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  1. The marine crustacean Oratosquilla oratoria is economically significant in seafood and aquaculture industries. However, the lack of high-quality genome assembly has hindered our understanding of O. oratoria, part...

    Authors: Daizhen Zhang, Xiaoli Sun, Lianfu Chen, Lianyu Lin, Chijie Yin, Wenqi Yang, Jun Liu, Qiuning Liu, Huabin Zhang, Senhao Jiang, Yongxin Li, Boping Tang and Gang Wang
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:38
  2. During oocyte maturation, DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) can decrease oocyte quality or cause mutations. How DSBs are repaired in dividing oocytes and which factors influence DSB repair are not well understood.

    Authors: Tian-Jin Xia, Feng-Yun Xie, Juan Chen, Xiao-Guohui Zhang, Sen Li, Qing-Yuan Sun, Qin Zhang, Shen Yin, Xiang-Hong Ou and Jun-Yu Ma
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:37
  3. Although variation in effect sizes and predicted values among studies of similar phenomena is inevitable, such variation far exceeds what might be produced by sampling error alone. One possible explanation for...

    Authors: Elliot Gould, Hannah S. Fraser, Timothy H. Parker, Shinichi Nakagawa, Simon C. Griffith, Peter A. Vesk, Fiona Fidler, Daniel G. Hamilton, Robin N. Abbey-Lee, Jessica K. Abbott, Luis A. Aguirre, Carles Alcaraz, Irith Aloni, Drew Altschul, Kunal Arekar, Jeff W. Atkins…
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:35
  4. The compound eyes of insects exhibit extensive variation in ommatidia number and size, which affects how they see and underlies adaptations in their vision to different environments and lifestyles. However, ve...

    Authors: Montserrat Torres-Oliva, Elisa Buchberger, Alexandra D. Buffry, Maike Kittelmann, Genoveva Guerrero, Lauren Sumner-Rooney, Pedro Gaspar, Georg C. Bullinger, Javier Figueras Jimenez, Fernando Casares, Saad Arif, Nico Posnien, Maria D. S. Nunes, Alistair P. McGregor and Isabel Almudi
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:34
  5. While psychologists have extensively discussed the notion of a “theory crisis” arising from vague and incorrect hypotheses, there has been no debate about such a crisis in biology. However, biologists have lon...

    Authors: Shinichi Nakagawa, David W. Armitage, Tom Froese, Yefeng Yang and Malgorzata Lagisz
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:33
  6. Lung ischemia–reperfusion (I/R) injury is a common clinical pathology associated with high mortality. The pathophysiology of lung I/R injury involves ferroptosis and elevated protein O-GlcNAcylation levels, wh...

    Authors: Liuqing Yang, Hexiao Tang, Jin Wang, Dawei Xu, Rui Xuan, Songping Xie, Pengfei Xu and Xinyi Li
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:32
  7. Urbanization is rapidly altering our ecosystem. While most wild species refrain from entering urban habitats, some flourish in cities and adapt to the new opportunities these offer. Urban individuals of variou...

    Authors: Maya Weinberg, Dean Zigdon, Mor Taub, Lee Harten, Ofri Eitan, Adi Rachum, Reut Assa, Omri Gal and Yossi Yovel
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:31
  8. The high-frequency induction rate of haploid is crucial for double haploid (DH) breeding. The combination of multiple haploid-induced genes, such as ZmPLA1/MATL/NLD and ZmDMP, can synergistically enhance the hapl...

    Authors: Siyi Liang, Qin Wen, Wenyu Lu, Guili Yang, Yingyun Yao, Hairong Cai, Jiafeng Wang, Ming Huang, Hui Wang and Tao Guo
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:30
  9. Silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) is a basal fish species with sexual monomorphism, while its sex determination mechanism has been poorly understood, posing a significant challenge to its captive breeding...

    Authors: Yi Liu, Chao Bian, Ka Yan Ma, Yexin Yang, Yuanyuan Wang, Chao Liu, Guochang Ouyang, Meng Xu, Jinhui Sun, Changwei Shao, Jiehu Chen, Qiong Shi and Xidong Mu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:29
  10. The microbiome regulates the respiratory epithelium’s immunomodulatory functions. To explore how the microbiome’s biodiversity affects microbe-epithelial interactions, we screened 58 phylogenetically diverse m...

