Developmental Biology

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1. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Developmental Biology

   Mitochondrial fusion is required for spermatogonial differentiation and meiosis

   Grigor Varuzhanyan et al.

   Mitochondrial fusion enables a metabolic transition during spermatogenesis.
2. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Extraocular, rod-like photoreceptors in a flatworm express xenopsin photopigment

   Kate A Rawlinson et al.

   A new opsin receptor is light-sensitive and expressed in a unique type of photoreceptor in a flatworm that encloses over 400 sensory cilia within its cell membrane.
3. 1. Developmental Biology

   ZP4 confers structural properties to the zona pellucida essential for embryo development

   Ismael Lamas-Toranzo et al.

   Zona pellucida requires ZP4 protein to efficiently protect the developing embryo during in vivo pre-implantation development.
4. 1. Developmental Biology

   Jagged and Delta ligands control distinct events during airway progenitor cell differentiation

   Maria R Stupnikov et al.
5. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   An ancestral apical brain region contributes to the central complex under the control of foxQ2 in the beetle Tribolium

   Bicheng He et al.
6. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Human Biology and Medicine

   Targeting the vascular-specific phosphatase PTPRB protects against retinal ganglion cell loss in a pre-clinical model of glaucoma

   Benjamin R Thomson et al.
7. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Cytoplasmic retention and degradation of a mitotic inducer enable plant infection by a pathogenic fungus

   Paola Bardetti et al.
8. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Developmental Biology

   Matrix metalloproteinase 1 modulates invasive behavior of tracheal branches during entry into Drosophila flight muscles

   Julia Sauerwald et al.

   Tracheal-derived matrix metalloproteinase 1 activity sustains tracheal branch invasion into myotubes by modulating ECM properties and dynamic behavior of sprouting tip cells.
9. 1. Developmental Biology

   Electron transport chain biogenesis activated by a JNK-insulin-Myc relay primes mitochondrial inheritance in Drosophila

   Zong-Heng Wang et al.
10. 1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolutionary loss of foot muscle during development with characteristics of atrophy and no evidence of cell death

    Mai P Tran et al.