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April in preprints

Posted by , on 6 May 2025

Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints.

The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv – use these links below to get to the section you want:

Developmental biology

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Developmental biology

| Patterning & signalling

Evi1 is necessary for late activation of delta-notch signaling in sea urchin embryos

Sanjana Anand, Dr. David McClay

Axial Nephron Fate Switching Demonstrates a Plastic System Tunable on Demand

MaryAnne A. Achieng, Jack Schnell, Connor C. Fausto, Réka L. Csipán, Matthew E. Thornton, Brendan H. Grubbs, Nils O. Lindström

Stimulatory and inhibitory G-protein signaling relays drive cAMP accumulation for timely metamorphosis in the chordate Ciona

Akiko Hozumi, Nozomu M. Totsuka, Arata Onodera, Yanbin Wang, Mayuko Hamada, Akira Shiraishi, Honoo Satake, Takeo Horie, Kohji Hotta, Yasunori Sasakura

Neural crest cell derived DKK1 modulates Wnt signalling in the second heart field to orchestrate cardiac outflow tract development

Sophie Wiszniak, Dimuthu Alankarage, Iman Lohraseb, Ceilidh Marchant, Genevieve Secker, Wendy Parker, John Toubia, Melissa White, Sandra Piltz, Markus Tondl, Eleni Giannoulatou, David Winlaw, Gillian M. Blue, Congenital Heart Disease Synergy Group, Patrick P. L. Tam, Paul Thomas, Natasha Harvey, Sally L. Dunwoodie, Quenten Schwarz

A conserved differentiation program facilitates inhibitory neuron production in the developing mouse and human cerebellum

Jens Bager Christensen, Alex P.A. Donovan, Marzieh Moradi, Giada Vanacore, Mohab Helmy, Adam J. Reid, Jimmy Tsz Hang Lee, Omer Ali Bayraktar, Andrea H. Brand, N. Sumru Bayin

Wnt/β-catenin signalling assists cell fate decision making in the early mouse embryo

Joaquin Lilao-Garzon, Elena Corujo-Simon, Meritxell Vinyoles, Sabine C Fischer, Jose Guillen, Tina Balayo, Silvia Munoz-Descalzo

Cranial suture integrity is maintained by Fgfr3 in zebrafish

Rachel Pereur, Yvan Marc, Yuliya Lim, Alain Schmitt, Marilyne Malbouyres, Anatole Chessel, Florence Ruggiero, Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein, Laurence Legeai-Mallet, Emilie Dambroise

PROX1 Controls Cellular Patterning, Innervation and Differentiation in the Mouse Organ of Corti

Shubham Kale, Dimitri Traenkner, Ellison J. Goodrich, Satish R. Ghimire, Thomas M. Coate, Michael R. Deans

Dorsoventral limb patterning in paired appendages emerged via regulatory repurposing of an ancestral posterior fin module

Sofía Zdral, Simone Giulio Bordignon, Axel Meyer, Marian A. Ros, Joost M. Woltering

Purinergic signalling and calcium dynamics: potential drivers in the onset of coordinated intestinal motility in human fetal development

Benjamin Jevans, Atchariya Chanpong, Luca Peruzza, Silvia Perin, Ben Cairns, Parth Tagdiwala, Pieter Vanden Berghe, Grant W Hennig, Conor J McCann

Dpp Scaling is Not the Key to Robust Wing Patterning in Drosophila

Bhagyashree A. Ghag, Alexander W. Shingleton

Interactions between the Bone Morphogenetic Protein and the Planar Cell Polarity Pathways lead to distinctive ethanol-induced facial defects

Raèden Gray, Anna Llyod, C. Ben Lovely

SoxB1 family members inhibit Wnt signaling to promote maturation and deposition of stable neuromasts by the zebrafish Posterior Lateral Line primordium

Greg Palardy, Kyeong-won Yoo, Sana Fatma, Abhishek Mukherjee, Chongmin Wang, Priyanka Ravi, Ajay B Chitnis

| Morphogenesis & mechanics

Mechanical Stress dissipation in locally folded epithelia is orchestrated by calcium waves and nuclear tension changes

Marvin Brun-Cosme-Bruny, Lydia Pernet, Kenny Elias, Christophe Guilluy, Christiane Oddou, Monika Elzbieta Dolega

The microtubule-binding protein EML3 is required for mammalian embryonic growth and cerebral cortical development; Eml3 null mice are a model of cobblestone brain malformation

