Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.
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Science Magazine
1/6) What if aging begins, in part, as a bargain made in youth? In turquoise killifish, editing vgll3—a gene linked to puberty-timing in humans and salmon—revealed one of the first causal single-gene examples of antagonistic pleiotropy in vertebrate aging 🧵
(1/2) Hiring! 🤸🧠🐩 Postdoc position in my new group @univie.ac.at & Messerli Research Institute on the neuro-cognitive foundations and evolution of sociality across humans, dogs, and other carnivorans.
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New paper accepted in Proc B! 🎉
We disentangled how heatwaves affect maternal egg care in earwigs. We found that mothers adjust care depending on both their own heat stress and the stress of their eggs, but these effects act independently rather than interactively.
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