📢 Call for papers - Symbiotic relationships 📢
#BMCBiology
Guest Editors:
@yjluo.bsky.social
@schwarzergnoto.bsky.social
Thomas Bosch Dr rer nat, Kiel University
Anil Kumar PhD, Chandigarh University
Michael Sinvula Lukubwe BA, MSc, University of Namibia
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📢 Call for papers - Epigenetic therapies 📢
#BMCBiology
Submission Deadline: 23 Dec 2026
Guest Editors:
Rene Cortese PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center
Bozena Smolkova PhD, Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
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C. elegans. They wiggle forward. They wiggle backwards. And occasionally they...stand up and wiggle?
Learn more about this hitchhiking-like behavior, nictation, in not just C. elegans, but many species of nematodes in this #BMcBiology Review
link.springer.com/article/10.1... #WormSky #AcademicSky
Move over Drosophila melanogaster
@pankajd.bsky.social & @darrenobbard.bsky.social examine 3 non-model drosophilid species, H. cameraria, H. confusa, & S. deflexa, and show striking lineage-specific differences in immune gene repertoire & expression
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#BMCBiology
RNAi is a naturally occurring gene silencing mechanism but the differential responses to RNAi is a limiting factor.
This multi-omics study in #BMCBiology characterized dsRNA uptake mechanisms across tissues in the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria (Orthoptera).
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From the lab of Martin Duennwald, new insights into factors that uncouple FUS and TDP-43 aggregation from toxicity and support a rather protective role for FUS and TDP-43 aggregates in promoting longevity.
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#BMCBiology #Yeast #Aging #Neurodegeneration
How does your microbiome and metabolism help you adapt to different environments such as higher altitudes?
Li et al. studied this in humans in their recent paper in #BMCBiology
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#MicroSky 🦠 🧪
Codons might be synonymous codons but they are not equal.
In this study, authors test the hypothesis that functional gene families have distinct values of codon bias in the S. cerevisiae genome by modeling isoacceptor codon distributions.
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#BMCBiology
Brewer et al. investigated how host background impacts the horizontal acquisition of post-translational modifications in E. coli.
They found that different EF-P variants are impacted in different ways by off-target rhamnosylation.
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#BMCBiology #MicroSky 🦠🧬
How does what you eat in early life shape your energy stores later as an adult?
That's TBD in humans. But Peter Klepsatel & co showed there is an effect in fruit flies and it is modulated by sex and reproductive status 🪰
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#BMCBiology
Can we learn about aging from flies? 👵🪰
Trudy Mackay & co performed whole genome sequencing on young and old flies and found many human orthologs associated with senescence and lifespan, indicating translational potential to human populations.
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#BMCBiology
Check out this study from @ntorresag.bsky.social & co in #BMCBiology that shows how an increase in isoform diversity of the transcription factors in major signalling pathways have a disproportionate role in the evolutionary origin & diversification of vertebrates
link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪
I tell my students cheating is bad but what about when it comes to evolution?
Read this article from Sansar Babajanyan, Yuri Wolf, Eugene Koonin & Nash Rochman in #BMCBiology to find out 🔍
The key role of cheaters in the persistence of cooperation
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#AcademicSky 🧪
Immune cell-resolved transcriptomics provides insights into the basis for variations of fish genetic resistance to viral disease
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#BMCBiology #Ichthyology 🐟
The Yun Lab shows that Axolotls exhibit limited reproductive senescence and retain fertility throughout lifespan
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#BMCBiology
Hymenaea resin traps EVERYTHING, while Agathis resin says ‘no thanks’ to bugs.
Me too. Agathis, me too.
link.springer.com/article/10.1... #BMCBiology #FossilFriday
This is an iconic scene (at least for all us "old" people).
This #BMCBiology study shows different types of resins have different biases of what they trap.
So if you're hoping to clone dinosaurs this weekend look for Hymenaea resin not Agathis #FossilFriday 🦟🦕
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Check out the #BMCBiology article to learn about the OG stink bugs and this smelly evolutionary tradition #FossilFriday
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When we think about host-pathogen interactions we often forget about the fact, bacteria can be the hosts too! This study looks into the molecular basis of host specificity in Litunavirus and Luzseptimavirus phages
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#BMCBiology #MicroSky #ViroSky🦠 🧪
Usually when we think serotonin, we think about brains 🧠But this study in #BMCBiology shows how serotonin affects the bacteria, P. fluorescens.
Why is this important? Your gut! E.g. Celiac disease is a serotonin-rich environment
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#MicroSky 🦠 🧪
This study by Dion et al. showed extensive sexual dimorphism in gene splicing in male and female butterfly brains after pheromone exposure 🦋🧠
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#BMCBiology
From the lab of @oliviaroth.bsky.social, an examination of the effects of parental intermittent fasting on offspring in Syngnathus typhle (a model for male pregnancy)
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#BMCBiology
📢 Call for papers - Cancer metabolism 📢
Submission Deadline: 30 October 2026
#BMCBiology
Guest Editors:
Eyal Gottlieb, @mdanderson.bsky.social
Zeping Hu, @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social
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#MedSky #CancerSky
Y Kato, A Oi, N Dohmae, F Obata & C Sakuma systematically profiled #aminoacids in the #mosquito body, ovaries and excreta over time after blood feeding and found distinct temporal dynamics across amino acids, balancing demands of egg maturation and survival.
In #BMCBiology
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Calling for your papers for the upcoming #BMCBiology collection “Regeneration: Wound Healing, Reprogramming, and Tissue Engineering.”
Excited to serve as Guest Editor and can’t wait to read your submissions!
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Again a good experience with the process at #BMCBiology
Fig. 3 of linked article Figure description: Hypothesis of reduction of Phoridae radial veins. a Proximal wing, long fork of RP fork ①. b Recent wing, short fork of RP vein ②. c Wing with an important reduction of venation, lost fork of RP vein ③, and distal reduction of RA vein ④. d Zoom of possibility of reduction of RP1+2, lost of RP1+2 vein either distally or proximally Ⓐ, or by the fusion of RP1+2 and RP3+4 veins Ⓑ
Veins are crucial for phylogenetic and taxonomy studies. This study examined Cretaceous fossils and modern humpbacked flies (scuttle flies) to propose new wing models for rapid ID of Phoridae wing veins based on their degree of reduction. #FossilFriday #PaleoSky #BMCBiology 🧪 🪰
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Fig 1 of the article linked. Figure description: A Independent evolution of gut-sampling lymphoid tissue across vertebrates, giving rise to unique organs such as the pancreas of Aselli in shrews and the sacculus rotundus in lagomorphs. B Both the pancreas of Aselli and cloacal bursa are prominent early in life, suggesting an important role in early immunity. However, unlike the cloacal bursa, the pancreas of Aselli persists into adulthood, emphasizing function beyond early-life immunity. C Shrews operate near their maximum energy allowance due to their exceptionally high basal metabolic rates. As they approach reproductive age, their energy demands may exceed sustainable levels, creating trade-offs between physiological functions. The pancreas of Aselli may represent an adaptive strategy that minimizes energetic cost of immune function during reproduction by serving as an early-life investment in immunity
From the @labdavalos.bsky.social lab
Gene expression reveals the pancreas of Aselli as a critical organ for plasma cell differentiation in the Eurasian common shrew
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#BMCBiology #EvoSky #ImmunoSky 🧪