    Authors: Mian Horvath, Ruoyu Yang, Diana Cadena Castaneda, Megan Callender, Elizabeth S. Aiken, Anita Y. Voigt, Ryan Caldwell, José Fachi, Blanda Di Luccia, Zoe Scholar, Peter Yu, Andrew Salner, Marco Colonna, Karolina Palucka and Julia Oh
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:28
  11. Poliovirus receptor (PVR) and its receptor system, including TIGIT, CD226, and CD96, play a pivotal role in orchestrating tumor immune evasion. Upon engagement with PVR on tumor cells, CD96 exerts inhibitory e...

    Authors: Xiangrui Zhang, Lihan Zhang, Beibei Li, Qingchao Wang, Peixin Chen, Ranran Shi, Xiuman Zhou, Xiaoshuang Niu, Wenjie Zhai, Yahong Wu, Wenhui Shen, Xiaowen Zhou and Wenshan Zhao
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:27
  12. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women. Deregulation of miRNAs is frequently observed in breast cancer and affects tumor biology. A pre-miRNA, such as pre-miR-1307, gives rise ...

    Authors: Oyku Ece Sumer, Korbinian Schelzig, Janine Jung, Xiaoya Li, Janina Moros, Luisa Schwarzmüller, Ezgi Sen, Sabine Karolus, Angelika Wörner, Verônica Rodrigues de Melo Costa, Nishanth Belugali Nataraj, Efstathios-Iason Vlachavas, Clarissa Gerhäuser, Karin Müller-Decker, Dominic Helm, Yosef Yarden…
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:25
  13. HuR/ELAV1, a ubiquitous RNA-binding protein, belongs to the RNA-binding protein family and is crucial for stabilizing and regulating the translation of various mRNA targets, influencing gene expression. Elevat...

    Authors: Nathalie Idlin, Sivakumar Krishnamoorthy, Magdalena Wolczyk, Mouad Fakhri, Michal Lechowski, Natalia Stec, Jacek Milek, Pratik Kumar Mandal, Jaroslaw Cendrowski, Christos Spanos, Magdalena Dziembowska, Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka, Juri Rappsilber and Gracjan Michlewski
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:24
  14. Recent advancements in single-cell RNA sequencing have greatly expanded our knowledge of the heterogeneous nature of tissues. However, robust and accurate cell type annotation continues to be a major challenge...

    Authors: Yu-An Huang, Yue-Chao Li, Zhu-Hong You, Lun Hu, Peng-Wei Hu, Lei Wang, Yuzhong Peng and Zhi-An Huang
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:23
  15. Grape (Vitis vinifera) crops encounter significant challenges in overcoming bud endodormancy in warm winter areas worldwide. Research on the mechanisms governing bud dormancy release has focused primarily on stre...

    Authors: Zhaowan Shi, Jiamin Wu, Hairuo Mo, Weiwen Xue, Zhaoqi Zhang and Xuequn Pang
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:22
  16. Echolocating bats face an intense arms race with insect prey that can detect bat calls and initiate evasive maneuvers. Their high closing speeds and short biosonar ranges leave bats with only a few 100 ms betw...

    Authors: Ilias Foskolos, Antoniya Hubancheva, Marie Rosenkjær Skalshøi, Kristian Beedholm, Peter Teglberg Madsen and Laura Stidsholt
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:21
  17. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from endothelial cells (ECs) are increasingly recognized for their role in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis. ECs experience varying degrees and types of bl...

    Authors: Zhe Hou, Li Deng, Fei Fang, Ting Zhao, Yaojia Zhang, Gang Li, Michael Z. Miao, Yongcang Zhang, Hongchi Yu and Xiaoheng Liu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:20
  18. Human responses and acclimation to the environmental stresses of high altitude and low oxygen are multifaceted and regulated by multiple genes. However, the mechanism of how the body adjusts in a low-oxygen en...

