SICB journals

One of ICB's frequently read papers
Investigating the #evolution and features of regeneration using #cnidarians

@aidemm.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

The ability to #regenerate can greatly vary between #animal groups and cell types...

#science #biology #biologists

The final IOB 2025 cover celebrated this week is from
#Parasite Infections Influence #Immunological Responses But Not Reproductive Success of Male #Hellbender #Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)
K L Slack , et al

doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#science #biology #amphibians

For Throwback Thursday

one of our all time ICB highly cited:

Energy Allocation in #Mammalian #Reproduction Available for Purchase

GITTLEMAN , et al

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

#science #biology #scientist #mammals

This Thursday's IOB cover spotlight is on

The Diffusion Diaries: Diffusible Iodine-Based Contrast-Enhanced Computed #Tomography for #Vertebrate Natural History #Specimens

@jaimiagray.bsky.social Gray , et al

doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#morphology #science #biology #vertebrates

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Great to see this out in the world! Thanks for publishing with us Avery!

Bacteria accumulate quicker on shorter lived flowers, but abiotic factors affect flower aging and bacterial accumulation Abstract. Outcomes of ecological interactions often depend on the abundance and identity of the organisms involved. Flower-bacteria interactions can strong

Wonder how flower longevity affects bacterial populations? Excited to share how environ, 🥀longevity, and 🦠pop interact, now in Integrative & Comparative Biology! @sicb.bsky.social @sicbjournals.bsky.social by grad Rita Afagwu & undergrad Ciara Stewart from our lab!

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One of ICB's most read papers

(Free read)

#Insect Flight: State of the Field and Future Directions

Lisa A Treidel , Kevin D Deem ,Mary Salcedo, PhD , et al

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

#entomology #evolution #biology

IOB incredible 2025 covers continue with
A Brief Introductory Guide to Nanoindentation for Comparative and #Evolutionary #Biologists, with a Case Study of Bone Material Property Diversity across Artiodactyl #Skulls
D S Adams et al
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#fossils #science #biologists

Meet NCCU's lactation lab:
Chloe Josefson #PhD (ICB author & Assistant ed ) Nabilah, Sydney, Brenda, Ayanna & Candace
"The Stressors of #Lactation in Black Women: Why Our #Research Matters" & more
(video at the end of post)
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/n...

#science

IOB's notable covers of 2025 week continues with
The #Carnivoran Adaptive Landscape Reveals Trade-offs among Functional Traits in the Skull, Appendicular, and Axial #Skeleton
by
Law, @hlusko.bsky.social ,Tseng

doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#ecology #morphology #adaptation #science #biology

"I am a shark and fisheries scientists, author and educator. I am a marine biologist, an ecologist, a shark researcher, a female scientist. I am Colombian, I am Argentinian and I am American. A writer and an artist, I have my feet in the ground but my head in the clouds. I am a dreamer, an idealist and a surrealist. I am a conservationist, and an activist. I fight for the rights to learn and communicate science, for the rights to have clean air and water, for the rights to a healthy ocean and a healthy planet."

ICB/Minorities in Shark Sciences Monday!

Five Years of Minorities in Shark Sciences: Lessons Learned in #Education and Outreach, Professional Development and Training, and #Inclusive #Research

Camila Cáceres et al

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
drccaceres on Insta
& watch

youtu.be/OFEyIEdQ2SY?...

"Mechanical loading models are used to study adaptive skeletal mechanobiology mechanisms. However, most studies have used mammal models, leaving a knowledge gap regarding how these mechanisms differ among vertebrate groups. To address this gap, we evaluated the in vivo bone strain environment of the left tibia in green iguanas during locomotion, axial compressive loading, and with finite element analysis. Our study involved examining male green iguanas (n = 7) over a range of speeds (0.45–1.34 m/s) and axial load magnitudes (–25 to –100 N) to determine peak strains. Bone strains were measured using single-element strain gauges and rosette strain gauges, surgically attached to the tibial anterior, posterior, and medial surfaces..."

IOB has individual covers for each paper if the authors so choose.

This week, we are featuring some of our amazing covers from 2025.

We'll start with this one :

Tibial #Biomechanics and #Adaptive Response to Mechanical Stimuli in the Green #Iguana

T B Arlowe , et al
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

Cell and tissue trait diversity among (A–D) leaves and (E–G) flowers. (A) Average cross-sectional mesophyll porosity (θIAS; mm3 mm-3) for leaves, visualized by averaging across the depth of the microCT scan. Lighter colors indicate more cell material, and darker colors indicate more airspace. (B) 3D volume rendering of the intercellular airspace of leaves. Height (thickness) varies depending on the species. Numbers indicate the porosity (θIAS) of the tissue. (C) 3D volume rendering of one leaf palisade mesophyll cell from a leaf of each species. Numbers indicate the asphericity (⁠⁠) of the cell. (D) 3D volume rendering of one spongy mesophyll cell from a leaf of each species. Numbers indicate the asphericity (⁠⁠) of the cell. (E) 3D volume rendering of one spongy mesophyll cell from a flower of each species. Numbers indicate the asphericity (⁠⁠) of the cell. (F) 3D volume rendering of the intercellular airspace of flowers. Height (thickness) varies depending on the species. Numbers indicate the porosity (θIAS) of the tissue. (G) Average cross-sectional mesophyll porosity (θIAS; mm3 mm−3) for flowers, visualized by averaging across the depth of the microCT scan. Lighter colors indicate more cell material, and darker colors indicate more airspace. Note that in panels (A and G), the width and height are each 600 µm, and the tissue dimensions in panels (B and F) are 600 µm × 600 µm in the paradermal plane with variable height (thickness) depending on the sample. Cells displayed in panels (C–F) are visualized at different scales.

