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March in preprints

Posted by , on 4 April 2025

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

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

Developmental biology

Cell Biology

Modelling

Tools & Resources

Research practice and education

Developmental biology

| Patterning & signalling

Notch-mediated regulation of β-Catenin-TCF activity instructs anteroposterior neuron positioning in C. elegans

Wesley Chan, Justin Evans, Tony Roenspies, Jonathan D. Rumley, John I. Murray, Antonio Colavita

MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos

Alice M. Godden, Nicole Ward, Méghane Sittewelle, Marco Antonaci, Aleksandr Kotov, Anne H. Monsoro-Burq, Grant N. Wheeler

FGF diffusion is required for directed migration of postembryonic muscle progenitors in C. elegans

Theresa V Gibney, Ariel M Pani

Wnt and Fgf signaling pharmacological inhibition affect posterior growth during Tribolium castaneum germband elongation

Marco Mundaca-Escobar, Renato V. Pardo, Rodrigo E. Cepeda, Andres F. Sarrazin

DIO3 coordinates photoreceptor development timing and fate stability in human retinal organoids

Christina McNerney, Clayton P. Santiago, Kiara C. Eldred, Ian Glass, Tom A. Reh, Arturo Hernandez, Seth Blackshaw, Nathan D. Lord, Robert J. Johnston Jr

Cell polarity of neural crest-derived mesenchymal cells controls craniofacial development

Andrea Burianova, Kleopatra Kythraiotou, Lucie Sazavska, Ondrej Machon

Axial patterning of gastruloids via diverse cell type compositions

Kerim Anlas, Fumio Nakaki, Nicola Gritti, Jordi Font-Reverter, Krisztina Arató, Martí Planasdemunt-Hospital, David Oriola, James Sharpe, Vikas Trivedi

| Morphogenesis & mechanics

Primordial germ cells experience increasing physical confinement and DNA damage during migration in the mouse embryo

Katharine Goodwin, Theresa Anne Emrich, Sebastian Arnold, Katie McDole

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

Adaptive Clonal Expansion Shapes Brain Development

Giulia Di Muzio, Sarah Benedetto, Li-Chin Wang, Lea Weber, Franciscus van der Hoeven, Brittney Armstrong, Hsin-Jui Lu, Jana Berlanda, Verena Körber, Nina Claudino, Michelle Krogemann, Thomas Höfer, Pei-Chi Wei

Mechanical fracturing of the extracellular matrix patterns the vertebrate heart

Christopher Chan Jin Ji, Daniel Santos-Olivan, Marie-Christine Ramel, Juliana Sanchez-Posada, Priscilla Paizakis, Toby GR Andrews, Emily S Noel, Alejandro Torres-Sanchez, Rashmi Priya

Characterisation of the Avascular Mesenchyme during Digit Outgrowth

Cameron C Batho-Samblas, Jonathan Smith, Lois Keavey, Noah Clancy, Lynn McTeir, Megan G Davey

Adhesion to a common ECM mediates interdependence in tissue morphogenesis in Drosophila

LE Sánchez-Cisneros, M Barrera-Velázquez, Dimitri Kromm, P Bun, H Merchant-Larios, LD Ríos-Barrera

Coro1A and TRIM67 collaborate in netrin-dependent neuronal morphogenesis

Chris T. Ho, Elliot B. Evans, Kimberly Lukasik, Ellen C. O’Shaughnessy, Aneri Shah, Chih-Hsuan Hsu, Brenda Temple, James E. Bear, Stephanie L. Gupton

PIEZO1 Drives Trophoblast Fusion and Placental Development

Yang Zhang, Ke Z. Shan, Pengfei Liang, Augustus J. Lowry, Liping Feng, Huanghe Yang

Crucial roles of mesenchymal Gata2 in murine epididymal development

Allyssa Fogarty, Shuai Jia, Jillian Wilbourne, Claire DuPuis, Fei Zhao

| Genes & genomes

UNC5H3 expression during early development in the chicken is associated with populations at the dorsal apex of the neural tube

Ruth Klafke, Natalie Harriman, Richard J.T. Wingate, Andrea Wizenmann

Chronic replication stress-mediated genomic instability disrupts placenta development in mice

