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  1. The natural light environment is far more complex than that experienced by animals under laboratory conditions. As a burrowing species, wild mice are able to self-modulate their light exposure, a concept known...

    Authors: Laura C. E. Steel, Shu K. E. Tam, Laurence A. Brown, Russell G. Foster and Stuart N. Peirson
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:208
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  2. The importance of parental diet in relation to eventual offspring health is increasing in prominence due to the increased frequency of parents of reproductive age consuming poor diets. Whilst maternal health a...

    Authors: Hannah L. Morgan, Nader Eid, Nadine Holmes, Sonal Henson, Victoria Wright, Clare Coveney, Catherine Winder, Donna M. O’Neil, Warwick B. Dunn, David J. Boocock and Adam J. Watkins
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:207
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  3. Diapause, a pivotal phase in the insect life cycle, enables survival during harsh environmental conditions. Unraveling the gene expression profiles of the diapause process helps uncover the molecular mechanism...

    Authors: Xingzhuo Yang, Xianguo Zhao, Zhangwu Zhao and Juan Du
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:206
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  4. MicroRNA isoforms (isomiRs), tRNA-derived fragments (tRFs), and rRNA-derived fragments (rRFs) represent most of the small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs) found in cells. Members of these three classes modulate messe...

    Authors: Tess Cherlin, Yi Jing, Siddhartha Shah, Anne Kennedy, Aristeidis G. Telonis, Venetia Pliatsika, Haley Wilson, Lily Thompson, Panagiotis I. Vlantis, Phillipe Loher, Benjamin Leiby and Isidore Rigoutsos
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:205
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  5. Fusarium head blight (FHB) significantly impacts wheat yield and quality. Understanding the intricate interaction mechanisms between Fusarium graminearum (the main pathogen of FHB) and wheat is crucial for develo...

    Authors: Yazhou Zhang, Danyu Yao, Xinyu Yu, Xinyao Cheng, Lan Wen, Caihong Liu, Qiang Xu, Mei Deng, Qiantao Jiang, Pengfei Qi and Yuming Wei
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:204
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  6. Mutations occurring in nucleic acids or proteins may affect the binding affinities of protein-nucleic acid interactions. Although many efforts have been devoted to the impact of protein mutations, few computat...

    Authors: Si-Rui Xiao, Yao-Kun Zhang, Kai-Yu Liu, Yu-Xiang Huang and Rong Liu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:203
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  7. Seafood is increasingly traded worldwide, but its supply chain is particularly prone to frauds. To increase consumer confidence, prevent illegal trade, and provide independent validation for eco-labelling, acc...

    Authors: Luca Peruzza, Francesco Cicala, Massimo Milan, Giulia Dalla Rovere, Tomaso Patarnello, Luciano Boffo, Morgan Smits, Silvia Iori, Angelo De Bortoli, Federica Schiavon, Aurelio Zentilin, Piero Fariselli, Barbara Cardazzo and Luca Bargelloni
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:202
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  8. Methods to suppress pest insect populations using genetic constructs and repeated releases of male homozygotes have recently been shown to be an attractive alternative to older sterile insect techniques based ...

    Authors: Jinyu Zhu, Jingheng Chen, Yiran Liu, Xuejiao Xu and Jackson Champer
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:201
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  9. Kiwifruit, belonging to the genus Actinidia, represents a unique fruit crop characterized by its modern cultivars being genetically diverse and exhibiting remarkable variations in morphological traits and adap...

    Authors: Xiaolong Li, Liuqing Huo, Xinyi Li, Chaofan Zhang, Miaofeng Gu, Jialu Fan, Changbin Xu, Jinli Gong, Xiaoli Hu, Yi Zheng and Xuepeng Sun
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:200
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  10. Haem is essential but toxic for metazoan organisms. Auxotrophic nematodes can acquire sufficient haem from the environment or their hosts in the meanwhile eliminate or detoxify excessive haem through tightly c...

    Authors: Danni Tong, Fei Wu, Xueqiu Chen, Zhendong Du, Jingru Zhou, Jingju Zhang, Yi Yang, Aifang Du and Guangxu Ma
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:199
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  11. The molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways involved in tooth morphogenesis have been the research focus in the fields of tooth and bone development. However, the cell population in molars at the late bell...

    Authors: Yingchun Zheng, Ting Lu, Leitao Zhang, Zhongzhi Gan, Aoxi Li, Chuandong He, Fei He, Sha He, Jian Zhang and Fu Xiong
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:198
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  12. Cotton is an important economic crop and a host of Liriomyza sativae. Pectin methylesterase (PME)-mediated pectin metabolism plays an indispensable role in multiple biological processes in planta. However, the pl...