Isabelle Carrier, Eduardo Diez, Valerio E.C. Piscopo, Susanne Bechstedt, Hans van Bokhoven, Myriam Srour, Albert Berghuis, Stefano Stifani, Yojiro Yamanaka, Roderick R. McInnes

Tissue spreading couples gastrulation through extracellular matrix remodelling in early avian embryos

Lakshmi Balasubramaniam, Venus Sin Yiu Ho, Filomena Gallo, Karin Müller, Fengzhu Xiong

Non-uniform temporal scaling of neurogenesis for species-specific dosing of cortical excitatory subtypes

Yuki Yamauchi, Xuanhao D. Zhou, Rafat Tarfder, Pauline Rouillard, Merve Bilgic, Shuto Deguchi, Tomonori Nakamura, Yusuke Kishi, Kazuo Emoto, Ikuo K. Suzuki

Spatial patterning of contractility by a mechanogen gradient underlies Drosophila gastrulation

Gayatri Mundhe, Valentin Dunsing-Eichenauer, Jean-Marc Philippe, Élise Da Silva, Claudio Collinet, Thomas Lecuit

The identification and characterization of hillocks in the postnatal mouse and human airway

Yohana Otto, Gergana Shipkovenska, Qiaozhen Liu, Jiawei Sun, Lida P. Hariri, Viral S. Shah, Jayaraj Rajagopal

Mechanics regulate the postembryonic developmental maturation and function of sensory neurons in a pre-vertebrate chordate

Andreas Midlang, Carl Matthew Jones, Luc Seegers, Jorgen Hoyer, Sigurd Glørstad, Marios Chatzigeorgiou

Intestinal Tissue Mechanics Regulate Angiogenesis and Stem Cell Proliferation via Vascular Piezo

Jade A. Phillips, Jessica Perochon, Cai T. Johnson, Matthew Walker, Colin Nixon, Mark Hughes, André Barros-Carvalho, Yachuan Yu, Louise Mitchell, Karen Blyth, Massimo Vassalli, Julia B. Cordero

Spatially organized cellular communities shape functional tissue architecture in the pancreas

Alejo Torres-Cano, Jean-Francois Darrigrand, Gabriel Herrera-Oropeza, Georgina Goss, David Willnow, Anna Salowka, Debashish Chitnis, Morgane Rouault, Alessandra Vigilante, Francesca M. Spagnoli

Inverted Assembly of the Lens Within Ocular Organoids Reveals Alternate Paths to Ocular Morphogenesis

Elin Stahl, Miguel Angel Delgado-Toscano, Ishwariya Saravanan, Anastasija Paneva, Joachim Wittbrodt, Lucie Zilova

Cranial suture integrity is maintained by Fgfr3 in zebrafish

Rachel Pereur, Yvan Marc, Yuliya Lim, Alain Schmitt, Marilyne Malbouyres, Anatole Chessel, Florence Ruggiero, Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein, Laurence Legeai-Mallet, Emilie Dambroise

Characterisation of spinal ligaments in the embryonic chick

Sarah Hennigan, Ebru Talak Basturkmen, Rebecca A. Rolfe

Integrin promotes basement membrane crossing and branching of an invading intracellular tube

Lauren N. Meyer, Michael Hertel, Jeremy Nance

The V-ATPase/ATG16L1 axis drives membrane remodeling during epithelial morphogenesis

Gabriel Baonza, Tatiana Alfonso-Pérez, Gonzalo Herranz, Carlos Quintana-Quintana, Carmen Gordillo-Vázquez, Yara El Mazjoub, L.M. Escudero, David G. Míguez, Elisa Martí, Nuria Martínez-Martín, Fernando Martín-Belmonte

| Genes & genomes

AGO2 slicing of a domesticated retrotransposon is necessary for normal vasculature development

Manish Kumar, Andrea G. Maria, Mahendra Prajapat, Joana A. Vidigal

From Kumar et al. This image is made available for use under a CC0 license.

