Unique heterochrony in the cranial segments in bichirs triggers the early formation of their external gills, and might be informative about developmental mechanisms facilitating increased breathing capacity.
Evidence of a relationship between substrate curvature, water evaporation and the building behavior of termites capable of mediating collective nest-building with no need for a building pheromone.
Juan Carlos Cerpa, Alessandro Piccin ... Etienne Coutureau
Silencing noradrenergic projections from the locus coeruleus to the ventral and lateral regions of the orbitofrontal cortex prevents the updating of previously established goal-directed actions.
Ibrahim Ahmed, Shen-Hsi Yang ... Andrew D Sharrocks
eRNAs detected in patient-derived transcriptomic data can delineate potential active enhancer regions in oesophageal adenocarcinoma and uncover genes associated with the cancer phenotype.
A toxin produced by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis preferentially binds to non-activated integrin complement receptor 3 outside of its ligand-binding I-domain and efficiently blocks downstream signaling of the integrin through elevation of cytosolic cAMP.