    Authors: Zheng Yang, Menglei Wang, Senmiao Fan, Zhen Zhang, Doudou Zhang, Jie He, Tongyi Li, Renhui Wei, Panpan Wang, Muhammad Dawood, Weijie Li, Lin Wang, Shaogan Wang, Youlu Yuan and Haihong Shang
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:197
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  13. Baryscapus dioryctriae (Chalcidodea: Eulophidae) is a parasitic wasp that parasitizes the pupae of many Pyralidae members and has been used as a biological control agent against Dioryctria pests of pinecones.

    Authors: Xiaoyan Zhu, Yi Yang, Qiuyao Li, Jing Li, Lin Du, Yanhan Zhou, Hongbo Jin, Liwen Song, Qi Chen and Bingzhong Ren
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:196
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  14. iPSC reprogramming technology exhibits significant promise in the realms of clinical therapeutics, disease modeling, pharmaceutical drug discovery, and various other applications. However, the extensive utiliz...

    Authors: Zhijing Zhang, Xinglin Hu, Yuchen Sun, Lei Lei and Zhonghua Liu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:195
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  15. DNA G-quadruplexes (G4s) represent a distinctive class of non-canonical DNA secondary structures. Despite their recognition as potential therapeutic targets in some cancers, the developmental role of G4 struct...

    Authors: Lijin Guo, Weiling Huang, Qi Wen, Siyu Zhang, Farhad Bordbar, Zhengzhong Xiao and Qinghua Nie
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:194
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  16. Foxn1−/− deficient mice are a rare model of regenerative skin wound healing among mammals. In wounded skin, the transcription factor Foxn1 interacting with hypoxia-regulated factors affects re-epithelialization, ...

    Authors: Barbara Gawronska-Kozak, Sylwia Machcinska-Zielinska, Katarzyna Walendzik, Marta Kopcewicz, Mirva Pääkkönen and Joanna Wisniewska
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:193
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  17. N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) methylation, a common form of RNA modification, play an important role in the pathogenesis of various diseases and in the ontogeny of organisms. Nevertheless, the precise function of m6A ...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Liu, Jian Li, Chenhui Wang, Jiangbo Li, Kai Luo, Kang Tao, Yuan Tian, Xiang Song, Zhifang Zhai, Yuandong Tao, Jia You, Lihua Wu, Wenqian Li, Yuanyuan Jiao, Rongya Yang and Mingwang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:192
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  18. Brassica napus L. (B. napus) is susceptible to waterlogging stress during different cultivation periods. Therefore, it is crucial to enhance the resistance to waterlogging stress to achieve a high and stable yiel...

    Authors: Jijun Li, Yuting Zhang, Yahui Chen, Yijing Wang, Zhihua Zhou, Jinxing Tu, Liang Guo and Xuan Yao
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:191
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  19. Hemiptera is the fifth species-rich order of insects and the most species-rich order of hemimetabolous insects, including numerous insect species that are of agricultural or medical significance. Despite much ...

    Authors: Nan Song, Miao-Miao Wang, Wei-Chao Huang, Zhi-Yi Wu, Renfu Shao and Xin-Ming Yin
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:190
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  20. The Zic family of transcription factors (TFs) promote both proliferation and maturation of cerebellar granule neurons (CGNs), raising the question of how a single, constitutively expressed TF family can suppor...

    Authors: Melyssa S. Minto, Jesús Emiliano Sotelo-Fonseca, Vijyendra Ramesh and Anne E. West
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:189
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  21. The histone variant macroH2A (mH2A), the most deviant variant, is about threefold larger than the conventional histone H2A and consists of a histone H2A-like domain fused to a large Non-Histone Region responsi...

    Authors: Khalid Ouararhni, Flore Mietton, Jamal S. M. Sabir, Abdulkhaleg Ibrahim, Annie Molla, Raed S. Albheyri, Ali T. Zari, Ahmed Bahieldin, Hervé Menoni, Christian Bronner, Stefan Dimitrov and Ali Hamiche
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:188
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  23. Habitat transitions have considerable consequences in organism homeostasis, as they require the adjustment of several concurrent physiological compartments to maintain stability and adapt to a changing environ...

    Authors: Raul Valente, Miguel Cordeiro, Bernardo Pinto, André Machado, Filipe Alves, Isabel Sousa-Pinto, Raquel Ruivo and L. Filipe C. Castro
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:186
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  24. Scutellaria, a sub-cosmopolitan genus, stands as one of the Lamiaceae family’s largest genera, encompassing approximately 500 species found in both temperate and tropical montane regions. Recognized for its signi...

