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Integrative analysis of the Pekin duck (Anas anas) MicroRNAome during feather follicle development

Xingyong Chen, Kai Ge, Min Wang, Cheng Zhang and Zhaoyu Geng

Published on: 20 July 2017
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Phylogeny, expression patterns and regulation of DNA Methyltransferases in early development of the flatfish, Solea senegalensis

Joana Firmino, Carlos Carballo, Paula Armesto, Marco A. Campinho, Deborah M. Power and Manuel Manchado

Published on: 17 July 2017
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Cathepsin B inhibitor improves developmental competency and cryo-tolerance of in vitro ovine embryos

M. Pezhman, S. M. Hosseini, S. Ostadhosseini, Sh. Rouhollahi Varnosfaderani, F. Sefid and M. H. Nasr-Esfahani

Published on: 4 July 2017
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Expression of Ciona intestinalis AOX causes male reproductive defects in Drosophila melanogaster

Sina Saari, Ana Andjelković, Geovana S. Garcia, Howard T. Jacobs and Marcos T. Oliveira

Published on: 3 July 2017
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Comparison of two related lines of tauGFP transgenic mice designed for lineage tracing

Linda Sharp, Thomas Pratt, Gillian E. MacKay, Margaret A. Keighren, Jean H. Flockhart, Emma J. Chandler, David J. Price, John O. Mason and John D. West

Published on: 29 June 2017

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Arx and Nkx2.2 compound deficiency redirects pancreatic alpha- and beta-cell differentiation to a somatostatin/ghrelin co-expressing cell lineage

Simon Kordowich, Patrick Collombat, Ahmed Mansouri and Palle Serup

Published on: 31 August 2011
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Standardised classification of pre-release development in male-brooding pipefish, seahorses, and seadragons (Family Syngnathidae)

Stefan Sommer, Camilla M Whittington and Anthony B Wilson

Published on: 29 December 2012
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R-spondins are involved in the ovarian differentiation in a teleost, medaka (Oryzias latipes)

Linyan Zhou, Tapas Charkraborty, Xiangguo Yu, Limin Wu, Gang Liu, Sipra Mohapatra, Deshou Wang and Yoshitaka Nagahama

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Cre reporter strains produced by targeted insertion of EYFP and ECFP into the ROSA26 locus

Shankar Srinivas, Tomoko Watanabe, Chyuan-Sheng Lin, Chris M William, Yasuto Tanabe, Thomas M Jessell and Frank Costantini

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Two-color fluorescent in situ hybridization in the embryonic zebrafish brain using differential detection systems

Gilbert Lauter, Iris Söll and Giselbert Hauptmann

Published on: 4 July 2011

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BMC Developmental Biology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on the development, growth, differentiation and regeneration of multicellular organisms, including molecular, cellular, tissue, organ and whole organism research.

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Derek Anane, BioMed Central

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Enrique Amaya, University of Manchester
Jean-François Brunet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Brigitte Galliot, University of Geneva
Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Sloan-Kettering Institute
X. Cindy Tian, University of Connecticut

Jean-Francois Brunet

Prof. Jean-Francois Brunet is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Biology of the École Normale Supérieure (IBENS), Paris. He became a Section Editor for BMC Genomics in 2010

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