microPublication biologyPub Date : 2025-07-02eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001538
Md Nur E Alam, Anri Yamane, Satoshi Kusama, Noriyosi Sato, Noritaka Hirohashi, Hiroki Ono
{"title":"Within-female sperm allocation in <i>Enoploteuthis chunii</i> is associated with polyandry and male-biased sex ratio.","authors":"Md Nur E Alam, Anri Yamane, Satoshi Kusama, Noriyosi Sato, Noritaka Hirohashi, Hiroki Ono","doi":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.001538","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the unusual reproductive features in cephalopods is the flexibility of sperm deposition sites in females. Recently we reported that female <i>Enoploteuthis chunii</i> possess not only a major sperm receptacle (MSR) but also a cryptic sperm pocket (CSP) and CSP utilization increases towards the end of the reproductive season. This may occur due to male-male competition over insemination sites, as a male-biased sex ratio and CSP utilization are tightly correlated. The microsatellite-based genotyping revealed that both MSR and CSP are used by the same males, a similar phenomenon previously found in <i>Loliolus sumatrensis</i> , which is herein hypothesized to be a strategy associated with sperm allocation.</p>","PeriodicalId":74192,"journal":{"name":"microPublication biology","volume":"2025 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12264711/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144651418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of dopamine in responsiveness to acute ethanol exposure in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i>.","authors":"Deepa Gayadin, McKenna Prunty, Stephanie Jb Fretham","doi":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.001675","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alcohol use and abuse is a common and prevalent disorder characterized by complex and individually variable physiological effects. <i>C. elegans</i> demonstrate multiple ethanol-induced behaviors and are an effective model for experimentally isolating environmental and genetic factors underlying the actions of ethanol. Using wild type and dopamine signaling mutant <i>C. elegans ,</i> the current study found that ethanol exposure results in dopamine release-dependent swimming induced paralysis and that dopamine influences acute sensitivity to ethanol. Taken together, the findings support a role for dopamine in mediating acute responses to ethanol.</p>","PeriodicalId":74192,"journal":{"name":"microPublication biology","volume":"2025 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12264710/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144651417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
microPublication biologyPub Date : 2025-07-01eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001652
Everette Rhymer, Lauren Anllo
{"title":"Generation of <i>six4</i> -nlsRFP: a red somatic gonadal nuclear marker for live imaging <i>Drosophila</i> gonadogenesis.","authors":"Everette Rhymer, Lauren Anllo","doi":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.001652","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intrinsically fluorescent tissue labels are valuable to live image cell behaviors during development. Fluorescent markers of <i>Drosophila</i> gonadal cells have elucidated dynamic cellular interactions that shaped our conception of cell biology. Many green fluorescent protein (GFP) reagents are available to visualize cytoskeletal dynamics, extracellular matrix, and cell adhesion proteins. To facilitate use of these reagents while studying somatic gonadal development, we generated a somatic gonadal precursor (SGP) intrinsic red fluorescent nuclear marker. This tool can track SGP movement live, facilitating the study of somatic cell interactions required for gonadogenesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":74192,"journal":{"name":"microPublication biology","volume":"2025 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12264712/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144651416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
microPublication biologyPub Date : 2025-06-26eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001534
Madeline C Marquardt, Jordan L Reed, Susana M Wadgymar
{"title":"Patterns of Extrafloral Nectar Production in <i>Chamaecrista fasciculata</i> (Fabaceae: Caesalpinoideae).","authors":"Madeline C Marquardt, Jordan L Reed, Susana M Wadgymar","doi":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001534","DOIUrl":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001534","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Chamaecrista fasciculata</i> develops extrafloral nectaries at the base of most of its leaves that attract a variety of insects, including ants that aid in defense against herbivores. Here, we show that the extrafloral nectaries on newly developed leaves are larger and produce more nectar than those on older leaves. In addition, we demonstrate that nectar production does not increase with regular nectar removal, as might be experienced with routine visitation by patrolling ants, suggesting that the mass of nectar produced by individual nectaries is not plastic in response to removal. It's possible that plants prioritize producing nectar closer to their apical meristems to encourage ants to patrol and defend the full extent of their vegetative structures or to protect the tissues most vulnerable to herbivory.</p>","PeriodicalId":74192,"journal":{"name":"microPublication biology","volume":"2025 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12246837/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144627968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
microPublication biologyPub Date : 2025-06-26eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001680
Jana Schulze, Uwe Töpfer
{"title":"Role of <i>AdamTS-B</i> in <i>Drosophila</i> wing vein formation.","authors":"Jana Schulze, Uwe Töpfer","doi":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001680","DOIUrl":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001680","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The development of <i>Drosophila</i> wing veins is a complex morphogenetic process that depends on the interplay of different signaling pathways, including EGFR, BMP, Notch, Hedgehog and Wnt. Basement membranes (BMs) and proteases that process BM components play a crucial role in controlling the morphogen spreading and associated patterning required for proper organ formation. Here we show, that <i>AdamTS-B</i> is required for the proper development of <i>Drosophila</i> wing veins. Knockdown of <i>AdamTS-B</i> results in various phenotypes, including additional veins, delta branches, and wandering veins within different longitudinal veins, though there are no differences in the cross veins.</p>","PeriodicalId":74192,"journal":{"name":"microPublication biology","volume":"2025 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12246869/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144627969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
