Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

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Latest articles

    1. Developmental Biology

    Motor neurons are dispensable for the assembly of a sensorimotor circuit for gaze stabilization

    Dena Goldblatt, Başak Rosti ... David Schoppik
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Ciliary length regulation by intraflagellar transport in zebrafish

    Yi Sun, Zhe Chen ... Chengtian Zhao
    1. Developmental Biology

    Glycolytic flux controls retinal progenitor cell differentiation via regulating Wnt signaling

    Joseph Hanna, Yacine Touahri ... Carol Schuurmans
    1. Developmental Biology

    The role of Imp and Syp RNA-binding proteins in precise neuronal elimination by apoptosis through the regulation of transcription factors

    Wenyue Guan, Ziyan Nie ... Jonathan Enriquez
    Genetic manipulations reveal how the spatiotemporal expression pattern of two RNA-binding proteins regulates the eventual number of motoneurons in a Drosophila neuronal lineage.
    1. Developmental Biology

    A MSTNDel73C mutation with FGF5 knockout sheep by CRISPR/Cas9 promotes skeletal muscle myofiber hyperplasia

    Ming-Ming Chen, Yue Zhao ... Zheng-Xing Lian
    Newly prepared double gene-edited sheep provide excellent models for skeletal muscle growth and development, and muscle diseases such as muscle atrophy and sarcopenia.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Differential regulation of the proteome and phosphoproteome along the dorso-ventral axis of the early Drosophila embryo

    Juan Manuel Gomez, Hendrik Nolte ... Maria Leptin
    An encompassing resource of differentially phosphorylated proteins forms the basis for identifying missing links in cell fate determination and morphogenesis, including, for example, microtubules as mediators of different functions in cells along the dorso-ventral axis.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Formation of multinucleated osteoclasts depends on an oxidized species of cell surface-associated La protein

    Evgenia Leikina, Jarred M Whitlock ... Leonid Chernomordik
    Molecular and biochemical approaches in primary human cells illustrate how a nuclear RNA-binding protein is shifted to the surface of osteoclasts – setting their size and biological activity.

Highlights

    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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