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Announcing DMM’s special issue ‘Spotlight on Zebrafish: Translational Impact’
Posted by Disease Models and Mechanisms on July 6th, 2014
In recent years, the zebrafish has emerged as an increasingly prominent model in biomedical research. Its optical transparency for the first few weeks, high fecundity and ex vivo fertilization have made it traditionally suitable to study developmental biology. However, over the past decade these same features have enabled the zebrafish to become a preeminent disease model and […]
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This month on the Node- June 2014
Posted by the Node on July 1st, 2014
This month the Node celebrated its fourth birthday! Here are some of the other highlights: Research: - Kevin Chalut wrote about his recent paper at the crossroads of biology and physics, where he shows that the nucleus of ES cells exiting pluripotency have an unusual physical property. - How is the primitive […]
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This month on the Node- May 2014
Posted by the Node on June 1st, 2014
Our jobs page has been very busy again, including several positions in publishing. Here are some of the other highlights: Research: - Néstor discussed his recent paper in Developmental Cell on the role of GATA6 in primitive endoderm specification (and some of the techniques used). - Jenna and Jessica explained how they established zebrafish as a model to […]
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This month on the Node- April 2014
Posted by the Node on April 30th, 2014
Our jobs page has been particularly busy this month, with a range of job positions from research technicians to senior lectureships! Here are some of the other highlights: Research: - Nikos wrote about what his work in Parhyale, recently published in Science, can tell us about the evolution of regeneration. - The undergraduates at Reed College […]
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This month on the Node- March 2014
Posted by the Node on April 1st, 2014
2014 is continuing in full force on the Node. We had many interesting posts this month, as well as several job and PhD studentships advertised in our jobs page. Here are the highlights! Research: - Fernando described a new technique called CLoNE, which allows cell labelling for lineage analysis of specific progenitor cells. - […]
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This month on the Node- February 2014
Posted by the Node on March 1st, 2014
The Node was full of activity in February. Here are some of the highlights! Research: - Jennifer Fish and Richard Schneider wrote about their recent paper studying jaw size evolution using quail and duck. - Groups at the MPI-CBG in Dresden and Fritz Lipmann Institute in Jena showed that integrin and thyroid hormones promote […]
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This month on the Node- January 2014
Posted by the Node on February 3rd, 2014
January was a busy month on the Node, particularly our jobs page, which included several new postdoctoral positions, as well as PhD studentships, group leader and technician positions. Here are some of the other highlights: Research: - Yan Yun wrote about his recent Development paper examining the origins of aneuploidy by tracking chromosomes and their kinetochores […]
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Top Node posts of 2013
Posted by the Node on January 6th, 2014
Happy new year everyone! To wrap up 2013 we had a look at our stats to find what out which were the most popular posts of the last year. 2013 saw the usual varied mix of news, research, meeting and discussion posts, so there was a lot to read! Most viewed posts: 1- […]
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This month on the Node- November 2013
Posted by the Node on December 1st, 2013
This month saw many interesting posts on the Node, in addition to several job and PhD studentship adverts in our jobs page. Here are some of the highlights! Node series Our two series continued at full steam this month: - In our outreach series, the Cosy Science team presented their ongoing project of bringing science […]
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This month on the Node- October 2013
Posted by the Node on November 1st, 2013
