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The quality and yield of duck feathers are very important economic traits that might be controlled by miRNA regulation. The aim of the present study was to investigate the mechanism underlying the crosstalk be...
BMC Developmental Biology 2017 17:12
Published on: 20 July 2017
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The identification of DNA methyltransferases (Dnmt) expression patterns during development and their regulation is important to understand the epigenetic mechanisms that modulate larval plasticity in marine fi...
BMC Developmental Biology 2017 17:11
Published on: 17 July 2017
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Cathepsin B is a lysosomal cysteine protease involved in apoptosis and oocytes which have lower developmental competence show higher expression of Cathepsin B. Furthermore, expression of Cathepsin B show a dec...
BMC Developmental Biology 2017 17:10
Published on: 4 July 2017
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Mitochondrial alternative respiratory-chain enzymes are phylogenetically widespread, and buffer stresses affecting oxidative phosphorylation in species that possess them. However, they have been lost in the ev...
BMC Developmental Biology 2017 17:9
Published on: 3 July 2017
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The tauGFP reporter fusion protein is produced nearly ubiquitously by the TgTP6.3 transgene in TP6.3 mice and its localisation to microtubules offers some advantages over soluble GFP as a lineage marker. However,...
BMC Developmental Biology 2017 17:8
Published on: 29 June 2017
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Pluripotency defines the propensity of a cell to differentiate into, and generate, all somatic, as well as germ cells. The epiblast of the early mammalian embryo is the founder population of all germ layer der...
BMC Developmental Biology 2017 17:7
Published on: 13 June 2017
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Loss of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 5 (Pcsk5) results in multiple developmental anomalies including cardiac malformations, caudal regression, pre-sacral mass, renal agenesis, anteroposterior patte...
BMC Developmental Biology 2017 17:6
Published on: 26 April 2017
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Cranial neural crest cells (NCCs) are a unique embryonic cell type which give rise to a diverse array of derivatives extending from neurons and glia through to bone and cartilage. Depending on their point of o...
BMC Developmental Biology 2017 17:5
Published on: 13 April 2017
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The molecular mechanisms underlying the development of the unusual echinoderm pentameral body plan and their likeness to mechanisms underlying the development of the bilateral plans of other deuterostomes are ...
BMC Developmental Biology 2017 17:4
Published on: 13 February 2017
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Lake Malawi cichlids represent one of a growing number of vertebrate models used to uncover the genetic and developmental basis of trait diversity. Rapid evolutionary radiation has resulted in species that sha...
BMC Developmental Biology 2017 17:3
Published on: 3 February 2017
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Many parasites regulate their development to synchronize their life cycle with a compatible host. The parasitic nematode Heterodera glycines displays incomplete host-mediated hatching behavior wherein some H. gly...
BMC Developmental Biology 2017 17:2
Published on: 11 January 2017
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Thus far, a handful of genes have been shown to be related to the wing maturation process in insects. A novel heme peroxidase enzyme known as curly suppressor (Cysu)(formerly CG5873), have been characterized i...
BMC Developmental Biology 2017 17:1
Published on: 11 January 2017
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An increase in the activity of the pituitary-gonad axis (PG-axis) and gonad development are essential for the onset of spawning migration in teleosts. In the fish Coilia nasus, gonad development and spawning migr...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:42
Published on: 24 November 2016
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Long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) have been identified to play important roles in epigenetic processes that underpin organogenesis. However, the role of LncRNAs in the regulation of transition from fetal to adult...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:41
Published on: 18 November 2016
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Homeobox genes encode a diverse set of transcription factors implicated in a vast range of biological processes including, but not limited to, embryonic cell fate specification and patterning. Although numerou...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:40
Published on: 3 November 2016
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Establishment of the left-right axis is important for positioning organs asymmetrically in the developing vertebrate-embryo. A number of factors like maternally deposited molecules have emerged essential in in...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:39
Published on: 28 October 2016
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Because ribosomes are ubiquitously required for protein production, it was long assumed that any inherited defect in ribosome manufacture would be embryonically lethal. However, several human congenital diseas...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:38
Published on: 26 October 2016
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Increased apposition of the frontal and parietal bones of the skull during embryogenesis may be a risk factor for the subsequent development of premature skull fusion, or craniosynostosis. Human craniosynostos...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:37
Published on: 18 October 2016
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Successful development of iSCNT (interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer) embryos depends on complex interactions between ooplasmic and nuclear components, which can be compromised by genetic divergence. Tr...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:36
Published on: 13 October 2016
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The multicellular volvocine alga Pleodorina is intermediate in organismal complexity between its unicellular relative, Chlamydomonas, and its multicellular relative, Volvox, which shows complete division of labor...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:35
Published on: 13 October 2016
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Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signalling has emerged as a fundamental pathway in endothelial cell biology and deregulation of this pathway is implicated in several vascular disorders. BMP signalling output ...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:34
Published on: 10 October 2016
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Nuclear receptors are a highly conserved set of ligand binding transcription factors, with essential roles regulating aspects of vertebrate and invertebrate biology alike. Current understanding of nuclear rece...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:33
Published on: 29 September 2016
Methodology article
Nuclear Factor-Kappa B (NF-kB) is a family of transcription factors that are important in embryonic development, inflammation, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and cancer. The 65 kDa RelA subunit is the ma...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:32
Published on: 23 September 2016
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HECT domain and ankyrin repeat containing E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1 (HACE1) regulates a wide variety of cellular processes. It has been shown that one of the targets of HACE1 is the GTP-bound form of the s...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:31
Published on: 21 September 2016
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Wnt11 is a member of the Wnt family of secreted signals controlling the early steps in ureteric bud (UB) branching. Due to the reported lethality of Wnt11 knockout embryos in utero, its role in later mammalian ki...
BMC Developmental Biology 2016 16:30
Published on: 31 August 2016
