Publications
EON Research Members’ Publication List
- Tony Z. Jia, Kuhan Chandru, Yayoi Hongo, Rehana Afrin, Tomohiro Usui, Kunihiro Myojo, and H. James Cleaves II (2019). Membraneless polyester microdroplets as primordial compartments at the origins of life Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 116(32), 15830-15835. July 2019 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902336116
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- Marjorie A. Chan, Nancy W. Hinman, Sally L. Potter-McIntyre, Keith E. Schubert, Richard J. Gillams, Stanley M. Awramik, Penelope J. Boston, Dina M. Bower, David J. Des Marais, Jack D. Farmer, Tony Z. Jia, Penelope L. King, Robert M. Hazen, Richard J. Léveillé, Dominic Papineau, Kaitlin R. Rempfert, Mónica Sánchez-Román, John R. Spear, Gordon Southam, Jennifer C. Stern, and Henderson James Cleaves, II (2019). Deciphering Biosignatures in Planetary Contexts Astrobiology, 10.1089/ast.2018.1903. July 2019 https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2018.1903
- Richard J. Gillams and Tony Z. Jia (2018). Mineral Surface-Templated Self-Assembling Systems: Case Studies from Nanoscience and Surface Science towards Origins of Life Research. Life, 8(2), 10. May 2018 http://doi.org/10.3390/
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- Fujishima, K., Wang, K. M., Palmer, J. A., Abe, N., Nakahigashi, K., Endy, D., & Rothschild, L. J. (2018). Reconstruction of cysteine biosynthesis using engineered cysteine-free enzymes. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 1776. Jan. 2017 http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19920-y
- C. Giri. Primitive Carbon: Before Earth and much before any life on it. In (R. Gordon & A. Sharov) Habitability of the Universe before Earth. Academic Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dec.2017. https://www.elsevier.com/books/habitability-of-the-universe-before-earth/gordon/978-0-12-811940-2
- Laneuville, M, Kameya, M & Cleaves HJ. Earth Without Life: A Systems Model of a Global Abiotic Nitrogen Cycle. Astrobiology (In Press)
- Giovannelli D and Vetriani C. 2017. “From extreme environments to human pathogens: an evolutionary journey”. The Biochemist, vol. 39:6. Dec 2017. http://www.biochemist.org/bio/03906/0004/039060004.pdf
- Nakagawa, M., K., Yamada, S., Toyoda, K., Kita, Y., Igarashi, S., Komatsu, K., Yamada, and Yoshida, N: Characterization of hydrocarbons in aerosols and investigation of biogenic sources as a carrier of radiocesium isotopes, Geochemical Journal (accepted Dec. 2). https://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/GJ/papersinpress/2018/2.0512.html
- Meringer, M & Cleaves, HJ. Computational Exploration of the Chemical Structure Space of Possible Reverse Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Constituents. Scientific Reports, 7. Dec. 2017 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17345-7
- Di Carlo M, Giovannelli D, D Fattorini, N Le Bris, C Vetriani, F Regoli. 2017. Trace elements and arsenic speciation in tissues of tube dwelling polychaetes from hydrothermal vents ecosystem: a possible role as antipredatory strategy? Marine Environmental Research, v. 132, 1-13. Dec. 2017. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141113617302659?via%3Dihub
- Kitadai N., Kameya M. and Fujishima K. Origin of the Reductive Tricarboxylic Acid (rTCA) Cycle-Type CO2 Fixation: A Perspective. Life, 7(4), 39. Dec. 2017. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745552/
- N Guttenberg, N Virgo, K Chandru, C Scharf, I Mamajanov (2017) Bulk measurements of messy chemistries are needed for a theory of the origins of life. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 375 (2109), 20160347. Nov. 2017. http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/375/2109/20160347
- Meringer, M & Cleaves, HJ. Exploring Astrobiology Using in silico Molecular Structure Generation. Phil Trans Roy Soc A. Nov. 2017 http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roypta/375/2109/20160344.full.pdf
- Adam, Z, Zubarev, D, Aono, M & Cleaves, HJ. Subsumed Complexity: abiogenesis as a by-product of complex energy transduction. Phil Trans Roy Soc A. Nov. 2017. http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/375/2109/20160348
- N Virgo, C Fernando, E Agmon (2017) Lineage selection leads to evolvability at large population sizes. The 14th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2017) 14, 420-427. Sept. 2017 http://cognet.mit.edu/pdfviewer/journal/ecal_a_070
- Burrell, J., Dymond, M. K., Gillams, R. J., Parker, D., Langley, G. J., Labrador, A., Nylander, T. and Attard, G. S. Using curvature power to map the domain of inverse micellar cubic phases: The case of aliphatic aldehydes in DOPE. Langmuir 33(44), 12804 (ACS Editors’ Choice). Oct. 2017. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02998
- Giovannelli D, Black BA, Cox AD and Sheik CS (2017) Editorial: Deep Carbon in Earth: Early Career Scientist Contributions to the Deep Carbon Observatory. Frontiers in Earth Science, 5:89. doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00089.
