Communications Biology
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An open-access @natureportfolio.bsky.social journal publishing high quality primary research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the biological sciences since 2018. https://www.nature.com/commsbio/
🪸🌀 This article featured on our homepage uses mechanistic analysis of morphology–cilia interactions in black #corals to show how hydrodynamics and ciliary transport shape metabolic exchange, internal connectivity, and morphological diversification in sessile marine organisms www.nature.com/commsbio/
🦋🏔️🌡️ Lack of variation in thermoregulatory capacity in #butterflies across an elevational gradient suggests limited adaptive capacity. Poorer thermoregulators had stronger upwards range shifts in response to #climate change. @esme-ashe.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Butterflies with low thermoregulatory capacity show greatest upwards range shifts along an elevational gradient - Communications Biology
Lack of variation in thermoregulatory capacity or thermal tolerance in butterflies across an elevational gradient suggests limited adaptive capacity. Poorer thermoregulators had stronger upwards range...
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🧠👤How does our #brain develop? Find out in this comprehensive review on human brain development across multiple scales, from large-scale anatomical structures to microstructural architecture and functional organization across the lifespan. @saharahmad.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Multiscale brain development across the human lifespan - Communications Biology
A comprehensive review on human brain development across multiple scales, from large-scale anatomical structures to microstructural architecture and functional organization across the lifespan.
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🔬 #Cancer spheroid-fibroblast “flower-like” interactions are revealed and tracked in 3D using high-throughput imaging and PSF engineering in this recent Communications Biology manuscript. doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Symmetric cancer spheroid-fibroblast organization revealed in 3D by high-throughput microscopy - Communications Biology
Cancer spheroid-fibroblast “flower-like” interactions revealed and tracked in 3D using high-throughput imaging and PSF engineering.
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🫀🩸This new article in Communications Biology shows that Von Willebrand Factor A1 domain inhibition abrogates sustained arterial occlusion in a microfluidic platform, restoring blood flow even after a prolonged 6 hour clot retraction window. @ttmrl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Von Willebrand factor A1 blockade prevents platelet-mediated sustained occlusion for the treatment of arterial thrombosis - Communications Biology
Von Willebrand Factor A1 domain inhibition abrogates sustained arterial occlusion in a microfluidic platform, restoring blood flow even after a prolonged 6-hour clot retraction window.
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In living cells, ligand-bound GPCRs are internalized, packaged into the extracellular vesicles, and released. By utilizing this pathway as a screening platform, one can efficiently generate a high-performance DNA aptamer drug for a specific GPCR. 🎯 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Efficient and specific selection of high-affinity DNA aptamers targeting μ-opioid receptor via functional extracellular vesicles - Communications Biology
In living cells, ligand-bound GPCRs are internalized, packaged into the extracellular vesicles, and released. By utilizing this pathway as a screening platform, one can efficiently generate a high-per...
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🐷🧬Integrative multi-omics profiling of growth plates reveals genetic regulatory mechanisms underlying body size variation and miniaturization in pigs. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Integrative multi-omics analysis of growth plate regulation underlying body size in miniature pigs - Communications Biology
Integrative multi-omics profiling of growth plates reveals genetic regulatory mechanisms underlying body size variation and miniaturisation in pigs.
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🧠 Today is #WorldBrainDay! To mark this year's theme, Brain Health: Access for All, we're highlighting some research and commentary from Communications Biology that is advancing brain health discovery, prevention, care, and awareness worldwide. 🌍✨ Image/Cover Art by Berhmann et al.
🧠 As neuron models grow more detailed, the uncertainty behind them often collapses into single best-fit parameters, masking what the data support. This Comment argues for reference-grade modeling standards adapted from the hierarchy of standards used in analytical chemistry. doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Toward Reference-Grade neuron models - Communications Biology
As neuron models grow more detailed, the uncertainty behind them often collapses into single best-fit parameters, obscuring what the data support. This Comment argues for reference-grade modeling stan...
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🧬🏔️🦔Integrative genomic and morphological evidence identifies the Himalayan pangolin as a discrete species, revalidating Manis aurita. This re-delimitation provides a robust basis for urgent #conservation. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Revalidation of Manis aurita based on integrative genomic and morphological evidence - Communications Biology
Integrative genomic and morphological evidence identifies the Himalayan pangolin as a discrete species, revalidating Manis aurita. This re-delimitation provides a robust basis for urgent conservation.