    Authors: Kuo Zeng, Pei-ru Yuan, Jin-feng Xuan, Lai-xi Zhao, Xiao-na Li, Jun Yao and Dong Zhao
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:19
  19. The advancements in second-/third-generation sequencing technologies, alongside computational innovations, have significantly enhanced our understanding of the genomic structure of Y-chromosomes and their uniq...

    Authors: Mengge Wang, Shuhan Duan, Qiuxia Sun, Kaijun Liu, Yan Liu, Zhiyong Wang, Xiangping Li, Lanhai Wei, Yunhui Liu, Shengjie Nie, Kun Zhou, Yongxin Ma, Huijun Yuan, Bing Liu, Lan Hu, Chao Liu…
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:18
  20. Ticks, hematophagous Acari, pose a significant threat by transmitting various pathogens to their vertebrate hosts during feeding. Despite advances in tick genomics, high-quality genomes were lacking until rece...

    Authors: Alexandra Cerqueira de Araujo, Benjamin Noel, Anthony Bretaudeau, Karine Labadie, Matéo Boudet, Nachida Tadrent, Benjamin Istace, Salima Kritli, Corinne Cruaud, Robert Olaso, Jean-François Deleuze, Maarten J. Voordouw, Caroline Hervet, Olivier Plantard, Aya Zamoto-Niikura, Thomas Chertemps…
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:17
  21. Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common intraocular tumor in adults, arises either de novo from normal choroidal melanocytes (NCMs) or from pre-existing nevi that stem from NCMs and are thought to harbor UM-ini...

    Authors: Yunxi Chen, Eva Jin, Mohamed Abdouh, Éric Bonneil, Daniel Alexander Jimenez Cruz, Thupten Tsering, Qianqian Zhou, Aurélie Fuentes-Rodriguez, Alexandra Bartolomucci, Alicia Goyeneche, Solange Landreville, Miguel N. Burnier and Julia V. Burnier
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:16
  22. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is characterized by its cellular complexity, with a microenvironment consisting of diverse cell types, including oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) and neoplastic CD133 + radi...

    Authors: Mert Cihan, Greta Schmauck, Maximilian Sprang and Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:15
  23. The variations in alliin content are a crucial criterion for evaluating garlic quality and is the sole precursor for allicin biosynthesis, which is significant for the growth, development, and stress response ...

    Authors: Jiaying Wu, Min Li, Wanni Wang, Yiren Su, Jie Li, Jiaxin Gong, Xianfeng Meng, Chenyuan Lin, Qiantong Zhang, Yanyan Yang, Chunyan Xu, Limei Zeng, Jihong Jiang and Xuqin Yang
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:14
  24. Lindaspio polybranchiata, a member of the Spionidae family, has been reported at the Lingshui Cold Seep, where it formed a dense population around this nascent methane vent. We sequenced and assembled the genome...

    Authors: Yujie Yan, Inge Seim, Yang Guo, Xupeng Chi, Zhaoshan Zhong, Dantong Wang, Mengna Li, Haining Wang, Huan Zhang, Minxiao Wang and Chaolun Li
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:13
  25. Deformed wing virus (DWV) is a major honey bee pathogen that is actively transmitted by the parasitic mite Varroa destructor and plays a primary role in Apis mellifera winter colony losses. Despite intense invest...

    Authors: Andrea Becchimanzi, Giovanna De Leva, Rosanna Mattossovich, Serena Camerini, Marialuisa Casella, Giovanni Jesu, Ilaria Di Lelio, Sabrina Di Giorgi, Joachim R. de Miranda, Anna Valenti, Silvia Gigliotti and Francesco Pennacchio
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:12
  26. The rumen fluke, Calicophoron daubneyi, is the major paramphistome species infecting ruminants within Europe. Adult flukes reside within the rumen where they are in direct contact with a unique collection of micr...

    Authors: Shauna M. Clancy, Mark Whitehead, Nicola A. M. Oliver, Kathryn M. Huson, Jake Kyle, Daniel Demartini, Allister Irvine, Fernanda Godoy Santos, Paul-Emile Kajugu, Robert E. B. Hanna, Sharon A. Huws, Russell M. Morphew, J. Herbert Waite, Sam Haldenby and Mark W. Robinson
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:11
  27. Stress responses are key the survival of parasites and, consequently, also the evolutionary success of these organisms. Despite this importance, our understanding of the evolution of molecular pathways dealing...

