Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

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    1. Developmental Biology

    Comprehensive profiling of migratory primordial germ cells reveals niche-specific differences in non-canonical Wnt and Nodal-Lefty signaling in anterior vs posterior migrants

    Rebecca G Jaszczak, Jay W Zussman ... Diana J Laird
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Reduction of DNA Topoisomerase Top2 reprograms the epigenetic landscape and extends health and life span across species

    Man Zhu, Meng Ma ... Jing Yang
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Dual role of FOXG1 in regulating gliogenesis in the developing neocortex via the FGF signalling pathway

    Mahima Bose, Ishita Talwar ... Shubha Tole
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Developmental Biology

    Numb provides a fail-safe mechanism for intestinal stem cell self-renewal in adult Drosophila midgut

    Mengjie Li, Aiguo Tian, Jin Jiang
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    1. Developmental Biology

    Meioc-Piwil1 complexes regulate rRNA transcription for differentiation of spermatogonial stem cells

    Toshihiro Kawasaki, Toshiya Nishimura ... Noriyoshi Sakai
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    • Valuable
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    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology

    Evolution of lateralized gustation in nematodes

    Marisa Mackie, Vivian Vy Le ... Ray L Hong
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Aberrant FGF signaling promotes granule neuron precursor expansion in SHH subgroup infantile medulloblastoma

    Odessa R Yabut, Jessica Arela ... Samuel J Pleasure
    Mice with Suppressor of Fused mutations have aberrant cerebellar granule cell proliferation accompanied by ectopic expression of an FGF ligand, also expressed in infantile medulloblastoma patients.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Wnt specifically induces FZD5/8 endocytosis and degradation and the involvement of RSPO-ZNRF3/RNF43 and DVL

    Dong Luo, Jing Zheng ... Xinjun Zhang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Rudhira-mediated microtubule stability controls TGFβ signaling during mouse vascular development

    Divyesh Joshi, Preeti Jindal ... Maneesha S Inamdar
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Developmental Biology

    Knockout of cyclin dependent kinases 8 and 19 leads to depletion of cyclin C and suppresses spermatogenesis and male fertility in mice

    Alexandra V Bruter, Ekaterina A Varlamova ... Victor V Tatarskiy
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
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Highlights

    1. Developmental Biology

    Patterning the neural plate

    Margaret Hines, Elias Oxman ... Irene Zohn
    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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