BMC Biology

Perceiving Food When There is None

Ryan Baugh and colleagues show that perceiving food-associated cues alters metabolism in anticipation of feeding, and that this response is detrimental if the animal is unable to feed

All-Female Termite Societies

Toshihisa Yashiro and colleagues show that in termites asexual social lineages can evolve from mixed-sex societies, suggesting that males are dispensable for the maintenance of advanced animal societies in which they previously played an active social role

Profiling the Anemone’s Sting

Yehu Moran and colleagues use single-cell analysis and  CRISPR-mediated transgenesis to identify the factors regulating the development of cnidocytes in the sea anemone Nemostella Vectensis

A Role for VOPP1 in Breast Cancer Tumorigenesis

François Lallemand and colleagues identify VOPP1 as a novel oncogene promoting breast carcinogenesis and show that this occurs through its inhibition of the tumor supressor WWOX

Call for Papers: Microbiome Biology

BMC Biology and Genome Biology are inviting submission for their upcoming joint special issue on Microbiome Biology scheduled for publication in Spring 2019

A cauliflower structure in dental plaque. From Fig.8, Biogeography of a human oral microbiome at the micron scale. Mark Welch JL, Rossetti BJ, Rieken CW, Dewhirst FE, Borisy GG. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016;113(6):E791-800. Courtesy of Gary Borisy and reprinted with permission from PNAS

Call for Papers – Special Issue on Cancer Metabolism

We are now inviting submissions of Research papers for our cross-journal special issue. Guest Editors: Navdeep Chandel, Matthew Vander Heiden, Karen Vousden and Kathryn Wellen; submission deadline - October 31^st 2018. Read more here!