Mumingjiang Munisha, Rui Huang, John C. Schimenti

Asymmetric Histone Inheritance Regulates Differential Transcription Re-initiation and Cell Fate Decisions in Mouse Olfactory Horizontal Basal Cells

Binbin Ma, Guanghui Yang, Jonathan Yao, Charles Wu, Jean Pinckney Vega, Gabriel Manske, Saher Sue Hammoud, Satrajit Sinha, Abhyudai Singh, Haiqing Zhao, Xin Chen

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

Sex-biased Transcriptome in in vitro Produced Bovine Early Embryos

Meihong Shi, Guangsheng Li, Hannah Marie Araujo, Angie S Lee, Jingzhi Zhang, Yoke Lee Lee, IISAGE Consortium, Soon Hon Cheong, Jingyue (Ellie) Duan

Single-Nucleotide m6A Mapping Uncovers Redundant YTHDF Function in Planarian Progenitor Fate Selection

Yarden Yesharim, Ophir Shwarzbard, Jenny Barboy-Smoliarenko, Ran Shachar, Amrutha Palavalli, Hanh Thi-Kim Vu, Schraga Schwartz, Omri Wurtzel

Developmental regulation of Drosophila dosage compensation in a 3D genome context

Lubna Younas, Mujahid Ali, Xinpei Zhang, Catherine Regnard, Qi Zhou

Transposon insertion causes ctnnb2 transcript instability that results in the maternal effect zebrafish ichabod (ich) mutation

Zsombor Varga, Ferenc Kagan, Shingo Maegawa, Ágnes Nagy, Javan Okendo, Shawn M. Burgess, Eric S. Weinberg, Máté Varga

The basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor TCF4 recruits the Mediator Complex to activate gonadal genes and drive ovarian development

EV O’Neil, SM Dupont, B Capel

3D dynamics of trans enhancer-promoter interactions in living Drosophila embryos reveals spatiotemporal thresholds for transcription activation

Hao Deng, Phillippe Valenti, Francois Payre, Bomyi Lim

Maternal Effects on Postembryonic Neuroblast Migration in C. elegans

Hoikiu Poon, Chaogu Zheng

Calcium signals shape metabolic control of H3K27ac and H3K18la to regulate EGA

Virginia Savy, Paula Stein, Don Delker, Martín A. Estermann, Brian N. Papas, Zongli Xu, Lenka Radonova, Carmen J. Williams

TENT5C extends Odf1 poly(A) tail to sustain sperm morphogenesis and fertility

Marine Baptissart, Ankit Gupta, Alexander C. Poirot, Brian N. Papas, Marcos Morgan

Krüppel Regulates Cell Cycle Exit and Limits Adult Neurogenesis of Mushroom Body Neural Progenitors in Drosophila

Dongni Shao Chen, Jin Man, Xian Shu, Haoer Shi, Xue Xia, Yusanjiang Abula, Yuu Kimata

ARL13B-Cerulean rescues Arl13b-null mouse from embryonic lethality and reveals a role for ARL13B in spermatogenesis

Alyssa B. Long, Isabella M. Wilson, Tiffany T. Terry, Robert E. Van Sciver, Tamara Caspary

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

Placental Igf1 Overexpression Sex-Specifically Impacts Mouse Placenta Structure, Altering Offspring Striatal Development and Behavior

Annemarie J. Carver, Faith M. Fairbairn, Robert J. Taylor, Shanmukh Boggarapu, Njenga R. Kamau, Amrita Gajmer, Hanna E. Stevens

The pioneer factor Zelda induces male-to-female somatic sex reversal in adult tissues

Sneh Harsh, Hsiao-Yun Liu, Pradeep Kumar Bhaskar, Christine Rushlow, Erika Bach

| Stem cells, regeneration & disease modelling

Induction and long-term maintenance of hindbrain-like neural stem cells in xeno- and basic fibroblast growth factor-free conditions

Ziadoon Al-Akashi, Denise Zujur, Nicholas Boyd-Gibbins, Nathalie Eileen Wiguna, Masato Nakagawa, Tetsuhiro Kikuchi, Asuka Morizane, Jun Takahashi, Makoto Ikeya

Detection of dedifferentiated stem cells in Drosophila testis

Muhammed Burak Bener, Boris Slepchenko, Mayu Inaba

Extracellular matrix deposition controls early differentiation patterns in human cardiac gastruloids

