In this Review, Janet Stott and Catarina Vicente (University of Oxford) propose an in-depth framework for science public engagement projects that can potentially bring together academics from diverse disciplines.

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/13/3/bio060108/345670/Interdisciplinary-public-engagement-untapped

“Any good quality two-way public engagement should benefit both researchers and the public.”

#scienceoutreach #publicengagement #community #OpenAccess #BiologyOpen

This Meeting Review by Matheus Sanita Lima et al (Western University, Canada) provides a comprehensive summary of the 53rd Ontario Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution Colloquium that took place at Western University on 25-27 May 2023.

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/13/3/bio060175/344058/Ecology-ethology-and-evolution-in-the-Anthropocene

“We believe biologists, regardless of their chosen subfield of study, are strategically positioned to assess, predict, and mitigate what lies ahead of life on Earth.”

#Anthropogenic #climatechange #biodiversity #OpenAccess #BiologyOpen

This work by Laura A. Sherer et al (University of Minnesota) describes two MATLAB programming languages to accurately analyse bundling of actin filaments obtained in fluorescence micrographs.

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/13/3/bio060267/344042/Computational-tools-for-quantifying-actin-filament

“With minor modifications, we anticipate that these programs can be made applicable to the analysis of a broad range of polymer-based assays.”

#methodsandtechniques #MATLAB #fluorescence #microscopy #analysis #OpenAccess #BiologyOpen

Here, Ming-Hsuan Wen et al (University of Cambridge) show that nuclear reprogramming is present in meiotic oocytes and does not require cell division.

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/13/3/bio060011/344057/Deterministic-nuclear-reprogramming-of-mammalian

“A major difference between oocyte nuclear transfers and iPSC approach concerns the timing of the changes induced.”

#meiosis #nuclearreprogramming #stemcells #therapy #OpenAccess #BiologyOpen

This study by Abigail Ama Koomson et al (New York University Abu Dhabi) shows that exposure to high levels of inorganic arsenics during development of zebrafish embryos can significantly affect survival and reproductive health.

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/13/3/bio060094/344101/Sustained-effects-of-developmental-exposure-to

“No studies to date have investigated the persistent effects of iAs on the liver in zebrafish”

#zebrafish #inorganic #arsenics #OpenAccess #BiologyOpen #reproduction #survival #geneexpression

Ivan Mestres et al (Technische Universität Dresden) show that the previously uncharacterised Soluble-Lamin Associated Protein (SLAP) directly influences brain development in mammals.

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/13/3/bio060359/344125/Manipulation-of-the-nuclear-envelope-associated

“Here we show that SLAP is critical to maintain nuclear integrity and that alterations in its expression influence neural stem cell fate as well as migration and molecular identity of newborn neurons.”

#nuclearenvelope #mammals #brain #OpenAccess #BiologyOpen

Elisa Thoral et al (Lund University, Lund, Sweden) show that in wild great tits, unlike in mammals, there is no correlation between resting metabolic rate and mitochondrial respiration.

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/13/3/bio060302/344150/The-relationship-between-mitochondrial-respiration

“An ancillary goal was also to investigate the relationship between blood mitochondrial respiration and blood cell count.”

#Mitochondria #Science #BiologyOpen #OpenAccess

This study by Victor Gonzalez et al shows that bees express weak plasticity/low capacity to enhance heat tolerance through acclimation in response to critical thermal maximum.

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/13/3/bio060179/344191/Bees-display-limited-acclimation-capacity-for-heat

“Therefore, we hypothesized that larger bees would display greater plasticity in CTMax when compared with small bees, an expectation consistent with the climatic variability hypothesis.”

#climatechange #Science #BiologyOpen #OpenAccess

Emily Bulger, Todd McDevitt and Benoit Bruneau show how CDX2 dose-dependently regulates #gene expression in the extraembryonic mesoderm in a #2D gastruloid model.

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/13/3/bio060323/345077/CDX2-dose-dependently-influences-the-gene

“This model allows us to investigate how specific genes active during early gastrulation augment cell identity and how changes in adjacent tissues influence cell-cell communication and the gene regulatory networks underlying lineage emergence.”

#Gastrulation #Science #BiologyOpen #OpenAccess

Gary C. Packard shows that #ontogenetic changes in the morphology of eels, lobsters and other aquatic animals are not necessarily accompanied by changes in the pattern of metabolic allometry.

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/13/3/bio060317/345084/Discontinuous-biphasic-ontogenetic-shifts-in-the

“While growth by both eels and lobsters doubtless elicits changes in surface area and sites for gas exchange, these changes have no discernable effect on patterns of metabolic allometry."

#Americaneel #Spinylobster #Science #BiologyOpen #Biology