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Evolution of a chloroplast subcompartment housing plastid DNA inside a cup-like starch granule Zheng et al. investigate an algal chloroplast subcompartment in which plastid DNA is contained inside a cup-like starch granule. The evolution of this compartment is associated with the development of...

Evolution of a chloroplast subcompartment housing plastid DNA inside a cup-like starch granule: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... @currentbiology.bsky.social

A microbiome-derived olfactory signal regulates inter-male aggression and social dominance in mice Cichy et al. show that trimethylamine (TMA), a gut microbiome-derived metabolite, activates the receptor TAAR5 in the main olfactory system to regulate aggression and social dominance in male mice. Th...

Happy to share the latest from the lab! A microbiome-generated metabolite affects male-male aggression and social dominance in mice via the main olfactory system. Gut-Nose-Behavior.

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We don't follow Lewin. Our editors just love their job, their colleagues and ourauthors and readers so much that they are unwilling to leave...😍

Human–wildlife conflict Kaitlyn Gaynor and Jennifer Green introduce the many forms of conflict between humans and wild animals.

Why can't we just get along with wild animals?

Jennifer Green and Kaitlyn Gaynor introduce human–wildlife conflict in this Primer.

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Noni Franklin-Tong Interview with Noni Franklin-Tong, who studied self-incompatibility in the field poppy at the University of Birmingham, where she is now Emeritus Professor of Plant Cell Biology.

Our latest issue features a Q&A with Noni Franklin-Tong, who studied self-incompatibility in the field poppy at the University of Birmingham, where she is now Emeritus Professor of Plant Cell Biology. Find out why she began studying biology here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

plus a nice dispatch on the island-hopping kaleidoscopic frogs www.cell.com/current-biol...

Latest issue dropped, with strawberry poison frogs🐸 on the cover and a study of their color genetics inside.

Plus: nocturnal ants, human-wildlife conflict, microbial conservation, fish herding and much much more!

www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

Promises kept

Our paper is on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social : a strawberry poison frog with the most common color morph, living up to its common name 🍓. In this issue, we uncover the genetic basis of color variation in frogs from Bocas del Toro, where blue, green, yellow, orange, and red morphs occur

A study from Rockefeller's @danielkronauer.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social finds that ants continually update their sense of nestmate identity and tolerance for outsiders, a discovery that opens the door to studying the neural circuits behind social recognition.

🔗:https://bit.ly/4sukQIR

Intraspecific variation in the duration of epigenetic inheritance in wild isolates of C. elegans Frejacques, Saglio, et al. demonstrate variation among C. elegans wild isolates in the multigenerational memory of an initial RNA interference trigger. Genetic polymorphisms and environmental variable...

Really cool paper from Marie-Anne Felix's lab. Genetic variation in set-24 controls the duration of epigenetic inheritance.

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Evolution: Paralog interference stabilizes gene duplicates Gene duplicates are traditionally viewed as evolutionarily unstable, as one copy can freely accumulate deleterious mutations and be lost. A new study reveals that paralog interference exposes certain ...

Nice surprise this morning! A Dispatch on our paper on paralog interference now out in Current Biology! By Krishna Swamy and Jun-Yi Leu.
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$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025
Who were most affected?
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Early career and women researchers

David Botstein, Gene-Mapping Pioneer, Dies at 83

David Botstein was one of the giants of genetics and genomics, and my mentor, colleague and friend for more than 40 years. I’m sad that he is gone, but his larger-than-life persona comes through here. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/s...

Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989: Official Lecture YouTube video by Nobel Prize

Very sad to hear of the passing today of our UCSF colleague Mike Bishop at the age of 90. A legendary and inspiring figure. He also led UCSF as Chancellor. Have a listen to his Nobel lecture. youtube.com/watch?v=CDv7...

Happy #WorldFrogDay!🐸

We apologize to all frogs and toads, for not having nearly enough of these amazing animals on our covers. We will do better.

Exceptional #fossils provide evidence for co-existence of epidermal and dermal scales in late Carboniferous stem #amniotes.

Marchetti et al 2026 @currentbiology.bsky.social The earliest #reptile body impressions with scaly #skin
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

How does an animal choose between exploring for a better food source and taking advantage of a known one? Our recent work in Current Biology demonstrates how recent feeding and metabolic state dynamically influence fly local search. bit.ly/3PfrIv3 #Science #Neurosky #Foraging #Drosophila

"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression 'As pretty as an airport'"
-Douglas Adams

We have a joke about journals, but it's not in our nature...

Developmental tolerance and disease implications of aneuploidy Aneuploidy is highly prevalent in humans, appearing during embryogenesis, in adult tissues, and with aging. In this review, Fusari and Milán explore the in vivo consequences of aneuploidy, with a focu...

Aneuploidy (aberrations in chromosome number) in development and disease — check out this great review by Elena Fusari & @milanlab.bsky.social (featured access).
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Waiting on reviewer 3

Paul Ehrlich: A Journey Through Science and Politics | Conservation Conversations with Sean O'Brien YouTube video by NatureServe

Dr. Paul Ehrlich, founder of the field of population biology, Stanford professor, prolific author of books on butterflies, birds, & human ecology, world-class environmentalist, outspoken scientist, and a personal friend, has passed away.
A giant in the field of ecology.

youtu.be/vW1z4n4Dusk?...

An algorithm underlying directional hearing in fish Veith et al. show how a fish—Danionella cerebrum—can reliably startle away from sound. It uses the relative phase between particle motion and pressure to infer the direction of sound. This sensorimoto...

How do fish localize sound without interaural cues? @johve.bsky.social et al. found a behavioral algorithm for directional hearing that predicts behavior from a pressure/motion phase comparison and accounts for how this relationship varies with distance. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Mark C. Fishman Interview with Mark Fishman, who uses the zebrafish to study body–brain interactions and the genetic structure of social behavior at Harvard University.

Check out our Q&A with Mark Fishman, who uses the zebrafish to study body–brain interactions and the genetic structure of social behavior at Harvard University! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Basically "Working out at the airport"

We ran a special issue on fun and play in animals back in 2015 www.cell.com/current-biol...

The term 'gatekeepers' always had an exclusory ring to it. Perhaps true as most papers are indeed rejected.

Rather than gatekeepers, we strive to be spotlighters of interesting biology...