Multi-species predation and scavenging at a Marburg-virus bat reservoir

"Multi-species foraging on a Marburg Virus Bat Reservoir" spkl.io/63323A4ylH

Alexander Braczkowski & colleagues
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Super happy to see our new paper out in
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today! We found that cocaine pollution affects salmon movement and space use in the wild!

Big congrats to the team for this huge effort!
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Find the paper here: tinyurl.com/cocaine-fish

Excited to share our latest in @currentbiology.bsky.social (they who publish the coolest papers!)

Memories are encoded by sparse neuronal ensembles (engrams). But most evidence comes from "simple" associative learning tasks. What about more integrative memories like spatial navigation?

Mitochondrial biology: Specialized powerhouses pack a punch A new study reveals that a specialized population of mitochondria in the Caenorhabditis elegans uterine anchor cell is remodeled and enriched in machinery needed for optimal local energy production to...

Check out our highlight of the most recent example of subcellular mitochondrial specialization in @currentbiology.bsky.social. Be sure to also check out the beautiful work from David Sherwood's lab

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Identification of bacterial signals that modulate enteric sensory neurons to influence behavior in C. elegans Estrem et al. show that bacterial polysaccharides, including peptidoglycans, activate the enteric sensory neuron NSM to regulate feeding and locomotion in C. elegans, while pathogen-derived metabolite...

Study in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Cassi Estrem in the lab of Steve Flavell: www.cell.com/current-biol...

In Current Biology...

it just smells differently...

Eating its own tail, the central dogma of molecular biology has come full circle!
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New @currentbiology.bsky.social paper from Dr. Leila Elabbady on neural circuits that transform a touch stimulus into spatially targeted grooming.

Leila discovered a leg somatotopic map and used it to infer tactile receptive fields in the fly VNC connectome.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1mvu83QW8S...

Songbirds reveal the dark side of making new brain cells as adults A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults

Songbirds reveal the dark side of making new brain cells as adults

@krcallaway.bsky.social on new work from @bbscott.bsky.social's lab in @sciam.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/song...

BPoD | Making Eye Contact Making Eye Contact - Biomedical pictures for April 2026.

Fruit fly study reveals details – molecular gradients & adhesive forces – that control preservation of the eye pattern as axons establish in the brain
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Melinda Kehribar et al, Free University of Berlin in
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➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...

What's clearly needed here is an expedition of the entire Current Biology editorial team to visit Veronika...

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Some of these folks could take a page of Veronika and touch grass...

One of biggest mysteries in biology: how did complex eukaryotic cells evolve from simple microbes? ~1.8 billion years ago, an archaeal cell likely merged with a bacterium to form the first eukaryotic cell, but can we ever find direct evidence of this transformative event? 🦠 🚶‍♂️

Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly The genome of the Atlas blue butterfly contains ten times more chromosomes than most butterflies, and more than any other known diploid animal. Wright et al. show that this extraordinary karyotype is…

#ERGAReads | 🦋 Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly 🦋
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@currentbiology.bsky.social #evolution #chromosomes #butterfly #lepidoptera #Atlas

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Turgor reduction triggers FERONIA nanodomain assembly for osmosensing in plants @currentbiology.bsky.social

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Great piece by the venerable Jack Szostak👇

REM-sleep twitching in adults and the maintenance of specialized sensorimotor systems Blumberg et al. present video evidence of twitching during adult sleep in a diverse sample of animals. Adult twitching appears to selectively involve appendages used for active sensing, mirroring thei...

Twitching during REM sleep is important for honing the sensorimotor system during development in humans and other animals. But why do adults twitch during sleep?

Check out this review by James Dooley & colleagues

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Trophic cascades drive sustainability in the agricultural heritage rice-fish coculture system Wan et al. reveal that rice-fish coculture enhances invertebrate natural enemies (i.e., predators and parasitoids), suppresses pests (i.e., invertebrate herbivores, diseases, and weeds), and boosts ri...

As lovers of 🍣 know, fish and rice pair well.

A new study in CB shows that fish living in rice paddies can have positive effects on rice plants by suppressing herbivores.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

On the cover of our current issue: the 'cool' snow fly❄️❄️❄️
whose genome reveals several fascinating cold adaptations.

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Mosquitoes: A butt–brain axis for controlling reproduction The conversion of a blood meal into viable offspring is a central physiological challenge for female mosquitoes. A new study has found that rectal pad…

Wrote a dispatch for @currentbiology.bsky.social about the "butt-brain" axis Laura Duvall and colleagues discovered. Can now add mosquito rectum specialist to my skill sets. Laura's paper in the same issue!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One more Asgard archaeon! Meet Nerearchaeum marumarumayae from the microbial mats of Shark Bay, Australia. It interacts with #bacteria via intercellular nanotubes 🧬!
#microbiology #archaea #eukaryotes #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky
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Every editor!

Evolution of a chloroplast subcompartment housing plastid DNA inside a cup-like starch granule Zheng et al. investigate an algal chloroplast subcompartment in which plastid DNA is contained inside a cup-like starch granule. The evolution of this compartment is associated with the development of...

Evolution of a chloroplast subcompartment housing plastid DNA inside a cup-like starch granule: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... @currentbiology.bsky.social

A microbiome-derived olfactory signal regulates inter-male aggression and social dominance in mice Cichy et al. show that trimethylamine (TMA), a gut microbiome-derived metabolite, activates the receptor TAAR5 in the main olfactory system to regulate aggression and social dominance in male mice. Th...

Happy to share the latest from the lab! A microbiome-generated metabolite affects male-male aggression and social dominance in mice via the main olfactory system. Gut-Nose-Behavior.

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We don't follow Lewin. Our editors just love their job, their colleagues and ourauthors and readers so much that they are unwilling to leave...😍

Human–wildlife conflict Kaitlyn Gaynor and Jennifer Green introduce the many forms of conflict between humans and wild animals.

Why can't we just get along with wild animals?

Jennifer Green and Kaitlyn Gaynor introduce human–wildlife conflict in this Primer.

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Noni Franklin-Tong Interview with Noni Franklin-Tong, who studied self-incompatibility in the field poppy at the University of Birmingham, where she is now Emeritus Professor of Plant Cell Biology.

Our latest issue features a Q&A with Noni Franklin-Tong, who studied self-incompatibility in the field poppy at the University of Birmingham, where she is now Emeritus Professor of Plant Cell Biology. Find out why she began studying biology here: www.cell.com/current-biol...