    Authors: Armando J. Cruz-Laufer, Maarten P. M. Vanhove, Lutz Bachmann, Maxwell Barson, Hassan Bassirou, Arnold R. Bitja Nyom, Mare Geraerts, Christoph Hahn, Tine Huyse, Gyrhaiss Kapepula Kasembele, Samuel Njom, Philipp Resl, Karen Smeets and Nikol Kmentová
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:10
  28. Plant mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) exhibit extensive structural variation yet extremely low nucleotide mutation rates, phenomena that remain only partially understood. The genus Gossypium, a globally impor...

    Authors: Jiali Kong, Jie Wang, Liyun Nie, Luke R. Tembrock, Changsong Zou, Shenglong Kan, Xiongfeng Ma, Jonathan F. Wendel and Zhiqiang Wu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:9
  29. Abundant research indicates that increased extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffness significantly enhances the malignant characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells. Plectin, an essential cytoskeletal ...

    Authors: Zhihui Wang, Wenbin Wang, Qing Luo and Guanbin Song
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:8
  30. Treponemal diseases are a significant global health risk, presenting challenges to public health and severe consequences to individuals if left untreated. Despite numerous genomic studies on Treponema pallidum an...

    Authors: Marta Pla-Díaz, Gülfirde Akgül, Martyna Molak, Louis du Plessis, Hanna Panagiotopoulou, Karolina Doan, Wiesław Bogdanowicz, Paweł Dąbrowski, Maciej Oziembłowski, Barbara Kwiatkowska, Jacek Szczurowski, Joanna Grzelak, Natasha Arora, Kerttu Majander, Fernando González-Candelas and Verena J. Schuenemann
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:7
  31. Regeneration is the replacement of lost or damaged tissue with a functional copy. In axolotls and zebrafish, regeneration involves stem cells produced by de-differentiation. These cells form a growth zone whic...

    Authors: Luthfi Nurhidayat, Vladimir Benes, Sira Blom, Inês Gomes, Nisrina Firdausi, Merijn A. G. de Bakker, Herman P. Spaink and Michael K. Richardson
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:6
  32. The spatial and spectral properties of the light environment underpin many aspects of animal behaviour, ecology and evolution, and quantifying this information is crucial in fields ranging from optical physics...

    Authors: Jolyon Troscianko
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:5
  33. C-reactive protein (CRP) represents a routine diagnostic marker of inflammation. Dissociation of native pentameric CRP (pCRP) into the monomeric structure (mCRP) liberates proinflammatory features, presumably ...

    Authors: Ebru Karasu, Rebecca Halbgebauer, Lena Schütte, Johannes Greven, Felix M. Bläsius, Johannes Zeller, Oscar Winninger, David Braig, David Alexander Christian Messerer, Bettina Berger, Hendrik Feuerstein, Anke Schultze, Karlheinz Peter, Uwe Knippschild, Klemens Horst, Frank Hildebrand…
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:4
  34. Rapid morphological change is emerging as a consequence of climate change in many systems. It is intuitive to hypothesize that temporal morphological trends are driven by the same selective pressures that have...

    Authors: Nicole Adams, Tiffany Dias, Heather R. Skeen, Teresa Pegan, David E. Willard, Ben Winger, Kristen Ruegg, Brian C. Weeks and Rachael Bay
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:3
  35. Traditionally, transformed cell line monolayers have been the standard model for studying epithelial barrier and transport function. Recently, intestinal organoids were proposed as superior in recapitulating t...

    Authors: Kopano Valerie Masete, Dorothee Günzel, Jörg-Dieter Schulzke, Hans-Jörg Epple and Nina A. Hering
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:2
  36. Alternative food sources are crucial for the survival and reproduction of moths during nectar scarcity. Noctuid moths make a better use of fermented food sources than moths from other families, while the under...

