Current frameworks explain a lot through #ontogeny, niche accessibility, competition, #monocyte replacement, and time in tissue. But they do not fully explain whether self-maintenance becomes a durable population-level property under physiological conditions. 2/11

The #FreeToRead #EditorsChoice article for the issue investigated the effect of receptor tyrosine kinase family member #CAD96CA on hormone signalling and #ontogeny of #silkworm.

Why not give it a read?
doi.org/10.1111/imb.70018

#Moulting #Metamorphosis #JH #Bioinformatics

New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt investigated how the cost of #parasite exposure depends on host #ontogeny.
doi.org/10.1111/een.70066

#Drosophila #Macrocheles #NCEs #CEs
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

This project investigates how mandibular morphology develops and varies in human populations, using geometric morphometrics and virtual anthropology.

Mandibular morphological ontogeny in human populations

🚩Call for selection of a candidate to apply for a #PhD examining mandibular #ontogeny under the supervision of Ricardo Miguel Godinho at the Interdisciplinary Center for #Archaeology and #Evolution of #HumanBehaviour (ICArEHB)
FCHS, University of Algarve www.icarehb.com/rgodinho/

A Triumvirate of Transformation: Oncogene, Ontogeny, and Plasticity Summary:. Cancer cells display extensive heterogeneity that influences therapy response and clinical outcome, yet the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Recent studies reveal that t...

New Spotlight in @aacrjournals.bsky.social

#Oncogene × #Ontogeny × #Plasticity shape leukemia biology & therapy response.

Two complementary studies show: mutations alone don’t explain disease behavior—developmental state and cellular plasticity matter.

aacrjournals.org/bloodcancerd...

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EpiSci

The Effect of Background Colour on Behaviour and Development of Golden Mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) Tadpoles This study examined how background colour influences behaviour and development in golden mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) tadpoles across ontogeny. Tadpoles preferred darker backgrounds, and this prefe...

🧪 ETHOLOGY: Does background colour matter for growing tadpoles?🐸🎨
Amin et al. show that golden mantella tadpoles prefer dark backgrounds, especially when young. While growth wasn’t affected, tadpoles reared in darker tanks were less active. It's #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/eth.... #Ontogeny

IOB
Resolving #evolutionary relationships-
IOB’s Selina-Viktor Robson details more about their co-authored work

iobopen.com/2026/01/12/r...

& read the paper
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
by Robson, @jmtheodor.bsky.social et al

#science #fossils #paleobiology #morphology #taxa, #ontogeny.

The year 2025 for ExFuMo in review Commentary by Jitka Klimešová, from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The illustration above is by F. Curtis Lubbe. Now it is the time for reflecting on the p…

#ExFuMo in 2025🎯 Review: new insights into #rhizome investment & #ontogeny, the #Belowground #Persistence Types” framework, the Plant Bodies book, and hands-on belowground training #IAVS #workshop + #GoBelowground course)
Read the recap ▶️ 1url.cz/KJxLz
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

Chaetognaths exhibit the most extensive repertoire of Hox genes among protostomes The evolutionary origins and body plan diversification within bilaterians hinge on our understanding of conserved developmental gene networks across diverse taxa. While significant advances have been ...

#Hox genes #development #zoology #ontogeny #Gnathifera #evolution
Published in January 25 on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...) this study shows how the anterior–posterior body axis is established in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera, a little-studied marine arrow worm.

#mechanism #ontogeny #function #evolution #embodiment #enaction #embeddedness #extension #ethology
🔓 Bierl, B. (2025). Toward a bio-ethological 4E linguistics: Language as life in mind and behavior. Biolinguistics, 19, e20603. doi.org/10.5964/biol...

Auditory representation of conspecific calls improves throughout ontogeny in a singing fish | Biology Letters A central question in understanding acoustic communication systems is how auditory processing develops relative to vocal differentiation. While the development of auditory processing of conspecific vo...

doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
#SPEetologia

@royalsocietypublishing.org

#FishCommunication #Bioacoustics #AuditoryDevelopment #SensoryBiology #Ontogeny #Toadfish #AnimalBehavior #AcousticSignals #Neuroscience #CommunicationEvolution

New research in #RESInsectMolecBio

Effect of receptor tyrosine kinase family member #CAD96CA on hormone signalling and #ontogeny of #silkworm
doi.org/10.1111/imb.70018

#Moulting #Metamorphosis #JH #Bioinformatics
@sassanasgari.bsky.social @gulianusslab.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social

Skulls of pachycephalosaurids, generalized and only vaguely implied to specific species. The first two columns show the skulls of generalized pahcys in lateral (left) and dorsal (right) views, with some shading to make the domes pop a bit. Arrows indicate the direction and trajectory of dome growth in ontogeny. In some Stegocephale-Prenocephale-morph taxa, there are accessory domelets on the side, thse pop up last in ontogeny, and are shown by smaller, accessory arrows. The bottom row shows Dracorex, Stygimoloch, and Pachycephalosaurs as an ontogenetic series with similar arrows.

My infographic terror continues to spread!

This time, prompted by nothing in particular (he lied) is the question of ontogenetic metaplastic transformation.

Let's talk about #Pachycephalosaurus. #Dinosaur #Ontogeny #Paleontology Bri'is #Palaeontology #SciArt #metaplasia

Renfei Chen et al. explored the transient variation of #StemMassFraction in crop plants.

