Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Sulfation affects apical extracellular matrix organization during development of the Drosophila embryonic salivary gland tube

    J Luke Woodward, Jeffrey Matthew ... SeYeon Chung
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    • Convincing
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Biophysical basis for brain folding and misfolding patterns in ferrets and humans

    Gary PT Choi, Chunzi Liu ... L Mahadevan
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Spatial and longitudinal tracking of enhancer-AAV vectors that target transgene expression to injured mouse myocardium

    David W Wolfson, Joshua A Hull ... Kenneth D Poss
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    • Fundamental
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Alteration of long- and short-term hematopoietic stem cell ratio causes myeloid-biased hematopoiesis

    Katsuyuki Nishi, Taro Sakamaki ... Masanori Miyanishi
    Self-renewal heterogeneity causes myeloid skewing.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Loss of dihydroceramide desaturase drives neurodegeneration by disrupting endoplasmic reticulum and lipid droplet homeostasis in glial cells

    Yuqing Zhu, Kevin Cho ... James B Skeath
    Disruption of glial homeostasis and function upon abrogation of ceramide biogenesis triggers neuronal degeneration.
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Trpv4 mediates temperature induced sex change in ricefield eel

    Zhi Yang, Tingting Luo ... Yuhua Sun
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Spectraplakin cooperates with noncentrosomal microtubule regulators to orient dendritic microtubules in Drosophila

    Matthew Davies, Neeraja Sanal ... Sebastian Rumpf
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Developmental Biology

    The gut contractile organoid for studying the gut motility regulated by coordinating signals between interstitial cells of Cajal and smooth muscles

    Rei Yagasaki, Ryo Nakamura ... Yoshiko Takahashi
    Functional organoids prepared from chicken embryonic gut consisting of pacemaker cells and smooth muscles undergo periodic contractions, offering a useful tool to understand rhythm control in multicellular systems.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Cross-species insemination reveals mouse sperm ability to enter and cross the fish micropyle

    Suma Garibova, Eva Stickler ... Matteo A Avella
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Migrating mesoderm cells self-organize into a dynamic meshwork structure during chick gastrulation

    Yukiko Nakaya, Mitsusuke Tarama ... Tatsuo Shibata
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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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