AMPK modulates a DEAH Box RNA-helicase to attenuate TOR signaling and establish developmental quiescence

Sabih Rashid, Richard Roy

Morphogen-driven melanin pathway dynamics regulated by Wnt1 and apontic-like underlie larval spot coloration in Bombyx mori

Shinichi Yoda

The functional organization of chromosome territories in single nuclei during zygotic genome activation

Akshada Shankar Ganesh, Taylor M. Orban, Romir Raj, Peter I. Fatzinger, Anna Johnson, Sean M. Riccard, Akhmed Zhanaidarov, Mayu Inaba, Jelena Erceg

Haploinsufficiency of eNOS mitigates beneficial effects of maternal exercise on fetal heart development during pregestational diabetes

Ryleigh Van Neck, Xiangru Lu, Lambertus J. Wisse, Marco C. DeRuiter, Qingping Feng

Genetic compensation in podocalyxin-like mutants during zebrafish liver development

Alexis N. Ross, Natalie M. Miscik, Sharanya Maanasi Kalasekar, James D. Harris, Mimi Tran, Aavrati Saxena, Steven Andrew Baker, Kimberley Jane Evason

Spatial Transcriptomics Unveils the Blueprint of Mammalian Lung Development

Mingyue Chen, Junjie Lv, Qiao Zhang, Qian Gong, Ting Zhao, Zhenping Chen, Haishen Xu, Nan Zhou, Shan Jiang, Jian Du, Xuepeng Chen, Yuwen Ke

Functional genomics analysis of developing zebrafish and human endoderm reveals highly conserved cis-regulatory modules controlling vertebrate organogenesis

Daniela M. Figiel, Randa Elsayed, Mark D. Walsh, Simaran Johal, Ying Lin, Till Bretschneider, Sascha Ott, Andrew C. Nelson

Unilateral loss of recql4 function in Xenopus laevis tadpoles leads to ipsilateral ablation of the forelimb, hypoplastic Meckel’s cartilage and vascular defects

Caroline W. Beck, Matthew Reily-Bell, Louise S. Bicknell

Unraveling Enteroendocrine Cell lineage dynamics and associated gene regulatory networks during intestinal development

Sara Jiménez, Florence Blot, Aline Meunier, Valérie Schreiber, Colette Giethlen, Sabitri Ghimire, Maxime Mahe, Nacho Molina, Adèle De Arcangelis, Gérard Gradwohl

Loss of cep57 function induces G1 arrest and microcephaly

Sharada Iyer, Advait Gokhale, Pooja Shree Murugesan, Megha Kumar

DNA Methylation in Sex Chromosomes and Genes under Selection Underpins the Emergence of Sexual Size Dimorphism

Qian Wang, Xiancai Hao, Dafni Anastasiadi, Kaiqiang Liu, Shuo Li, Bo Feng, Rui Wang, Michael G. Ritchie, Yuyan Liu, Hong-Yan Wang, Lili Tang, Francesc Piferrer, Changwei Shao

Deciphering of single-cell chromatin accessibility and transcriptome reveals the discrepancy for ex vivo human erythropoiesis

Zijuan Xin, Wei Zhang, Lijuan Zhang, Guangmin Zheng, Tingting Jin, Meng Li, Yangliu Shao, Liping Dou, Shengwen Huang, Zhaojun Zhang, Xiangdong Fang

Psmd13, a proteosome regulatory subunit identified in miR-29a regulation during neurogenesis

Diji Kuriakose, Grant Morahan, Zhicheng Xiao

Analysis of 14q12 microdeletions reveals novel regulatory loci for the neurodevelopmental disorder-related gene, FOXG1

Aishwarya Ramamurthy, Masha D Bandouil, Likhita Aluru, Esther Yoon, Nicholas Bodkin, Jennifer Z Cheng, Carina G Biar, Jeffrey D Calhoun, Gemma L Carvill

ISLET-1 knockdown causes abnormal peripheral axonal growth of mesencephalic trigeminal neurones in the chick embryo

Efstathia Artemis Koumoundourou, Sinziana Pop, Anthony Graham, Andrea Wizenmann

The role of m6A RNA methylation in the maintenance of X-chromosome inactivation and X to autosome dosage compensation in early embryonic lineages

Hemant C Naik, Runumi Baro, Amritesh Sarkar, M Muralidhar Nayak, Kartik Sunagar, Srimonta Gayen

In vivo CRISPR screening identifies regulators of hyperplastic and hypertrophic adipose remodelling in zebrafish

Rebecca Wafer, Panna Tandon, James E. N. Minchin

NSD2 links developmental plasticity to mitochondrial function in muscle and lymphocyte differentiation

Jorge Martínez-Cano, Ana Sagrera, Belén S. Estrada, Sara Cogliati, Nuria Martínez-Martín, César Cobaleda

Life-cycle-related gene expression patterns in the brown algae

Pelagie Ratchinski, Olivier Godfroy, Benjamin Noel, Jean-Marc Aury, J. Mark Cock

Tulp3 quantitative alleles titrate requirements for viability, brain development, and kidney homeostasis but do not suppress Zfp423 mutations in mice.

