Ana Sofia Pinheiro, Vasilios Tsarouhas ... Christos Samakovlis
During tracheal morphogenesis, the scavenger receptor Emp senses and responds to luminal cargo levels by initiating apical membrane endocytosis along the longitudinal tube axis to restrict airway elongation.
Structured illumination microscopy reveals that the hierarchical development of complex honeycomb-like nanostructures within the lumen of some swallowtail butterfly wing scales proceeds via a novel reorganization of disintegrating F-actin bundles.
Hypotheses on brain homologies between insects and vertebrates are tested by comparing gene expression patterns from flies and beetles with those from vertebrates at early neuroectoderm stages.
Igor Y Iskusnykh, Nikolai Fattakhov ... Victor V Chizhikov
LIM-homeodomain transcription factor Lmx1a co-regulates multiple developmental processes in the cortical hem, a major signaling center necessary for hippocampus formation in the mammalian brain.
Interest in the ecology, biology and evolution of amphioxus is growing, and the availability of several species is helping to improve our understanding of chordate evolution.
A novel mechanism of gene regulation is discovered wherein a specific long non-coding RNA abolishes the blocking activity of chromatin insulator in the Drosophila HOX gene cluster.
An unexpected interaction between a long non-coding RNA locus and a genetic insulator called Fub-1 has an important role in gene regulation during development in Drosophila.