Marion F Marchand, Geetika Sahni, Aditya Arora, Selma Sehrouchni, Florain Dilasser, Anais Monet, Flora Luciani, Harini Rajendiran, Lea Chabot, Saburnisha Binte Mohamad Raffi, Gianluca Grenci, Jean-Baptiste Sibarita, Remi Galland, Jin Zhu, Virgile Viasnoff

Small molecule influence on Caudal fin regeneration in Zebrafish: A proteomic based study

Anusha P V, Shailvi Tewari, Catherine Philip, Anushka Arvind, Ifra Iyoob, Mohammed M Idris

A transcriptional atlas of the pubertal human growth plate reveals direct stimulation of cartilage stem cells by growth hormone

Tsz Long Chu, Ostap Dregval, Farasat Zaman, Lei Li, Xin Tian, Xin Liu, Dana Trompet, Baoyi Zhou, Jussi O Heinonen, Claes Ohlsson, Lars Sävendahl, Igor Adameyko, Andrei S Chagin

map3k1 is required for spatial restriction of progenitor differentiation in planarians

Bryanna Isela-Inez Canales, Hunter O. King, Peter W. Reddien

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

The Notch ligand Jagged1 plays a dual role in cochlear hair cell regeneration

Xiao-Jun Li, Charles Morgan, Lin Li, Wan-Yu Zhang, Elena Chrysostomou, Angelika Doetzlhofer

Defining the role of fibroblasts in skin expansion

Caroline Aguilera Stewart, Ceyhun Alar, Leslie Bargsted, Ioanna Kaklamanou, Gaia Andrea Gozza, Maria Pia Polito, Elena Enzo, Alejandro Sifrim, Mariaceleste Aragona

Sonoepigenetics: Spatiotemporal Calcium Dynamics and cAMP Signaling Driven by High Frequency Nanomechanostimulation Regulates Transient Epigenetic Modifications and Early Osteogenic Commitment in Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Lizebona August Ambattu, Blanca del Rosal, Carmelo Ferrai, Leslie Yeo

N2B27 media formulations influence gastruloid development

Tina Balayo, Sharna Lunn, Pau Pascual-Mas, Ulla-Maj Fiuza, Amruta Vasudevan, Joshua D. Frenster, Hannah Y. Galloon, Raquel Flores Peirats, Alfonso Martinez Arias, André Dias, David A. Turner

Alzheimer’s Disease Mutations Disrupt Neural Stem Cell Fate and Early Brain Development

Yiqiao Wang, Johan Lorentz, Elyas Mohammadi, Dilsah Ezgi Yilmaz, Theologos Sgouras, Yuxi Guo, Giusy Pizzirusso, Aphrodite Demetriou, Ivan Nalvarte, Marianne Schultzberg, Xiaofei Li

Chronic morphine treatment leads to a global DNA hypomethylation via active and passive demethylation mechanisms in mESCs

Manu Araolaza, Iraia Munoa-Hoyos, Itziar Urizar-Arenaza, Irune Calzado, Nerea Subiran

Myc and Tor drive growth and cell competition in the regeneration blastema of Drosophila wing imaginal discs

Felicity Ting-Yu Hsu, Rachel Smith-Bolton

Impaired stem cell migration and divisions in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy revealed by live imaging

Liza Sarde, Gaëlle Letort, Hugo Varet, Vincent Laville, Julien Fernandes, Shahragim Tajbakhsh, Brendan Evano

Epigenetic Reprogramming Alters Intestinal Stem Cell Fate in Pouchitis

Chaoting Zhou, Jing Yu Carolina Cen Feng, Shan Liu, Katherine S. Ventre, Jordan E. Axelrad, Kyung Ku Jang, Ken Cadwell

Alternative splicing dynamics during human cardiac development in vivo and in vitro

Beatriz Gomes-Silva, Marta Furtado, Marta Ribeiro, Sandra Martins, Maria Teresa Carvalho, Henrike Maatz, Michael Radke, Michael Gotthardt, Rosina Savisaar, Maria Carmo-Fonseca

Rejuvenated human amniotic fluid stem cells: a superior source of standardized induced mesenchymal stem cells for enhanced therapeutic applications