Corinne A. McCoy, Dorothy Concepcion, Mark G. Mezody, Raquel Z. Lara, Ojas Deshpande, Catherine Liang, Renee Long, Bruce Alan Hamilton

VGLL1 contributes to both the transcriptome and epigenome of the developing trophoblast compartment

Ruben I Calderon, Nirvay Sah, Molly Huang, Ryan H. Kittle, Walee Shaik, Jennifer N Chousal, Sampada Kallol, Tony Bui, Robert Morey, Alejandra Mitre, Norah M.E. Fogarty, Claudia Gerri, Claire Zheng, Peter ME DeHoff, Pratik Home, Kathy Niakan, Heidi Cook-Andersen, Kathleen M. Fisch, Soumen Paul, Francesca Soncin

A Y-linked duplication of anti-Mullerian hormone is the sex determination gene in threespine stickleback

Matthew J Treaster, Jenny McCann, Kyra S Solovei, Ryan J Palmieri, Michael A White

| Stem cells, regeneration & disease modelling

Immune surveillance and pruning of neuronal stem cells in the medaka retina

Rashi Agarwal, Joergen Benjaminsen, Katharina Lust, Clara Becker, Natalia Fuchs, Eva Hasel de Carvalho, Fanny Eggeler, Omnia El Said Ibrahim, Narges Aghaallaei, Baubak Bajoghli, Joachim Wittbrodt

The essential role of connective-tissue cells during axolotl limb regeneration

Damián García-García, Dunja Knapp, Minjoo Kim, Katelyn Jamwal, Heath Fuqua, Ryan P. Seaman, Riley E. Grindle, Sergej Nowoshilow, Maria Novatchkova, Fred W. Kolling, Joel H. Graber, Prayag Murawala

Excessive chondrogenesis in the blastema initiates during hypomorphic limb regeneration in Xenopus froglet, but not during patterned limb regeneration in Xenopus tadpoles and newts

Suzu Kobari, Hibiki Yokoyama, Kagayaki Kato, Rina Sato, Nana Kitagawa, Joe Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Kamei, Hitoshi Yokoyama

Canonical Wnt/β-catenin signalling regulates inducible aging and regeneration loss in hydra

Jácint Tökölyi, Yukino Kumagai, Regina Krisztina Szilágyi, Nikoletta Andrea Nagy, Virág Szakál, Retno Novvitasari Hery Daryono

Designed Soluble Notch Agonist Drives Human Ameloblast Maturation for Tooth Regeneration

Anjali P. Patni, Rubul Mout, Rachel Moore, Ammar Alghadeer, George Q Daley, David Baker, Julie Mathieu, Hannele Ruohola-Baker

The integration mechanism of the four positional cues—anterior, posterior, dorsal, and ventral—in axolotl limb regeneration

Sakiya Yamamoto, Saya Furukawa, Ayaka Ohashi, Mayuko Hamada, Akira Satoh

Modular regulation of the stem cell transcriptome defines self-renewal, differentiation, and dedifferentiation

Amelie Raz, Hafidh Hassan, Yukiko Yamashita

Multiple cis-regulatory elements collaborate to control mdka expression in zebrafish adult telencephalic neural stem cells during constitutive and regenerative neurogenesis

Jincan Chen, Agnes Hendriks, Masanari Takamiya, Tanja Beil, Nicolas Diotel, Sepand Rastegar

Retinoic acid signaling alters the balance of epidermal stem cell populations in the skin

Thisakorn Dumrongphuttidecha, Mizuho Ishikawa, Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid, Aiko Sada

An intercellular metabolic relay for brain sparing in Drosophila

Adrien Franchet, Yuhong Jin, Clare L. Newell, Victor Girard, Gérard Manière, Yaël Grosjean, Christopher Barrington, James I. MacRae, Ian S. Gilmore, Alex P. Gould

Aberrant formation of long-range projections across different neurodevelopmental disorders converges on molecular and cellular nexuses

Federica Furlanetto, Alejandro Segura, Mathar Kravikass, Pritha Dolai, Sarah Frank, Sören Turan, Angelica Luna Leal, Stephan Käseberg, Susann Schweiger, Chichung D. Lie, Vasily Zaburdaev, Marisa Karow, Sven Falk

FGF overactivation underlies reduced neurogenesis in cerebellar organoid models of neurodevelopmental ciliopathy

Ludovica Brunetti, Antonia Wiegering, Isabelle Anselme, Lidia Pollara, Martin Catala, Christophe Antoniewski, Enza Maria Valente, Sylvie Schneider-Maunoury, Christine Vesque

