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　 Asamushi Research Center for Marine Biology, Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University

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2024/2/26　Takahashi-san's selection

Megan M Colonnetta, Yogesh Goyal, Heath E Johnson, Sapna Syal, Paul Schedl, Girish Deshpande (2022). Preformation and epigenesis converge to specify primordial germ cell fate in the early Drosophila emryo. PLoS Genet 18, e1010002.


2024/1/23　Miyazawa-san's selection

Birgit Poehn, Shruthi Krishnan, Martin Zurl, Aida Coric, Dunja Rokvic, N Soren Hafker, Elmar Jaenicke, Enrique Arboleda, Lukas Orel, Florian Raible, Eva Wolf, Kristin Tessmar-Raible (2022). Cryptochrome adopts distinct moon- and sunlight states and functions as sun- versus moonlight interpreter in monthly oscillator entrainment. Nat Commun 13, 5220.


2023/11/15, 28　Kawamura-san's selection

Ales Cvekl, Yilin Zhao, Revecca McGreal, Qing Xie, Xun Gu, Deyou Zheng (2017). Evolutionary origins of Pax6 control of crystallin genes. Genome Biol Evol 9, 2075-2092.


2023/10/18　Yamasaki-san's selection

Fumiko Matsukawa Usami, Masaki Arata, Dongbo Shi, Sanae Oka, Yoko Higuchi, Fadel Tissir, Masatoshi Takeichi, Toshihiko Fujimori (2021). Intercellular and intracellular cilia orientation is coodinated by CELSR1 and CAMSAP3 in oviduct multi-ciliated cells. J Cell Sci 134, jcs257006.


2023/7/10　Takahashi-san's selection

Safiye E Sarper, Tamami Hirai, Take Matsuyama, Shigeru Kuratani, Koichi Fujimoto (2021). Polymorphism in the symmetries of gastric pouch arrangements in the sea anemone D. lineata. Zoological Lett 7, 12.


2023/5/24　Kawamura-san's selection

Prakriti Paul Chacha, Ryoko Horie, Takehiro G Kusakabe, Yasunori Sasakura, Mona Singh, Takeo Horie, Michael Levine (2022). Neuronal identities derived by misexpression of the POU IV sensory determinant in a protovertebrate. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 119, e2118817119.


2023/4/24　Miyazawa-san's selection

Francisco M Martin-Zamora, Yan Liang, Kero Guynes, Allan M Carrillo-Baltodano, Billie E Davies, Rory D Donnellan, Yongkai Tan, Giacomo Moggioli, Oceane Seudre, Martin Tran, Kate Mortimer, Nicholas M Luscombe, Andreas Hejnol, Ferdinand Marletaz, Jose M Martin-Duran (2023). Annelid functional genomics reveal the origins of bilaterian life cycles. Nature 615, 105-110.


2023/3/23　Takahashi-san's selection

Casey Kimball, Kaleigh Powers, John Dustin, Vanessa Poirier, Jason Pellettieri (2020). The exon junction complex is required for stem and progenitor cell maintenance in planarians. Dev Biol 457, 119-127.


2023/2/22　Kumano's selection

Juliano O Kimura, Marcela Bolanos, Lorenzo Ricci, Mansi Srivastava (2022). Embryonic origins of adult pluripotent stem cells. Cell 185, 4756-4769.


2023/1/25　Morita-san's selection

Emily Kuehn, David S Clausen, Ryan W Null, Bria M Metzger, Amy D Willis, B Duygu Ozpolat (2022). Segment number threshold determines juvenile onset of germline cluster expansion in Platynereis dumerilii. J Exp Zool B 338, 225-240.


2022/11/28　Yamasaki-san's selection

Takashi Hayashi, Takeshi Tomomizu, Takamichi Sushida, Masakazu Akiyama, Shin-Ichiro Ei, Makoto Sato (2022). Tiling mechanisms of the Drosophila compound eye through geometrical tessllation. Curr Biol 32, 2101-2109.


2022/10/31　Hashimoto-san's selection

Benjamin Lin, Jonathan Luo, Ruth Lehmann (2022). An AMPK phosphoregulated RhoGEF feedback loop tunes cortical flow-driven amoeboid migration in vivo. Sci Adv 8, eabo0323.