Michelangelo Corcelli, Ellen Petzendorfer, Kate Hawkins, Filipa Vlahova, Catherine Caruso, Mehedi Mohammad Hasan, Katie Durrant, Anna David, Fleur S van Dijk, Pascale V Guillot

Damage recognition by intestinal stem cells via Draper-Src-Shark-STAT signalling promotes adult Drosophila midgut regeneration

Martina Legido, Rebecca Wafer, Marie Srotyr, Parthive H. Patel

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

Genetic mutations in GLP-1/Notch pathway reveal distinct mechanisms of Notch signaling in germline stem cell regulation

Nimmy S. John, Michelle A. Urman, Mahasin G. Mehmood, ChangHwan Lee

Towards Clinical-Grade Bioengineered Airways: A Study on Stem Cell Renewal and Epithelial Differentiation

Adamo Davide, Genna Vincenzo Giuseppe, Galaverni Giulia, Chiavelli Chiara, Merra Alessia, Lepore Fabio, Boraldi Federica, Quaglino Daniela, Evangelista Jessica, Lococo Filippo, Pellegrini Graziella

Intracellular autofluorescence enables the isolation of viable, functional human muscle reserve cells with distinct Pax7 levels and stem cell states

Axelle Bouche, Diego Michel, Perrine Castets, Didier Hannouche, Thomas Laumonier

In vivo self-renewal and expansion of quiescent stem cells from a non-human primate

Jengmin Kang, Abhijnya Kanugovi, M. Pilar J. Stella, Zofija Frimand, Jean Farup, Andoni Urtasun, Shixuan Liu, Anne-Sofie Clausen, Heather Ishak, Summer Bui, Soochi Kim, Camille Ezran, Olga Botvinnik, Ermelinda Porpiglia, Mark Krasnow, Antoine de Morree, Thomas A. Rando

Multiple Wnt signaling pathways direct epithelial tubule interconnection in the regenerating zebrafish kidney

Caramai N. Kamei, William G. B. Sampson, Carolin Albertz, Oliver Aries, Amber Wolf, Rohan M. Upadhyay, Samuel M. Hughes, Heiko Schenk, Frederic Bonnet, Bruce W. Draper, Kyle W. McCracken, Denise K. Marciano, Leif Oxburgh, Iain A. Drummond

| Plant development

Ethylene modulates cell wall mechanics for root responses to compaction

Jiao Zhang, Zhuo Qu, Zengyu Liu, Jingbin Li, Edward Farrar, Osvaldo Chara, Lucas Peralta Ogorek, Augusto Borges, Shingo Sakamoto, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Xiaobo Zhu, Mingyuan Zhu, Jin Shi, Wanqi Liang, Malcolm Bennett, Bipin Pandey, Dabing Zhang, Staffan Persson

Arabidopsis PIEZO integrates magnetic field and blue light signaling to regulate root growth

Ziai Peng, Wenjing Yang, Man Dong, Hanrui Bai, Yan Lei, Ninghui Pan, Yong Xie, Liwei Guo, Changning Liu, Yunlong Du

Gene networks are conserved across reproductive development between the fern Ceratopteris richardii and the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana

Andrew R.G. Plackett, Marco Catoni

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

AarMIXTAs: key factors of T-shaped non-glandular trichome development in Artemisia argyi

Xinlian Chen, Duan Wu, Chunyu Li, Baosheng Liao, Qi Shen

Distinct classes of 21 and 24-nt phasiRNAs suggest diverse mechanisms of biogenesis and function in rice anther development

Rachel Jouni, Caroline Henry, Sébastien Bélanger, Patricia Baldrich, Blake C. Meyers

The hollow truth: ethylene-triggered ROS, PCD, senescence, and autophagy drive hollow stem formation

Mengxiao Yan, Weijuan Fan, Wei Yang, Jiamin Zhao, Yinghui Meng, Wuyu Zhou, Haiyan Zhuang, Ziyin Xu, Yuqin Wang, Qingjun Huang, Ling Yuan, Hongxia Wang, Jun Yang

The cellular architecture of wheat leaves supports a conservation of spatial patterning of the mesophyll in grasses

Emma White, Matthew J Wilson, Richard Summers, Cristobal Uauy, Andrew J. Fleming

Lipocalins are versatile regulators of development and stress response in mosses

Shuanghua Wang, Jianchao Ma, Qia Wang, Yanlong Guan, Xiangyang Hu, Hang Sun, Jinling Huang

