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Posted by Raj Ladher, on 8 January 2016
A running joke amongst avian developmental biologists is that the chicken (Gallus gallus) is the tastiest of the model organisms. A typical response from some of my mouse, frog or ...Posted by A. Stolfi, on 24 December 2015
Tunicates are the invertebrates most closely related to us, forming a monophyletic clade with the vertebrates, known as Olfactores. Tunicates, often erroneously referred to as “urochordates” (a junior synonym and ...Posted by the Node, on 16 December 2015
This interview first featured in Development. Nipam Patel is a developmental biologist based at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, where he uses a variety of organisms to study ...Posted by the Node, on 20 October 2015
This interview first featured in Development. Mike Levine, director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, is a developmental biologist who has dedicated his career to understanding ...Posted by Miquel Marin-Riera, on 4 October 2015
One of the main challenges of Developmental Biology is to understand the complex developmental mechanisms giving rise to different organs or whole organisms. In most cases, these involve the interplay ...Posted by allisonedgar, on 19 August 2015
The inaugural meeting of the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology took place from August 5th–9th at the Clark Kerr campus of UC Berkley, USA. Registration was full, with nearly ...Posted by Abzhanov, on 28 May 2015
Nature’s most interesting secrets can sometimes be found in our own backyards. One such secret is related to all birds, those pigeons, thrushes and sparrows that we see everyday. This ...Posted by Manuel Stemmer, on 11 February 2015
Phreatichthys andruzzii, lateral view (left), frontal view (right) Adaptations of some fish species to their environment can be most peculiar, especially within cave dwelling kinds. The so called troglomorphisms slowly ...Posted by Patrick Tschopp, on 17 November 2014
The morphological evolution of limbs and external genitalia were both essential adaptions to a life on land. While the former deals with the novel locomotory challenges facing an animal invading ...Posted by Nuria Sánchez Farías, on 31 October 2014
Hi! I am Nuria, a PhD student. I work in the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Our group, the BRAINSHARK group, has been ...