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The iron-sulfur cluster assembly factor FDX2 is required for tumor initiation but not for growth of established tumors in transplantation models

Formal Carbon-Atom Insertion of Primary Aliphatic Amines

Duration-dependent effects of social isolation on reintegration behavior in the swarming soldier crab, Mictyris guinotae

Social contact is fundamental to the behavioral and physiological homeostasis of group-living animals. When such contact is disrupted, even briefly, individuals may undergo behavioral shifts that persist beyond the isolation period and alter their interactions upon reintegration into the group. The soldier crab Mictyris guinotae , which forms large, dense swarms on intertidal flats, provides a tractable natural system for studying how transient isolation affects subsequent reintegration into collective behavior. Unlike eusocial insects with stable social roles, M. guinotae exhibits flexible, non-hierarchical interactions, allowing individual perturbations to be examined without confounding effects of dominance or task specialization. We conducted two experiments to examine how different durations of enforced isolation influence subsequent reintegration into collective movement. Isolation periods ranged from 5 to 180 minutes, and behavioral parameters such as local polarity, movement distance, and nearest-neighbor proximity were compared with controls. Individuals isolated for 5–30 minutes exhibited increased locomotor activity and reduced nearest-neighbor distance relative to controls, whereas 3-hour isolation induced a biphasic pattern characterized by an initial reduction in movement followed by elevated activity that remained weakly coordinated with the swarm. These results reveal a non-linear, threshold-dependent effect of isolation in a non-eusocial, anonymous collective. The study establishes Mictyris guinotae as a tractable invertebrate system for examining how transient social disruption alters measurable individual-level behavior and propagates through local interactions to shape emergent group-level dynamics.

Stress-induced glucocorticoid signaling impairs enteric neurotrophin BDNF–TrkB pathway and drives gastrointestinal dysmotility

Origin of Reversible Interlayer-Disorder-Induced Phase Transitions in Layered Sodium Manganese Oxide Cathodes

Correction: Protein kinase a regulates cyclooxygenase-2 expression through the RNA-binding proteins HuR and TTP

Solvent-Driven Biphasic Architectures in Polymer Gels via Polymerization-Induced Solvent Phase Separation

Microdroplet-Enabled Interfacial Electron Transfer Accelerates Schiff Base Condensation for Ultrafast Covalent Organic Framework Synthesis

The N-terminal domain of the endoplasmic reticulum-resident chaperone Grp94 functions in aggregation prevention

Hydrogen Bonding within Dynamic ¹⁹ F-Tagged Oligothiourea Foldamers in Solution and in Membranes

A dual-pathway Wnt-IL-13 fusion protein enhances human intestinal regeneration through tuft cell activation

Hierarchical Chiral Self-Assembly of Nanocylinders Composed of Sequence-Defined Mesogenic Dimers

Correction: F2,6BP restores mitochondrial genome integrity in Huntington’s disease

Photoswitchable Radicals as Reporter Spins for Quantum Sensing with Spin Defects in Diamond

Reciprocal compensation of caspase-2 and p53 regulates the DNA damage response in HCT116 colon cancer cells

A 50,688-Reaction Data Set Reveals General Ligands and Mechanistic Diversity in C–N Couplings

Conserved residues in the Gα interface show subtype specificity in Gβγ coupling

Switching the Spin State of Ni Catalysts Promotes Regiodivergent Reactions

Low-dose EGFR inhibition unlocks ferroptosis susceptibility to sensitize chemotherapy in EGFR-high triple-negative breast cancer

Terminal-Selective sp ³ C–H Borylation of Carbonyl Derivatives by a Di(pyridyl)arylmethane-Ligated Iridium Catalyst