SnRK2.4 and SnRK2.10 redundantly control developmental leaf senescence by sustaining ABA production and signaling

Anna Anielska-Mazur, Julia Rachowka, Lidia Polkowska-Kowalczyk, Michal Krzyszton, Dominika Cieslak, Radoslaw Mazur, Maria Bucholc, Jolanta Rakowska, Dominika Trzmiel, Paulina Stachula, Mateusz Olechowski, Szymon Swiezewski, Grazyna Dobrowolska, Anna Kulik

Molecular mechanisms underlying the determination of axillary bud fate and outgrowth into branch crown in strawberry

Marie Alonso, Pierre Prévost, Aline Potier, Pascal GP Martin, Yves Caraglio, Michael Nicolas, Michel Hernould, Christophe Rothan, Béatrice Denoyes, Amèlia Gaston

| Environment, evolution and development

Actinotrichia-independent developmental mechanisms of spiny rays facilitate the morphological diversification of Acanthomorpha fish fins

Kazuhide Miyamoto, Junpei Kuroda, Satomi Kamimura, Yasuyuki Sasano, Gembu Abe, Satoshi Ansai, Noriko Funayama, Masahiro Uesaka, Koji Tamura

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

Wnt signaling restores evolutionary loss of regenerative potential in Hydra

Sergio E Campos, Sahar Naziri, Jackson Crane, Jennifer Tsverov, Ben D Cox, Craig Ciampa, Celina E Juliano

Rapid canalisation of mandible structure in Tetrapoda

Emily Charlotte Watt, Ryan N. Felice, Anjali Goswami

Ultimate paths of least resistance: Intrinsically disordered links as developmental resets in regulatory protein networks

Alexander V. Badyaev, Carmen Sanchez Moreno, Cody A. Lee, Sarah E. Britton, Laurel M. Johnstone, Renee A. Duckworth

Evolution and expression of Glial Cells Missing (GCM1 and GCM2) in monotremes suggests an ancient role in reproduction and placentation

Isabella Wilson, Diana Demiyah Mohd Hamdan, Frank Grutzner

The evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development

Ioannis Sarropoulos, Mari Sepp, Tetsuya Yamada, Philipp S. L. Schäfer, Nils Trost, Julia Schmidt, Céline Schneider, Charis Drummer, Sophie Mißbach, Ibrahim I. Taskiran, Nikolai Hecker, Carmen Bravo González-Blas, Niklas Kempynck, Robert Frömel, Piyush Joshi, Evgeny Leushkin, Frederik Arnskötter, Kevin Leiss, Konstantin Okonechnikov, Steven Lisgo, Miklós Palkovits, Svante Pääbo, Margarida Cardoso-Moreira, Lena M. Kutscher, Rüdiger Behr, Stefan M. Pfister, Stein Aerts, Henrik Kaessmann

Integrative multi-omics analysis of Polypterus fin regeneration reveals shared and derived fin and limb regeneration mechanisms

Josane F. Sousa, Gabriela Lima, Louise Perez, Hannah Schof, Igor Schneider

Sharks and rays have the oldest vertebrate sex chromosome with unique sex determination mechanisms

Taiki Niwa, Yoshinobu Uno, Yuta Ohishi, Mitsutaka Kadota, Naotaka Aburatani, Itsuki Kiyatake, Daiki Katooka, Michikazu Yorozu, Nobutaka Tsuzuki, Atsushi Toyoda, Wataru Takagi, Masaru Nakamura, Shigehiro Kuraku

The retinoic acid receptor regulates development of a key evolutionary novelty – the molluscan shell

Keisuke Shimizu, Paul A. O’Neill, Kazuyoshi Endo, Tetsuhiro Kudoh

Cold-sensing TRP channels and temperature preference modulate ovarian development in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster

Gabriele Andreatta, Sara Montagnese, Rodolfo Costa

Analysis of Nematode Ventral Nerve Cords Suggests Multiple Instances of Evolutionary Addition and Loss of Neurons

Jaeyeong Han, Alyson Ficca, Marissa Lanzatella, Kanika Leang, Matthew Barnum, Jonathan C. T. Boudreaux, Nathan E. Schroeder