    Authors: Yinghui Wang, Chao Xu, Xing Guo, Yan Wang, Yanyi Chen, Jie Shen, Chunnian He, Yan Yu and Qiang Wang
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:185
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  25. Grafting with dwarf rootstock is an efficient method to control plant height in fruit production. However, the molecular mechanism remains unclear. Our previous study showed that plants with Prunus mume (mume) ro...

    Authors: Yufan Ma, Chengdong Ma, Pengyu Zhou, Feng Gao, Wei Tan, Xiao Huang, Yang Bai, Minglu Li, Ziqi Wang, Faisal Hayat, Ting Shi, Zhaojun Ni and Zhihong Gao
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:184
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  26. The ability to learn from humans via observation was considered to be equally present across properly socialized dogs. We showed recently that cooperative working breeds learned from a human demonstrator more ...

    Authors: Petra Dobos and Péter Pongrácz
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:183
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  27. Accurately identifying drug-target affinity (DTA) plays a pivotal role in drug screening, design, and repurposing in pharmaceutical industry. It not only reduces the time, labor, and economic costs associated ...

    Authors: Xin Zeng, Kai-Yang Zhong, Pei-Yan Meng, Shu-Juan Li, Shuang-Qing Lv, Meng-Liang Wen and Yi Li
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:182
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  28. Pathologists commonly employ the Ki67 immunohistochemistry labelling index (LI) when deciding appropriate therapeutic strategies for patients with breast cancer. However, despite several attempts at standardiz...

    Authors: Natsuki Sato, Masahiko Tsujimoto, Masatoshi Nakatsuji, Hiromi Tsuji, Yuji Sugama, Kenzo Shimazu, Masafumi Shimoda and Hideki Ishihara
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:181
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  29. Mainly known as a transcription factor patterning the rostral brain and governing its histogenesis, FOXG1 has been also detected outside the nucleus; however, biological meaning of that has been only partially...

    Authors: Osvaldo Artimagnella, Elena Sabina Maftei, Mauro Esposito, Remo Sanges and Antonello Mallamaci
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:180
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  30. Cell wall integrity (CWI) is crucial for fungal growth, pathogenesis, and adaptation to extracellular environments. Calcofluor white (CFW) is a cell wall perturbant that inhibits fungal growth, yet little is k...

    Authors: Jiyun Yang, Bing Li, Yu-Ting Pan, Ping Wang, Mei-Ling Sun, Ki-Tae Kim, Hui Sun, Jian-Ren Ye, Zhen Jiao, Yong-Hwan Lee and Lin Huang
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:179
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  31. The previously underestimated effects of commensal gut microbiota on the human body are increasingly being investigated using omics. The discovery of active molecules of interaction between the microbiota and ...

    Authors: Georgij P. Arapidi, Anatoly S. Urban, Maria S. Osetrova, Victoria O. Shender, Ivan O. Butenko, Olga N. Bukato, Alexandr A. Kuznetsov, Tatjana M. Saveleva, Grigorii A. Nos, Olga M. Ivanova, Leonid V. Lopukhov, Alexander V. Laikov, Nina I. Sharova, Margarita F. Nikonova, Alexander N. Mitin, Alexander I. Martinov…
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:178
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  33. Casein kinase 1α (CK1α), expressed in both ovarian germ and somatic cells, is involved in the initial meiosis and primordial follicle formation of mouse oocytes. Using in vitro and in vivo experiments in this ...

    Authors: Xuan Luo, Di Zhang, Jiaming Zheng, Hui Liu, Longjie Sun, Hongzhou Guo, Lei Wang and Sheng Cui
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:176
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  35. Venoms have repeatedly evolved over 100 occasions throughout the animal tree of life, making them excellent systems for exploring convergent evolutionary novelty. Growing evidence supports that venom evolution...

    Authors: Yi Yang, Shan Xiao, Xianxin Zhao, Yu H. Sun, Qi Fang, Longjiang Fan, Gongyin Ye and Xinhai Ye
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:174
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  36. Sensory systems evolved intricate designs to accurately encode perplexing environments. However, this encoding task may become particularly challenging for animals harboring a small number of sensory neurons. ...

    Authors: Eduard Bokman, Christian O. Pritz, Rotem Ruach, Eyal Itskovits, Hadar Sharvit and Alon Zaslaver
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:173
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  37. Plenty of clinical and biomedical research has unequivocally highlighted the tremendous significance of the human microbiome in relation to human health. Identifying microbes associated with diseases is crucia...

