UFGI Publication Round-Up: Week of 6/8/2026

Hawkinson TR, Liu Z, Ribas RA, Medina T, Nielsen RS, Clarke HA, Ma X, Mueller AC, Plasencia AF, Sheer AL, Simpson ST, Soto CM, Sudderth J, Cai F, Cantrell AR, Colpaert MG, Shedlock CJ, Wu L, Young LEA, Kooser DD, Chen L, Ryan AM, Quinones S, Son J, Azadi P, Deberardinis RJ, Prokop S, Allison D, Yang S, Chen H, Huang Y, He X, Alonge KM, Guo J, Guo Y, Bian J, Vander Kooi CW, Gentry MS, Sun RC.

Nat Metab. 2026 Jun 9. doi: 10.1038/s42255-026-01538-4. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42265388

Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome.

Bates AS, Phelps JS, Kim M, Yang HH, Matsliah A, Ajabi Z, Perlman E, Delgado KM, Osman MAM, Salmon CK, Gager J, Silverman B, Renauld S, Salman F, Patel J, Collie MF, Fan J, Pacheco DA, Zhao Y, Zhang W, Capdevila LS, Roberts RJV, Munnelly EJ, Griggs N, Langley H, Moya-Llamas B, Zhang Z, Maloney RT, Yu SC, Sterling AR, Sorek M, Kruk K, Serafetinidis N, Dhawan S, Klemm F, Brooks P, Lesser E, Jones JM, Pierce-Lundgren SE, Lee SY, Luo Y, Cook AP, McKim TH, Giakoumas DS, Gorko B, Ellis-Joyce J, Zhang J, Kophs EC, Falt T, Negron-Morales AM, Burke A, Hebditch J, Willie KP, Willie R, Popovych S, Kemnitz N, Ih D, Lee K, Lu R, Halageri A, Bae JA, Jourdan B, Schwartzman G, Demarest DD, Behnke E, Bland D, Kristiansen A, Skelton J, Stocks T, Garner D, Hernandez A, Kumar S; BANC-FlyWire Consortium; Daly KC, Dorkenwald S, Collman F, Suver MP, Fenk LM, Pankratz MJ, Yao Z, Wang F, Huston SJ, Stürner T, Jefferis GSXE, Eichler K, Seeds AM, Hampel S, Agrawal S, Okubo TS, Zandawala M, Macrina T, Adjavon DY, Funke J, Tuthill JC, Azevedo A, Seung HS, de Bivort BL, Murthy M, Drugowitsch J, Wilson RI, Lee WA.

Nature. 2026 Jun 8. doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10735-w. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42259917

Genomic and physiological changes in a sexually selected and frugivorous bird radiation.

Balakrishnan CN, Toda Y, Ko MC, Wirthlin ME, Driver RJ, Bolton PE, Miller ET, Mendez-Aranda D, Dikow RB, Frandsen PB, Shogren EH, Bennett KFP, Anderson HL, Bursell MG, Cramer JF, Sadanandan KR, Nakagita T, Pizo MA, Caetano DS, Anciães M, Ferreira CF, Berv JS, Long KM, Lim HC, Moncrieff AE, Kingston SE, White Carreiro ND, Friedrich SR, Cuta CA, Pease JB, Nevue AA, Tomlinson C, Zimin A, Louder MIM, Brewer MS, Bay RA, Ruegg K, Smith TB, Ishimaru Y, Pfenning AR, Frankl-Vilches C, Gahr M, Mello CV, Kimball RT, Braun EL, Blake JG, Day LB, Ryder TB, Moore IT, Horton BM, Schlinger BA, Fuxjager MJ, Warren WC, DuVal EH, Boyle WA, Loiselle BA, Braun MJ, Baldwin MW.

Curr Biol. 2026 Jun 10:S0960-9822(26)00625-1. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2026.05.021. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42269612

Enhanced Pro-Osteogenic Regulatory Modulation in Mesenchymal Stem Cells Derived from the Periosteum Under Simulated Microgravity.

Canal R, Martinez EF, Foster JS, Bombaldi de Souza FC, Bombaldi de Souza RF, Morales MM, Pontes MC, da Rocha DN, Holliday LS, Yu F, Silva AT, Fanganiello RD, Ferreira JRM, Pelegrine AA.

Cells. 2026 May 28;15(11):989. doi: 10.3390/cells15110989.

