Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

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    MAFB drives differentiation by permitting WT1 binding to podocyte specific promoters

    Filippo M. Massa, Fariba Jian-Motamedi ... Andreas Schedl
    1. Developmental Biology

    FMNL2 regulates actin for ER and mitochondria distribution in oocyte meiosis

    Meng-Hao Pan, Zhen-Nan Pan ... Shao-Chen Sun
    1. Developmental Biology

    Dynamic compartmentalization of the pro-invasive transcription factor NHR-67 reveals a role for Groucho in regulating a proliferative-invasive cellular switch in C. elegans

    Taylor N Medwig-Kinney, Brian A Kinney ... David Q Matus
    Dynamic compartmentalization of the pro-invasive transcription factor NHR-67 reveals a role for members of the Groucho/TCF repressive complex in maintaining non-invasive cell fate in C. elegans.
    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
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Developmental Biology

    Transcription: A hub of activity

    Virginia L Pimmett, Mounia Lagha
    Imaging experiments reveal the complex and dynamic nature of the transcriptional hubs associated with Notch signaling.
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    1. Cell Biology
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    Cylicins are a structural component of the sperm calyx being indispensable for male fertility in mice and human

    Simon Schneider, Andjela Kovacevic ... Hubert Schorle
    Cylicin 1 and Cylicin 2 are essential components of the sperm perinuclear theca and their loss results in impaired spermiogenesis and thus in infertility in mice and men.

Highlights

    1. Developmental Biology
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    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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