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📣 New collection alert! 🧠 With @natcomms.nature.com, @natneuro.nature.com , @commsmed.nature.com, @commspsychol.nature.com and Nature Progress Brain Health, we're welcoming submissions to our Effects of Psychedelics on the Brain collection. Learn more 👇 www.nature.com/collections/...
Effects of Psychedelics on the Brain
In this Collection, we welcome papers investigating how psychedelic compounds affect the brain across multiple levels of organization: from molecular and ...
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💡 This Perspective examines how “aerobic glycolysis” originally described a bioenergetic system behavior. Reintroducing a bioenergetic conceptual framework to this term could strengthen its meaning and resolve confusion in the field. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A bioenergetic understanding of “aerobic glycolysis” - Communications Biology
This Perspective examines how “aerobic glycolysis” originally described a bioenergetic system behavior. Reintroducing a bioenergetic conceptual framework to this term could strengthen its meaning and ...
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Attending the EMBL Symposium Metabolic Interactions Shape Ecosystems this week? One of our editors, Rupali, will be there and would love to meet. Come say hello! 🌱👋 @events.embl.org
Rupali Sathe@rupsathe.bsky.social · 2w ago🦠⚗️🌱🐝 Looking forward to engaging discussions at the EMBL #Symposium Metabolic interactions shape ecosystems from July 21-24. I'll attend as an editor @commsbio.nature.com 😃 If you want to discuss the exciting science you are working on, I'll be happy to meet 👥 @events.embl.org #EESMetabolicEco
🐦⬛ Comparative genomics of neo-sex chromosomes reveals how chromosome fusions and subsequent recombination suppression drive pseudoautosomal region turnover across Sylvioidea songbirds. @sylvioidea.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Evolutionary dynamics of enlarged neo-sex chromosomes and novel pseudoautosomal regions in Sylvioidea songbirds - Communications Biology
Comparative genomics of neo-sex chromosomes reveals how chromosome fusions and subsequent recombination suppression drive pseudoautosomal region turnover across Sylvioidea songbirds.
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With @natcomms.nature.com, @natneuro.nature.com, @commsmed.nature.com, @commshealth.nature.com, Nature Progress Brain Health, and Scientific Reports, we invite submissions advancing our understanding of mechanisms underlying the onset and progression of neurodevelopmental disorders go.sn.pub/fzulew
Advances in neurodevelopmental disorders
Editors welcome original research Articles, Reviews, and Perspectives that advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the onset and progression of ...
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Comparative analysis of laughter rhythm across all extant great apes reveals that isochrony is ancestral to hominids, with tempo, variability, and context-sensitivity increasing progressively toward humans, tracing a continuum of vocal plasticity. @chiaradg.bsky.social go.sn.pub/qvw0ei
Rhythm and timing in laughter reveal that human vocal plasticity falls on a hominid continuum - Communications Biology
Comparative analysis of laughter rhythm across all extant great apes reveals that isochrony is ancestral to hominids, with tempo, variability, and context-sensitivity increasing progressively toward humans, tracing a continuum of vocal plasticity.
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We are inviting studies that elucidate the mechanistic basis of senescence and its connections to organismal aging, including its links to genomic instability, mitochondrial dysfunction, proteostasis, and immune interactions as well as its heterogeneity and dynamics across tissues. go.sn.pub/4lrfq9
Senescence and ageing
We are now inviting studies that elucidate the mechanistic basis of senescence and its connections to organismal ageing, including its links to genomic ...
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A Perspective introduces meth‑eDNA, using DNA methylation in environmental DNA to infer population traits. Emerging methods could enable noninvasive inference of age, sex ratio, reproduction and stress, expanding eDNA from species detection to functional ecosystem monitoring. go.sn.pub/1nbxwd
The potential of methylation signal detection in eDNA toward functional ecological monitoring - Communications Biology
A Perspective introduces meth-eDNA, using DNA methylation in environmental DNA to infer population traits. Emerging methods could enable noninvasive inference of age, sex ratio, reproduction and stres...
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🚨 Our review, "Multiscale brain development across the human lifespan", is now published in @commsbio.nature.com 🌐 Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Neuroscience #Neuroimaging #BrainDevelopment
Multiscale brain development across the human lifespan - Communications Biology
A comprehensive review on human brain development across multiple scales, from large-scale anatomical structures to microstructural architecture and functional organization across the lifespan.
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We welcome the submission of mechanistic studies that advance understanding of epigenetic regulation in development using in vivo systems, organoids, or other model systems for consideration in our Developmental epigenetics Collection. www.nature.com/collections/...
Developmental epigenetics
The editors at Communications Biology now invite mechanistic studies that advance understanding of epigenetic regulation in development using in vivo systems, ...
