#DBFeature 🥚 Reichert’s membrane cushions the mammalian embryo from uterine contractions, but paradoxically hinders growth in embryo culture. By Andrew Copp tinyurl.com/49rrr7wj #SpecialIssue on #ExtraEmbryonic tissues

Our new collaborative paper with Cyndi Bradham's lab at BU, led by first author @alexandralion.bsky.social is out in @devbiol.bsky.social & featured on the Sept 2025 cover! 😀🥳 PFAS (PFOA & GenX) disrupt sea urchin embryo development! Cover art: embryos + flow fields 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

So excited to be serving as Guest Editor for a special issue in @devbiol.bsky.social on receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in development. Please consider contributing!

CALL FOR PAPERS! 🧠 #DBSpecialIssue New tools & model systems have made the last several years an exciting time for research into the development of the nervous system. Reviews, original research articles, resource papers, short communications & commentaries sought! Submit here tinyurl.com/4k56kceh

#DBFeature 🐣🫁 Increasing fluid pressure in chick embryonic airways disrupts normal branching and proliferation, while lower pressure encourages branching without affecting cell proliferation By S Mohr-Allen, J Gleghorn, and V Varner tinyurl.com/5fyevrd3 #SpecialIssue on Avian model systems

CALL FOR PAPERS! 🧪 DB Special Issue highlights new insights into receptor tyrosine kinase signaling during development, with a focus on cell-cell interactions & signal transduction in the regulation of cell growth and division, differentiation & morphogenesis. Submit here: tinyurl.com/RTKDevBio

To all hemocyte lovers: Angela and me are hosting a special issue on Drosophila hemocytes 🪰👾We have some brillant drosophilists around the world who agreed to submit a review to this special issue! If you are also interested to contribute, reach out to us and we can give you more information!

#DBFeature 🐣🫀 Heart cells in chick embryos emerge from a continuous field, not separate regions. Incorporation of cells into the heart depends on cell position, morphogenetic movements and break-down of tissue bridges. tinyurl.com/2bbwtacd #Embryology #HeartDevelopment

#DBfeature 🐣🧠 Normal early brain development in rostrally conjoined chicken twins deteriorates after forebrain formation as embryos fuse By Frank Schubert and Susanne Dietrich tinyurl.com/yvyrzfv7 #Neurodevelopment #Embryology #ConjoinedTwins

CALL FOR PAPERS for our upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE Ion channels are emerging as critical regulators of tissue morphogenesis in diverse animals from planaria to humans. Mutations in ion channels can cause craniofacial and limb abnormalities in frogs, mice &humans #DevBio Submit today! shorturl.at/LPMbc

Reviewer Workshop! Interested in reviewing in #DevBio? Join us for a discussion on reviewer best practices! Sept 24th 10-11am CST. Sign up here! forms.gle/w4NTp21RNmnL...

#DBfeature #chick🐥 The transcriptional landscape of the developing chick trigeminal ganglion by Carrie E. Leonard, Alec McIntosh, Johena Sanyal, Lisa Taneyhill tiom33.short.gy/DB520,108-116

#DBfeature #chick 🐣 Identification of lens-regulated genes driving anterior eye development by V. Murcia-Belmonte, Y. Liu, S. Shamsi, S. Shaw, E. Collie-Duguid, E. Herrera, J. M. Collinson, N.l Vargesson, and L. Erskine tiom33.short.gy/DB520,91-107 #SpecialIssue on Avian model systems

#DBfeature #chick🐥 Generation of a transgenic chicken line with reporters for limb bud mesenchyme and apical ectodermal ridge cells Yuji Atsuta, Yi-Chen Chen, Yuna Hattori, Tatsuya Takemoto, Daisuke Saito tiom33.short.gy/DB520,53-61

#DBfeature 🐥 Interplay of canonical and LIMK mediated non-canonical BMP signaling is essential for regulating differential thickness and invagination during chick forebrain roof plate morphogenesis shorturl.at/u4bf8 by Zaidi, M. A. A., Kushwaha, S., Udaykumar, N., Dethe, P., Sachdeva, M., & Sen, J.

