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A head concussion model in fruit flies reveals that early-life exposure to mild concussions significantly increases the risk of late-life neurodegeneration, with females especially vulnerable due to reproductive factors.

Changes in the amount and timing of gene expression during early development contribute to evolutionary divergence and life-history changes, even within a species.

The formation of large endolysosomal structures in unfertilized eggs ensures that lysosomes remain dormant before fertilization, and then shift into clean-up mode after the egg-to-embryo transition.

FBXO24, a testis-enriched E3 ubiquitin ligase, is essential for sperm flagellum formation and male fertility in mice.

The SEL-5/AAK1 kinase unexpectedly influences Wnt signalling-dependent processes in a multicellular organism without using its enzymatic activity.

Formation of dorsal axonal tracts in the spinal cord depends on multiple guidance mechanisms that control growth direction of bifurcating axons in the dorsal root entry zone.

Semaphorin7A sculpts the collective arbor architecture of the lateral line nerve and facilitates neural contacts with the hair cells for synaptogenesis during neuromast development in the zebrafish.

Transcriptomic analyses of Malabar grouper show pathways known to be involved in metamorphosis are also upregulated at an early stage of larval development, suggesting an additional function during early development.