PMID: 42274582

Initiation of Hybrid Polyketide-Nonribosomal Peptide Biosynthesis via Two Distinct Pathways in C. elegans.

Kou X, Gordon MT, Feng L, Rakshit S, Abraham E, Bai X, Butcher RA.

ACS Chem Biol. 2026 Jun 9. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.6c00104. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42261222

Aldoximes serve as auxin precursors and repress phenylpropanoid metabolism in tomato.

Zhao H, Shin D, Tucker E, Cho KH, Sorg A, Liu D, Ding Y, Block AK, Kim J.

bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2026 May 12:2026.05.07.723529. doi: 10.64898/2026.05.07.723529.

PMID: 42182485

Sex determination in land plants.

Bowman JL, McDaniel SF.

Curr Biol. 2026 Jun 8;36(11):R629-R643. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2026.03.073.

PMID: 42259276

simCRISPR: Modeling Experimental Complexity in Pooled CRISPR Screens.

Zhu Z, Dong X, Kim C, Maugee C, Barbazuk WB, Vulpe CD, Bacher R.

bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2026 May 15:2026.05.14.725042. doi: 10.64898/2026.05.14.725042.

PMID: 42182371

Beyond Breathing: Lung as a Sensory Organ A Report from the NHLBI Workshop on Lung Sensing and its Implication in Diseases.

Jendzjowsky N, Kuo CS, Reznikov LR, Chen Z, Li P, Prescott S, Liu Y, Seeholzer L, Tschumperlin DJ, Taylor-Clark TE, Rajagopal J, Haber AL, Noël A, Kotas M, Drake M, Pabelick C, Rosenblatt J, Mouradian G, Su Y, Gomez C, Lin Q, Lu Q, Mongodin EF, Vuga L, Zhou G, Prakash YS, Sun X.

Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2026 Jun 9:aanag111. doi: 10.1093/ajrcmb/aanag111. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42265991

Effects of replacing sulfate with hydroxychloride sources of trace minerals on health and reproduction in dairy cows.

Sarwar Z, Adeoti TM, Marinho MN, Rasia J, Oliveira LRS, Perdomo MC, Griswold KE, Santos JEP.

J Dairy Sci. 2026 Jun 12:S0022-0302(26)02938-3. doi: 10.3168/jds.2026-28380. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42285494

Publisher Correction: Enhancing propensity score analysis with data missing not at random: Introducing dual-forest proximity imputation.

Lee Y, Leite WL.

Behav Res Methods. 2026 Jun 8;58(7):188. doi: 10.3758/s13428-026-03094-x.

PMID: 42258053

Combination S100A1 and ARC gene therapy as a treatment for DMD cardiomyopathy.

Hammers DW, Hart CC, Zerpa EA, Laurent KI, Lee YI, Sleeper MM, Sweeney HL.

JCI Insight. 2026 Jun 9:e204852. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.204852. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42262882

Pharmacology of estrogen-related receptors (ERRs) agonists.

Radwan MO, Guin S, Burris TP.

RSC Chem Biol. 2026 May 29. doi: 10.1039/d6cb00077k. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42256350

Draft genome sequences of Passalora arachidicola and Nothopassalora personata, causal agents of early and late leaf spots of peanut.

Fullem KR, Elwakil W, Beckham KA, Huguet-Tapia JC, Rollins JA, Dufault NS.

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2026 Jun 11:e0015326. doi: 10.1128/mra.00153-26. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42274356

Planes on a Snake? On the Identities of Crab Larvae Rafting on Sea Snakes.

Elefánti S, Lasley R Jr, Paulay G, Pfaller JB.

Ecol Evol. 2026 May 31;16(6):e73742. doi: 10.1002/ece3.73742. eCollection 2026 Jun.

PMID: 42256186

Alpha-2 antiplasmin deficiency: a rare fibrinolytic disorder identified after decades of diagnostic delay.

Mathavan A, Mathavan A, Krekora U, Magar S, Al-Nazer M, Ataya A, Mathew C, Harris NS, Rajasekhar A.

Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis. 2026 Jun 9. doi: 10.1097/MBC.0000000000001443. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42257473

Prevalence of CYP2C19 polymorphisms in medically and surgically managed patients with GERD.

Naser AR, Pather K, Mobley EM, Crisp A, Climenhage B, Elsheikh E, Mull J, Cicali EJ, Cavallari LH, Sacco JM, Puri R.

Surgery. 2026 May 5:110296. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2026.110296. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 42259674