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    1. Developmental Biology

    HSD17B7 is required for Auditory Function by Regulating Cholesterol Synthesis in Sensory Hair Cells

    Yuqian Shen, Ziyang Wang ... Dong Liu
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Smed-pou4-2 regulates mechanosensory neuron regeneration and function in planarians

    Ryan A McCubbin, Mohammad A Auwal ... Ricardo M Zayas
    A conserved POU4-dependent developmental program underlies mechanosensory neuron regeneration in adult planarians.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Removal of developmentally regulated microexons has a minimal impact on larval zebrafish brain morphology and function

    Caleb CS Calhoun, Mary ES Capps ... Summer B Thyme
    Sensitive brain activity mapping and behavioral profiling reveal most microexons are dispensable for early brain development but highlight a small subset with intriguing neural phenotypes for future study.
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Mouse germline cysts contain a fusome that mediates oocyte development

    Madhulika Pathak, Allan C Spradling
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Eed controls craniofacial osteoblast differentiation and mesenchymal proliferation from the neural crest

    Tim Casey-Clyde, S John Liu ... David R Raleigh
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    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
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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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    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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    1. Developmental Biology
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    2. Developmental Biology

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    Guillermo Marqués, Thomas Pengo, Mark A Sanders

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