Prenatal exposure to environmental stressors alters gut macrophage development and gastrointestinal function of male offspring

Dang M. Nguyen, Sarah K. Monroe, Danielle N. Rendina, Kevin S. Boyd, Erika D. Rispoli, Olivia M. Wirfel, A. Brayan Campos-Salazar, Anna R. Araujo, Trisha V. Vaidyanathan, Virginia L. Keziah, Benjamin A. Devlin, Caroline J. Smith, Staci D. Bilbo

Divergence of germ cell-less roles in germ line development across insect species

Jonchee A. Kao, Ben Ewen-Campen, Cassandra G. Extavour

Molecular evidence for pre-chordate origins of ovarian cell types and neuroendocrine control of reproduction

Periklis Paganos, Carsten Wolff, Danila Voronov, S. Zachary Swartz

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

Cell Biology

Identification of Genes Required for Spatial Control and Mechanical Resilience of Cytokinesis during Caenorhabditis elegans Embryogenesis

Chelsey Lynn Gough, Yuxuan Rain Xiong, Aoi Hiroyasu, Christina Rou Hsu, Viktorija Juciute, MinJee Kim, Kalen Dofher, Kenji Sugioka

N-cadherin facilitates trigeminal sensory neuron outgrowth and target tissue innervation

Caroline A. Halmi, Carrie E. Leonard, Alec T. McIntosh, Lisa A. Taneyhill

Extrinsic Apoptosis and Necroptosis in Telencephalic Development: A Single-Cell Mass Cytometry Study

Jiachen Shi, Weile Liu, Alison Song, Timi Sanni, Amy Van Deusen, Eli R. Zunder, Christopher D. Deppmann

A novel RNP compartment boosts translation in growing mouse oocytes to avoid cytoplasm dilution

N. Zollo, G. Zaffagnini, A. Canette, G. Letort, C. Da Silva, N. Tessandier, J. Dumont, C. Blugeon, S. Lemoine, B. Wattellier, E. Böke, M. Almonacid, M.-H. Verlhac

Nuclear hormone receptor regulation of Caudal mediates ventral nerve cord assembly in C. elegans

Nathaniel Noblett, Tony Roenspies, Stephane Flibotte, Antonio Colavita

Bulk exocytosis of large intracellular apical precursor organelles establishes apical domain identity during de novo lumen formation

Eleanor Martin, Sujasha Ghosh, Yuhong Chen, Rossana Girardello, Barbara Hübner, Kay En Low, Gunnar Dittmar, Alexander Ludwig

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

Cis-inhibition of Notch by Delta controls follicle formation in Drosophila melanogaster

muriel grammont, Caroline Vachias

Catalytic activity of KMT5B promotes cilia tuft formation without affecting chromatin accessibility of ciliary genes

Janet Tait, Carmen Marthen, Barbara Hoelscher, Tobias Straub, Ralph A.W. Rupp

TORC1-driven translation of Nucleoporin44A promotes chromatin remodeling and germ cell-to-maternal transition in Drosophila

Noor M. Kotb, Gulay Ulukaya, Anupriya Ramamoorthy, Lina Seojin Park, Julia Tang, Dan Hasson, Prashanth Rangan

The actin protrusion deforms the nucleus during invasion through basement membrane

Johan d’Humières, Lianzijun Wang, David R. Sherwood, Julie Plastino

Proton-secreting cells modulate mucosal immune surveillance in the male reproductive tract

AAS Da Silva, F Barrachina, MC Avenatti, ML Elizagaray, I Bastepe, E Sasso-Cerri, MA Battistone

Modelling

Tissue Fluidity: A Double-Edged Sword for Multicellular Patterning

Rikki M. Garner, Sean E. McGeary, Allon M. Klein, Sean G. Megason

Growth and patterning in vertebrate limb development A timescale perspective on skeletal specification

S Ben Tahar, E Comellas, TJ Duerr, JR Monaghan, JJ Munoz, SJ Shefelbine

Stem-cell differentiation underpins reproducible morphogenesis

Dominic K Devlin, Austen RD Ganley, Nobuto Takeuchi

A model for boundary-driven tissue morphogenesis

Daniel S. Alber, Shiheng Zhao, Alexandre O. Jacinto, Eric F. Wieschaus, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, Pierre A. Haas