2022/7/22　Kawamura-san's selection

Christopher J Johnson, Florian Razy-Krajka, Alberto Stolfi (2020). Expression of smooth muscle-like effectors and core cardiomyocyte regulators in the contractile papillae of Ciona. EvoDevo 11, 15.


2022/6/29　Miyazawa-san's selection

Mark Kowarsky, Chiara Anselmi, Kohji Hotta, Paolo Burighel, Giovanna Zaniolo, Federico Caicci, Benyamin Rosental, Norma F Neff, Katherine J Ishizuka, Karla J Palmeri, Jennifer Okamoto, Tal Gordon, Irving L Weissman, Stephen R Quake, Lucia Manni, Ayelet Voskoboynik (2021). Sexual and asexual development: two distinct programs producing the same tunicate. Cell Reports 34, 108681.


2022/5/25　Yamasaki-san's selection

Nicolle A Bonar, David I Gittin, Christian P Petersen (2022). Src acts with WNT/FGFL signaling to pattern the planarian anteroposterior axis. Development 149, dev200125.


2022/4/27　Zhu-san's selection

Xiaoqing Zhu, Yicheng Guo, Chu Chu, Dahai Liu, Kui Duan, Yu Yin, Chenyang Si, Yu Kang, Junjun Yao, Xuewei Du, Junliang Li, Shumei Zhao, Zongyong Ai, Qingyan Zhu, Weizhi Ji, Yuyu Niu, Tianqing Li (2022). BRN2 as a key gene drives the early primate telencephalon development. Sci Adv 8, eabl7263.


2022/3/23　Takahashi-san's selection

Hua Ying, David C Hayward, Alexander Klomovich, Thomas CG Bosch, Laura Baldassarre, Teresa Neeman, Sylvain Foret, Gavin Huttley, Adam M Reitzel, Sebastian Fraune, Eldon E Ball, David J iller (2022). The role of DNA methylation in genome defense in cnidaria and other invertebrates. Mol Biol Evol 39, msac018.


2022/2/24　Hashimoto-san's selection

Fabio M D'Orazio, Piotr J Balwierz, Ada Jimenez Gonzalez, Yixuan Guo, Benjamin Hernandez-Rodriguez, Lucy Wheatley, Aleksandra Jasiulewicz, Yavor Hadzhiev, Juan M Vaquerizas, Bradley Cairns, Boris Lenhard, Ferenc Muller (2021). Germ cell differentiaiton requires Tdrd7-dependent chromatin and transcriptome reprogramming marked by germ plasm relocalization. Dev Cell 56, 641-656.


2022/1/26　Kawamura-san's selection

Eileen Wagner, Alberto Stolfi, Yoon Gi Choi, Mike Levine (2014). Islet is a key determinant of ascidian palp morphogenesis. Development 141, 3084-3092.


2021/12/17　Miyazawa-san's selection

Toby GR Andrews, Wolfram Ponisch, Ewa K Paluch, Benjamin J Steventon, Elia Benito-Gutierrez (2021). Single-cell morphometrics reveals ancestral principles of notochord development. Development 148, dev199430.


2021/11/24　Yamasaki-san's selection

Elena Scarpa, Cedric Finet, Guy B Blanchard, Benedicte Sanson (2018). Actomyosin-Driven Tension at Comprtmental Boundaries Orients Cell Division Independently of Cell Geometry In Vivo. Dev Cell 47, 727-740.

2021/10/22　Zhu-san's selection

M Brent Hawkins, Katrin Henke, Matthew P Harris (2021). Latent developmental potential to form limb-like skeletal structures in zebrafish. Cell 184, 899-911.


2021/9/22　Takahashi-san's selection

Cheng-Yi Chen, Sean A McKinney, Lacey R Ellington, Matthew C Gibson (2020). Hedgehog signaling is requried for endomesodermal patterning and germ cell development in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. eLife 9, e54573.

