Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    A developmentally regulated long-range enhancer-promoter contact mediates human neural development

    Devin Bready, Shuai Wang ... Dimitris G Placantonakis
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    • Incomplete
    1. Developmental Biology

    Chromatin priming and Hunchback recruitment integrate spatial and temporal cues in Drosophila neuroblasts

    Ayanthi Bhattacharya, Hemalatha Rao, Sonia Q Sen
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    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology

    Gcn5 and mTORC1 mediated regulation of autophagy controls Drosophila blood cell homeostasis

    Arjun Aji Reeja, Mincy Kunjumon ... Rohan Jayant Khadilkar
    Gcn5 and mTORC1 cooperatively regulate autophagy to integrate systemic nutritional cues and sustain blood cell homeostasis in Drosophila.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    A comparative single-cell transcriptomic atlas for diverse populations of vertebrate hair cells

    Mahashweta Basu, Nesrine Benkafadar ... Lisa V Goodrich
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Developmental Biology

    Endocardial TIE1 synergizes with TIE2 to regulate the atrial internal muscular network assembly

    Kai Ding, Beibei Xu ... Yulong He
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    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    foxQ2 marks fast-acting interneurons including dopaminergic neurons of mushroom bodies and central complex in the beetle Tribolium castaneum

    Ying Pang, Bastian Klußmann-Fricke ... Gregor Bucher
    In insects, foxQ2 is part of the genetic code that specifies neurons contributing to the higher-order brain centers, including dopaminergic and other fast-acting neurons.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Light-entrained chromatin priming poises rapid metamorphosis in a marine sponge

    Huifang Yuan, Oceane Blard ... Sandie M Degnan
    Planetary and habitat-specific environmental cues combine to induce rapid and extensive changes in chromatin state and gene expression necessary for larval settlement and metamorphosis in the marine sponge Amphimedon queenslandica.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Integration of ATAC- and RNA-sequencing identifies chromatin and transcriptomic signatures in classical and non-classical zebrafish osteoblasts and indicates mechanisms of entpd5a regulation

    Kleio Petratou, Martin Stehling ... Stefan Schulte-Merker
    Computational analyses of large datasets and molecular dissection reveal the promoter organisation of the osteoblast marker entpd5a and suggest novel regulators of osteogenesis.
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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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    Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Germany
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