Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Bruce suppresses autophagy-regulated caspase activity and wing tissue growth in Drosophila

    Natsuki Shinoda, Yutaro Hama ... Masayuki Miura
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    • Compelling
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    A Rare Nestin-Expressing Granule Cell Precursor Subpopulation Underlies SHH Medulloblastoma Formation

    Salsabiel El Nagar, Yinwen Liang ... Alexandra L Joyner
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    From Syllables to Words: EEG Evidence of Different Age Trajectories in Speech Tracking and Statistical Learning in Infants at High and Low Likelihood for Autism

    Michel Godel, Ana Fló ... Marie Schaer
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    A soft active matter models explains spiral epithelial cell migration on in-vivo corneas

    Kaja Kostanjevec, Rastko Sknepnek ... Silke Henkes
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    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Virtual reality reveals fine-scale alterations in behaviour following loss of the ADHD-linked gene adgrl3.1 in zebrafish

    Phoebe Reynolds, Emily Read ... Robert Hindges
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Multiple Molecular Pathways to Longevity: Opposing Gene Expression Programs Define Distinct Aging Strategies

    Zenith D Rudich, Jiaxi Guan ... Jeremy M Van Raamsdonk
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Nucleation-dependent propagation of Polycomb modifications emerges during the Drosophila maternal to zygotic transition

    Natalie Gonzaga-Saavedra, Eleanor A Degen ... Shelby A Blythe
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    • Fundamental
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

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

    Ying Pang, Bastian Klußmann-Fricke ... Gregor Bucher
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    • Valuable
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Organ Development: Following your heart as it takes shape

    Alexandra Trouilloud, Nicole C Dubois
    A novel computational pipeline reveals patterns of tissue movement and growth in early heart formation and advances virtual modeling of development.
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Quantitative multi-scale morphodynamic analysis reveals ratchet-like collective DVE migration and epiblast retrograde cell flow during anterior patterning in the mouse embryo

    Matthew J Stower, Felix Y Zhou ... Shankar Srinivas
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    • Fundamental
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology
    Model of the heart. Image credit: Jesse Orrico (CC0)

    Following your heart as it takes shape

    Alexandra Trouilloud, Nicole C Dubois
    1. Developmental Biology

    Oocyte Development: The discovery of the mammalian fusome

    Michael Buszczak, Anirban Dasgupta
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Written out of history

    Lisa M Thomann, Julie Batut

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