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In-house Editor J. Ann Le Good PhD
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BMC Developmental Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in the development, growth, differentiation and regeneration of multicellular organisms, including molecular, cellular, tissue, organ and whole organism research.
BMC Developmental Biology (ISSN 1471-213X) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Zoological Record, Current Contents, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :28
O-linked beta-N-acetlyglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) modification of proteins during zebrafish embryogenesis is essential for cell survival and controls morphogenesis, as shown by gain- and loss-of-function experiments with the genes encoding O-GlcNAc transferase (ogt) and O-GlcNAcase (oga).
BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :18
Both WW domain binding sites of dystroglycan affect cell polarity in Drosophila oocytes and a partial redundancy is demonstrated by rescue experiments, implying that both can bind the WW domain of dystrophin in vivo.
BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :17
Hoxb4 gene expression is induced after neural tube formation in the chick, demonstrating later CNS refinement by both dorsal-ventral patterning systems from somites adjacent to the neural tube and anterior-posterior signals.
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Non-SMC condensin I complex proteins control chromosome segregation and survival of proliferating cells in the zebrafish neural retina Sabine Seipold, Florian C Priller, Paul Goldsmith, William A Harris, Herwig Baier, Salim Abdelilah-Seyfried BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :40 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Developmental changes in the expression of creatine synthesizing enzymes and creatine transporter in a precocial rodent, the spiny mouse Zoe Ireland, Aaron P Russell, Theo Wallimann, David W Walker, Rod Snow BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :39 (1 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The pluripotency factor LIN28 marks undifferentiated spermatogonia in mouse Ke Zheng, Xin Wu, Klaus H Kaestner, Peijing Jeremy Wang BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :38 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Red fluorescent Xenopus laevis : a new tool for grafting analysis Christoph Waldner, Magdalena Roose, Gerhart U Ryffel BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :37 (23 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Foxl2 functions in sex determination and histogenesis throughout mouse ovary development Jose Elias Garcia-Ortiz, Emanuele Pelosi, Shakib Omari, Timur Nedorezov, Yulan Piao, Jesse Karmazin, Manuela Uda, Antonio Cao, Steve W Cole, Antonino Forabosco, David Schlessinger, Chris Ottolenghi BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :36 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The DEAD-box protein MEL-46 is required in the germ line of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans Ryuji Minasaki, Alessandro Puoti, Adrian Streit BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :35 (17 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Remodeling sympathetic innervation in rat pancreatic islets ontogeny Siraam Cabrera-Vasquez, Victor Navarro-Tableros, Carmen Sanchez-Soto, Gabriel Gutierrez-Ospina, Marcia Hiriart BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :34 (17 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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myGRN: a database and visualisation system for the storage and analysis of developmental genetic regulatory networks Jamil Bacha, James S Brodie, Matthew W Loose BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :33 (6 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Salivary gland branching morphogenesis: a quantitative systems analysis of the Eda/Edar/NF Michael Melnick, Robert D Phair, Smadar A Lapidot, Tina Jaskoll BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :32 (6 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Tbx1 and Brn4 regulate retinoic acid metabolic genes during cochlear morphogenesisEvan M Braunstein, Dennis C Monks, Vimla S Aggarwal, Jelena S Arnold, Bernice E Morrow BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :31 (29 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Profiling microRNA expression in Arabidopsis pollen using microRNA array and real-time PCR Carrie Chambers, Bin Shuai BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :87 (10 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Expression of the peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma gene is repressed by DNA methylation in visceral adipose tissue of mouse models of diabetes Katsunori Fujiki, Fumi Kano, Kunio Shiota, Masayuki Murata BMC Biology 2009, 7 :38 (10 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Coordinated patterns of gene expression for adult muscle build-up in transgenic mice expressing myostatin propeptide Baoping Zhao, Eileena J Li, Robert J Wall, Jinzeng Yang BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :305 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Morphogen-defined patterning of Escherichia coli enabled by an externally tunable band-pass filter Takayuki Sohka, Richard A Heins, Marc Ostermeier Journal of Biological Engineering 2009, 3 :10 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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High quality RNA from multiple brain regions simultaneously acquired by laser capture microdissection Wei-Zhi Wang, Franziska M Oeschger, Sheena Lee, Zoltan Molnar BMC Molecular Biology 2009, 10 :69 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Review
Retinal waves are unlikely to instruct the formation of eye-specific retinogeniculate projections Leo M Chalupa Neural Development 2009, 4 :25 (6 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Retinal waves are likely to instruct the formation of eye-specific retinogeniculate projections Marla B Feller Neural Development 2009, 4 :24 (6 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Editorial
Viewpoints: contrasting opinions in Neural Development Andrew Lumsden, Bill Harris, Joshua R Sanes, Rachel Wong Neural Development 2009, 4 :23 (6 [Abstract ] [Full Text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Regulation of TGF-beta signalling by Fbxo11, the gene mutated in the Jeff otitis media mouse mutant
Hilda Tateossian, Rachel E Hardisty-Hughes, Susan Morse, Maria R Romero, Helen Hilton, Charlotte Dean, Steve DM Brown PathoGenetics 2009, 2 :5 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Methodology
Development of a gene silencing DNA vector derived from a broad host range geminivirus Edward M Golenberg, D NOAH Sather, Leandria C Hancock, Kenneth J Buckley, Natalie M Villafranco, David M Bisaro Plant Methods 2009, 5 :9 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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