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Seiya Nishikawa, Satoshi Kuwana, Gen Honda, Hidenori Hashimura + 2 more
We investigate the mechanical principles underlying fruiting body morphogenesis in Dictyostelium discoideum. Quantitative shape analysis based on the Young–Laplace law, together with AFM indentation measurements, indicate surface tension as the dominant tissue-scale force acting on the culminating fruiting body. Based…
Colin Vullioud, Diana Geweiler, Joerg Melzheimer, Sonja Heinrich + 3 more
In populations with low genetic diversity, the capacity to adapt to environmental change is limited. While epigenetic mechanisms can generate phenotypic plasticity, their role in mediating adaptive life-history transitions in the wild is largely unknown. Here, we show that in adult Namibian cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus…
Peter F. Pelz, Tobias Meck
For nearly a century, the physical origin of metabolic scaling has remained unresolved: metabolism is proportional to body mass in small organisms but follows Kleiber’s three-quarter-power law in larger animals. We derive both regimes from the Metabolic Holon (MH), a locally optimized capillary–tissue oxygen-supply…
Fabio Barteri, Arcadi Navarro, Omar E. Cornejo
Continuous traits evolve unevenly across phylogenies, producing patterns of phenotypic differentiation shaped by both shared ancestry and lineage-specific change. Identifying exceptionally differentiated species pairs may therefore improve genome–phenome comparisons, but existing approaches rarely rank such contrasts…
Beatrice Fois, Alice Dalla Vecchia, Giovanni Campiello, Rossano Bolpagni + 1 more
The study of functional trait variation is increasingly used to understand macrophyte adaptation, as traits reflect organismal performance under different ecosystem conditions. Phenotypic expression results from the interplay of genetic and environmental factors: genetics provides the molecular basis for heritable…
Cheryl Kim, Denise Hinz, Aaron Middlebrook, Aaron J Tyznik + 4 more
Circulating cell-cell complexes (doublets) provide critical insights into in vivo immune interactions. Here, we leverage high-dimensional imaging spectral cytometry to systematically map the landscape of immune doublets in human peripheral blood. By integrating morphometric imaging features with a 22-color spectral…
N. Schmitner, C. Deseife, A. Neumann, W. Salvenmoser + 3 more
The zebrafish is widely used to study glucose homeostasis, diabetes, and endocrine cell plasticity, yet a definitive ultrastructural characterization of adult pancreatic endocrine cell types has remained incomplete. Here, we combined transmission electron microscopy with hormone-specific immunogold labeling to define…
Can Zhu, Jinyuan Zhang, Ke Hu, Shirong Lu + 10 more
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) have attracted increasing attention owing to their superior mechanical robustness, morphological stability, and solution-processability. However, intricate intermolecular interactions hinder the precise regulation of donor-acceptor miscibility and phase separation, thereby restricting…
Eduardo Perez‐Muelas, Miguel Angel Ruiz‐Fresneda, Guillermo Lazuen‐Lopez, Tatiana Lopez‐Perez + 3 more
While microbial metal reduction is widely documented, the genomic determinants that govern the morphological transition from disordered phases to structured nanocrystals remain elusive. Here, we present an integrative study of Stenotrophomonas bentonitica BII-R7, a strain exhibiting exceptional metal resistance and the…