Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Viktor Nilsson-Ortman, Locke Rowe
Summary: Developing organisms mature earlier and at larger sizes in favorable growth conditions, with theory suggesting that the existence of critical size thresholds affects maturation time and size. This study demonstrates that food manipulations can indeed influence the timing and size at maturity, supporting the validity of the threshold model. The results also suggest that the evolution of threshold sizes plays a key role in the diversity of reaction norms for age and size at maturity.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Review
Genetics & Heredity
Laurent Formery, Christopher J. Lowe
Summary: The goal of comparative developmental biology is to study mechanistic differences in embryonic development across different taxa and how these differences have shaped the adult body plans. Previous research has mainly focused on directly developing species, but the majority of animal lineages exhibit indirect development. This review highlights the importance of establishing developmental criteria instead of relying solely on morphological or ecological criteria, and emphasizes the significance of incorporating complex life cycles into the broad developmental comparisons of embryos across different animal groups.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF GENETICS
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Emily L. Richardson, Craig R. White, Dustin J. Marshall
Summary: The study examines the growth rate and mass changes during larval stages and metamorphosis across various taxa. It finds support for Werner's assumption regarding growth rates but contradicts the assumption that body size remains constant during transitions. The research suggests that mass changes profoundly affect the timing of transitions, emphasizing the need to consider the impact of mass loss or gain on fitness.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Marieke M. M. van Katwijk, Brigitta I. I. van Tussenbroek
Summary: Most plant species have either annual or perennial life cycles, but there are facultative annual species that can be either annual or perennial depending on their environment. While facultative annual species are rare in terrestrial plants, they are more common in marine angiosperms, particularly seagrasses. Six of the 63 seagrass species are facultative annual, producing significantly more seeds than their perennial counterparts. These facultative annual species can transition to an annual life cycle when exposed to specific environmental factors such as desiccation, anoxia, shading, or heat stress. A large-scale coastal protection experiment demonstrated that the facultative annual seagrass population could shift to a perennial life cycle within 5 years depending on the environmental conditions.
Review
Urology & Nephrology
Adam Pietrobon, William L. L. Stanford
Summary: This review explores the question of how TSC kidney lesions arise, integrating findings from clinical studies, human specimens, and genetic animal models. It presents a new model of pathogenesis suggesting that lesions arise from second-hit events during development. This model can serve as a conceptual framework for investigating TSC lesion pathogenesis in various tissues.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Xiaoxiao Fu, Ksenia Kirillova, Xinran Y. Lehto
Summary: This research explores the mutual relationship between travel and life course through biographical interviews with 25 U.S. residents, demonstrating how travel is interpreted in the context of life and how life is interpreted in travel. It emphasizes the importance of a life course perspective on the travel/life spectrum and provides practical implications and future research directions.
TOURISM MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
John Mulrow, Joe F. Bozeman, Shantanu Pai, Emily Grubert, Sybil Derrible
Summary: This article proposes an Energy-Material Cycles (EM-cycles) model for comparing tradeoffs in different energy systems. Applying the model to recent vehicle models, the study finds that electrification may have a material efficiency advantage over combustion.
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jonas Mueller, Thassya C. dos Santos C. Schmidt, Gaute Wilhelmsen Seljestad, Catriona Clemmesen, Joachim Paul Groger, Florian Berg
Summary: Atlantic herring has a complex population structure and displays various reproductive strategies. Mixing between spring and autumn spawning herring occurs on the spawning ground, with differences in reproductive traits observed. The high variability in reproductive investment within spring spawners suggests the co-occurrence of groups with different behaviors.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biology
Pengjie Hu, Linxia Liu, Weixin Ke, Xiuyun Tian, Linqi Wang
Summary: Cbc1 protein plays a crucial role in infectious and sexual cycles of Cryptococcus neoformans, and its absence results in the disruption of asexual spore formation.
SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Camille J. Wynn, Tyson S. Barrett, Visar Berisha, Julie M. Liss, Stephanie A. Borrie
Summary: This study aims to characterize speech entrainment patterns in the conversations of neurotypical early adolescents. The findings show that speech entrainment skills develop during early adolescence but do not reach the level exhibited in adult conversations. Speech entrainment is predictive of conversational quality and efficiency. Continued exploration of this phenomenon in both neurotypical and neurodivergent adolescents is important.
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Applied
Ya Li, Zhenkang Wang, Haoqing Ji, Lifang Zhang, Tao Qian, Chenglin Yan, Jianmei Lu
Summary: Ammonia is important for fertilizer production and green fuels, but the nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) towards ammonia faces challenges such as volatility, repeatability, and false-positive results. This review discusses factors that induce false-positive results and proposes methods to eliminate them, establishing a foundation for more accurate ammonia quantification in the NRR research field.
CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Robert J. Denver
Summary: The environment can shape different phenotypes from the same genotype in developing organisms, with different probabilities of survival and performance as adults. Chordates have indirect and direct modes of development, and the effects of the environment on amphibian development are mediated through the neuroendocrine stress axis.
NEUROBIOLOGY OF STRESS
(2021)
Review
Biology
A. L. Sperling, D. M. Glover
Summary: Parthenogenesis is widely observed in animals, but remains understudied. In dipterans, it is of particular importance due to the presence of parthenogenetic species that are disease vectors and agricultural pests. This study presents a catalog of parthenogenetic dipterans, explores the genetic basis of parthenogenesis, and discusses the evolutionary significance of parthenogenesis in this order.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Chemical
Jenna Fromer, Christos Georgakis, Jason Mustakis
Summary: We present an approach to identify stoichiometric and kinetic models accurately from batch experiments without prior knowledge of candidate stoichiometries. This method considers possible reactions between measured species that fulfill mass balance constraints and pass a target factor analysis test.
INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Liru Hu, Gaowei Chen
Summary: This study examined the trajectories of idea emergence in dialogic collaborative problem solving based on complex dynamic systems and dialogic theory, utilizing the concept of attractors. The analysis revealed that new ideas tended to attract local utterances and exhibited features of attractors in both high-performing and low-performing groups, with status issues potentially affecting feedback loops and leading to different structures of idea evolution. The study proposed using CDS theory as an alternative perspective to explore the dynamics of D-CPS, integrated with ethical considerations of Bakhtinian dialogism.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)