ICB's
Into the Spongy-Verse: Structural Differences between Leaf and #Flower Mesophyll
Jeroen D M Schreel et al
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

"As the site of almost all terrestrial carbon fixation, the #mesophyll tissue is critical to leaf function..."

#botany #plants #biologists #botanists

For all the #entomology appreciators out there
You might have read the paper
Classification of Odor-Derived Electroantennograms with Machine Learning
Joshua Swore, et al
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
Now bring home the merch! Profits go to SICB scholarships
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#insects

ICB's Thursday free read-
Into the Spongy-Verse: Structural Differences between Leaf and #Flower #Mesophyll
Jeroen D M Schreel, et al
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
read more about Jeroen's publications and work
discovery.fiu.edu/display/pers...

#microtomography #mesophyll #botany #heterotrophic

Meet more of IOB's co authors of
Classification of #Odor -Derived #Electroantennograms with Machine Learning
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
Marissa Dominguez
sites.uw.edu/wlaursen/peo...
Tom Daniel
formerly of Univ of Washington
www.wrfseattle.org/news/washing...

#insects #entomology #sensory

My book, REEFS OF TIME, is in the @sciam.bsky.social best-of books list! Hooray! @jenchristiansen.com calls it "a love letter to past, present and future coral reefs." 📚💙 And the list is full of intriguing books that I hope to read in 2026. Thanks, SciAm staffers! @princetonupress.bsky.social

ICB's journal booth at #SICB 2026 will have Henna being done by artists from Plush Portland. They have incredible art! & when there, get a great PLUSH originally designed sticker at the journal booth.
& read the ICB iss 1 paper that inspired issue 1's cover
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Meet IOB coauthors from the
riffelllab.org
who co-authored
Classification of Odor-Derived #Electroantennograms with Machine Learning O
Joshua Swore, Melanie Anderson, Marissa Dominguez, Tom Daniel, Jeff Riffell
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#insects #sensory #entomology #neurons #science

fig 1 Experimental set-up, data processing, and Pipeline. (A) Experimental set-up. An excised M. sexta antenna is suspended between electrodes and exposed to volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The local field response of the entire antenna is recorded. (B) Signal normalization. Antennae responses were calibrated with ylang-ylang; responses to VOCs were normalized to the maximum and minimum of the ylang-ylang response. This technique resulted in reduced variance, indicated by the narrower shaded region in the normalized response plot, across experiments for each VOC tested. (C) Workflow. Data were collected, normalized, and passed through quality control where waves containing irrelevant frequencies were removed. A genetic algorithm (GA) was used to tune the parameters of a butterworth filter for signal filtering. The filtered time-series data was used in the SVM while principal components analysis (PCA) was used to produce dimensionally reduced components for the RF classifier.

IOB
"We use antennae of the Manduca sexta #moth to record LFPs generated in response to Floral and #disease associated VOC’s..."
from

Classification of Odor-Derived #Electroantennograms with Machine Learning

Joshua Swore et al

doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#insects #entomology #olfaction

ICB's
Carly Anne York: Bravely following her curiosity- a #book review
by R.C. Hoover #PhD Candidate

"Carly presents the serious discoveries of silly #science in a witty and easy to understand way..."

integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/c...

#biology #nonfiction

ICB- M.I.S.S. Monday!
Meet co author Ingrid Hyrycena (Ingrid is also a 2025 (MCAF) Fellow🙌)
www.neaq.org/person/ingri...
of Issue 5's Minorities in Shark Science's work:

Overcoming Waves of Challenges: Experiences of #BIPOC #Shark #Scientists in the Global South

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

IOB's latest!
Classification of Odor-Derived #Electroantennograms with Machine Learning

Joshua Swore, Melanie Anderson, Marissa Dominguez, Tom Daniel, Jeff Riffell

doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#insects #olfactory #disease #science #biology #research

Maxwell Girard is a Masters Student at the University of Helsinki in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Programme. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology with honors from Hamilton College (Clinton, NY) in 2024 where he studied amphibian reproduction in the herpetology research lab. His research focused on identifying trade offs within the traits involved in sexual selection. He is very excited to present his results, along with his co-authors, in IOB.

IOB co-author Maxwell Girard is a Masters Student at the University of Helsinki. His research focused on identifying trade offs within the traits involved in sexual selection.
He's excited to present his results, along with his co-authors, in IOB:
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#biology #amphibians

meet ICB's Aude E. Caizergues
author on
Does #Urbanization Alter Purifying Selection? A Case #Study in the #Burrowing #Owl

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Aude is an #evolutionary #biologist whose current project aims to understand how urbanization affects populations
read more:
audecaizergues.github.io

Relationships between Pre- and Postcopulatory Sexually Selected Traits in Green Frogs (Lithobates clamitans) M O Girard, C J Clark, A F Kahrl Integrative Organismal Biology, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2025, obaf040, https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obaf040

IOB 's @arielkahrl.bsky.social is working on understanding sperm #evolution in #amphibians from the comparative level, by studying how #fertilization mode shapes sperm #morphology, to the cellular level by examining sperm-egg interactions using #transcriptomics and #proteomics. arielkahrl.weebly.com

IOB
"These results suggest that males must make complex investments in suites of sexual traits to maximize fitness in the face of energetic trade-offs..."

Relationships between Pre- & Postcopulatory Sexually Selected Traits in Green #Frogs
Girard et al

doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

ICB author and assistant ed, Yaamini Venkataraman, would like to share this opportunity:

We are searching for #instructors of #undergraduate introductory #biology or #evolution courses...

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

& do read Yaamini's co authored

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Another highlight of Max and Charlotte's project! 🐸

This is a great read!!