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Every month, research from MBL scientists and affiliates is published in academic journals across the globe. In October 2024, 14 new studies were published. MBL-affiliated authors are in bold.

Our list of recent publications is updated weekly here.

October 2024

Allard, C. A. H., Herbert, A. L., Krueger, S. P., Liang, Q., Walsh, B. L., Rhyne, A. L., Gourlay, A. N., Seminara, A., Baldwin, M. W., Kingsley, D. M., & Bellono, N. W. (2024). Evolution of novel sensory organs in fish with legs. Current Biology. DOI:  

Attah, A. T., Negrón-Moreno, P. N., Amigo-Duran, M., Zhang, L., Kenngott, M., Brecht, M., & Clemens, A. M. (2024). Sensory cues, behavior and fur-based drying in the rat wetness response. Scientific Reports, 14, 24550. DOI:  

Chung, C. S., Kou, Y., Shemtov, S. J., Verheijen, B. M., Flores, I., Love, K., Del Dosso, A., Thorwald, M. A., Liu, Y., Hicks, D., Sun, Y., Toney, R. G., Carrillo, L., Nguyen, M. M., Biao, H., Jin, Y., Jauregui, A. M., Quiroz, J. D., Head, E., Moore, D. L., Simpson, S., Thomas, K. W., Coba, M. P., Li, Z., Benayoun, B. A., Rosenthal, J. J. C., Kennedy, S. R., Quadrato, G., Gout, J.-F., & Vermulst, M. (2024). Transcript errors generate amyloid-like proteins in human cells. Nature Communications. DOI:

Garcia Arredondo, M., Kew, W., Chu, R., Jones, M. E., Boiteau, R. M., Cardon, Z. G., & Keiluweit, M. (2024). Differential Exudation Creates Biogeochemically Distinct Microenvironments during Rhizosphere Evolution. Environmental Science & Technology.

Gemmell, B. J., Colin, S. P., & Costello, J. H. (2024). Hydromechanical properties of metachronal swimming in polychaetes. Scientific Reports. DOI:  

Goda, M., Shribak, M., Ikeda, Z., Okada, N., Tani, T., Goshima, G., Oldenbourg, R., & Kimura, A. (2024). Live-cell imaging under centrifugation characterized the cellular force for nuclear centration in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI:

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Herbert, A. L., Allard, C. A. H., McCoy, M. J., Wucherpfennig, J. I., Krueger, S. P., Chen, H. I., Gourlay, A. N., Jackson, K. D., Abbo, L. A., Bennett, S. H., Sears, J. D., Rhyne, A. L., Bellono, N. W., & Kingsley, D. M. (2024). Ancient developmental genes underlie evolutionary novelties in walking fish. Current Biology. DOI:

Jokura, K., Anttonen, T., Rodriguez-Santiago, M., & Arenas, O. M. (2024). Rapid physiological integration of fused ctenophores. Current Biology. DOI:

Kwiatkowski, E. R., Rosenthal, J. J. C., & Emery, P. (2024). Crosstalk between the circatidal and circadian clocks mediates behavioral adaptation to tidal patterns. Current Biology. DOI:

Machmuller, M. B., Lynch, L. M., Mosier, S. L., Shaver, G. R., Calderon, F., Gough, L., Haddix, M. L., McLaren, J. R., Paul, E. A., Weintraub, M. N., Cotrufo, M. F., & Wallenstein, M. D. (2024). Arctic soil carbon trajectories shaped by plant–microbe interactions. Nature Climate Change.

Nagata, R., D’Ambra, I., Lauritano, C., von Montfort, G., Djeghri, N., Jordano, M., Colin, S., Costello, J., & Leoni, V. (2024). Physiology and functional biology of Rhizostomeae jellyfish. Elsevier. DOI:  

Oikawa, P. Y., Sihi, D., Forbrich, I., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Najarro, M., Thomas, O., Shahan, J., Arias-Ortiz, A., Russell, S., Knox, S. H., Mcnicol, G., Wolfe, J., Windham-Myers, L., Stuart-Haentjens, E., Bridgham, S. D., Needelman, B., Vargas, R., Schafer, K., Ward, E. J., Megonigal, P., & Holmquist, J. (2024). A New Coupled Biogeochemical Modeling Approach Provides Accurate Predictions of Methane and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Across Diverse Tidal Wetlands. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. DOI:

Schiebel, R., Aardema, H. M., Calleja, M. Ll., Dragoneas, A., Heins, L., de Angelis, I. H., Poehlker, C., Slagter, H., Vonhof, H., Walter, D., Arns, A. I., Adolphs, N., Auderset, A., Basic, S., Bieler, A., Bruewer, J. D., Chaabane, S., Cheng, Y., Chilinski, M. T., Cybulski, J. D., Disper, T., Duprey, N., Eichele, G., Fiedler, B., Fischer, A., Foreman, A. D., Fuchs, B. M., Galer, S., Harri, J., Jochum, K. P., Jost, A., Jung, J., Kleta, H., Lammel, G., Larink, O., Leibold, P., Martinez-Garcia, A., Moretti, S., Muller, J.-G., Nillius, B., Pan, X., Raj, S. S., Repschlager, J., Rodrigues, E., Ruff, S. E., Schmitt, M., Schmitter, J. L., Lara, A. S., Silva, P., Smart, S. M., Sorgel, M., Stoll, B., Su, H., Vogt, M., Wald, T., Weber, B., Weber, J., Weis, U., Amann, R., Aristegui, J., Dittmar, T., Gonzalez, M., O’Dea, A., Poschl, U. & Haug, G. H. (2024). Preface: Special Issue on Probing the Open Ocean With the Research Sailing Yacht Eugen Seibold for Climate Geochemistry. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI:

Zakon, H. H. (2024). Evolution: Sea robins get a leg up. Current Biology, 34(19), R898–R901. DOI:

Zhang, Y., McCarthy, L., Ruff, S. E., & Elhaik, E. (2024). Microbiome Geographic Population Structure (mGPS) Detects Fine-Scale Geography. Genome Biology and Evolution. DOI:

Are you an MBL scientist with a paper that came out this month, which was not included on this list? We apologize for the oversight. Please email comm@mbl.edu