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Acquisition of essential nutrients through diet is crucial for the survival of animals. Dietary odors might enable animals to forage for nutrient-rich diets. We asked if Caenorhabditis elegans, a bacterivorous nematode, uses olfactory cues to forage for essential amino acid-rich (EAA) diets. Using the native microbiota of C. elegans, we show that worms rely on olfa...

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Vestibular hair cells (HCs) convert gravitational and head motion cues into neural signals through mechanotransduction, mediated by the hair bundle—a mechanically integrated organelle composed of stereocilia and a kinocilium. The kinocilium, a specialized form of primary cilium, remains incompletely defined in structure, molecular composition, and function. To elucidate its char...

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The process of publishing a research article in a scientific journal inevitably involves revising the original version of the article to respond to the concerns raised by peer reviewers. In this article we describe a course module that introduces MSc students at Utrecht University in the Netherlands to this part of the publication process. During the module the students and an i...

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The ant nest serves as the skeleton of the ant superorganism. Similar to a skeleton, the nest expands as the colony grows and requires repair after catastrophic events. We experimentally compared nest excavation in colonies seeded from a single mated queen and allowed to grow for 6 months to excavation triggered by a catastrophic event in colonies with fixed demographics, where ...

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SMC (structural maintenance of chromosomes) protein complexes are ring-shaped molecular motors essential for genome folding. Despite recent progress, the detailed molecular mechanism of DNA translocation in concert with the ATP-driven conformational changes of the complex remains to be clarified. In this study, we elucidated the mechanisms of SMC action on DNA using all-atom and...

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