#DBfeature Ancient emergence of neuronal heterogeneity in the enteric nervous system of jawless vertebrates by Brittany Edens, Jason Lin, Marianne Bronner tiom33.short.gy/DB520,117-124

#DBfeature PRMT3 gene expression and methylation levels in arrested embryos: Implications for developmental arrest defects by Wuwen Zhang, Shifeng Li, Kai Li, Ningyu Sun, Rong Lv, Jie Ma, Ping Yin, Guoqing Tong, Yuanyuan Chen, Lu Lu, Yun Li, Yuanyuan Wu, Hua Yan tiom33.short.gy/DB520,264-271

#DBfeature #Drosophia 🪰 Spatiotemporal control of cell ablation using Ronidazole with Nitroreductase in Drosophila by Gary Teeters, Christina Cucolo, Sagar Kasar, Melanie Worley, and Sarah Siegrist tiom33.short.gy/DB520,31-40

#DBfeature #Xenopus Dual role of Xenopus Odf2 in multiciliated cell patterning and differentiation by Nommick, A., Chuyen, A., Clement, R., Thomé, V., Daian, F., Rosnet, O., Richard, F., Brouilly, N., Loiseau, E., Boutin, C. and Kodjabachian, L. tiom33.short.gy/DB520,224-238

#DBfeature #Xenopus 🐸 Shh signaling directs dorsal ventral patterning in the regenerating X. tropicalis spinal cord by Avery Angell Swearer, Samuel Perkowski, and Andrea Wills tiom33.short.gy/DB520,191-199

#DBfeature Epithelial and mesenchymal compartments of the developing bladder and urethra display spatially distinct gene expression patterns by Baraiya, D. H., Kavya, T. T., Mandal, A., Chakraborty, S., Sathish, N., Francis, C. M. R., & Joseph tiom33.short.gy/DB520,155-170

#DBfeature Loss of KAT6B causes premature ossification and promotes osteoblast differentiation during development by Maria Bergamasco, Jacqueline Ogier, Alexandra Garnham, Lachlan Whitehead, Kelly Rogers, Gordon Smyth, Rachel Burt, Anne Voss, Tim Thomas tiom33.short.gy/DB520,141-154

#DBfeature #cilia Moderate levels of folic acid benefit outcomes for cilia based neural tube defects David Engelhardt, Juliette Petersen, Cara Martyr, Hannah Kuhn-Gale, Lee Niswander tiom33.short.gy/DB520,62-75

#DBfeature #ear #Zebrafish Foxm1 promotes differentiation of neural progenitors in the zebrafish inner ear 🐠 by Maria Ali, James Kutlowski, Jorden Holland, Bruce Riley tiom33.short.gy/DB520,21-30

#DBfeature A chitin-binding domain-containing gene is essential for shell development in the mollusc Tritia by T. Kim Dao, Kailey Ferger, J. David Lambert tiom33.short.gy/DB520,1-12

#DBfeature Tunicate-specific protein Epi-1 is essential for conferring hydrophilicity to the larval tunic in the ascidian Ciona Kazu Kuroiwa, Kaoru Mita-Yoshida, Mayuko Hamada, Akiko Hozumi, Atsuo Nishino, Yasunori Sasakura tiom33.short.gy/DB520,41-52

Beautiful work!! 🎉

CALL FOR PAPERS! 🪰 Drosophila blood cells - Our #DBspecialissue highlights novel findings on hemocyte diversity in Drosophila melanogaster. The reviews explore diversity in terms of ontogeny, functional specification and organ-organ communication. Submit today! tinyurl.com/357v25tj

#DBfeature #Oocyte Transcriptomic analysis and epigenetic regulators in human oocytes at different stages of oocyte meiotic maturation by Carla Caniçais, Joana Marques et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Development and functions of the area opaca of the chick embryo by Hyung Chul Lee, Yara Fadaili, Claudio Stern www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SpecialIssues on "Extraembryonic Tissues: Perspectives”

