Scientific Papers by Developmental Biologists in Japan by Hideyo Ohuchi, Tsutomu Nohno

“…We have assembled ten interesting manuscripts submitted by developmental biologists in Japan [...]…”
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Obituary Maroko Myohara by Rüdiger M. Schmelz, Cintia Niva

“…Dr Maroko Myohara was a developmental biologist at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences in Tsukuba, Japan. …”
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Does Subcutaneous Administration of Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor Improve Pregnancy Outcome in Patients Undergoing Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection? by Roya Kabodmehri, Marzieh Mehrafza, Tahereh Zare Yousefi, Sahar Saghati Jalali, Fatemeh Sedaghat, Elmira Hosseinzadeh, Azadeh Raoufi, Sajedeh Samadnia, Zahra Nikpouri

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Live Birth Rate following Intrauterine Insemination in Women with Low or Very Low Level of Serum Anti-müllerian Hormone by Marzieh Mehrafza, Tahereh Zare Yousefi, Sahar Saghati Jalali, Azadeh Raoufi, Elmira Hosseinzadeh, Sajedeh Samadnia, Maliheh Habibdoost, Ahmad Hosseini

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Building a carnivorous trap by Moulton, DE, Goriely, A

“…The variation and diversity of shapes in nature is a central focus of both evolutionary and developmental biologists. Unified under the unlikely roof of “evolutionary developmental biology,” the ultimate goal of these scientists is to understand how variation arises both through natural selection (on geological time scales) and during development (on embryological time scales). …”

Protocol for the rapid intravenous in ovo injection of developing amniote embryos by Rory L. Cooper, Gabriel Santos-Durán, Michel C. Milinkovitch

“…This technique is rapid, is reproducible, is of low cost, and will provide an important resource for developmental biologists.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Cooper & Milinkovitch.1 : Publisher’s note: Undertaking any experimental protocol requires adherence to local institutional guidelines for laboratory safety and ethics.…”
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The big potential of the small frog Eleutherodactylus coqui by Sarah E Westrick, Mara Laslo, Eva K Fischer

“…Unlike most frogs, the coquí frog skips the tadpole stage, which makes it of interest to developmental biologists. The frog is best known in Puerto Rico for its notoriously loud mating call, which has allowed researchers to study aspects of social behavior such as vocal communication and courtship, while the ability of coquí to colonize new habitats has been used to explore the biology of invasive species. …”
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How alternative splicing changes the properties of plant proteins by Ivan Kashkan, Ksenia Timofeyenko, Kamil Růžička

“…This review is particularly intended for plant cell and developmental biologists who would like to gain inspiration on how the splice variants encoded by their genes of interest may coordinately work.…”
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Better communication between experts is needed to solve the environmental origins of birth defects by Sparrow, DB

“…I believe that a key limiter to successful identification of new environmental factors is that clinicians, epidemiologists and developmental biologists all approach the topic from different angles. …”

Focused Strategies for Defining the Genetic Architecture of Congenital Heart Defects by Lisa J. Martin, D. Woodrow Benson

“…Continued progress in unraveling the genetic underpinnings of CHD will require multidisciplinary collaboration between geneticists, quantitative scientists, clinicians, and developmental biologists.…”
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A reporter assay in lamprey embryos reveals both functional conservation and elaboration of vertebrate enhancers by Parker, H, Sauka-Spengler, T, Bronner, M, Elgar, G

“…As more vertebrate genome sequences are obtained, evolutionary developmental biologists are becoming increasingly able to identify putative gene regulatory elements across the breadth of the vertebrate taxa. …”

Multicellularity in animals: the potential for within-organism conflict by Howe, J, Rink, J, Wang, B, Griffin, AS

“…To facilitate this cross-disciplinary approach, we provide a conceptual overview from evolutionary biology for developmental biologists, using analogous examples in the well-studied social insects.…”

An Evo-Devo perspective on ever-growing teeth in mammals and dental stem cell maintenance by Elodie eRenvoisé, Frederic eMichon

“…Although the evolution of hypsodonty and hypselodonty is considered to be the result of heterochrony of development, little has been known about the exact developmental mechanisms at the origin of these morphological traits. Developmental biologists have been intrigued by the mechanism of hypselodonty since it requires the maintenance of continuous crown formation during development via stem cell niche activity. …”
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From Biosphere to Semiosphere to Social Lifeworlds. Biology as an Understanding Social Science by Günther Witzany

“…It is increasingly able to provide better answers to these questions than firmly established, traditional, mechanistic biology: (1.) a semiotics that transcends Peirce, James and Morris to serve as a basis for the interpretation of sign processes in biosemiotics (Kull 2005), (2.) developmental biologists, embryologists and epigeneticists who have turned the paradigm “DNA-RNA-Protein-everything else” (Arthur Kornberg) on its head and who try to understand protein bodies as context-dependent interpreters of the genetic text, (3.) a philosophy that reconstructs biology as an understanding social science which describes the rule-governed sign-mediated interactions of cell individuals to mega-populations in their lifeworlds.…”
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Deciphering the Mechanisms of Developmental Disorders (DMDD): a new programme for phenotyping embryonic lethal mice. by Mohun, T, Adams, D, Baldock, R, Bhattacharya, S, Copp, A, Hemberger, M, Houart, C, Hurles, M, Robertson, E, Smith, J, Weaver, T, Weninger, W

“…These homozygous lethal mutants represent a potential treasure trove for the biomedical community. Developmental biologists could exploit them in their studies of tissue differentiation and organogenesis; for clinical researchers they offer a powerful resource for investigating the origins of developmental diseases that affect newborns. …”

Detecting separate time scales in genetic expression data by Fink Thomas MA, Brady Siobhan M, Orlando David A, Benfey Philip N, Ahnert Sebastian E

“…This issue is particularly relevant to developmental biologists, who are interested in processes such as growth, segmentation and differentiation, which can all take place simultaneously, but on different time scales.…”
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A survey of putative secreted and transmembrane proteins encoded in the <it>C. elegans</it> genome by Suh Jinkyo, Hutter Harald

“…While these proteins are of interest to a variety of different researchers ranging from developmental biologists to immunologists, most of secreted proteins have not been functionally characterized so far.…”
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Immunomodulation and Biomaterials: Key Players to Repair Volumetric Muscle Loss by Sonia Kiran, Pankaj Dwivedi, Vijay Kumar, Robert L. Price, Udai P. Singh

“…Immunologists, developmental biologists, and muscle pathophysiologists are exploring both immune responses and biomaterials to meet this challenging situation. …”
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Exploring the evolution and function of Canoe's intrinsically disordered region in linking cell-cell junctions to the cytoskeleton during embryonic morphogenesis. by Noah J Gurley, Rachel A Szymanski, Robert H Dowen, T Amber Butcher, Noboru Ishiyama, Mark Peifer

“…One central question for cell and developmental biologists is defining how epithelial cells can change shape and move during embryonic development without tearing tissues apart. …”
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C4 cycles: past, present, and future research on C4 photosynthesis. by Langdale, J

“…In the 20 years that followed, physiologists, biochemists, and molecular and developmental biologists grappled to understand how the C(4) photosynthetic pathway was partitioned between two morphologically distinct cell types in the leaf. …”