Cover article – Temperature-induced physiological stress and reproductive characteristics of the migratory seahorse Hippocampus erectus

Seahorses have previously been regarded as a sedentary species. Now Qiang Lin and co-workers describe an inshore-offshore migration pattern driven by water temperature, and an associated high tolerance to thermal stress in the animals’ reproductive system.

Find out more about the story behind the research in an interview with first author Geng Qin.

Featured article – Spatio-temporal neural stem cell behavior leads to both perfect and imperfect structural brain regeneration in adult newts

Kiyokazu Agata and colleagues report that structural regeneration of brain cytoarchitecture in adult newts depends on how the wound is closed by neural stem cells residing between brain sub-regions.

Find out more about the story behind the research in an interview with first author Yuko Urata.

First Person interviews

Have you seen our interviews with the early-career first authors of our papers? Recently, we caught up with first authors Geng Qin, Megumi Matsuo and Yuko Urata.

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Recent translational biology research highlights in BiO – a novel transgenic zebrafish, using claudin 5a, represents an ideal model to study blood brain barrier and choroid plexus barrier development and function in vivo.

A transgenic zebrafish model for the in vivo study of the blood and choroid plexus brain barriers using claudin 5
Lisanne Martine van Leeuwen, Robert J. Evans, Kin Ki Jim, Theo Verboom, Xiaoming Fang, Aleksandra Bojarczuk, Jarema Malicki, Simon Andrew Johnston, Astrid Marijke van der Sar. Biology Open 2018 7: bio030494

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