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December, 2016; 5 (12)

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    Morphology and distribution of taste papillae and oral denticles in the developing oropharyngeal cavity of the bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium punctatum
    Carla J. L. Atkinson, Kyle J. Martin, Gareth J. Fraser, Shaun P. Collin
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1759-1769; doi: 10.1242/bio.022327

    Summary: Characterisation of taste buds in the developing bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium punctatum, reveals that taste papillae are functional, innervated units, allowing the shark to seek out food in utero, at birth or following hatching.

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    Polyglutamine length-dependent toxicity from α1ACT in Drosophila models of spinocerebellar ataxia type 6
    Wei-Ling Tsou, Sultan H. Qiblawi, Ryan R. Hosking, Christopher M. Gomez, Sokol V. Todi
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1770-1775; doi: 10.1242/bio.021667

    Summary: The spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6) protein, α1ACT, causes polyglutamine length-dependent toxicity and aggregation in new Drosophila transgenic lines, opening the door for additional studies of this disease.

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    New SigD-regulated genes identified in the rhizobacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42
    Ben Fan, Yu-Long Li, Aruljothi Mariappan, Anke Becker, Xiao-Qin Wu, Rainer Borriss
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1776-1783; doi: 10.1242/bio.021501

    Summary: New SigD-regulated genes were identified in the plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42, which is closely related to the model organism B. subtilis.

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    Biochemical pathways supporting beta-lactam biosynthesis in the springtail Folsomia candida
    Wouter Suring, Janine Mariën, Rhody Broekman, Nico M. van Straalen, Dick Roelofs
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1784-1789; doi: 10.1242/bio.019620

    Summary: Analysis of phosphopantetheinyl transferases and metabolic pathways for L-α-aminoadipic acid that are required for beta-lactam biosynthesis in the arthropod Folsomia candida.

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    DRH1, a p68-related RNA helicase gene, is required for chromosome breakage in Tetrahymena
    Stephen L. McDaniel, Erica Zweifel, Peter K. W. Harris, Meng-Chao Yao, Eric S. Cole, Douglas L. Chalker
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1790-1798; doi: 10.1242/bio.021576

    Summary: The p68-related Drh1protein is essential for both growth and development of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. It localizes to meiotic nuclei and is required for chromosome breakage of developing somatic chromosomes.

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    Temperature and evaporative water loss of leaf-sitting frogs: the role of reflection spectra
    Francisco Herrerías-Azcué, Chris Blount, Mark Dickinson
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1799-1805; doi: 10.1242/bio.021113

    Summary: We show that the presence of a reflection peak in the NIR in some frogs can contribute to a temperature difference of up to 3.2°C, which extends the period they can go without rehydration by over an hour (22.7%).

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    Strigolactone regulates shoot development through a core signalling pathway
    Tom Bennett, Yueyang Liang, Madeleine Seale, Sally Ward, Dörte Müller, Ottoline Leyser
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1806-1820; doi: 10.1242/bio.021402

    Summary: Strigolactones signal through D14 to regulate shoot development by targeting SMXL6-clade proteins, but not BES1 or DELLA proteins, for degradation. BRC1 and PIN1 plausibly act downstream to regulate branching.

  • Open Access
    Early molecular events during retinoic acid induced differentiation of neuromesodermal progenitors
    Thomas J. Cunningham, Alexandre Colas, Gregg Duester
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1821-1833; doi: 10.1242/bio.020891

    Summary: The findings here demonstrate that the signaling molecule retinoic acid (RA) plays an early role in determining how embryonic progenitor cells decide to differentiate into either mesodermal or neural tissues.

  • Open Access
    BMP4 acts as a dorsal telencephalic morphogen in a mouse embryonic stem cell culture system
    Momoko Watanabe, Ernest S. Fung, Felicia B. Chan, Jessica S. Wong, Margaret Coutts, Edwin S. Monuki
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1834-1843; doi: 10.1242/bio.012021

    Summary: Using mouse embryonic stem cell cultures, we show BMP4 sufficiency to specify two cell fates and appropriate temporal patterning of the dorsal telencephalon, i.e. evidence for BMP4 as a dorsal telencephalic morphogen.

  • Open Access
    The Coprinopsis cinerea Tup1 homologue Cag1 is required for gill formation during fruiting body morphogenesis
    Ryo Masuda, Naoki Iguchi, Kooki Tukuta, Takahiro Nagoshi, Kazuki Kemuriyama, Hajime Muraguchi
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1844-1852; doi: 10.1242/bio.021246

    Summary: Cag1, a Tup1 homologue in Coprinopsis cinerea, is required for gill formation in fruiting body development and is highly expressed in the central region of gills.

  • Open Access
    Boundary layer control by a fish: Unsteady laminar boundary layers of rainbow trout swimming in turbulent flows
    Kazutaka Yanase, Pentti Saarenrinne
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1853-1863; doi: 10.1242/bio.020008

    Summary: The boundary layer laminarization of rainbow trout swimming in turbulent flows was confirmed. The results suggested an energy-efficient swimming strategy of this species in the turbulent flow environment.

  • Open Access
    Using sounds for making decisions: greater tube-nosed bats prefer antagonistic calls over non-communicative sounds when feeding
    Tinglei Jiang, Zhenyu Long, Xin Ran, Xue Zhao, Fei Xu, Fuyuan Qiu, Jagmeet S. Kanwal, Jiang Feng
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1864-1868; doi: 10.1242/bio.021865

    Summary: In this study we used sound playback to test the importance of communication sounds of bats as contextual information for decision making for place preference during feeding.

  • Open Access
    Relationship between the grades of a learned aversive-feeding response and the dopamine contents in Lymnaea
    Hitoshi Aonuma, Mugiho Kaneda, Dai Hatakeyama, Takayuki Watanabe, Ken Lukowiak, Etsuro Ito
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1869-1873; doi: 10.1242/bio.021634

    Summary: Severely food-deprived snails cannot acquire conditioned taste aversion, because this conditioning is thought to be mitigated by a high content of a reward transmitter, dopamine, in these snails.

  • Open Access
    Molecular insights into Adgra2/Gpr124 and Reck intracellular trafficking
    Naguissa Bostaille, Anne Gauquier, Laure Twyffels, Benoit Vanhollebeke
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1874-1881; doi: 10.1242/bio.021287

    Summary: This work uncovers molecular determinants of Adgra2/Gpr124 and Reck trafficking to the plasma membrane where the partners meet to act as potent Wnt7-specific Wnt/β-catenin signaling co-activators required for brain vascularization.

METHODS & TECHNIQUES

  • Open Access
    Systematic and general method for quantifying localization in microscopy images
    Huanjie Sheng, Weston Stauffer, Han N. Lim
    Biology Open 2016 5: 1882-1893; doi: 10.1242/bio.019893

    Summary: We evaluate a metric for quantifying localization in microscopy images, termed the threshold overlap score, which is simple to calculate and interpret, generally applicable, and suitable for mixed localization patterns.

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