- https://www.frontiersin.org/books/Deep_Carbon_in_Earth_Early_Career_Scientist_Contributions_to_the_Deep_Carbon_Observatory/1392
- Shu D*, Conway Morris S*, Han J, Hoyal Cuthill JF*, Zhang Z, Cheng M and Huang H (2017) Multi- jawed chaetognaths from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (Cambrian, Series 2, Stage 3) of Yunnan, China. Palaeontology. Sept. 2017. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12325. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.12325/full
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- Supriya Krishnamurthy and Eric Smith. Solving moment hierarchies for chemical reaction networks. J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 50:425002. Sept. 2017. https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01364
- Bartlett, S. J. Delving Deeper into Homeostatic Dynamics of Reaction Diffusion Systems with a General Fluid Dynamics and Artificial Chemistry Model. Proceedings of ECAL 2017: the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life, v. 15, p. 52-59. Sept. 2017. http://cognet.mit.edu/proceed/10.7551/ecal_a_013
- Moore E, Jelen B, Giovannelli D, Raanan H and Falkowski P. Metal Availability and the Expanding Redox Network of Microbial Metabolism in the Archean Eon. Nature Geoscience, 10, 629–636. Aug. 2017. doi: 10.1038/ngeo3006 https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo3006
- Hoyal Cuthill JF* and Conway Morris S (2017) Nutrient-dependent growth enabled the Ediacaran transition to large body size. Nature Ecology and Evolution. Aug. 2017. DOI: 1:1201. 10.1038/s41559-017-0222-7. https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41559-017-0222-7/MediaObjects/41559_2017_222_MOESM1_ESM.pdf
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- Bartlett, S. J. A Non-Isothermal Chemical Lattice Boltzmann Model Incorporating Thermal Reaction Kinetics and Enthalpy Changes. Computation, 5(3). Aug. 7, 2017 http://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/5/3/37
- Betul Kacar, Lionel Guy, Eric Smith, and John. A. Baross. Paleophenotype reconstruction of carbon fixation proteins as a window into historic biological states. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A. July 2017. https://doi.org/10.1101/164038.
- Eric Smith and Supriya Krishnamurthy. Flows, scaling, and the control of moment hierarchies for stochastic chemical reaction networks. Phys. Rev. E. June 2017. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.08386.pdf
- N Guttenberg, N Virgo, C Butch, N Packard. Selection first path to the origin of life. arXiv preprint. June 2017. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05831
- Baldrighi E, Manini E, Giovannelli D, D’Errico G and Lavaleye M. 2017. Exploring the relationship between macrofaunal biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the deep sea. Frontiers in Marine Science. 4. June 2017. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00198 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00198/full
- Price RE and Giovannelli D. 2017. A Review of the Geochemistry and Microbiology of Marine Shallow-water Hydrothermal Vents. Invited Article, Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548- 9.09523-3. May 2017. http://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/publication/a-review-of-the-geochemistry-and-microbiology-of-marine-shallow-water-hydrothermal-vents/
- Giovannelli D*, SM Sievert, M Hügler, S Markert, D Becher, T Schweder and C Vetriani*. 2017. Insight into the evolution of microbial metabolism from the deep-branching bacterium, Thermovibrio ammonificans. eLife 6: e18990 doi: 10.7554/eLife.18990 *Co-corresponding authors. April 2017. https://elifesciences.org/articles/18990
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- Giovannelli D, A Cox, K Pratt and C Sheik. 2017. Associated Editors of a Frontiers in Earth Science Research Topic entitled “Deep Carbon in Earth: Early Career Scientist Contributions to the Deep Carbon Observatory”. https://www.frontiersin.org/books/Deep_Carbon_in_Earth_Early_Career_Scientist_Contributions_to_the_Deep_Carbon_Observatory/1392
