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    1. Developmental Biology

    Motor neurons are dispensable for the assembly of a sensorimotor circuit for gaze stabilization

    Dena Goldblatt, Basak Rosti ... David Schoppik
    An analysis of vestibular projection neurons lacking their motor neuron partners resolves outstanding controversies for whether and how motor neurons shape vestibulo-ocular reflex circuit assembly.
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    Extramacrochaetae regulates Notch signaling in the Drosophila eye through non-apoptotic caspase activity

    Sudershana Nair, Nicholas E Baker
    A member of the Inhibitor of DNA-binding (Id) gene family, best known as negative regulators of tissue-specific master regulatory bHLH transcription factors, also suppresses non-apoptotic caspase activities.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Mesenchymal Meis2 controls whisker development independently from trigeminal sensory innervation

    Mehmet Mahsum Kaplan, Erika Hudacova ... Ondrej Machon
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    Flamingo participates in multiple models of cell competition

    Pablo Sanchez Bosch, Bomsoo Cho, Jeffrey D Axelrod
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    2. Neuroscience

    Lineage-specific intersection of endothelin and GDNF signaling in enteric nervous system development

    Denise M Poltavski, Alexander T Cunha ... Takako Makita
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Impaired Myofibroblast Proliferation is a Central Feature of Pathologic Post-Natal Alveolar Simplification

    Imran S Khan, Christopher Molina ... Dean Sheppard
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    A single-cell atlas of spatial and temporal gene expression in the mouse cranial neural plate

    Eric R Brooks, Andrew R Moorman ... Jennifer A Zallen
    Not revised
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Rescuable sleep and synaptogenesis phenotypes in a Drosophila model of O-GlcNAc transferase intellectual disability

    Ignacy Czajewski, Bijayalaxmi Swain ... Daan MF van Aalten
    1. Developmental Biology

    Neuronal Development: Rethinking sensorimotor circuits

    Maarten F Zwart
    New research shows that the neural circuit responsible for stabilising gaze can develop in the absence of motor neurons, contrary to a long-standing model in the field.
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Reorganization of the flagellum scaffolding induces a sperm standstill during fertilization

    Martina Jabloñski, Guillermina M Luque ... Mariano G Buffone
    The double helix actin network surrounding the mitochondrial sheath of the sperm midpiece undergoes structural changes prior to the motility cessation during sperm-egg fusion.
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    Rethinking sensorimotor circuits

    Maarten F Zwart
    1. Developmental Biology
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    Natural History of Model Organisms: E. coqui

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

    Imaging methods are vastly underreported

    Guillermo Marqués, Thomas Pengo, Mark A Sanders

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