The cell junction-associated protein Amotl2a controls tissue size in the zebrafish lateral line primordium by limiting the activity of the Hippo effector Yap1 and the Wnt effector Lef1.
Ecdysone-mediated regulation of Relish expression and activation in the hematopoietic niche is essential for progenitor maintenance in the Drosophila Lymph gland.
Valeria Scagliotti, Maria Lillina Vignola ... Marika Charalambous
Pituitary gland size and stem cell number is modulated during early life in the mouse by the imprinted gene Dlk1, which acts in multiple developmental compartments in a dosage-sensitive manner.
Juliet R Girard, Lauren M Goins ... Utpal Banerjee
A combination of mRNA sequencing and genetic analysis reveals mechanisms that govern the development of distinct differentiated blood cell types from hematopoietic progenitors.
Marion Rosello, Juliette Vougny ... Filippo Del Bene
Base editors, with improved specificity and expanded PAM sequence recognition, can be used in zebrafish for the rapid and efficient introduction of single base pair mutations.
Self-reactive B cells downregulate the IgM but not the IgD B cell receptor, and this serves as a critical tolerance mechanism because IgD is less sensitive to bona fide endogenous antigens than IgM.
Dongjin R Lee, Christopher Rhodes ... Timothy J Petros
Single-cell sequencing combined with in situ hybridizations reveal dynamic patterns of differentially expressed genes throughout the ventricular and subventricular zone of the embryonic mouse brain, which likely play important roles in cell fate determination.
Julien Dubrulle, Benjamin M Jordan ... Alexander F Schier
A kinetic model of morphogen interpretation is more suitable than classic threshold or ratchet models to understand how a signal gradient generates different target gene expression patterns.
Zebrafish mutants and human endothelial cell experiments reveal that GIPC family endocytic adaptors bind to the Semaphorin receptor PLEXIND1, a critical regulator of vascular development, to negatively modulate its signaling.