Ecology Papers of the Week

Abstract We report the first documented case of albinism in Eira barbara within the Amazon biome.

Here, we present a replicable and adaptable workflow that automates the extraction of a broad range of biological interactions among species from scientific literature using LLMs.

Carbon budget analysis revealed that approximately half of daily mass loss occurs through non-respiratory processes, suggesting substantial organic matter excretion.

Here we introduce Nucleotide Transformer v3 (NTv3), a long-context cross-kingdom foundation model that provides a common backbone for functional prediction, gene annotation and controllable sequence generation across phylogenetically diverse species.

Predictions show that the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in September around the middle of the 21st century, under low or intermediate emission scenarios. The projections provide indications of what may happen in the future, but by reconstructing the climatic and environmental conditions in the Arctic Ocean as they were during earlier warm periods, we can obtain information about what changes can be expected in the future.

Many studies therefore focus on simulated weathering of pristine polymers over short timescales, but these experiments do not consider potentially different aging behaviour after extended environmental exposure. To address this, we investigated the continued aging of naturally weathered macroplastics sampled from agricultural soils by reburying them under field conditions for 19 months and comparing properties before and after.

This review highlights rice's emerging potential as a functional food, with particular emphasis on rice bran oil (RBO), γ-oryzanol, vitamin E, and tocotrienols.

In this research, we determined the quantity, quality and distribution of particulate organic matter in sediments at the Ocean Minerals Company test mine site (known as the OMCO site, central Clarion-Clipperton Zone) within the collector tracks and adjacent plume area compared to a control site 44 years after the mining test.

Comparative analysis identified two highly variable regions, which are promising molecular markers.

Here, we report the first record of Vinaphilus unicus from China, providing new information on the distribution of Gonibregmatidae and the species.

We further distinguish pretreatment predictors from treatment-induced pharmacodynamic changes and explain why pathological response and biological cure are related but non-equivalent endpoints. On this basis, we propose a testable spatial-immune-resilience framework comprising eradication-permissive, persistence-prone and escape-permissive ecosystems.

Increasing evidence further demonstrates that overflow-like metabolism is not restricted to carbon excess but also occurs under nutrient limitation, environmental stress, recombinant protein expression, and within microbial communities, indicating that its physiological significance extends far beyond the classical paradigm. Here, we review these diverse manifestations, evaluate the underlying mechanisms of overflow metabolism, and propose adopting a separable, reversible Michaelis-Menten formulation as a unifying conceptual framework.

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains highly lethal, with treatment failure and relapse driven by dynamic cellular states and evolving interactions within the leukemic ecosystem. In this study, we built a comprehensive atlas of leukemia and its microenvironment (CALM) by integrating single-cell profiling from 73 AML samples and 9 healthy donors, bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) from 87 newly diagnosed patients, and 4 paired bone marrow and peripheral blood single-cell data.

Here, we employed an integrated multi-omics approach in a spared nerve injury (SNI) rat model to investigate the gut-metabolite-brain mechanisms underlying EA's efficacy.

In this review, we provide an overview of the clinical and mechanistic aspects of the gut-liver axis in hepatology.

We show that industrialization is associated with homogenized microbial compositions, reduced microbial diversity, and lower community stability, independent of host confounders.