Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

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    1. Developmental Biology

    ANKRD5: a key component of the axoneme required for sperm motility and male fertility

    Shuntai Yu, Guoliang Yin ... Fengchao Wang
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Single-cell RNA sequencing of the holothurian regenerating intestine reveals the pluripotency of the coelomic epithelium

    Joshua G Medina-Feliciano, Griselle Valentín-Tirado ... José E García-Arrarás
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Afadin Sorts Different Retinal Neuron Types into Accurate Cellular Layers

    Matthew R Lum, Sachin H Patel ... Xin Duan
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Stochastic cell-intrinsic stem cell decisions control colony growth in planarians

    Tamar Frankovits, Prakash Varkey Cherian ... Omri Wurtzel
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Shc1 cooperates with Frs2 and Shp2 to recruit Grb2 in FGF-induced lens development

    Qian Wang, Hongge Li ... Xin Zhang
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    PRDM16 functions as a co-repressor in the BMP pathway to suppress neural stem cell proliferation

    Li He, Jiayu Wen, Qi Dai
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology

    Combined forces of hydrostatic pressure and actin polymerization drive endothelial tip cell migration and sprouting angiogenesis

    Igor Kondrychyn, Liqun He ... Li-Kun Phng
    Investigation of Aquaporin water channels unveils water inflow and build-up of hydrostatic pressure in endothelial tip cells as a novel mechanism of endothelial cell migration and blood vessel formation.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Vascular mural cells protect the adult brain from haemorrhage but do not control the blood-brain barrier in developing zebrafish

    Oguzhan F Baltaci, Andrea Usseglio Gaudi ... Benjamin M Hogan
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    SMARCAD1 and TOPBP1 contribute to heterochromatin maintenance at the transition from the 2C-like to the pluripotent state

    Ruben Sebastian-Perez, Shoma Nakagawa ... Maria Pia Cosma
    The chromatin-bound proteome of embryonic stem cells transitioning to 2C-like cells uncovers chromatin regulators involved in heterochromatin formation.
    1. Developmental Biology

    The Drosophila EGF domain protein Uninflatable sets the switch between wrapping glia growth and axon wrapping instructed by Notch

    Marie Baldenius, Steffen Kautzmann ... Christian Klämbt
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    • Important
    • Convincing
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    1. Developmental Biology

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    Wei Yan
    1. Developmental Biology
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    Natural History of Model Organisms: E. coqui

    Sarah E Westrick, Mara Laslo, Eva K Fischer
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Imaging methods are vastly underreported

    Guillermo Marqués, Thomas Pengo, Mark A Sanders

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