Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

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    1. Developmental Biology

    Loss of ninein interferes with osteoclast formation and causes premature ossification

    Thierry Gilbert, Camille Gorlt ... Andreas Merdes
    It is shown that the absence of the centrosome protein ninein provokes premature ossification during mouse development, due to a defect in the fusion of precursor cells into syncytial osteoclasts.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    A CDK1 phosphorylation site on Drosophila PAR-3 regulates neuroblast polarisation and sensory organ formation

    Nicolas Loyer, Elizabeth KJ Hogg ... Jens Januschke
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    A unique multi-synaptic mechanism involving acetylcholine and GABA regulates dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens through early adolescence in male rats

    Melody C Iacino, Taylor A Stowe ... Mark J Ferris
    1. Developmental Biology

    Defective mesenchymal Bmpr1a-mediated BMP signaling causes congenital pulmonary cysts

    Yongfeng Luo, Ke Cao ... Wei Shi
    Disrupted mesenchymal Bmpr1a-mediated signaling in fetal mouse lung leads to abnormal airway development and congenital pulmonary cyst formation.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Obox4 promotes zygotic genome activation upon loss of Dux

    Youjia Guo, Tomohiro Kitano ... Haruhiko Siomi
    1. Developmental Biology

    A-to-I RNA editing of CYP18A1 mediates transgenerational wing dimorphism in aphids

    Bin Zhu, Wei Rui ... Pei Liang
    1. Developmental Biology

    Scaling between cell cycle duration and wing growth is regulated by Fat-Dachsous signaling in Drosophila

    Andrew Liu, Jessica O’Connell ... Richard W Carthew
    Two atypical cadherins regulate organ growth by tuning the coupling of cell cycle duration to organ size.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Endothelial cell signature in muscle stem cells validated by VEGFA-FLT1-AKT1 axis promoting survival of muscle stem cell

    Mayank Verma, Yoko Asakura ... Atsushi Asakura
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Spectral decomposition unlocks ascidian morphogenesis

    Joel Dokmegang, Emmanuel Faure ... Madhav Mani
    1. Developmental Biology

    The autophagy protein, ATG14 safeguards against unscheduled pyroptosis activation to enable embryo transport during early pregnancy

    Pooja Popli, Arin K. Oestreich ... Ramakrishna Kommagani
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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
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    A hemocyte atlas for an insect

    Samuel Liegeois, Dominique Ferrandon

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    University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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    Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, United States
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    University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
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