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- Thermal and immunological stress modulate the locomotor performance of female Xenopus laevis frogs.
Oliveira TG, Araspin L, Cabanzo-Olarte LC et al. · Conservation physiology · 2026-06 · open access
Temperature strongly influences physiological performance and immune function in ectotherms, making ectotherms like amphibians particularly vulnerable to the combined effects of climate change and infectious diseases. Since immune activation is energetically expensive, infected individuals may face…
- Assessing circuit function in the developing Xenopus tadpole: a survey of the behavioral toolkit and underlying neural substrates.
Hayes M, Liu A, Todorovic N et al. · Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026-06 · open access
Xenopus laevis has long served as an important model for studies of embryonic development and is a cornerstone to our current understanding of cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neurodevelopment, including the formation and refinement of neural circuits. In recent years, considerable…
- Auxin response and PIN-mediated transport in chlorophyte algae.
Smoljan A, Koutnik-Abele S, Vladimirtsev D et al. · Journal of integrative plant biology · 2026-06 · open access
Auxin, primarily indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), is a central regulator of growth and development in land plants, but its physiological role in chlorophyte algae remains unclear. Here, we show that exogenous IAA modulates growth in Chlorella sorokiniana, Chlorella variabilis, and Chlamydomonas…
- Evolutionary divergence of nocturnin led to redox regulation in mammalian orthologs.
Olivas-Rasmussen CA, Gao P, Rasmussen ES et al. · Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2026-05 · open access
- Second-Generation of Deuterium-Substituted Glutamate Uptake Enhancers Exhibit Superior Drug-Like Properties in Preclinical Evaluation.
Abram M, Jakubiec M, Szafarz M et al. · ACS central science · 2026-05
- Distinct repair outcomes from single and convergent replication fork collapse.
Conwell SC, Patel KVN, Weeks-Pollenz SJ et al. · Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026-05 · open access
Replication fork collapse at single-strand DNA breaks threatens genome stability but how such forks are repaired and resolved has remained unclear. Here we replicate site-specific nicks with single or converging replication forks in Xenopus laevis egg extracts. Collapse of a single fork generates a…
- PbrSLAH3b mediates nitrate-dependent regulation of pollen tube growth in pear.
Chen G, Cao P, Gao J et al. · Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology · 2026-05
- Electrospray Regime Controls Sensitivity and Quantitative Performance in Micro- and Nano-Flow CE-ESI-MS.
O'Neal RM, Rodriguez LG, Nemes P · Analytical chemistry · 2026-05
- STAT Signaling and Its Anti-Apoptotic Effects in Dehydrated Xenopus laevis.
Biggar Y, Kamath AA, Breedon SA et al. · Biology of the cell · 2026-05 · open access
- OsNPF3.5 mediates gibberellin allocation and grain yield in rice.
Wen TT, Liu ZJ, Yan J et al. · Plant physiology · 2026-05
- Aquatic vegetation limits the impact of Xenopus laevis on macroinvertebrate diversity: implications for pond management
Secondi J, Lorrain-Soligon L, Grell A et al. · Biological invasions. · 2026-05
- AlphaFold-Multimer modelling of linked nAChR subunits challenges concatemer design assumptions.
Sahlström HM, Rufener L, Horsberg KH et al. · Scientific reports · 2026-04 · open access
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are well described in vertebrates, yet less studied in arthropods, and the subunit stoichiometry and configuration of heteromeric arthropod nAChRs remains unresolved. This study combined a computational and experimental approach to predict and validate the…
- A new phosphorus-rhodamine voltage-sensing dye for optical membrane potential imaging.
Höhl M, Yasarbas SS, Cappellari MV et al. · Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2026-04 · open access
Accurate measurement of membrane potential dynamics is essential for understanding cellular excitability and signaling. While electrophysiological methods provide high temporal resolution, their invasiveness and low throughput limit their applicability in complex biological systems. Voltage-sensing…
- Combined effects of thifluzamide and lead at environmental concentrations on Xenopus laevis tadpoles: Phenotypic and multi-omics insights.