The Node was full of activity in October. Here are some of the highlights! New series - ‘A day in the life’ is our new series on the model organisms used in developmental biology. Check out the current posts already available: A day in the life of a Xenopus lab A day in the […]
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- talpid2: a mystery finally solved [IN THIS ISSUE]
- Starvation MESses up the egg [IN THIS ISSUE]
- A taste for something new [IN THIS ISSUE]
- Cell heterogeneity and multilineage priming in the kidney [IN THIS ISSUE]
- The POU-er of gene nomenclature [SPOTLIGHT]
- The dynamics of plant plasma membrane proteins: PINs and beyond [REVIEW]
- Retinoic acid controls body axis extension by directly repressing Fgf8 transcription [RESEARCH REPORTS]
- The F-box protein Slmb restricts the activity of aPKC to polarize epithelial cells [RESEARCH REPORTS]
- Slmb antagonises the aPKC/Par-6 complex to control oocyte and epithelial polarity [RESEARCH ARTICLES]
- Induction of ectopic taste buds by SHH reveals the competency and plasticity of adult lingual epithelium [RESEARCH ARTICLES]
- The cellular and molecular etiology of the craniofacial defects in the avian ciliopathic mutant talpid2 [RESEARCH ARTICLES]
- Starvation induces FoxO-dependent mitotic-to-endocycle switch pausing during Drosophila oogenesis [RESEARCH ARTICLES]
- A crucial role for polysialic acid in developmental interneuron migration and the establishment of interneuron densities in the mouse prefrontal cortex [RESEARCH ARTICLES]
- The origin and loss of periodic patterning in the turtle shell [RESEARCH ARTICLES]
- Congenital heart disease protein 5 associates with CASZ1 to maintain myocardial tissue integrity [RESEARCH ARTICLES]
- Hand1 phosphoregulation within the distal arch neural crest is essential for craniofacial morphogenesis [RESEARCH ARTICLES]
- Simultaneous rather than ordered cleavage of two sites within the BMP4 prodomain leads to loss of ligand in mice [RESEARCH ARTICLES]
- Loss of focal adhesions in glia disrupts both glial and photoreceptor axon migration in the Drosophila visual system [RESEARCH ARTICLES]
- Islet is a key determinant of ascidian palp morphogenesis [RESEARCH ARTICLES]
- NF-kB controls axonal regeneration and degeneration through cell-specific balance of RelA and p50 in the adult CNS [Articles of interest in other COB journals]
- The conserved transmembrane proteoglycan Perdido/Kon-tiki is essential for myofibrillogenesis and sarcomeric structure in Drosophila [Articles of interest in other COB journals]
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- The basal position of nuclei is one pre-requisite for asymmetric cell divisions in the early mouse embryo
- The fat-like cadherin CDH-4 acts cell-non-autonomously in anterior–posterior neuroblast migration
- Staufen targets coracle mRNA to Drosophila neuromuscular junctions and regulates GluRIIA synaptic accumulation and bouton number
- Multiple tissue-specific requirements for the BMP antagonist Noggin in development of the mammalian craniofacial skeleton
- Nanog co-regulated by Nodal/Smad2 and Oct4 is required for pluripotency in developing mouse epiblast
- Transcriptional regulation of Drosophila gonad formation
- Direct functional consequences of ZRS enhancer mutation combine with secondary long range SHH signalling effects to cause preaxial polydactyly
- Cdc42 is required in a genetically distinct subset of cardiac cells during Drosophila dorsal vessel closure
- Setdb2 controls convergence and extension movements during zebrafish gastrulation by transcriptional regulation of dvr1
- Functional characterization of Prickle2 and BBS7 identify overlapping phenotypes yet distinct mechanisms
- Daughterless homodimer synergizes with Eyeless to induce Atonal expression and retinal neuron differentiation
- SUMV-1 antagonizes the activity of synthetic multivulva genes in Caenorhabditis elegans
- GATA4 and GATA6 regulate intestinal epithelial cytodifferentiation during development
- Migratory neural crest cell αN-catenin impacts chick trigeminal ganglia formation
- Specific pattern of cell cycle during limb fetal myogenesis
- Differential regulation of Gli proteins by Sufu in the lung affects PDGF signaling and myofibroblast development
- Nemo promotes Notch-mediated lateral inhibition downstream of proneural factors
