A powerful sequencing approach is used to elucidate the genetic basis of a complex organismal trait, and members of the irld gene family that affect starvation resistance are identified.
Morphogenetic forces from tissue invagination orient cell division through a previously undescribed mechanism of force-dependent LGN/Pins polarization.
Susan M Motch Perrine, M Kathleen Pitirri ... Joan T Richtsmeier
Analysis of 3D reconstructions of chondrocrania of the FgfrcC342Y/+ Crouzon syndrome mouse show the direct effects of this Fgfr2 mutation on embryonic cranial cartilage formation and the indirect effects of chondrocranial morphology on cranial dermal bone development.
Androglobin, a newly identified mammalian globin with a unique modular structure including a protease and calmodulin binding IQ domain within a circularly permuted globin domain, is implicated in murine spermatogenesis.
Alexandre P Thiery, Ariane SI Standing ... Gareth J Fraser
The development of diverse tooth shapes among vertebrates, from sharks to mammals, is a highly conserved process, utilising a similar dental signalling centre for more than 400 million years.
Spenser S Smith, Daniel Chu ... Richard A Schneider
Multiple levels of gene regulation in the TGFβ signaling pathway mediate the expression of Mmp13, establish species-specific domains of bone resorption, and likely generate evolutionary variation in jaw length.
When challenged by energetic stresses triggered by hypoxia and ATP inhibition, plasma membrane PI4P and PIP2 in cells undergo dramatic turnovers that have profound impact on many cellular processes including electrostatic PM targeting of numerous polybasic proteins.