Pluripotent Stem Cell Plasticity is Sculpted by a Slit-Independent Robo Pathway in a Regenerative Animal

Kuang-Tse Wang, Yu-Chia Chen, Fu-Yu Tsai, Catherine P Judy, Carolyn E Adler

Autophagy-Dependent Regulation of YAP1 by STK38 Governs Recruitment of Differentiated Cells as Progenitor Cells During Regeneration

Yongji Zeng, Yang-Zhe Huang, Qing Kay Li, Raymond Ho, Steven J. Bark, Spencer G. Willet, Jason C. Mills

Tumour-derived Ilp8 and Upd3 control intestinal progenitor cells depletion during cachexia in Drosophila larvae

Jennifer Falconi, Miriam Rodríguez-Vázquez, Katrin Strobel, Céline Jahannault-Talignani, Lisa Heron-Milhavet, Patrice Lassus, Charles Géminard, Alexandre Djiane

Muc6-expressing gastric isthmus progenitors contribute to regeneration and metaplasia supported by myeloid-mesenchymal interactions

Junya Arai, Yusuke Iwata, Ayumu Tsubosaka, Hiroto Kinoshita, Shintaro Shinohara, Sohei Abe, Toshiro Shiokawa, Katsuyuki Oura, Nobumi Suzuki, Masahiro Hata, Ken Kurokawa, Yukiko Oya, Mayo Tsuboi, Sozaburo Ihara, Keita Murakami, Chihiro Shiomi, Chie Uekura, Hiroaki Fujiwara, Hiroaki Tateno, Seiya Mizuno, Satoru Takahashi, Yutaka Suzuki, Akinori Kanai, Tetsuo Ushiku, Hideaki Ijichi, Yoshihiro Hirata, Masato Kasuga, Valerie P. O’Brien, Nina Salama, Miwako Kakiuchi, Shumpei Ishikawa, Timothy C. Wang, Yoku Hayakawa, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro

Somites are a source of nephron progenitors in zebrafish

Zhenzhen Peng, Thitinee Vanichapol, Phong Dang Nguyen, Hao-Han George Chang, Katrinka M. Kocha, Lori L. O’Brien, Peter D. Currie, Peng Huang, Alan J. Davidson

Macrophages Mediate Antiviral Immunity and Repair of Type 2 Alveolar Epithelial Cells in a Human Stem Cell Model

Declan L. Turner, Hannah Baric, Katelyn Patatsos, Sahel Amoozadeh, Michael See, Kathleen A. Strumila, Jack T. Murphy, Liam Gubbels, Elizabeth Ng, Andrew Elefanty, Melanie Neeland, Shivanthan Shanthikumar, Sarah L. Londrigan, Mirana Ramialison, Fernando J. Rossello, Ed Stanley, Rhiannon B. Werder

Tnfrsf10 Signaling is Required to Maintain the Stem Cell Niche in the Zebrafish Lateral Line

Chunxin Fan, Xiaoyi Yuan, Jian Wang, Wuhong Pei, Hongfei Zheng, Xinyu Zhang, Shawn M. Burgess

Tissue scarring provides a biomechanical framework to promote mammalian bile duct regeneration through the activation of integrin-SRC/FAK signalling

Alexander Walker, Paula Olaizola, Euan Brennan, Edward J Jarman, Yuelin Yao, Elizabeth Carmichael, Andreea Gradinaru, Alexander EP Loftus, David H Wilson, Anabel Martinez Lyons, Laura Charlton, Kimberley Ober-Vliegen, Wunan Mi, Amy Broeders, Kyle Davies, Neil O. Carragher, Asier Unciti-Broceta, Timothy J Kendall, Luc van der Laan, Monique MA Verstegen, Margaret C Frame, Scott H Waddell, Luke Boulter

Planar cell polarity signaling controls cell division symmetry to promote termination of adult tissue regeneration

Samantha J. Hack, Wendy S. Beane

Absence of a prolonged macrophage and B cell response inhibits heart regeneration in the Mexican cavefish

Esra Sengul, Helen G. Potts, William T. Stockdale, Ryan D. Carter, Laura Bevan, Maria Nozdrina, Rita Alonaizan, Zhilian Hu, Abigail Goodship, Jun Ying, Konstantinos Lekkos, Lucy O’Byrne, Madeleine E. Lemieux, Rebecca Richardson, Mathilda T.M. Mommersteeg

| Plant development

The minimal cell-cycle control system in Marchantia as a framework for understanding plant cell proliferation