- Elf5 counteracts precocious trophoblast differentiation by maintaining Sox2 and 3 and inhibiting Hand1 expression
- Gtpbp2 is required for BMP signaling and mesoderm patterning in Xenopus embryos
- Hectd1 is required for development of the junctional zone of the placenta
- Integrin-α5β1 is not required for mural cell functions during development of blood vessels but is required for lymphatic-blood vessel separation and lymphovenous valve formation
- miR-203 regulates progenitor cell proliferation during adult zebrafish retina regeneration
- Dynamics of F-actin prefigure the structure of butterfly wing scales
- Germ cells of the centipede Strigamia maritima are specified early in embryonic development
- The expansion of body coloration involves coordinated evolution in cis and trans within the pigmentation regulatory network of Drosophila prostipennis
- Emergence of tissue sensitivity to Hox protein levels underlies the evolution of an adaptive morphological trait
- Long bone development requires a threshold of Hox function
- Enhancer diversity and the control of a simple pattern of Drosophila CNS midline cell expression
- A distant downstream enhancer directs essential expression of Tbx18 in urogenital tissues
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- Development of the lateral line canal system through a bone remodeling process in zebrafish
- NEDD4L regulates convergent extension movements in Xenopus embryos via Disheveled-mediated non-canonical Wnt signaling
- Protein kinase CK2 both promotes robust proliferation and inhibits the proliferative fate in the C. elegans germ line
- TAF4b promotes mouse primordial follicle assembly and oocyte survival
- Regulation of broad by the Notch pathway affects timing of follicle cell development
- Cited2 is required in trophoblasts for correct placental capillary patterning
- Polyspermy block in jellyfish eggs: Collaborative controls by Ca2+ and MAPK
- The role of Bro1- domain-containing protein Myopic in endosomal trafficking of Wnt/Wingless
- Phosphorylation of CDK2 at threonine 160 regulates meiotic pachytene and diplotene progression in mice
- Transcriptional co-regulation of evolutionarily conserved microRNA/cone opsin gene pairs: Implications for photoreceptor subtype specification
- Corrigendum to “prdm12b Specifies the p1 progenitor domain and reveals a role for V1 interneurons in swim movements” [Dev. Biol. 390 (2014) 247–260]
- Formation of Cholinergic Synapse-like Specializations at Developing Murine Muscle Spindles
- Ephrin-mediated restriction of ERK1/2 activity delimits the number of pigment cells in the Ciona CNS
- Abnormal cerebellar development and Purkinje cell Defects in Lgl1-Pax2 conditional knockout mice
- Specification of the mouse cardiac conduction system in the absence of Endothelin signaling
- Identification of genes driving lineage divergence from single-cell gene expression data in C. elegans
- The dystroglycan: Nestled in an adhesome during embryonic development
- Developmental regulation of glial cell phagocytic function during Drosophila embryogenesis
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- Wnt some lose some: transcriptional governance of stem cells by Wnt/{beta}-catenin signaling [Reviews]
- Organismal proteostasis: role of cell-nonautonomous regulation and transcellular chaperone signaling [Reviews]
- Two waves of de novo methylation during mouse germ cell development [Research Communications]
- TRF2, but not TBP, mediates the transcription of ribosomal protein genes [Research Communications]
- Healing for destruction: tRNA intron degradation in yeast is a two-step cytoplasmic process catalyzed by tRNA ligase Rlg1 and 5'-to-3' exonuclease Xrn1 [Research Communications]
- The active enhancer network operated by liganded RXR supports angiogenic activity in macrophages [Research Papers]
- Lineage of origin in rhabdomyosarcoma informs pharmacological response [Research Papers]
- Angiopoietin 2 regulates the transformation and integrity of lymphatic endothelial cell junctions [Research Papers]
- A cell cycle-regulated Slx4-Dpb11 complex promotes the resolution of DNA repair intermediates linked to stalled replication [Research Papers]
- MicL, a new {sigma}E-dependent sRNA, combats envelope stress by repressing synthesis of Lpp, the major outer membrane lipoprotein [Research Papers]
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