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The nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio drives cellularization in the close animal relative Sphaeroforma arctica
Omaya Pierre Dudin, Marine Olivetta
The ratio of nuclear content to cytoplasmic volume (N/C ratio) is a key regulator driving the maternal-to -zy-gotic transition in most animal embryos. Altering this ratio often impacts zygotic genome activation and de-regulates the timing and outcome of em ...
CELL PRESS2023Environment rather than breed or body site shapes the skin bacterial community of healthy sheep as revealed by metabarcoding
Christof Holliger, Alexander Mathis, Emmanuelle Rohrbach, Laetitia Janine Andrée Cardona
Background: The skin is inhabited by a variety of micro-organisms, with bacteria representing the predominant taxon of the skin microbiome. In sheep, the skin bacterial community of healthy animals has been addressed in few studies, only with culture-based ...
2023First paleoproteome study of fossil fish otoliths and the pristine preservation of the biomineral crystal host
Anders Meibom, Jaroslaw Hubert Stolarski, Jinming Guo
Otoliths are calcium carbonate components of the stato-acoustical organ responsible for hearing and maintenance of the body balance in teleost fish. During their formation, control over, e.g., morphology and carbonate polymorph is influenced by complex ins ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2023Heterotrophic Foraminifera Capable of Inorganic Nitrogen Assimilation
Anders Meibom, Charlotte Madeleine Nicole Lekieffre, Emmanuelle Geslin
Nitrogen availability often limits biological productivity in marine systems, where inorganic nitrogen, such as ammonium is assimilated into the food web by bacteria and photoautotrophic eukaryotes. Recently, ammonium assimilation was observed in kleptopla ...
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020Dispersal limitations and historical factors determine the biogeography of specialized terrestrial protists
Edward Mitchell, Luca Bragazza, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Enrique Lara, Bertrand Fournier
Recent studies show that soil eukaryotic diversity is immense and dominated by micro-organisms. However, it is unclear to what extent the processes that shape the distribution of diversity in plants and animals also apply to micro-organisms. Major diversif ...
WILEY2019A mass-spring model unveils the morphogenesis of phototrophic Diatoma biofilms
Diatoms often dominate planktonic communities in the ocean and phototrophic biofilms in streams and rivers, greatly contributing to global biogeochemical fluxes. In pelagic ecosystems, these microscopic algae can form chain-like microcolonies, which seem a ...
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