Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

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    1. Developmental Biology

    Lung Development: Exploring a complex constellation of signaling pathways

    Nathaniel C Nelson, Matthias C Kugler
    Cells called alveolar myofibroblasts, which have a central role in the development of the lung after birth, receive an orchestrated input from a range of different signaling pathways.
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Impaired myofibroblast proliferation is a central feature of pathologic post-natal alveolar simplification

    Imran S Khan, Christopher Molina ... Dean Sheppard
    Reduced lung myofibroblast proliferation is a unifying feature in multiple models of developmental emphysema and inhibition of myofibroblast proliferation is sufficient to cause this pathology.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Molecular, cellular, and developmental organization of the mouse vomeronasal organ at single cell resolution

    Max Henry Hills, Limei Ma ... C Ron Yu
    A transcriptomic atlas of the mouse vomeronasal organ reveals novel receptor co-expression patterns and provides a framework for understanding sensory neuron lineage and receptor specification.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells Co-Opt the Tenogenic Gene Scleraxis to Instruct Regeneration

    Yun Bai, Tyler Harvey ... Chen-Ming Fan
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Shc1 cooperates with Frs2 and Shp2 to recruit Grb2 in FGF-induced lens development

    Qian Wang, Hongge Li ... Xin Zhang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Developmental Biology

    Complex aneuploidy triggers autophagy and p53-mediated apoptosis and impairs the second lineage segregation in human preimplantation embryos

    Marius Regin, Yingnan Lei ... Claudia Spits
    Aneuploid human embryonic cells are eliminated by p53-mediated apoptosis in a gene dosage dependent manner.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Developmental Biology

    Unified bursting strategies in ectopic and endogenous even-skipped expression patterns

    Augusto Berrocal, Nicholas C Lammers ... Michael B Eisen
    Drosophila melanogastereven-skipped enhancers control transcriptional bursting by modulating frequency and amplitude, regardless of varying transcription factor inputs, even when mutated to express in embryonic regions not under selective pressure.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Dynamic changes in subplate and cortical plate microstructure at the onset of cortical folding in vivo

    Siân Wilson, Daan Christiaens ... Kiho Im
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Rescuable sleep and synaptogenesis phenotypes in a Drosophila model of O-GlcNAc transferase intellectual disability

    Ignacy Czajewski, Bijayalaxmi Swain ... Daan MF van Aalten
    Modelling O-GlcNAc transferase intellectual disability reveals the roles of this post-translational modification in regulating normal axonal terminal morphology and maintaining appropriate sleep homeostasis, pharmacological and genetic rescues of O-GlcNAcylation highlight the complexities of addressing this disorder.

Highlights

    1. Developmental Biology

    Signaling pathways in the lung

    Nathaniel C Nelson, Matthias C Kugler
    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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