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Juvenile Arapaima gigas - the world’s largest freshwater fish - show high degrees of synchrony when air-breathing together despite individual differences. Agent-based models and empirical data suggest assortative social responsiveness as a mechanism. go.sn.pub/n59shk
Air-breathing synchrony in juvenile Arapaima gigas reveals collective coordination under individual physiological constraints - Communications Biology
Juvenile Arapaima gigas - world’s largest freshwater fish - show high degrees of synchrony when air-breathing together despite individual differences. Agent-based models and empirical data suggest ass...
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For our Emerging Post-Translational Modifications collection, we invite submissions that examine the mechanistic role and relevance of emerging or recently functionalized post-translational modifications (PTMs) in the context of mammalian cell biology or disease. www.nature.com/collections/...
Emerging Post-Translational Modifications
We invite submissions that examine the mechanistic role and relevance of emerging or recently functionalized PTMs in the context of mammalian cell biology or ...
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🆕 Read the early view paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Host transcriptional signatures associated with disease tolerance and environmental persistence in a mosquito–microsporidian system - Communications Biology
Mosquito host transcriptomes reflect the evolution of contrasting microsporidian parasite life histories, linking virulence and environmental persistence to distinct gene expression programmes.
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Luís M. Silva@luismsilva.bsky.social · last mo.1/🧵 Excited to finally share my latest paper (and my first solo paper)! 🎉 Pathogens evolve. Hosts respond. But does pathogen evolution simply change the magnitude of the host response, or does it reshape which host programmes are activated? 🤔 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Anopheles #EvoSky
Microbial Plastic Degradation Collection invites submissions which provide novel insights into the biochemistry, ecology and organismic potential underlying microbial degradation of plastic. www.nature.com/collections/...
Microbial Plastic Degradation
We invite submissions which provide novel insights into the biochemistry, ecology and organismic potential underlying microbial degradation of plastic.
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Neurometabolic rewiring in squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) optic lobes drives behavioral plasticity and visual integration under environmental acidification - @commsbio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Neurometabolic rewiring in squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) optic lobes drives behavioral plasticity and visual integration under environmental acidification - Communications Biology
Ocean acidification disrupts squid hunting behavior by inducing neurometabolic rewiring in the optic lobes. Changes in cholinergic transmission and metabolism make predators less successful, showing c...
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In this Perspective, Professor Christian Beste and Dr Shervin Safavi discuss how generative AI can help cognitive neuroscience move beyond contrasts by modeling transformations among neural states and linking neural data, counterfactual simulation, and theory www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Generative AI as a transformational logic for cognitive neuroscience - Communications Biology
This Perspective discusses how generative AI can help cognitive neuroscience move beyond contrasts by modeling transformations among neural states and linking neural data, counterfactual simulation, a...
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This article featured on our homepage shows that maternal photoperiodic cues induce embryonic diapause in a cricket through coordinated epigenetic, transcriptional, and metabolic changes that shape early developmental outcomes @kataokak.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Temporal orchestration of transcriptional and epigenomic programming underlying maternal embryonic diapause in a cricket model - Communications Biology
Maternal photoperiodic cues induce embryonic diapause in a cricket through coordinated epigenetic, transcriptional, and metabolic changes that shape early developmental outcomes
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Call for papers📢 Our Species interactions and ecological networks Collection welcomes submissions that employ manipulative and experimental approaches in communities of macroorganisms to investigate species interactions and their consequences for ecological networks. www.nature.com/collections/...
Species interactions and ecological networks
Communications Biology invites submissions that employ manipulative and experimental approaches in communities of macroorganisms to investigate species ...
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Our cross-journal Collection Ecological resistance and resilience under global change is open 📢We welcome submissions that elucidate the mechanisms and general patterns of ecological resistance and resilience across scales and disturbance regimes. www.nature.com/collections/...
Ecological resistance and resilience under global change
Editors invite submissions that elucidate the mechanisms and general patterns of ecological resistance and resilience across scales and disturbance regimes.
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Comparative analyses using life history data reveal that cooperative breeding evolved at least seven times in cichlid fishes inhabiting Lake Tanganyika, an ancient African lake, and that body size and clutch size are evolutionarily correlated with the social system. doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Repeated evolution of cooperative breeding and life history traits in Lake Tanganyika cichlids - Communications Biology
Comparative analyses using life history data reveal that cooperative breeding evolved at least seven times in cichlid fishes inhabiting Lake Tanganyika, an ancient African lake, and that body size and...
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