    Authors: Huan Zhu, Hongxia Hao and Liang Yu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:172
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  38. Free fatty acids (FFAs) play vital roles as energy sources and substrates in organisms; however, the molecular mechanism regulating the homeostasis of FFA levels in various circumstances, such as feeding and n...

    Authors: Yan-Xue Li, Qiao Yan, Tian-Wen Liu, Jin-Xing Wang and Xiao-Fan Zhao
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:171
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  39. Tubulins are major components of the eukaryotic cytoskeletons that are crucial in many cellular processes. Ciliated protists comprise one of the oldest eukaryotic lineages possessing cilia over their cell surf...

    Authors: Hua Su, Tingting Hao, Minjie Yu, Wuyu Zhou, Lei Wu, Yalan Sheng and Zhenzhen Yi
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:170
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  40. Numerous insect species undertake long-distance migrations on an enormous scale, with great implications for ecosystems. Given that take-off is the point where it all starts, whether and how the external light...

    Authors: Tianyi Sun, Fan Yang, Haiyan Zhang, Yajun Yang, Zhongxian Lu, Baoping Zhai, Hongxing Xu, Jiahao Lu, Yanhui Lu, Yumeng Wang, Jiawen Guo and Gao Hu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:169
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  43. Monoamine oxidases (MAOs) is an enzyme that catalyzes the deamination of monoamines. The current research on this enzyme is focused on its role in neuropsychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurodegenerative di...

    Authors: Zhe Yu, Pinxiu Huang, Lemeng Wang, Fanjing Meng, Qiyang Shi, Xiaolan Huang, Lingling Qiu, Haibin Wang, Shuangbo Kong and Jinxiang Wu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:166
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  44. White clover (Trifolium repens) is a globally important perennial forage legume. This species also serves as an eco-evolutionary model system for studying within-species chemical defense variation; it features a ...

    Authors: Wen-Hsi Kuo, Sara J. Wright, Linda L. Small and Kenneth M. Olsen
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:165
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  45. The remarkable regenerative abilities observed in planarians and cnidarians are closely linked to the active proliferation of adult stem cells and the precise differentiation of their progeny, both of which ty...

    Authors: Hiroki Nagai, Yuya Adachi, Tenki Nakasugi, Ema Takigawa, Junichiro Ui, Takashi Makino, Masayuki Miura and Yu-ichiro Nakajima
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:157
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  46. The identification of novel toxins from overlooked and taxonomically exceptional species bears potential for various pharmacological applications. The remipede Xibalbanus tulumensis, an underwater cave-dwelling c...

    Authors: Ernesto Lopes Pinheiro-Junior, Ehsan Alirahimi, Steve Peigneur, Jörg Isensee, Susanne Schiffmann, Pelin Erkoc, Robert Fürst, Andreas Vilcinskas, Tobias Sennoner, Ivan Koludarov, Benjamin-Florian Hempel, Jan Tytgat, Tim Hucho and Björn M. von Reumont
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:164
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  47. Energy allocation between growth and reproduction determines puberty onset and fertility. In mammals, peripheral hormones such as leptin, insulin and ghrelin signal metabolic information to the higher centres ...

    Authors: Jie Chen, Wenting Zhao, Lei Cao, Rute S. T. Martins and Adelino V. M. Canário
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:163
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  48. Mitochondrial (mt) heteroplasmy can cause adverse biological consequences when deleterious mtDNA mutations accumulate disrupting “normal” mt-driven processes and cellular functions. To investigate the heteropl...

    Authors: Parnika S. Kadam, Zijian Yang, Youtao Lu, Hua Zhu, Yasemin Atiyas, Nishal Shah, Stephen Fisher, Erik Nordgren, Junhyong Kim, David Issadore and James Eberwine
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:162
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  49. Salmonid species have followed markedly divergent evolutionary trajectories in their interactions with sea lice. While sea lice parasitism poses significant economic, environmental, and animal welfare challeng...

    Authors: S. J. Salisbury, R. Ruiz Daniels, S. J. Monaghan, J. E. Bron, P. R. Villamayor, O. Gervais, M. D. Fast, L. Sveen, R. D. Houston, N. Robinson and D. Robledo
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:160
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  50. Trichinella spiralis (T. spiralis) is a parasitic helminth that causes a globally prevalent neglected zoonotic disease, and worms at different developmental stages (muscle larvae, adult worms, newborn larvae) ind...

    Authors: Jing Ding, Ning Xu, Jing Wang, Yushu He, Xuelin Wang, Mingyuan Liu and Xiaolei Liu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:158
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