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In-house Editor J. Ann Le Good
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BMC Developmental Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of cellular, tissue-level and organismal aspects of development.
BMC Developmental Biology (ISSN 1471-213X) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Zoological Record, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar.
BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :30
Expression patterns of teneurin-1 and -2 in the developing chick brain illustrate both the complementary role of these transmembrane proteins in neural connectivity and their subsequent proteolysis, which results in the nuclear localization of the intracellular domain.
BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :15
A zebrafish double mutant for the Hedgehog (Hh) receptors Patched 1 and 2 identifies novel functions of the Hh signaling pathway, including affecting somite polarity independent of segmentation and the negative regulation of fin development.
BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :6
Mammary gland development in mice is dependent on essential signaling of the Src family of non-receptor tyrosine kinases, with Src -/- mice exhibiting a block in secretory activation that results in lactation failure and precocious involution.
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C. elegans dss-1 is functionally conserved and required for oogenesis and larval growth Johanna Pispa, Susanna Palmen, Carina I Holmberg, Jussi Jantti BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :51 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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The clathrin-binding motif and the J-domain of Drosophila Auxilin are essential for facilitating Notch ligand endocytosis Vasundhara R Kandachar, Ting Bai, Henry C Chang BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :50 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Age- and calorie-independent life span extension from dietary restriction by bacterial deprivation in Caenorhabditis elegans Erica D Smith, Tammi L Kaeberlein, Brynn T Lydum, Jennifer Sager, K. Linnea Welton, Brian K Kennedy, Matt Kaeberlein BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :49 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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In vivo consequences of deleting EGF repeats 8-12 including the ligand binding domain of mouse Notch1 Changhui Ge, Tongyi Liu, Xinghua Hou, Pamela Stanley BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :48 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Expression patterns of protein kinase D 3 during mouse development Kornelia Ellwanger, Klaus Pfizenmaier, Sylke Lutz, Angelika Hausser BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :47 (25 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Axon-bearing and axon-less horizontal cell subtypes are generated consecutively during chick retinal development from progenitors that are sensitive to follistatin Per-Henrik D. Edqvist, Madelen Lek, Henrik Boije, Sarah M. Lindback, Finn Hallbook BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :46 (25 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Rex1/Zfp42 is dispensable for pluripotency in mouse ES cells Shinji Masui, Satoshi Ohtsuka, Rika Yagi, Kadue Takahashi, Minoru S.H. Ko, Hitoshi Niwa BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :45 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A novel function for the presenilin family member spe-4: inhibition of spermatid activation in Caenorhabditis elegans Ryoko Gosney, Wei-Siang Liau, Craig W LaMunyon BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :44 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Proliferating mesodermal cells in murine embryos exhibiting macrophage and lymphendothelial characteristics Kerstin Buttler, Taichi Ezaki, J BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :43 (22 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The small molecule Mek1/2 inhibitor U0126 disrupts the chordamesoderm to notochord transition in zebrafish Thomas A Hawkins, Florencia Cavodeassi, Ferenc Erd BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :42 (17 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Estrogen and progesterone induce persistent increases in p53-dependent apoptosis and suppress mammary tumors in BALB/c-Trp53+/- mice Karen A Dunphy, Anneke C Blackburn, Haoheng Yan, Lauren R O'Connell, D JOSEPH Jerry Breast Cancer Research 2008, 10 :R43 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic parasite, Polypodium hydriforme, within the Phylum Cnidaria Nathaniel M Evans, Alberto Lindner, Ekaterina V Raikova, Allen G Collins, Paulyn Cartwright BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :139 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Unexpected diversity of cnidarian integrins: expression during coral gastrulation Brent A Knack, Akira Iguchi, Chuya Shinzato, David C Hayward, Eldon E Ball, David J Miller BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :136 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genomic Imprinting of IGF2 in Marsupials is Methylation Dependent Betty R Lawton, Benjamin R Carone, Craig J Obergfell, Gianni C Ferreri, Christina M Gondolfi, John L VandeBerg, Ikhide Imumorin, Rachel J O'Neill, Michael J O'Neill BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :205 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The metazoan history of the COE transcription factors. Selection of a variant HLH motif by mandatory inclusion of a duplicated exon in vertebrates Virginie Daburon, Sebastien Mella, Jean-Louis Plouhinec, Sylvie Mazan, Michele Crozatier, Alain Vincent BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8 :131 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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SFRP-4 abrogates Wnt-3a-induced beta-catenin and Akt/PKB
signalling and reverses a Wnt-3a-imposed inhibition of in
vitro mammary differentiation Thecla Constantinou, Fabrizio Baumann, Markus D Lacher, Susanne Saurer, Robert Friis, Arun Dharmarajan Journal of Molecular Signaling 2008, 3 :10 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The abdomen of Drosophila: does planar cell polarity orient the neurons of mechanosensory bristles? Caroline CG Fabre, Jose Casal, Peter A Lawrence Neural Development 2008, 3 :12 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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A GATA4/WT1 cooperation regulates transcription of genes required for mammalian sex determination and differentiation Yoko Miyamoto, Hiroaki Taniguchi, Frederic Hamel, David W Silversides, Robert S Viger BMC Molecular Biology 2008, 9 :44 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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ERK1 and ERK2 MAPK are key regulators of distinct gene sets in zebrafish embryogenesis S.F.Gabby Krens, Maximiliano Corredor-AdAmez, Shuning He, B.Ewa Snaar-Jagalska, Herman P. Spaink BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :196 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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UV laser mediated cell selective destruction by confocal microscopy Laurent Soustelle, Benoit Aigouy, Marie-Laure Asensio, Angela Giangrande Neural Development 2008, 3 :11 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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