After a brief hiatus, we are BACK with Episode 8 of the monthly podcast CellOut, where your favorite pair of biology nerds, Derek DeVries and Ford Fishman, summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the August and September 2022 issues of PLoS biology.
Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i09
Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLoS, climate change, woodpeckers, neuroscience, bacteria, leaves
SHOW NOTES
Podcast Art - Credit Caroline DeVries
Episode Cover Art - September 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit: mjeedelbr, Flickr
Cutting Edge (1:36)
São Pedro VdA, Trierveiler-Pereira L, Baltazar JM (2022) Adapt conservation biology teaching to address eco-anxiety in students. PLoS Biol 20(9): e3001774. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001774
Jargon Jungle (8:25)
Dueling hosts, guest to return next month!
Journal Club (22:32)
Schuppe ER, Cantin L, Chakraborty M, Biegler MT, Jarvis ER, Chen C-C, et al. (2022) Forebrain nuclei linked to woodpecker territorial drum displays mirror those that enable vocal learning in songbirds. PLoS Biol 20(9): e3001751. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001751
Cell Culture (42:15)
Disco Elysium: https://discoelysium.com/
Bite-Size Discoveries (47:40)
VanWallendael A, Benucci GMN, da Costa PB, Fraser L, Sreedasyam A, Fritschi F, et al. (2022) Host genotype controls ecological change in the leaf fungal microbiome. PLoS Biol 20(8): e3001681. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001681
Linh NM, Scarpella E (2022) Leaf vein patterning is regulated by the aperture of plasmodesmata intercellular channels. PLoS Biol 20(9): e3001781. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001781
Moutinho AF, Eyre-Walker A, Dutheil JY (2022) Strong evidence for the adaptive walk model of gene evolution in Drosophila and Arabidopsis. PLoS Biol 20(9): e3001775. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001775
Zhu Y, Chew KY, Wu M, Karawita AC, McCallum G, Steele LE, et al. (2022) Ancestral SARS-CoV-2, but not Omicron, replicates less efficiently in primary pediatric nasal epithelial cells. PLoS Biol 20(8): e3001728. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001728