    Authors: Xiao-Qing Hou, Dan-Dan Zhang, Hanbo Zhao, Yang Liu, Christer Löfstedt and Guirong Wang
    Citation: BMC Biology 2025 23:1
  37. Intermuscular bones (IBs) are segmental intramembranous ossifications located within myosepta. They share similarities with tendon ossification, a form of heterotopic ossification (HO). The mechanisms underlyi...

    Authors: Xu-Dong Wang, Fei-Long Shi, Jia-Jia Zhou, Zheng-Yu Xiao, Tan Tu, Xue-Mei Xiong, Chun-Hong Nie, Shi-Ming Wan and Ze-Xia Gao
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:304
  38. Global climate change significantly impacts ecosystems, particularly through temperature fluctuations that affect insect physiology and behavior. As poikilotherms, insect pests such as the globally devastating...

    Authors: Tianpu Li, Jiao Guo, Guilei Hu, Fang Cao, Haiyin Su, Mengdi Shen, Huimin Wang, Minsheng You, Yuanyuan Liu, Geoff M. Gurr and Shijun You
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:303
  39. Age-related kidney impairment, characterized by tubular epithelial cell senescence and renal fibrosis, poses a significant global public health threat. Although N6-methyladenosine (m6A) methylation is implicat...

    Authors: Li Xu, Shuo Chen, Qiuling Fan, Yonghong Zhu, Hang Mei, Jiao Wang, Hongyuan Yu, Ying Chen and Fan Liu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:302
  40. The Antarctic krill Euphausia superba is a keystone species in the Southern Ocean ecosystem. This crustacean has an ancestral clock whose main components have been identified and characterized in the past few yea...

    Authors: Chiara Stefanelli, Davide Colaianni, Gabriella M. Mazzotta, Gabriele Sales, Cristiano Bertolucci, Bettina Meyer, Alberto Biscontin and Cristiano De Pittà
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:298
  41. The mucus layer provides the first defense that keeps the epithelium free from microorganisms. However, the effect of the small intestinal mucus layer on pathogen invasion is still poorly understood, especiall...

    Authors: Ning Yang, Yang Li, Yifei Cai, Yuanyuan Liu, Yunhang Zhang, Yuguang Fu, Chen Tan, Luc Willems and Guangliang Liu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:297
  42. Epidemiologic researches show that short sleep duration may affect feeding behaviors resulting in higher energy intake and increased risk of obesity, but the further mechanisms that can interpret the causality...

    Authors: Tingting Du, Shuailing Liu, Honghong Yu, Tian Hu, Lina Huang, Lanyue Gao, Lihong Jia, Jiajin Hu, Yang Yu and Qi Sun
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:296
  43. Many members of the oxysterol-binding protein-related protein (ORP) family have been characterized in detail over the past decades, but the lipid transport and other functions of ORP7 still remain elusive. Wha...

    Authors: Juuso H. Taskinen, Minna Holopainen, Hanna Ruhanen, Miesje van der Stoel, Reijo Käkelä, Elina Ikonen, Salla Keskitalo, Markku Varjosalo and Vesa M. Olkkonen
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:292
  44. RNA velocity, as an extension of trajectory inference, is an effective method for understanding cell development using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) experiments. However, existing RNA velocity methods...

    Authors: Zhaoyang Huang, Xinyang Guo, Jie Qin, Lin Gao, Fen Ju, Chenguang Zhao and Liang Yu
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:290

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  45. The complete mitochondrial respiratory chain is a precondition for maintaining cellular energy supply, development, and metabolic balance. Due to the evolutionary differentiation of complexes and the semi-auto...

    Authors: Huan Li, Ying Liu, Dan Wang, Ya-Hong Wang, Ruo-Cheng Sheng, Zhi-Qiang Kong, Steven J. Klosterman, Jie-Yin Chen, Krishna V. Subbarao, Feng-Mao Chen and Dan-Dan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:289
  46. Vertebrates have one Dicer ortholog that generates both microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), in contrast to the multiple Dicer-like proteins found in flies and plants. Here, we focus on the ...

    Authors: Kinga Ciechanowska, Agnieszka Szczepanska, Kamil Szpotkowski, Klaudia Wojcik, Anna Urbanowicz and Anna Kurzynska-Kokorniak
    Citation: BMC Biology 2024 22:287
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