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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Early exercise disrupts a pro-repair extracellular matrix program during zebrafish fin regeneration

    Victor M Lewis, Rafael A Fernandez ... Kryn Stankunas
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Solid
    • Incomplete
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    HEB collaborates with TCR signaling to upregulate Id3 and enable γδT17 cell maturation in the fetal thymus

    Johanna S Selvaratnam, Juliana Dutra Barbosa da Rocha ... Michele K Anderson
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
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    1. Developmental Biology

    SLC35G3 is a UDP-N-acetylglucosamine transporter for sperm glycoprotein formation and underpins male fertility in mice

    Daisuke Mashiko, Shingo Tonai ... Masahito Ikawa
    SLC35G3-mediated UDP-GlcNAc transport is essential for proper sperm glycoprotein formation and male fertility.
    1. Developmental Biology

    A tissue boundary orchestrates the segregation of inner ear sensory organs

    Ziqi Chen, Magdalena Żak ... Nicolas Daudet
    A boundary between the sensory and nonsensory domains contains cells that undergo a series of morphological changes and form basal constriction to separate the segregating inner ear sensory organs.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Cell cycle-dependent cues regulate temporal patterning of the Drosophila central brain neural stem cells

    Gonzalo N Morales Chaya, Mubarak Hussain Syed
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    HoxB-derived hoxba and hoxbb clusters are essential for the anterior-posterior positioning of zebrafish pectoral fins

    Morimichi Kikuchi, Renka Fujii ... Akinori Kawamura
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Developmental Biology

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

    Alicia Hurtado, Victor López-Soriano ... Francisco Javier Barrionuevo
    The Sox9 gene is necessary for maintaining vision in the mouse adult eye, acting as an essential factor for retinal and corneal function.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    MorphoNet 2.0: An innovative approach for qualitative assessment and segmentation curation of large-scale 3D time-lapse imaging datasets

    Benjamin Gallean, Tao Laurent ... Emmanuel Faure
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Compelling
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Developmental, regenerative, and behavioral dynamics in acoel reproduction

    Vikram Chandra, Samantha E Tseng ... Mansi Srivastava
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Glucose-stimulated KIF5B-driven microtubule sliding organizes microtubule networks in mouse pancreatic β cells

    Kai M Bracey, Margret A Fye ... Irina Kaverina
    Sub-membrane microtubule array, known to prevent excessive glucose-stimulated insulin secretion, depends on kinesin-1 KIF5B, which moves microtubules to both generate and remodel this array, potentially regulating the dosage of secretion.
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    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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