- Keppel E, Minicante SA, Bonomo S, Capotondi L, Ceregato A, Fontaneto D, Froglia C, Petrocelli A, Taviani M, Abbiati M, Amori G, Angeletti L, Alessandra A, Austoni M, Badalamenti F, Baldrighi E, Belmonte M, Bergami C, Bernardi Aubry F, Boggero A, Boero F, Bolognini L, Borsetti AM, Camatti E, Camedda A, Caroppo C, Cecere E, Chiari M, Colangelo P, Como S, Coppa S, Di Lorenzo T, de Lucia GA, Domenichetti F, Donnici S, Eckert EM, Luciana F, Finotto S, Ghigliotti L, Giacobbe MG, Giovannelli D, Grati F, Guarneri I, La Cono V, Loru L, Luna GM, Magni P, Manca M, Marchetto A, Martinez A, Massi D, Messana G, Mirto S, Panfili M, Pansera M, Pantaleoni RA, Pipitone C, Piscia R, Prato E, Punzo E, Riccardi N, Rubino F, Salvalaggio V, Santelli A, Serra G, Sigovini M, Spagnolo A, Strafella P, Tagliapietra D, Taiti S, Vasapollo C, Vacchi M, Verdinelli M, Volta P, Yakimov M. 2017. Taxonomy work at CNR. CNR technical report, pp. 1-103. April 2017. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.569874
- Gillams, R. J., Lorenz, C. D. and McLain, S. E. Hydration of cocaine in different environments. Chemical Physics Letters 676, 58-64. March 2017. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315320962_On_the_hydration_and_conformation_of_cocaine_in_solution
- Krüger H, Goesmann F, Giri C, Wright I, Morse A, Bredehöft JH, Ulamec S, Cozzoni B, Ehrenfreund P, Gautier T, McKenna-Lawlor S, Raulin F, Steininger H, Szopa C. Decay of COSAC and PTOLEMY mass spectra at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Astronomy and Astrophysics, Feb. 2017.https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.00192
- Shu Zhang, Nancy Merino, Ning Wang, Ting Ruan, Xiaoxia Lu. Impact of 6:2 fluorotelomer alcohol aerobic biotransformation on a sediment microbial community. Science of the Total Environment, vol. 575; Jan. 2017; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27756549
- Ismael Ledesma-Mateos, & H. James Cleaves II. Alfonso Luis Herrera and the Beginnings of Evolutionism and Studies in the Origin of Life in Mexico. Journal of Molecular Evolution, Dec. 2016. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-016-9771-7
- Stuart Bartlett, & Nathaniel Virgo. Maximum Entropy Production Is Not a Steady State Attractor for 2D Fluid Convection. Entropy 2016, 18(12). http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/18/12/431
- Toshitaka Matsubara, Kosuke Fujishima, Chad W. Saltikov, Satoshi Nakamura, and Lynn Rothschild. Earth analogues for past and future life on Mars: isolation of perchlorate resistant halophiles from Big Soda Lake. International Journal of Astrobiology, Nov. 28, 2016. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/div-classtitleearth-analogues-for-past-and-future-life-on-mars-isolation-of-perchlorate-resistant-halophiles-from-big-soda-lakediv/F05005A274DC403138403A122AE95273
- Fiaz S. Mohammed, Ke Chen, Mike Mojica, Mark Conley, Jonathan W. Napoline, Christopher Butch, Pamela Pollet, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Charles L. Liotta. A Plausible Prebiotic Origin of Glyoxylate: Nonenzymatic Transamination Reactions of Glycine with Formaldehyde. Synlett, Vol. 28, No. 01. https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0036-1588657
- Ivan Laucio Paulino-Lima, Kosume Fujishima, Jesica Urbina Navarrete, Douglas Galante, Fabio Rodrigues, Armando Azua-Bustos, Lynn Justine Rothschild. Extremely high UV-C radiation resistant microorganisms from desert environments with different manganese concentrations. Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, B: Biology, Oct. 16, 2016. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27614243
- Martin Shubik and Eric Smith. (2016). The Guidance of an Enterprise Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/guidance-enterprise-economy
- Eric T. Parker, H. James Cleaves II, Jeffrey L. Bada, and Facundo M. Fernandez. Quantitation of α-hydroxy acids in complex prebiotic mixtures via liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Aug. 2016. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rcm.7684/abstract
