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Latest articles

    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    ARID1A governs the silencing of sex-linked transcription during male meiosis in the mouse

    Debashish U Menon, Prabuddha Chakraborty ... Terry Magnuson
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Developmental Biology

    OVO positively regulates essential maternal pathways by binding near the transcriptional start sites in the Drosophila female germline

    Leif Benner, Savannah Muron ... Brian Oliver
    Many well-studied maternal developmental pathways that are required for embryonic development in Drosophila are regulated by the transcription factor OVO in the Drosophila female germline.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway in Sertoli cells regulates age-dependent changes in sperm DNA methylation

    Saira Amir, Olatunbosun Arowolo ... Alexander Suvorov
    For the first time, a molecular mechanism is identified, for experimental acceleration and deceleration (rejuvenation) of sperm epigenetic aging.
    1. Developmental Biology

    TMC7 deficiency causes acrosome biogenesis defects and male infertility in mice

    Jing Wang, Yingying Yin ... Zhaojian Liu
    Experiments on mice show that TMC7, a transmembrane channel-like protein, localizes to the cis-Golgi region in spermatids and that this is essential for acrosome biogenesis and male fertility.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    N-Terminus of Drosophila Melanogaster MSL1 Is Critical for Dosage Compensation

    Valentin Babosha, Natalia Klimenko ... Oksana Maksimenko
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Embryonic origins of forebrain oligodendrocytes revisited by combinatorial genetic fate mapping

    Yuqi Cai, Zhirong Zhao ... Miao He
    Novel genetic fate-mapping strategies enabled re-analysis of cortical oligodendrocytes derived from dorsal pallium, LGE/CGE, and MGE/POA, challenging the canonical view of substantial LGE/CGE contributions and the elimination of MGE/POA-derived populations.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Lateral/caudal ganglionic eminence makes limited contribution to cortical oligodendrocytes

    Jialin Li, Feihong Yang ... Zhuangzhi Zhang
    The contribution of the lateral/caudal ganglionic eminence to the pool of cortical oligodendrocyte precursor cells is minimal.

Highlights

    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Natural History of Model Organisms: E. coqui

    Sarah E Westrick, Mara Laslo, Eva K Fischer
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Imaging methods are vastly underreported

    Guillermo Marqués, Thomas Pengo, Mark A Sanders

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