Facundo Romani, Ignacy Bonter, Marius Rebmann, Go Takahashi, Fernando Guzman-Chavez, Francesco De Batté, Yuki Hirakawa, Jim Haseloff

ALFIN-LIKE Proteins Orchestrate H3K4me3-H3K27me3 Crosstalk to Regulate Plant Embryogenesis

Janik Scotton, Yixuan Fu, Edouard Tourdot, Marc W Schmid, Sara Simonini

A network of RS splicing regulatory proteins controls light-dependent splicing and seedling development

Jennifer Saile, Hannah Walter, Moritz Denecke, Patrick Lederer, Laura Schütz, Andreas Hiltbrunner, Katharina Lepp, Sofia Lobato-Gil, Petra Beli, Andreas Wachter

ROS regulation of stigma papillae growth and maturation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Sowmiya Devi Venkatesan, Thomas C. Davis, Sharon A. Kessler

STM is required for fate establishment of productive shoot progenitor cells in Arabidopsis tissue culture

Ning Zhai, Dixiang Xie, Lin Xu

Expression levels of the Band-7 protein FLOTILLIN modulate salt tolerance, growth and development in the moss Physcomitrium patens

Erika Csicsely, Norina Noor, Susanne Mühlbauer, Hans-Henning Kunz, Serena Schwenkert, Martin Lehmann, Andreas Klingl, Oguz Top, Wolfgang Frank

SlHSFB3a developmentally regulates lateral root formation by modulating auxin signaling in tomato

Adity Majee, Babythoithoi Sairem, Vinod Kumar, Aniruddha P. Sane, Vidhu A. Sane

INDETERMINATE DOMAIN-DELLA protein interactions orchestrate gibberellin-mediated cell elongation in wheat and barley

Patrycja Sokolowska, Matthias Jost, Wolfram Buss, Brett Ford, Peter Michael Chandler, Wolfgang Spielmeyer, Andy Phillips, Alison K. Huttly, Danuše Tarkowská, Rocío Alarcón-Reverte, Suzanne J. Clark, Stephen Pearce, Peter Hedden, Stephen G. Thomas

GPAT2 plays a role in the root cap cuticle formation of Arabidopsis that is not redundant to GPAT4 and GPAT8

Alice Berhin, Aurore Guerault, Damien De Bellis, Christiane Nawrath

A citrullination-ubiquitination pathway controls pre-meiotic H1 eviction and is essential for gametogenesis in Arabidopsis

Yanru Li, Danli Fei, Jasmin Schubert, Kinga Rutowicz, Zuzanna Kaczmarska, Alberto Linares, Alejandro Giraldo-Fonseca, Sylvain Bischof, Ueli Grossniklaus, Celia Baroux

Analysing the Role of KIN10 in Directional Root Growth Regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Katarzyna Retzer, Judith Garcia-Gonzalez, Karel Muller, Jozef Lacek, Simon Pree, Nathalie Friedl, Wolfram Weckwerth

A transcriptional atlas of early Arabidopsis seed development suggests mechanisms for inter-tissue coordination

Caroline A Martin, Kylee R Cogdill, Alesandra L Pusey, Mary Gehring

From Genes to Glands: Unraveling the Pivotal Influence of NtAGL66, an AGAMOUS-like Transcription Factor, on Glandular Trichome Development in Nicotiana tabacum

Alice Berhin, Gabriel Walckiers, Manon Peeters, Belkacem El Amraoui, Charles Hachez

| Environment, evolution and development

Teeth Outside the Jaw: Evolution and Development of the Toothed Head Clasper in Chimaeras

Karly E. Cohen, Michael I. Coates, Gareth J. Fraser

Developmental stages of Arthroleptella villiersi (Pyxicephalidae)

Susan Schweiger, Benjamin Naumann, Hendrik Müller

Evolution of the olfactory system during the radiation of Heliconiini butterflies

Yi Peng Toh, Francesco Cicconardi, Giorgio Bianchini, Richard M Merrill, Stephen H. Montgomery

Correlated evolution of the neck, head and forelimb across the theropod-bird transition

Ryan D. Marek, Ryan N. Felice

Pleiotropy accelerates tooth phenotypic and genomic evolution — An in silico study under the lens of development

Pascal Felix Hagolani, Marie Sémon, Guillaume Beslon, Sophie Pantalacci

Whole-mount acetylcholinesterase (AChE) staining reveals unique motor innervation of the lamprey oral region: with special reference to the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate jaw

Motoki Tamura, Daichi G. Suzuki

Pollen Diet and Sterol Provisioning Differentially Affected Larval Development in a Generalist Solitary Bee

Carlos Martel, Josef Kreidt, Samuel Furse, Jennifer Scott, Janine Griffiths-Lee, Geraldine A. Wright, Philip C. Stevenson

Theoretical origins of extreme cell differentiation irreversibility: a dynamic model of organismal size effects

Yuanxiao Gao, Xueyan Zhao, Caixia Li

From head to tail: does habitat use drive morphological variation in snakes?