Chen S, Tian L, Ming R et al. · Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2026-04
- Non-lethal imaging and modeling approaches for estimating dry mass in aquatic larvae.
Granados Frias D, Akbari N, O'Connell LA et al. · PloS one · 2026-04 · open access
Body mass is crucial for scaling and comparing physiological rates. Specifically, dry body mass is important in determining an organism's metabolic rate since it excludes metabolically inactive water weight. While obtaining repeated measurements of body mass throughout an individual's lifetime is…
- Cleland immunoblotting quantifies cysteine proteoform ensembles.
Cobley JN, Noble A, Guille M · Free radical biology & medicine · 2026-04 · open access
Cysteine oxidation generates biologically important proteoforms that are difficult to directly resolve using conventional immunoblot or peptide-based mass spectrometry workflows. For a protein containing R cysteine residues, the number of theoretical cysteine proteoforms expands exponentially…
- In Vivo Time-Lapse Imaging Reveals Differential Activity-Induced Regulation of Proteasome Activity in Subcellular Regions of the Optic Tectum in Xenopus laevis Tadpoles.
Lin JM, Konadu BB, Trader DJ et al. · ACS chemical neuroscience · 2026-04 · open access
The proteasome is a major organelle responsible for protein degradation in neurons and has been implicated in the regulation of signal transduction and activity-dependent plasticity mechanisms that are essential for normal neuronal function. However, our understanding of the regulation of…
- Response of Odorant Receptor LoryOR24 to (E,E)-2,4-Heptadienal and the Effects on the Behavior of the Rice Water Weevil Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).
Wang XY, Zhang XX, Wang X et al. · Pest management science · 2026-04
- Effects of polypropylene micro- and nanoplastics from surgical masks in amphibian and echinoderm models.
Bacchetta R, Vacchelli C, Pica A et al. · Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2026-04 · open access
Micro- and nanoplastic toxicity is a growing environmental concern, especially in aquatic ecosystems. This study investigates the acute and chronic effects of polypropylene microfibers (PP MFs), derived from artificially aged surgical face masks, on two aquatic species: the freshwater amphibian…
- Transcription factor CitERF36 promotes sucrose accumulation in citrus fruits via activating a sucrose transporter and suppressing a vacuolar invertase.
Pang Y, Wang M, Qian W et al. · The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026-04
- Vitamin C Alleviates BPA Embryotoxicity by Attenuating Oxidative Stress and DNA Damage-Mediated Apoptosis via Modulation of the ATM/Chk2/p53 Pathway.
Ren F, Lu Z, Cheng X et al. · Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2026-03 · open access
- Combined effects of thermal variability and chlorpyrifos exposure on the physiology and immunity of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis).
Landaeta D, Álvarez-Vergara F, Sanchez-Hernandez JC et al. · Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology · 2026-03
- A shared mechanism in eye optical development: Lens nucleus centralization in Xenopuslaevis.
Garcia KA, Tseng KA, Vorontsova I · Experimental eye research · 2026-03 · open access
- Enantioselective Bioactivity and Molecular Basis of Fluralaner Enantiomers in Tetranychus cinnabarinus (Boisduval).
Cheng J, Lin T, Li A et al. · Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2026-03
- Pinopsin Regulates Melatonin Production and Daily Locomotor Activity: Functional Insights From Gene-Edited Xenopus Tadpoles.
Heshami N, Romero RD, de Souza FSJ et al. · Journal of pineal research · 2026-03 · open access
Circadian rhythm alignment depends on environmental light detection via opsins. Pinopsin, originally identified in the pineal organ of birds and later in amphibian pineal complex and eyes, may play a role in this process, though its function has not been genetically tested. Evolutionary analysis…
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