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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, EMBASE, Scopus, Zoological Record, Current Contents, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :74
The master regulator gene Hox1, expressed during patterning of the Bgamma/delta equivalence group in male Caenorhabditis elegans during embryogenesis, is regulated by the EGF pathway and downstream factors, while proper Bgamma division requires Wnt signaling.
BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :69
The acoel Isodiametra pulchra has neoblasts that are potent stem cells crucial for tissue homeostasis, development and regeneration, and is a new model organism for studying development in this primitive bilaterian phylum.
BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :63
The transcription factors A-MYB, RFX2 and a variant TFIIA (encoded by Alf) may form a transcriptional network vital for meiosis in pachytene spermatocytes in mice, with A-MYB upregulating Rfx2, which in turn upregulates Alf.
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Characterization of the astacin family of metalloproteases in C. elegans Ja-On Park, Jie Pan, Frank Mohrlen, Markus Schupp, Robert Johnsen, David L Baillie, Rick Zapf, Donald G Moerman, Harald Hutter BMC Developmental Biology 2010, 10 :14 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Activated Ras alters lens and corneal development through induction of distinct downstream targets Daniel Burgess, Yan Zhang, Ed Siefker, Ryan Vaca, Murali R Kuracha, Lixing Reneker, Paul A Overbeek, Venkatesh Govindarajan BMC Developmental Biology 2010, 10 :13 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Sex and the single embryo: early development in the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata Paolo Gabrieli, Andrea Falaguerra, Paolo Siciliano, Ludvik M Gomulski, Francesca Scolari, Antigone Zacharopoulou, Gerald Franz, Anna R Malacrida, Giuliano Gasperi BMC Developmental Biology 2010, 10 :12 (26 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Remobilization of Tol2 transposons in Xenopus tropicalis Donald A Yergeau, Clair M Kelley, Emin Kuliyev, Haiqing Zhu, Amy K Sater, Dan E Wells, Paul E Mead BMC Developmental Biology 2010, 10 :11 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A comparative study of prenatal development in Miniopterus schreibersii fuliginosus, Hipposideros armiger and H. pratti Zhe Wang, Naijian Han, Paul A Racey, Binghua Ru, Guimei He BMC Developmental Biology 2010, 10 :10 (21 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Cloning and expression of SOLD1 in ovine and caprine placenta, and their expected roles during the development of placentomes Koichi Ushizawa, Toru Takahashi, Misa Hosoe, Keiichiro Kizaki, Kazuyoshi Hashizume BMC Developmental Biology 2010, 10 :9 (21 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Analysis of retinal cell development in chick embryo by immunohistochemistry and in ovo electroporation techniques Sung Tae Doh, Hailing Hao, Stephanie C Loh, Tapan Patel, Haim Y Tawil, David K Chen, Anna Pashkova, Andy Shen, Huimin Wang, Li Cai BMC Developmental Biology 2010, 10 :8 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Disruption of zebrafish cyclin G-associated kinase (GAK) function impairs the expression of Notch-dependent genes during neurogenesis and causes defects in neuronal development Ting Bai, Jamie L Seebald, Kyu-Eui Kim, Hong-Mei Ding, Daniel P Szeto, Henry C Chang BMC Developmental Biology 2010, 10 :7 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Downstream genes of Pax6 revealed by comprehensive transcriptome profiling in the developing rat hindbrain Keiko Numayama-Tsuruta, Yoko Arai, Masanori Takahashi, Makiko Sasaki-Hoshino, Nobuo Funatsu, Shun Nakamura, Noriko Osumi BMC Developmental Biology 2010, 10 :6 (18 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Developmental Cues and Persistent Neurogenic Potential Within an In Vitro Neural Niche Chris Pierret, Jason A Morrison, Prakash Rath, Rachel E Zigler, Laura A Engel, Corinne L Fairchild, Huidong Shi, Joel A Maruniak, Mark D Kirk BMC Developmental Biology 2010, 10 :5 (14 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Identification of genes associated with growth cessation and bud dormancy entrance using a dormancy-incapable tree mutant Sergio Jimenez, Zhigang Li, Gregory L Reighard, Douglas G Bielenberg BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :25 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Stone formation in peach fruit exhibits spatial coordination of the lignin and flavonoid pathways and similarity to Arabidopsis dehiscence Chris D Dardick, Ann M Callahan, Remo Chiozzotto, Robert J Schaffer, M Claudia Piagnani, Ralph Scorza BMC Biology 2010, 8 :13 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Phosphoproteomes of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus shell and tooth matrix: identification of a major acidic sea urchin tooth phosphoprotein, phosphodontin. Karlheinz Mann, Albert J Poustka, Matthias Mann Proteome Science 2010, 8 :6 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Long noncoding RNAs in neuronal-glial fate specification and oligodendrocyte lineage maturation Timothy R Mercer, Irfan A Qureshi, Solen Gokhan, Marcel E Dinger, Guangyu Li, John S Mattick, Mark F Mehler BMC Neuroscience 2010, 11 :14 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Diffusion is capable of translating anisotropic apoptosis initiation into a homogeneous execution of cell death
Heinrich J Huber, Maike A Laussmann, Jochen HM Prehn, Markus Rehm BMC Systems Biology 2010, 4 :9 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Histone H3 lysine 4 methylation is associated with the transcriptional reprogramming efficiency of somatic nuclei by oocytes Kazutaka Murata, Tony Kouzarides, Andrew J Bannister, John B Gurdon Epigenetics & Chromatin 2010, 3 :4 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Endoplasmic reticulum protein 29 (ERp29), a protein related to sperm maturation is involved in sperm-oocyte fusion in mouse Xiaoqian Ying, Yue Liu, Qiangsu Guo, Fei Qu, Wei Guo, Yemin Zhu, Zhide Ding Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010, 8 :10 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Identification and characterisation of CYP75A31, a new flavonoid 3'5'-hydroxylase, isolated from Solanum lycopersicum. Kristine M Olsen, Alain Hehn, Helene Jugde, Rune Slimestad, Romain Larbat, Frederic Bourgaud, Cathrine Lillo BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :21 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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MicroRNAs show diverse and dynamic expression patterns in multiple tissues of Bombyx mori Shiping Liu, Song Gao, Danyu Zhang, Jiyun Yin, Zhonghuai Xiang, Qingyou Xia BMC Genomics 2010, 11 :85 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Remodeling of inhibitory synaptic connections in developing ferret visual cortex Matthew B Dalva Neural Development 2010, 5 :5 (1 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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