- Hyejin Youn, Logan Sutton, Eric Smith, Christopher Moore, Jon F. Wilkins, Iam Maddieson, William Croft, and Tanmoy Bhattacharya. On the universal structure of the human lexial semantics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 113, no. 7, 1766-1771. http://www.pnas.org/content/113/7/1766.abstract
- Shunichi Kamata, Jun Kimura, Koji Matsumoto, Francis Nimmo, Kiyoshi Kuramoto, & Noriyuki Namiki. Tidal deformation of Ganymede: Sensitivity of Love numbers on the interior structure. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, July 28, 2016. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016JE005071/full
- Chaitanya Giri, Christopher P. McKay, Fred Goesmann, & Nadine Schafer. Carbonization in Titan Tholins: Implications for low albedo on surfaces of Centaurs and Trans-Neptunian Objects. International Journal of Astrobiology, July, 2016. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/div-classtitlecarbonization-in-titan-tholins-implication-for-low-albedo-on-surfaces-of-centaurs-and-trans-neptunian-objectsdiv/F02F3C4F9E648884469AA5311D3B0B02
- Tiffany S. Louie, Donato Giovannelli, Nathan Yee, Priya Narasingarao, Walentin Starovoytov, Markus Goker, Hans-Peter Klenk, Elke Lang, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Tanja Woyke, Elisabeth Bini, and Max M. Haggblom. High-quality draft genome sequence of Sedimenticola selenatireducens strain AK4OH1T, a gammaproteobacterium isolated from estuarine. Standards in Genomic Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 66. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5052931/
- Nathaniel Virgo. Thesholds in Messy Chemistry. Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2016, July 1, 2016. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/alife16/ch095.html
- Tim Taylor, Mark Bedau, Alastair Channon, David Ackley, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Guillaume Beslon, Emily Dolson, Tom Froese, Simon Hickinbotham, Takashi Ikegami, Barry McMullin, Norman Packard, Steen Rasmussen, Nathaniel Virgo, Eran Agmon, Edward Clark, Simon McGregor, Charles Ofria, Glen Ropella, Lee Spector, Kenneth O. Stanley, Adan Stanton, Christopher Timperley, Anya Vostinar, & Michael Wiser. Open-Ended Evolution: Perspectives from the OEE Workshop in York. Artificial Life, Vol. 22, No. 3. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ARTL_a_00210#.WL9-MjaSDdl
- Stuart Bartlett, & Seth Bullock. Precarious Existence: Thermal Homeostasis of Simple Dissipative Structures. Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2016, July 1, 2016. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/alife16/ch097.html
- Jakob L. Anderson, Christopher Flamm, Daniel Merkle, & Peter F. Stadler. A Software Package for Chemically Inspired Graph Transformation. Graph Transformation, p.73-88, July 1, 2016. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-40530-8_5
- Caleb Scharf, & Leroy Cronin. Quantifying the origins of life on a planetary scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (29). http://www.pnas.org/content/113/29/8127.abstract
- A.J.Genot, A.Baccouche, R. Sieskind, N. Aubert-Kato, N.Bredeche, J.F. Bartolo, V.Taly, T. Fujii, & Y. Rondelez. High-resolution mapping of bifurcations in nonlinear biochemical circuits. Nature Chemistry, June 20, 2016. http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v8/n8/full/nchem.2544.html
- Donato Giovannelli, Guiseppe d’Enrrico, Federica Florentino, Daniele Fattorini, Francesco Regoli, Lorenzo Angeletti, Tatjana Bakran-Petricioli, Costantino Vetriani, Mustafa Yucel, Marco Taviani, & Elena Manini. Diversity and Distribution of Prokaryotes within a Shallow-Water Pockmark Field. Frontiers in Microbiology, June 17, 2016. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4911944/