microPublication biologyPub Date : 2025-06-25eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001580
David Guerrero-Gómez, Juan Cabello, Antonio Miranda-Vizuete
{"title":"Insulin receptor substrate family member IST-1 regulates the development of <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> <i>age-1</i> and <i>aap-1</i> mutants.","authors":"David Guerrero-Gómez, Juan Cabello, Antonio Miranda-Vizuete","doi":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001580","DOIUrl":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001580","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Insulin receptor substrate (IRS) is a class of adaptor proteins that mediate the activation of transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptors to downstream effectors. The IST-1 protein is the sole IRS present in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans ,</i> which has been poorly studied in this animal model. Here, we show that <i>ist-1</i> mutants develop normally but exhibit sterility, larval arrest and dauer phenotypes when combined with mutations in <i>age-1</i> and <i>aap-1</i> genes, which encode the catalytic and regulatory subunits of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K), respectively. In contrast, no major genetic interactions are observed with mutations in other genes of the worm insulin pathway, either upstream or downstream AGE-1 / AAP-1 . We conclude that IST-1 , the only IRS in <i>C. elegans</i> , functions as a positive regulator of PI3K in the canonical insulin pathway during development.</p>","PeriodicalId":74192,"journal":{"name":"microPublication biology","volume":"2025 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12242554/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144610534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
microPublication biologyPub Date : 2025-06-25eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001723
{"title":"Erratum: Corrigendum: The mechanoreceptor <i>pezo-1</i> is required for normal crawling locomotion in the nematode <i>C. elegans</i>.","authors":"","doi":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.001723","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001085.].</p>","PeriodicalId":74192,"journal":{"name":"microPublication biology","volume":"2025 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12198977/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144509859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
microPublication biologyPub Date : 2025-06-25eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001645
Paul Vigne, Christian Braendle
{"title":"Natural variation in cold and heat survival among temperate and tropical <i>Caenorhabditis briggsae</i>.","authors":"Paul Vigne, Christian Braendle","doi":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001645","DOIUrl":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001645","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We developed a simple assay to quantify natural variation in adult thermal stress tolerance in the nematode <i>Caenorhabditis briggsae</i> . Selfing hermaphrodites from wild strains were exposed to cold (0°C, 5°C) or heat (29°C, 33°C, 35°C) for 15 hours during early adulthood. Cold exposure revealed clear clade-level differences: temperate strains showed high survival, while tropical strains were more variable and generally less tolerant. Heat exposure at 35°C caused high mortality across strains from both clades, with only slightly lower mortality in tropical strains. At 29°C, all strains showed full survival. By 33°C, mortality rose modestly, with temperate strains showing slightly greater sensitivity. This assay captures natural variation in thermal tolerance and provides a simple and efficient tool for studying thermal adaptation in <i>C. briggsae</i> and other <i>Caenorhabditis</i> nematodes.</p>","PeriodicalId":74192,"journal":{"name":"microPublication biology","volume":"2025 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12238878/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144602411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
microPublication biologyPub Date : 2025-06-24eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001584
Jessica Cruz, Fiona McCarthy
{"title":"Providing Standardized Gene Nomenclature for Domestic Ungulate Scavenger Receptor Genes.","authors":"Jessica Cruz, Fiona McCarthy","doi":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001584","DOIUrl":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001584","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Scavenger Receptor (SCAR) genes are a heterogeneous group involved in innate immunity and immunomodulation. While standardized gene nomenclature is provided for model organism SCAR genes, ungulates have novel SCAR genes which have not been systematically classified. This study compares SCAR genes for five representative ungulate species which are selected based on their agricultural importance and representation. We identify and classify twenty-seven SCAR genes common to all species and provide standardized gene nomenclature for genes novel to these ungulate species. Notably, we provide standardized gene nomenclature for the previously studied Workshop Cluster 1 (WC1) genes which are absent in model organisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":74192,"journal":{"name":"microPublication biology","volume":"2025 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12235456/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144593095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
microPublication biologyPub Date : 2025-06-24eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.001662
Matthew J Wirick, Xantha Karp
{"title":"<i>hbl-1</i> does not contribute to the misexpression of an adult cell fate marker in <i>daf-16</i> mutant dauer larvae.","authors":"Matthew J Wirick, Xantha Karp","doi":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001662","DOIUrl":"10.17912/micropub.biology.001662","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> dauer larvae, the FOXO ortholog, <i>daf-16</i> , opposes the expression of the <i>col-19p::gfp</i> adult cell fate marker in the lateral hypodermis. <i>daf-16</i> acts in part via <i>lin-41 ,</i> a heterochronic gene that promotes larval seam cell fate during non-dauer development. Here, we show that a different heterochronic gene, <i>hbl-1</i> , does not function downstream of <i>daf-16</i> to regulate <i>col-19p::gfp</i> expression during dauer. A gain-of-function <i>hbl-1</i> allele did not suppress ectopic <i>col-19p::gfp</i> expression in <i>daf-16 (0)</i> dauer larvae, and HBL-1 protein was not detectable in control or <i>daf-16 (0)</i> dauer larvae.</p>","PeriodicalId":74192,"journal":{"name":"microPublication biology","volume":"2025 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12235446/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144593093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}