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Current Biology (http://www.cell.com/current-biology/) publishes original research, overview and com Current Biology is published by Cell Press.

Current Biology is a general biology journal that publishes original research across all areas of the life sciences together with an extensive and varied set of editorial sections. Editor: Geoffrey North

Senior Deputy Editor: Deborah Taylor
Senior Reviews Editor: Florian Maderspacher
Senior Editor: Cyrus Martin
Senior Editor: Anne Knowlton
Associate Editor: Christine Cosma

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eatures Administrator, Assistant Features Editor: Maxine Herman-Oakley
Editorial and Features Administrator: Maddie Wilson

Production Editor: Sarah Bryer
Deputy Production Editor: Zyanya Louis

26/09/2025

Check out our newest issue where we interview Manvir Singh, who studies the evolutionary and cognitive origins of human cultural behaviors at the University of California, Davis.

Read the interview to find out more about why Manvir chose to study human behaviours, his favourite scientific book, and what he has learned about shamanism!

To read the Q&A, check out the link in our bio and here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01078-4

25/09/2025

The nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio controls the cell-cycle period in compartmentalized frog egg extract

Piñeros et al. show that increasing nuclear size slows the cell cycle by scaling with the nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio. Using frog egg extracts, they demonstrate that this effect is independent of replication or transcription and matches well with the initial cell-cycle lengthening observed around the midblastula transition.

📷 Graphical abstract © Piñeros et al.

To find out more, check out the link in our bio and here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01021-8

24/09/2025

Symbiotic bacteria mediate chemical-insecticide resistance but enhance the efficacy of a biological insecticide in diamondback moth

Li et al. reveal that Enterococcus mundtii proliferation in the gut of diamondback moths, induced by chlorpyrifos, confers resistance to chlorpyrifos but enhances susceptibility to Bacillus thuringiensis. This interaction suggests strategic rotation of chemical and biological insecticides to manage resistance.

📷 Graphical abstract © Li et al.

To find out more, check out the link in our bio and here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01035-8

23/09/2025

Linear covariation between germline and somatic mutation rates across ciliates and mammals

Wang et al. estimate the somatic mutation rate in a ciliate, which contains germline and somatic genomes in the same cell. They discover a linear correlation between per-year germline and somatic mutation rates across ciliates and mammals, rejecting 2 common explanations on why germline and somatic mutation rates differ.

📷 Graphical abstract © Wang et al.

To find out more, check out the link in our bio and here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00954-6

22/09/2025

Our newest issue is now available!

On the cover: Nautiloids (pictured) – a lineage of ancient, externally shelled cephalopods – once dominated our oceans, but today, these living fossils are threatened and in need of protection from over-exploitation. In this issue, Torrado et al. demonstrate that, unlike other cephalopods, s*x in nautiloids is determined by an XX/XY system. Their findings have important implications for the assessment of nautiloid management and conservation needs and illuminate the diversity and remarkable turnover of s*xual systems in animals. Image by co-author Majorie Awai.

Link here and in Instagram bio: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/current

19/09/2025

Age-dependent response to anthropogenic habitat during migration of an endangered raptor

Efrat et al. use complementary data sources and statistical methods to show how experience, weather, and landscape affect endangered eagles’ migratory behavior. Most prominently, they present an experience-mediated effect of anthropogenic-altered habitats on route selection, with juvenile eagles being attracted to these habitats while adults avoid them.

📷 Graphical abstract © Efrat et al.

To find out more check out this open access article linked in our bio and here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00970-4

18/09/2025

Convergently evolved linear actuators in ballistic tongues

Zeng et al. show that salamanders and chameleons converged on a similar solution to launch ballistic tongues using muscles squeezing a skeletal rod, enabling rapid, single-axis energy transfer. This sliding-based force transmission (unlike tendon-linked, pulling-based systems) allows high-speed launches across a wide range of body sizes.

📷 Graphical abstract © Zeng et al.

To find out more, check out the link in our bio and here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01030-9

17/09/2025

Pangeneric analyses reveal the divergent genome evolution and ecologies between morels and truffles in the Morchellaceae

The fungal lineage Morchellaceae comprises edible morel mushrooms and truffles, as well as other inedible forms. The present comparative genomic study by Bonito et al. reveals the genomic basis of saprotrophy in aboveground Morchellaceae and genomic signatures in Morchellaceae truffles evolving into an ectomycorrhizal lifestyle dependent on plant host nutrition.

📷 Graphical abstract © Bonito et al.

To find out more, check out the link in our bio and here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00938-8

16/09/2025

Divergent origin of the insect cephalic endoskeleton and the trachea from a homologous metameric structure

Barcenilla-Merino et al. describe in Drosophila the genetic and developmental mechanisms that form the tentorium, the insect’s cephalic endoskeleton to which the masticatory muscles bind. They show that the tentorium is metamerically homologous to the tracheal respiratory system and is developmentally related to the endocrine glands that control molting and metamorphosis.

📷 Graphical abstract © Barcenilla-Merino et al.

To find out more check out this open access article linked in our bio and here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00942-X

15/09/2025

Check out our latest issue where we interview Katie Peichel, who studies the evolutionary genetics of sticklebacks at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Read the interview to find out more about why she chose to study evolutionary genetics, the best advice she has ever received, and her favourite conference to attend!

To read the Q&A, check out the link in our bio and here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00967-4

12/09/2025

Temperature and precipitation mismatches increase infection risk in amphibians

Thumsová et al. introduce the thermal-hydric mismatch hypothesis, showing in over 5,800 Iberian amphibians that infection risk by the chytrid fungus and Ranavirus is driven by the combined effect of thermal and precipitation mismatches and that climate-driven disease emergence is a multifaceted process requiring integrative frameworks.

📷 Graphical abstract © Thumsová et al.

To find out more, check out the link in our bio and here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00962-5

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