The following publications from the Biology Department appeared in PubMed in November 2025. You can find more here.
- Nualart DP, Guerreiro PM, Paschke K, McCormick SD, Cheng CC, Vargas-Chacoff L. The Immune System in Antarctic and Subantarctic Fish of the Genus Harpagifer Is Affected by the Effects of Combined Microplastics and Thermal Increase. Int J Mol Sci. 2025 Oct 13;26(20):9968. doi: 10.3390/ijms26209968. PMID: 41155262; PMCID: PMC12563894.
- Brody SM, Kalinka E, Prostak SM, Carvalho T, Man J, James TY, Fritz-Laylin LK. Homology-mediated transformation of frog-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis illuminates chytrid development and pathogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Nov 4;122(44):e2507572122. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2507572122. Epub 2025 Oct 28. PMID: 41150711.
- Aguirre LA, Theis N, Pak JH, Abbott S, Clemente SR, Adler LS. Effects of Leaf Herbivory on Floral Trait Correlations and Scent Composition in Asclepias syriaca. J Chem Ecol. 2025 Oct 25;51(6):103. doi: 10.1007/s10886-025-01654-7. PMID: 41138023.
- Prostak SM, Velle KB, Fritz-Laylin LK. Frog-killing chytrid fungus deploys different strategies to regulate intracellular pressure in developmental states that have or lack a cell wall. Curr Biol. 2025 Nov 5:S0960-9822(25)01321-1. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.013. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41197633.
- Podos J. Animal behavior: Courtship displays that grab and hold attention. Curr Biol. 2025 Nov 3;35(21):R1046-R1048. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.09.069. PMID: 41187712.
- Bernadskaya YY, Kuan A, Tjärnberg A, Brandenburg J, Zhang P, Wiechecki K, Kaplan N, Failla M, Bikou M, Madilian O, Bruderer N, Wang W, Christiaen L. Cell cycle-driven transcriptome maturation confers multilineage competence to cardiopharyngeal progenitors. EMBO J. 2025 Nov 3. doi: 10.1038/s44318-025-00613-y. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41184589.
- Carrión PL, Beausoleil MO, Raeymaekers JAM, De León LF, Chaves JA, Sharpe DMT, Huber SK, Herrel A, Gotanda KM, Koop JAH, Knutie SA, Clayton DH, Podos J, Barrett RDH, Guichard F, Hendry AP. Darwin's finches and climate change: insights from a resilient system. J Evol Biol. 2025 Nov 17:voaf138. doi: 10.1093/jeb/voaf138. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41247098.
- Prostak SM, Velle KB, Fritz-Laylin LK. Frog-killing chytrid fungus deploys different strategies to regulate intracellular pressure in developmental states that have or lack a cell wall. Curr Biol. 2025 Nov 17;35(22):5572-5581.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.013. Epub 2025 Nov 5. PMID: 41197633.
- Velotta JP, Stager M, Cheviron ZA, Senner NR. Incomplete genetic compensation and countergradient variation of blood-oxygen transport in deer mice. Evolution. 2025 Nov 17;79(11):2552-2562. doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf186. PMID: 40990947; PMCID: PMC12620655.
- Cox BD, Yang H, Moore J, Ahuja N, Amundson K, Aponte-Santiago N, Coomer C, Gong Y, Herbert AL, Manzano C, Martínez-Gómez J, Satterlee J, Brady SM, Rogers CD. Reprogramming our fate: a postdoctoral reflection on current challenges and prospects for developmental biology. Dev Biol. 2025 Nov 22:S0012-1606(25)00319-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2025.11.012. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41285217.
- Long AF, Vasudevan K, Swafford AJM, Venard CM, Stajich JE, Fritz-Laylin LK, Feldman JL, Stearns T. Dynamic remodeling of centrioles and the microtubule cytoskeleton in the lifecycle of chytrid fungi. Mol Biol Cell. 2025 Dec 1;36(12):br35. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E24-12-0577. Epub 2025 Aug 20. PMID: 40833813; PMCID: PMC12659703.
- Leak L, Wang Z, Joseph AJ, Johnson B, Chan AA, Decosto CM, Magtanong L, Ko PJ, Lee WC, Ritho J, Manukian S, Millner A, Chitkara S, Salinas JJ, Skouta R, Rees MG, Ronan MM, Roth JA, Myers CL, Moffat J, Boone C, Bensinger SJ, Nathanson DA, Atilla-Gokcumen GE, Moding EJ, Dixon SJ. Tegavivint triggers TECR-dependent nonapoptotic cancer cell death. Nat Chem Biol. 2025 Dec;21(12):1873-1884. doi: 10.1038/s41589-025-01913-4. Epub 2025 May 26. PMID: 40419770.