David Hudry, Anthony Herrel

Brain dopamine imbalance causes follicle death and underlies negative effect of high sugar diet during Drosophila oogenesis

Rodrigo Dutra Nunes, Daniela Drummond-Barbosa

Cell Biology

The developing retina undergoes mitochondrial remodeling via PINK1/PRKN-dependent mitophagy

Juan Zapata-Muñoz, Juan Ignacio Jiménez-Loygorri, Michael Stumpe, Beatriz Villarejo-Zori, Sandra Alonso-Gil, Petra Terešak, Benan J. Mathai, Ian G Ganley, Anne Simonsen, Jörn Dengjel, Patricia Boya

A human cytotrophoblast-villous endothelium-fetal organ multi-cell model and the impact on gene and protein expression in placenta cytotrophoblast, fetal hepatocytes and fetal kidney epithelial cells

Helen N. Jones, Rebecca L. Wilson

Nanosecond pulsed electric field precisely manipulates cytoplasmic Ca2+ oscillations during oocyte activation

Yi-Dan Sun, Tong An, Rong Liang, Yu-Wen Luo, Hong-Ze Xia, Lei Fu, Shuo Han, Yi-Xiao Zhu, Zi-Yi Song, Xue-Yan Bai, Yao Fu, Xiang-Wei Fu, Yun-Peng Hou, Qun Lu

BCAS2 promotes primitive hematopoiesis by sequestering β-catenin within the nucleus

Guozhu Ning, Yu Lin, Haixia Ma, Jiaqi Zhang, Liping Yang, Zhengyu Liu, Lei Li, Xinyu He, Qiang Wang

From Ning et al. This image is made available under a CC-BY 4.0 International license.

Attenuation of mosaic aneuploidy and erroneous first mitotic division of human embryos

Cerys E. Currie, Aleksandra Byrska, Deborah M. Taylor, Muriel Erent, Daniela Bakalova, Xuhui Sun, Constandina Koki, Nigel J. Burroughs, Richard. A. Anderson, Adele L. Marston, Geraldine M. Hartshorne, Andrew D. McAinsh

Direct visualization and tracing of DNA fold in Drosophila embryo

Fadwa Fatmaoui, Pascal Carrivain, Fatima Taiki, Diana Grewe, Wim Hagen, Burkhard Jakob, Jean-Marc Victor, Amélie Leforestier, Mikhail Eltsov

4D mitochondrial network assumes distinct and predictive phenotypes through human lung and intestinal epithelial development

Gillian McMahon, Dhruv Agarwal, Mehul Arora, Zichen Wang, Hiroyuki Hakozaki, Johannes Schöneberg

A Role for Importin α in Ciliogenesis and Cilia Length Regulation during Nephrogenesis

Natalie Mosqueda, Patrick James Sutton, Christopher William Brownlee

FGF-dependent, polarized SOS activity orchestrates directed migration of C. elegans muscle progenitors independently of canonical effectors in vivo

Theresa V Gibney, Jacob I Mardick, Neal R Rasmussen, Laila Latifi, Meera V Sundaram, David J Reiner, Ariel M Pani

Apical-basal polarity regulates Collagen IV-dependent cell-cell adhesion in the Drosophila adipose tissue

Jameela Almasoud, Cyril Andrieu, Bren Hunyi Lee, Anna Franz

Identification of N-acetyl-rich heparan sulfate binding motifs and their role in expanding BMP distribution and signaling by Cerberus

Takayoshi Yamamoto, Yusuke Mii, Hidetoshi Saiga, Tatsuo Michiue, Masanori Taira

Disruption of spindle orientation and protein localization during asymmetric cleavage by pharmacological inhibition of serotonin signaling

Ayaki Nakamoto, Lisa M. Nagy

Multivalent assembly of PAR-3 / aPKC complexes establishes cell polarity in C. elegans zygotes

