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    1. Developmental Biology
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    Slow oscillation–spindle coupling strength predicts real-life gross-motor learning in adolescents and adults

    Michael A Hahn, Kathrin Bothe ... Kerstin Hoedlmoser
    Individualized cross-frequency analyses reveal regionally specific slow oscillation–sleep spindle coupling precision as predictor for gross-motor learning dynamics.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    The NDNF-like factor Nord is a Hedgehog-induced extracellular BMP modulator that regulates Drosophila wing patterning and growth

    Shu Yang, Xuefeng Wu ... Xiaoyan Zheng
    The NDNF-like factor Nord is a Hedgehog-induced and extracellular-localized dosage-dependent BMP modulator that regulates Drosophila wing patterning and growth.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Cnidarian hair cell development illuminates an ancient role for the class IV POU transcription factor in defining mechanoreceptor identity

    Ethan Ozment, Arianna N Tamvacakis ... Nagayasu Nakanishi
    Developmental genetics of sea anemone mechanosensory neurons provides insights into the deep evolutionary history of mechanoreceptor development in animals.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Recapitulating human cardio-pulmonary co-development using simultaneous multilineage differentiation of pluripotent stem cells

    Wai Hoe Ng, Elizabeth K Johnston ... Xi Ren
    An induced pluripotent stem-cell-based, human heart and lung co-differentiation model reveals their shared signaling requirement and enables investigation of their developmental mutual interaction and tissue boundary formation.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Differential adhesion regulates neurite placement via a retrograde zippering mechanism

    Titas Sengupta, Noelle L Koonce ... Daniel A Colón-Ramos
    Biophysical differential adhesion principles drive non-canonical, zippering mechanisms in vivo, regulating precise neurite placement, and synaptic specificity within Caenorhabditis elegans brain bundles.
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    A zebrafish embryo screen utilizing gastrulation identifies the HTR2C inhibitor pizotifen as a suppressor of EMT-mediated metastasis

    Joji Nakayama, Lora Tan ... Zhiyuan Gong
    Zebrafish embryo screen utilizing conserved mechanisms between cancer metastasis and zebrafish gastrulation identifies the HTR2C inhibitor pizotifen as anti-metastasis drugs.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology
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    The Natural History of Model Organisms: The big potential of the small frog Eleutherodactylus coqui

    Sarah E Westrick, Mara Laslo, Eva K Fischer
    The coquí frog is of interest to researchers in fields as diverse as development biology, social behavior and the biology of invasive species.
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    Tumor Metastasis: Fishing for drugs

    Chinyere Kemet, Emily Hill, Hui Feng
    Screening for drugs that disrupt embryonic development in zebrafish can help identify treatments that suppress metastasis.
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
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    Phosphoproteomics of ATR signaling in mouse testes

    Jennie R Sims, Vitor M Faça ... Marcus B Smolka
    An in-depth map of ATR signaling during mouse meiosis is revealed using a combination of genetic and pharmacological approaches coupled to quantitative mass spectrometry.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    The transcriptional corepressor CTBP-1 acts with the SOX family transcription factor EGL-13 to maintain AIA interneuron cell identity in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Josh Saul, Takashi Hirose, H Robert Horvitz
    The maintenance of diverse cell identities might be coordinated through the interaction between widely acting transcriptional corepressors and cell-specific transcription factors to repress undesired gene expression in a cell-type-specific manner.