes.
(PLOS, 2024-11-25)Understanding the origin of eukaryotic cells is one of the most difficult problems in all of biology. A key challenge relevant to the question of eukaryogenesis is reconstructing the gene repertoire of the last eukaryotic ... -
Warming reduces trophic diversity in high-latitude food webs.
(Wiley, 2024-10)The physical effects of climate warming have been well documented, but the biological responses are far less well known, especially at the ecosystem level and at large (intercontinental) scales. Global warming over the ... -
Phase separation in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli.
(PNAS, 2021-11-02)Gram-negative bacteria are surrounded by a protective outer membrane (OM) with phospholipids in its inner leaflet and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in its outer leaflet. The OM is also populated with many β-barrel outer-membrane ...