Andres Bendesky

TL;DR: GRASP marks known synaptic contacts in C. elegans, correctly identifies changes in mutants with altered synaptic specificity, and can uncover new information about synaptic locations as confirmed by electron microscopy, may prove particularly useful for defining connectivity in complex nervous systems.

TL;DR: Together, the results show that Twist1 needs to induce Snail2 to suppress the epithelial branch of the EMT program and that Twist2 and Twist1 act together to promote EMT and tumor metastasis.

TL;DR: The existing population studies are deficient since they have not included sufficient sample size, the follow-up time has not been long enough, and the individual sensitivity to the drug might have been acting as a confounding factor.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used quantitative genetic analysis to examine the decision to leave a food patch in Caenorhabditis elegans and found that patch-leaving is a multigenic trait regulated in part by naturally occurring non-coding polymorphisms in tyra-3 (tyramine receptor 3), which encodes a G-protein-coupled catecholamine receptor related to vertebrate adrenergic receptors.

TL;DR: It is shown that two sister species of mice, Peromyscus polionotus and P. maniculatus, have large and heritable differences in parental behaviour, and variation in an ancient neuropeptide contributes to interspecific differences in Parental care.