Sheng-Ping Hsu, Daniel J. Dickinson

Ploidy and neuron size impact nervous system development and function in Xenopus

Xiao Liu, Christine Wan, Sara Aijaz Shah, Rebecca Heald

Amniotic fluid extracellular vesicle properties evolve with gestational age and reflect fetal development

Ishara Atukorala, Sally Beard, Ching-Seng Ang, Hamish Brown, Swetha Raghavan, Natasha de Alwis, Bianca Fato, Natalie Binder, Natalie Hannan, Lisa Hui

Signaling scaffold Shoc2 regulates lymphangiogenesis by suppressing mTORC1-mediated IFN responses

Patricia Wilson, Vishakha Vishwakarma, Rebecca Norcross, Kashmira Khaire, Van N. Pham, Brant M. Weinstein, Hyun Min Jung, Emilia Galperin

Modelling

Cell divisions both challenge and refine tissue boundaries in the Drosophila embryo

Veronica Castle, Merdeka Miles, Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan

Curvature induced patterns: A geometric, analytical approach to understanding a mechanochemical model

Daphne Nesenberend, Arjen Doelman, Frits Veerman

Tools & Resources

Gene expression cartography of a developing neuronal structure

Leonardo Tadini, Lilia Younsi, Isabel Holguera, Felix Simon, Maximilien Courgeon, Nikos Konstantinides

Characterization of the intraspecies chimeric mouse brain at embryonic day 12.5

Phoebe Strell, Madison A. Waldron, Sether Johnson, Anala Shetty, Andrew T. Crane, Clifford J. Steer, Walter C. Low

Epiproteomic control of the epitranscriptome drives cortical neurogenesis

Ekaterina Borisova, Katherine J. Cuthill, Rike Dannenberg, Janina Koch, Julius Nowaczyk, Theres Schaub, Manuela Schwark, Nicolai Kastelic, Ivanna Kupryianchyk-Schultz, Marieluise Kirchner, Tancredi Massimo Pentimalli, Thornton J. Fokkens, Frank Stein, Carola Dietrich, Claudia Quedenau, Tatiana Borodina, David Schwefel, Thomas Conrad, Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf, Nikolaus Rajewsky, Philipp Mertins, Per Haberkant, Sonja Lorenz, Nils Brose, Hiroshi Kawabe, Victor Tarabykin, Mateusz C. Ambrozkiewicz

Anatomical and Molecular Characterization of the Zebrafish Meninges

Marina Venero Galanternik, Daniel Castranova, Ryan D. Gober, Tuyet Nguyen, Madeleine Kenton, Gennady Margolin, Aurora Kraus, Abhinav Sur, Louis E. Dye 3rd, Van Pham, Adilenne Maese, Melanie Holmgren, Aniket V. Gore, Bakary Samasa, Allison Goldstein, Andrew E. Davis, Avery A. Swearer, James Iben, Tianwei Li, Steven L. Coon, Ryan K. Dale, Jeffrey A. Farrell, Brant M. Weinstein

An optogenetic toolkit for robust activation of FGF, BMP, & Nodal signaling in zebrafish

Leanne E. Iannucci, Velanganni Selvaraj Maria Thomas, Micaela R. Murphy, Caitlin E.T. Donahue, William K. Anderson, Catherine E. Rogers, Allison J. Saul, Katherine W. Rogers

Identification and characterization of early human photoreceptor states and cell-state-specific retinoblastoma-related features

Dominic W.H. Shayler, Kevin Stachelek, Linda Cambier, Sunhye Lee, Jinlun Bai, Bhavana Bhat, Mark W. Reid, Daniel J. Weisenberger, Jennifer G. Aparicio, Yeha Kim, Mitali Singh, Maxwell Bay, Matthew E. Thornton, Eamon K. Doyle, Zachary Fouladian, Stephan G. Erberich, Brendan H. Grubbs, Michael A. Bonaguidi, Cheryl Mae Craft, Hardeep P. Singh, David Cobrinik

Embryonic Durotaxis: A Mechanical Framework for Understanding Cesarean Scar Pregnancy

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Research practice & education

Modeling human phenotypes in the nematode C. elegans during an undergraduate developmental biology course

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A systematic review of professional society-backed biology education DEI research: The groups, research methods, and levels of analyses comprising the field

Candice Idlebird, Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, Gary S. McDowell, Emily Blosser, Richard Harvey, Jana Marcette

Deep Learning-Driven Gender Classification of Drosophila melanogaster: Advancing Real-Time Analysis with Mobile Integration

Jayant Rai, S Aswini, Soumyadeep Paul, Triveni Shelke, Ishaan Gupta

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