Tools & Resources

A human induced pluripotent stem cell toolbox for studying sex chromosome effects

Ruta Meleckyte, Wazeer Varsally, Jasmin Zohren, Jerry Eriksson, Tania Incitti, Linda Starnes, Amy Pointon, Ryan Hicks, Benjamin E. Powell, James M.A. Turner

Genetic context of transgene insertion can influence neurodevelopment in zebrafish

Anna J. Moyer, Alexia Barcus, Mary E.S. Capps, Jessica A. Chrabasz, Robert L. Lalonde, Christian Mosimann, Summer B. Thyme

Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo

Melissa Antoniou-Kourounioti, Felícitas Ramírez de Acuña, Raphael Caspar Constantin Schettler, Sakshi Kaushal Udar, Aitor Hamzic Petite, Ramayee Vidhya Sivasubramanian, Andrea Erika Münsterberg, Timothy Grocott

Step-by-step protocol for making a knock-in Xenopus laevis to visualize endogenous gene expression

Norie Kagawa, Yoshihiko Umesono, Ken-Ichi T Suzuki, Makoto Mochii

Short-term exposure to Cook, Vitrolife, and KSOM media shapes early calcium oscillations in ICSI-fertilized mouse oocytes and impacts adult phenotype

Bernadette Banrezes, Thierry Sainte Beuve, Anne Frambourg, Alice Jouneau

Multi-omic human neural organoid cell atlas of the posterior brain

Nadezhda Azbukina, Zhisong He, Hsiu-Chuan Lin, Malgorzata Santel, Bijan Kashanian, Ashley Maynard, Tivadar Török, Ryoko Okamoto, Marina Nikolova, Sabina Kanton, Valentin Brösamle, Rene Holtackers, J. Gray Camp, Barbara Treutlein

In vitro approaches to study centriole and cilium function in early mouse embryogenesis

Isabella Voelkl, Tamara Civetta, Mirijam Egg, Marie Huber, Songjie Feng, Alexander Dammermann, Christa Buecker

Reconstitution of human fetal ovaries reveals niche requirements for primordial germ cell-like cell progression

Yolanda W. Chang, Marjolein Trimp, Talia Van Der Helm, Albert Blanch-Asensio, Arend W. Overeem, Susana M. Chuva De Sousa Lopes

Enhancing Embryo Stage Classification with Multi-Focal Plane Imaging and Deep Learning

Aissa Benfettoume Souda, Wistan Marchadour, Souaad Hamza-Cherif, Jean-Marie Guyader, Marwa Elbouz, Fréderic Morel, Aurore Perrin, Mohammed El Amine Bechar, Nesma Settouti

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

Automated, high-throughput in-situ hybridization of Lytechinus pictus embryos

Yoon Lee, Chloe Jenniches, Rachel Metry, Gloria Renaudin, Svenja Kling, Evan Tjeerdema, Elliot W Jackson, Amro Hamdoun

The 4D Human Embryonic Brain Atlas: spatiotemporal atlas generation for rapid anatomical changes using first-trimester ultrasound from the Rotterdam Periconceptional Cohort

Wietske A.P. Bastiaansen, Melek Rousian, Anton H.J. Koning, Wiro J. Niessen, Bernadette S. de Bakker, Régine P.M. Steegers-Theunissen, Stefan Klein

Research practice & education

Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasibility of rapid, high-quality peer review in a biology journal

Daniel A. Gorelick, Alejandra Clark

LGBTQ+ realities in the biological sciences

Katelyn M. Cooper, Carly A. Busch, Alice Accorsi, Derek A. Applewhite, Parth B. Bhanderi, Bruno da Rocha-Azevedo, Abhijit Deb Roy, Joseph P. Campanale, Fred Chang, Jerry E. Chipuk, Lee A. Ligon, G.W. Gant Luxton, Austin J. Graham, Camila Hochman-Mendez, Imge Ozugergin, Zachory M. Park, Claire M. Thomas, Alex M. Valm, Hongxian Zhu, Rebecca S. Alvania

Cracking the code of co-authorship networks geo-temporally using interpretable machine learning

Swapnil Keshari, Zarifeh Heidari Rarani, Akash Kishore, Jishnu Das

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