#BiomassAllocation | #TransientDynamics | #Competition | #Ontogeny

@mapjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...

Cryptic Ontogenetic Changes in the Ventral Coloration of a Color Polymorphic Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis) Wall lizards' ventral coloration undergoes cryptic ontogenetic color changes invisible without UV vision. We tracked wall lizards from hatching to one year of age. Spectrophotometry and visual modeli...

🧪 New paper out! Growing up, wall lizards undergo a UV-visible “awkward phase” (who doesn’t?) that we can’t see—but they can. These ontogenetic color changes may mediate juvenile–adult interactions by delaying the onset of adult social signals. doi.org/10.1002/jez.... #colsci #lizard #ontogeny

Really cool paper on #meerkats and on their #ontogeny (aka #development) of #foraging #skills.

Meerkats aquire mature foraging skills around 1 year of age, much earlier than their onset of #breeding and/or #dominance.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000...

Transient dynamics of mean stem mass fraction under different planting densities of monoculture of corn sowed in 2015 (a) and 2016 (b) and soybean sowed in 2015 (c) and 2016 (d). The planting density is the average number of plants per plot at the time of sampling.

📢 #TransientVariations of #BiomassAllocated to stems for four crop species (corn & soybean & flax & wheat) in single and mixed systems

Results:
Plant #Ontogeny & #IntraspecificCompetition ⬆️, #InterspecificCompetition ⬇️, variations in #StemMassFractions ⬆️

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...

Look at this beautiful new study by @hbronnv.bsky.social in @cellpress.bsky.social, and it even has a pretty animation! Experience AND motivation count when white storks migrate! #birds #migration #biologging #ontogeny #whitestork #ornithology Very proud supervisor here @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Fig. 2 from the article: Variation in breeder age (n = 968) throughout the season

Fig. 5 from the article: Probability of adopting a migratory behaviour as modelled by Model 3, Table 3. Each line represents the predicted probability of crossing no barrier (yellow), one barrier (dark green) or multiple barriers (dark blue) given the ringing day (nBarrier).

NEW PAPER: Do older parents do better? Relationships between parental age, chick body condition and migratory behaviour in a colonial-breeding waterbird

➡️ vist.ly/3n8k9i6

#ornithology #birds #ecologicalbarriers #ontogeny

Przemysław Świś opens Day 3 in the Fish and Conodonts session of #EAVP2025 analysing 'The #ontogeny of the Late #Devonian #conodont Tripodellus gracilis based on growth increments'

Ever wondered how the shape of the genital bone in male Harbour #seals develops throughout #ontogeny?

Berghäuser, Wölfer, Böhmer @vertevo.bsky.social & @johnnyakatura.bsky.social @jzoology.bsky.social 2025 Morphology & development of the baculum in harbour seals P. vitulina doi.org/10.1111/jzo....

Early ontogeny and other possible molluscan traits in hyolith biology and anatomy Hyoliths were extinct invertebrates with embryonic and larval conchs closely similar to those of the conchiferan molluscs. Yet, they lacked radula and were equipped with a tentacular oral apparatus. T...

🚨New Paper Alert🚨

Early #ontogeny and other possible molluscan traits in #hyolith #biology and #anatomy 🐌by Prof. Dzik

doi.org/10.18261/let...

Sammy with orphan baby spinosaurus

#paleoart #paleoartwork #cartoonartist #cartoonart #cartoonartstyle #myart #myartwork #myartstyle #digitalart #digitalartwork #twitterartist #illustrationart #Spinosaurus #piscivore #apexpredator #spinosaurusoc #babyspinosaurus #orphan #ontogeny

Tranquiloraptor with It’s young

#paleoart #paleoartwork #cartoonartist #cartoonart #cartoonartstyle #myart #myartwork #myartstyle #digitalart #digitalartwork #twitterartist #illustrationart #caronivore #dromaeosaurs #fictionaldinospecies #fictionalraptorcreature #ontogeny

My last manuscript has just been accepted for publication in #AJBA 🥳 It’s about #bipedalism in #baboons, instantaneous #energy , #ontogeny and #human bipedalism. About 10 years of work was needed to reach this publication. More info coming very soon!!

#Autocracies, as a form of social #network hierarchy, are also subject to the law of limited growth.
Due to internal resistance,they have to expend enormous amounts of energy (e.g. money) just to maintain (or build) the system - until they can grow to a very limited extent,if at all.
#ontogeny #Musk

📢How rhizomes shape whole-plant ontogeny and growth 🪴🪻🌸
Our blog contribution ▶️https://1url.cz/41nBN for @journalofecology.bsky.social
about the paper doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground #clonality #ontogeny #carbohydrate #phenology #rhizome
@ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

📢Martínková et. al (2025) in @journalofecology.bsky.social
The hidden half of #ontogeny and #seasonal dynamics in #perennial herbs🪴
... to fully understand plant strategies, plants need to be studied as integrated bodies ▶️https://1url.cz/Y19uF
#aboveground #belowground
#ExFuMo #GoBelowground

🌳🌲Using long-term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning

https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10872

@nordicoikos.bsky.social #biodiversity #ecosystemfunctioning #forests #ontogeny #succession

A quantitative assessment of #ontogeny & #moulting in a #Cambrian radiant & the evolution of #arthropod #development. Check out the developmental series!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...