Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

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    1. Developmental Biology

    Sox9 prevents retinal degeneration and is required for limbal stem cell differentiation in the adult mouse eye

    Alicia Hurtado, Víctor López-Soriano ... Francisco J Barrionuevo
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Developmental Biology

    The evolutionary modifications of a GoLoco motif in the AGS protein facilitate micromere formation in the sea urchin embryo

    Natsuko Emura, Florence DM Wavreil ... Mamiko Yajima
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Determining the effects of paternal obesity on sperm chromatin at histone H3 lysine 4 tri-methylation in relation to the placental transcriptome and cellular composition

    Anne-Sophie Pepin, Patrycja A Jazwiec ... Sarah Kimmins
    1. Developmental Biology

    The autophagy protein, ATG14 safeguards against unscheduled pyroptosis activation to enable embryo transport during early pregnancy

    Pooja Popli, Arin K Oestreich ... Ramakrishna Kommagani
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Modeling corticotroph deficiency with pituitary organoids supports the functional role of NFKB2 in human pituitary differentiation

    Thi Thom Mac, Teddy Fauquier ... Thierry Brue
    Pituitary organoids help identify NFKB2 as a new actor during pituitary development, and mutations of this gene as the cause for pituitary deficit observed in patients with DAVID syndrome.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Female-germline specific protein Sakura interacts with Otu and is crucial for germline stem cell renewal and differentiation and oogenesis

    Azali Azlan, Li Zhu, Ryuya Fukunaga
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    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, Nicholas DeGroff ... Andy J Fischer
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    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
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Developmental Biology

    CCDC113 stabilizes sperm axoneme and head-tail coupling apparatus to ensure male fertility

    Bingbing Wu, Chenghong Long ... Chao Liu
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    ARID1A governs the silencing of sex-linked transcription during male meiosis in the mouse

    Debashish U Menon, Prabuddha Chakraborty ... Terry Magnuson
    ARID1A is implicated in BAF-A-governed meiotic sex chromosome gene regulation and sex-linked chromatin dynamics in DNA repair.
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Highlights

    1. Developmental Biology

    Rethinking sensorimotor circuits

    Maarten F Zwart
    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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