#DBfeature Disease susceptibility implications of preferential inactivation of the paternal X chromosome in extraembryonic endoderm of the mouse by Virginia Papaioannou www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#DBfeature 🐣 Stage‑matched scRNA‑seq uncovers a “trailblazer” gene network shared between mouse and chick, driving neural crest migration into craniofacial arches. by J.A. Morrison et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EvoDevo #ComparativeGenomics #SingleCell

#DBfeature The primary cilium gene CPLANE1 is required for peripheral nervous system development by Elkhan Yusifov, Esther Stoeckli et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model: From its origins in developmental biology to its role in cancer research by María Jimena Mosna, Federico Garde, Marcelo Stinson, Candela Pastore, Abel Carcagno www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SpecialIssues

#DBfeature 🐣❤️ Automated non-invasive laser speckle imaging of the chick heart rate and extraembryonic blood vessels and their response to Nifedipine and Amlodipine drugs by Carol Readhead, Simon Mahler et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

CALL FOR PAPERS! Ion channels are emerging as critical regulators of tissue morphogenesis in diverse animals from planaria to humans. Mutations in ion channels can cause craniofacial and limb abnormalities in frogs, mice & humans. Submit today! shorturl.at/LPMbc

#DBfeature Immune development in chickens reveals distinct waves of thymocytes and shifting MHC class I expression profiles that may beÊevolutionary relicsÊdating back to amphibians. by Samer Halabi, Nicolas Rocos, and Jim Kaufman www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Immunology #PoultryHealth

#DBfeature 🐣 Congenital heart defects differ following left versus right avian cardiac neural crest ablation by Tatiana Solovieva, Marianne Bronner www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m one of the mentors for this year long internship :) Apply if you have interest in writing and Science Communication. There’s opportunity to get some of your pieces in DB @devbiol.bsky.social! Apply today!!

#DBfeature 🐣 CRISPR-Cas13d enables targeted gene expression knockdown in chick embryos, expanding the experimental potential and versatility of this model system. by Minyoung Kim and Erica Hutchins @drericabiophd.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CRISPRCas #ChickEmbryo

Register !! Deadline: 14th of August 2025 🌱 Passionate About Plant Development? Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register: lnkd.in/epK_BKNu

#DBfeature Teaching students to effectively evaluate scientific evidence and advocate for research in the context of autism spectrum disorder and the neurodiversity movement by Bridget Jacques-Fricke www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Adult growth in the Drosophila ejaculatory duct is driven by an evolutionarily conserved Juvenile Hormone–endocycle–protein synthesis axis essential for male fertility by Navyashree Ramesh, Allison Box, Laura Buttitta www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #DBfeature #Drosophila #ReproductiveBiology

Early embryonic developmental pathways are activated during regeneration phase in Xenopus 🐸 --by Aniket Kshirsagar, Rachel Ronan, Ana Lúcia Rebelo, Siobhan McMahon, Abhay Pandit, and Gerhard Schlosser www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Xenopus #regeneration #DBfeature

#DBfeature Mesenchymal cell contractility regulates villus morphogenesis and intestinal architecture by Taylor Hinnant @taylorhinnant.bsky.social , Caroline Joo, Terry Lechler @terrylechler.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#DBfeature #Drosophila🪰 Decoding a Cell's Fate: How Notch and receptor tyrosine kinase signals specify the Drosophila R7 photoreceptor by Ronald Arias, Andrew Tomlinson sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Massive analysis of Xenopus development. #DevBio! Read about it in DB! 🐸

Interested in working with the @socdevbio.bsky.social? Apply today for one of these INTERNSHIPS! Work with #DevBio faculty and SDB members. Acquire useful skills. Have fun doing it! Strategic Planning: sdbonline.org/strategic_pl... SciComm: sdbonline.org/science_comm...

#DBfeature Approaching ethical issues in the developmental biology classroom by Heather Ray, Michael Klymkowsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#DBfeature #EvoDevo #Drosophila #Xenopus A conserved sequence that sparked the field of evo-devo by Leslie Pick, Kristen Au www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...