Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

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    1. Developmental Biology

    A-to-I RNA editing of CYP18A1 mediates transgenerational wing dimorphism in aphids

    Bin Zhu, Rui Wei ... Pei Liang
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Oviductin sets the species-specificity of the mammalian zona pellucida

    Daniel de la Fuente, Maria Maroto ... Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Fat body-derived cytokine Upd2 controls disciplined migration of tracheal stem cells in Drosophila

    Pengzhen Dong, Yue Li ... Hai Huang
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    GATA6 regulates WNT and BMP programs to pattern precardiac mesoderm during the earliest stages of human cardiogenesis

    Joseph A Bisson, Miriam Gordillo ... Todd Evans
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    Dissecting infant leukemia developmental origins with a hemogenic gastruloid model

    Denise Ragusa, Chun-Wai Suen ... Cristina Pina
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Single-cell sequencing provides clues about the developmental genetic basis of evolutionary adaptations in syngnathid fishes

    Hope M Healey, Hayden B Penn ... William A Cresko
    The production of a single-cell atlas for developing syngnathid fish permits study of their unique traits.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Volumetric trans-scale imaging of massive quantity of heterogeneous cell populations in centimeter-wide tissue and embryo

    Taro Ichimura, Taishi Kakizuka ... Takeharu Nagai
    Volumetric trans-scale imaging with a subcellular resolution across a wide field-of-view of 1.5 × 1.0 cm2 has been realized, facilitating the analysis of cellular dynamics during embryogenesis and brain function.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Endosomal-lysosomal organellar assembly (ELYSA) structures coordinate lysosomal degradation systems through mammalian oocyte-to-embryo transition

    Yuhkoh Satouh, Takaki Tatebe ... Ken Sato
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    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
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling regulates the ability of Müller glia to become neurogenic, proliferating progenitor-like cells

    Olivia Taylor, Nick DeGroff ... Andy J Fischer
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Highlights

    1. Developmental Biology

    Patterning the neural plate

    Margaret Hines, Elias Oxman ... Irene Zohn
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    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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