- Andrew Romero-Wolf, Dustin M. Schroeder, Paul Ries, Bruce G. Bills, Charles Naudet, Bryan R. Scott, Robert Treuhaft, & Steve Vance. Prospects of Passive Radio Detection of a Subsurface Ocean on Europa with a Lander. arXiv:1602.06016 [astro-ph.EP], June 15, 2016. https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.06016
- Benjamin I Jelen, Donato Giovannelli, & Paul G. Falkowski. The Role of Microbial Electron Transfer in the Coevolution of the Biosphere and Geosphere. Annual Review of Microbiology, June 1, 2016. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-micro-102215-095521
- Jennifer F. Hoyal Cuthill, Kim B. Sewell, Lester R.G. Cannon, Michael A Charleston, Susan Lawler, D. Timothy J. Littlewood, Peter D. Olson, & David Blair. Australian spiny mountain crayfish and their temnocephalan ectosymbionts: an ancient association on the edge of coextinction? Proceedings of the Royal Society B, May 25, 2016. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/283/1831/20160585
- S.D.Vance, K.P. Hand, & R.T. Pappalardo. Geophysical controls of chemical disequilibria in Europa. Geophysical Research Letters, May 24, 2016. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL068547/abstract
- Donato Giovannelli, Matthew Chung, Justin Stanley, Valentin Starovoytov, Nadine Le Bris, and Costantino Vetriani. Sulfurovum riftiae sp. nov., a mesophilic, thiosulfate-oxidizing, nitrate-reducing chemolithoautotrophic Epsilonproteobacterium isolated from the tube of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent polychaete, Riftia pachyptila. International Journal of Systematic Evolutionary Biology, April 26, 2016. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27116914
- Alberto G. Fairen, James M. Dohm, J. Alexis P., Esther R. Uceda, Jeffrey Kargel, Richard Soare, H. James Cleaves, Dorothy Oehler, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Elhoucine Essefi, Maria E. Banks, Goro Komatsu, Wolfgang Fink, Stuart Robbins, Jianguo Yan, Hideaki Miyamoto, Shigenori Maruyama, and Victor R. Baker. The Argyre Region as a Prime Target for in situ Astrobiology Exploration of Mars. Astrobiology, Feb. 2016. http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2015.1396
- Jun Wang, Peter V. Bonnesen, E. Rangel, E. Vallejo, Ariadna Sanchez-Castillo, H. James Cleaves II, Arthur P. Baddorf, Bobby G. Sumpter, Minghu Pan, Petro Maksymovych & Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera. Supramolecular polymerization of a prebiotic nucleoside provides insights into the creation of sequence-controlled polymers. Scientific Reports, Jan. 4, 2016. http://www.nature.com/articles/srep18891
- Nathaniel Virgo, Takashi Ikegami, Simon McGregor. Complex Autocatalysis in Simple Chemistries. Artificial Life, 22(2). http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ARTL_a_00195
- Caleb Scharf, Nathaniel Virgo, H. James Cleaves, II, Masashi Aono, Nathanael Aubert-Kato, Arsev Aydinoglu, Ana Barahona, Laura M. Barge, Steven A. Benner, Martin Biehl, Ramon Brasser, Christopher J. Butch, Kuhan Chandru, Leroy Cronin, Sebastian Danielache, Jakob Fischer, John Hernlund, Piet Hut, Takashi Ikegami, Jun Kimura, Kensei Kobayashi, Carlos Mariscal, Shawn McGlynn, Brice Menard, Norman Packard, Robert Pascal, Juli Pereto, Sudha Rajamani, Lana Sinapayen, Eric Smith, Christopher Switzer, Ken Takai, Feng Tian, Yuichiro Ueno, Mary Voytek, Olaf Witkowski, and Hikaru Yabuta. A Strategy for Origins of Life Research. Astrobiology, Vol. 28, No. 12. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4683543/
- Herve Cottin, Julia Michelle Kotler, Kristin Bartik, H. James Cleaves II, Charles S. Cockell, Jean-Pierre P. de Vera, Pascale Ehrenfreund, Stefan Leuko, Inge Loes Ten Kate, Zita Martins, Robert Pascal, Richard Quinn, Petra Rettberg, & Frances Westall. Astrobiology and the Possibility of Life on Earth and Elsewhere… Space Science Reviews, Sept. 2015. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-015-0196-1
- H. James Cleaves II, Markus Meringer, & Jay Goodwin. 227 Views of RNA: Is RNA Unique in Its Chemical Isomer Space? Astrobiology, 15(7). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26200431