Biology Publications from February 2025

March 3, 2025

Here are several UMass Biology Publications that were released in February. You can go to PubMed to read more!

  1. Pujadas Liwag EM, Acosta N, Almassalha LM, Su YP, Gong R, Kanemaki MT, Stephens AD, Backman V. Nuclear blebs are associated with destabilized chromatin packing domains. J Cell Sci. 2025 Jan 29:jcs.262161. doi: 10.1242/jcs.262161. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39878045.
  2. Teicher G, Riffe RM, Barnaby W, Martin G, Clayton BE, Trapani JG, Downes GB. Marigold: a machine learning-based web app for zebrafish pose tracking. BMC Bioinformatics. 2025 Jan 28;26(1):30. doi: 10.1186/s12859-025-06042-2. PMID: 39875867; PMCID: PMC11773884.
  3. Vaziri GJ, Caicedo B, Dahrouge N, Ryerson WG, Davenport JM, Stager M, Jones KR, Frost C, Seewagen CL, Rittenhouse TAG, Bolnick DI. Gut microbiomes are largely unchanged when exposed to their amphibian host's latitudinally variable upper thermal limit. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 2025 Jan 22;302:111816. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2025.111816. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39855620.
  4. Culbert BM, Mossington E, McCormick SD, Bernier NJ. Regulation and function of the gill corticotropin-releasing factor system during osmoregulatory disturbances in Atlantic salmon. J Exp Biol. 2025 Jan 15;228(2):JEB248168. doi: 10.1242/jeb.248168. Epub 2025 Jan 28. PMID: 39690939.
  5. Gould E, Fraser HS, Parker TH,… Aguirre LA,……, Zimmerman GM, Zitomer RA. Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC Biol. 2025 Feb 6;23(1):35. doi: 10.1186/s12915-024-02101-x. PMID: 39915771.
  6. Eskndir N, Hossain M, Currey ML, Pho M, Berrada Y, Lin K, Manning G, Prince K, Stephens AD. DNA damage causes ATM-dependent heterochromatin loss leading to nuclear softening, blebbing, and rupture. Mol Biol Cell. 2025 Mar 1;36(3):br6. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E24-05-0232. Epub 2024 Dec 20. PMID: 39705376.
  7. Bunner S, Prince K, Pujadas Liwag EM, Eskndir N, Srikrishna K, Amonu McCarthy A, Kuklinski A, Jackson O, Pellegrino P, Jagtap S, Eweka I, Lawlor C, Eastin E, Yas G, Aiello J, LaPointe N, Schramm von Blucher I, Hardy J, Chen J, Figueroa S, Backman V, Janssen A, Packard M, Dorfman K, Almassalha L, Bahiru MS, Stephens AD. Decreased DNA density is a better indicator of a nuclear bleb than lamin B loss. J Cell Sci. 2025 Feb 1;138(3):jcs262082. doi: 10.1242/jcs.262082. Epub 2025 Feb 11. PMID: 39501901.
  8. Chandler T, Guo M, Su Y, Chen J, Wu Y, Liu J, Agashe A, Fischer RS, Mehta SB, Kumar A, Baskin TI, Jaumouillé V, Liu H, Swaminathan V, Nain AS, Oldenbourg R, La Riviere PJ, Shroff H. Volumetric imaging of the 3D orientation of cellular structures with a polarized fluorescence light-sheet microscope. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Feb 25;122(8):e2406679122. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2406679122. Epub 2025 Feb 21. PMID: 39982748.
  9. Reis PM, Holec SA, Ezeiruaku C, Frost MP, Brown CK, Liu SL, Olson SH, Woerman AL. Structurally targeted mutagenesis identifies key residues supporting α-synuclein misfolding in multiple system atrophy. J Parkinsons Dis. 2024 Nov;14(8):1543-1558. doi: 10.3233/JPD-240296. Epub 2024 Oct 17. PMID: 39957201.
  10. Zotos S, Stamatiou M, Marketaki SZ, Konstantinou M, Aristidou A, Irschick DJ, Bot JA, Shepard ELC, Holton MD, Vogiatzakis IN. A Novel Multidisciplinary Approach for Reptile Movement and Behavior Analysis. Integr Zool. 2025 Feb 16. doi: 10.1111/1749-4877.12960. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39956785.
  11. Shaughnessy CA, Hall DJ, Norstog JL, Barany A, Regish AM, Ferreira-Martins D, Breves JP, Komoroske LM, McCormick SD. A Cftr-independent, Ano1-rich seawater-adaptive ionocyte in sea lamprey gills. J Exp Biol. 2025 Feb 26:jeb.250110. doi: 10.1242/jeb.250110. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40007443.
  12. Zintel TM, Ely JJ, Raghanti MA, Hopkins WD, Hof PR, Sherwood CC, Kamilar JM, Bauernfeind AL, Babbitt CC. Ecological Trait Differences Are Associated with Gene Expression in the Primary Visual Cortex of Primates. Genes (Basel). 2025 Jan 22;16(2):117. doi: 10.3390/genes16020117. PMID: 40004446; PMCID: PMC11855002.
  13. Vaziri GJ, Caicedo B,… Stager M, … Bolnick DI. Gut microbiomes are largely unchanged when exposed to their amphibian host's latitudinally variable upper thermal limit. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 2025 Apr;302:111816. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2025.111816. Epub 2025 Jan 22. PMID: 39855620.