2021/9/1　Kawamura-san's selection

Fan Zeng, Julia Wundere, Willi Salvenmoser, Michael W. Hess, Peter Ladurne, Ute Rothbacher (2019). Papillae revisited and the nature of the adhesive secreting collocytes. Dev Biol 448, 183-198.


2021/7/21　Miyazawa-san's selection

Miguel Salinas-Saavedra, Mark Q Martindale (2020). Par protein localiation during the early development of Mnemiopsis leidyi suggests different modes of epithelial orgaization in the metazoa. eLife 9, e54927.


2021/6/23　Yamasaki-san's selection

K. Venkatesan Iyer, Anna Taubenberger, Salma Ahmed Zeidan, Natalie A. Dye, Suzanne Eaton, Frank Julicher (2021). Apico-basal cell compression regulates Lamin A/C levels in epithelial tissues. Nat Commun 12, 1756.


2021/4/28　Hashimoto-san's selection

Adan Olguin-Olguin, Anne Aalto, Benoit Maugis, Aleix Boquet-Pujadas, Dennis Hoffmann, Laura Ermlich, Timo Betz, Nir S. Gov, Michal Reichman-Fried, Erez Raz (2021). Chemokine-biased robust self-organizing polarization of migrating cells in vivo. Nature 569, 66-72.


2021/3/17　Miyazawa-san's selection:

Denise Serra, Urs Mayr, Andrea Boni, Ilya Lukonin, Markus Rempfler, Ludivine Challet Meylan, Michael B Stadler, Petr Strnad, Panagiotis Papasaikas, Dario Vischi, Annick Waldt, Guglielmo Roma, Prisca Liberali (2019). Self-organization and symmetry breaking in intestinal organoid development. Nature 569, 66-72.


2020/2/24　Hou-san's selection:

Yongjun Yin, David M Ornitz (2020). FGF9 and FGF10 activate distinct signaling pathways to direct lung epithelial specification and branching. Sci Signal 13, essay4353.


2020/1/27　Shibata-san's selection:

Etienne Vincent, Eric Villiard, Fadi Sader, Sabin Dhakal, Benjamin H. Kwok, Stephane Roy. (2020). BMP signaling is essential for sustaining proximo-distal progression in regenerating axolotl limbs. Development 147, dev170829.


2020/12/18　Zhu-san's selection:

Ninche Ninche, Mingyu Kwak, Soosan Ghazizadeh. (2020). Diverse epithelial cell populations contribute to the regeneration of secretory units in injured salivary glands. Development 147, dev192807.


2020/11/25　Yamaguchi-san's selection:

Qian-Qian Sha, Xing-Xing Dai, Yujiao Dang, Fuchou Tang, Junping Liu, Yin-Li Zhang, Heng-Yu Fan. (2017). A MAPK cascade couples maternal mRNA translation and degradation to meiotic cell cycle progression in mouse oocytes. Development 144, 452-463.


2020/10/28　Hashimoto-san's selection:

Mazzoni TS, Quagio-Grassiotto I. (2020). Presence of the matrix metalloporteinases during the migration of the primordial germ cells in zebrafish gonadal ridge. Cell Tissue Res doi: 10.1007/s00441-020-03288-5.


2020/9/30　Yamaguchi-san's selection:

Hashimoto H, Munro E. (2019). Differential expression of a classic cadherin directs tissue-level contractile asymmetry during neural tube closure. Dev Cell 51, 158-172.


2020/8/19　Miyazawa-san's selection:

Alda-Catalinas C, Bredikhin D, Hernando-Harraez I, Santos F, Kubinyecz O, Eckersley-Maslin MA, Stegle O, Reik W. (2020). A single-cell transriptomics CRISPR-activation screen identifies epigenetic regulators of the zygotic genome activation program. Cell Syst 11, 1-17.


2020/7/29　Zhu-san's selection:

Tomczyk S, Suknovic N, Schenkelaars Q, Wenger Y, Ekundayo K, Buzgariu W, Bauer C, Fischer K, Austad S, Galliot B. (2020). Deficient autophagy in epithelial stem cells drives aging in the freshwater cnidarian Hydra. Development 147, dev177840.


2020/6/24　Hashimoto-san's selection:

Kim Y, Lee J, Seppala M, Cobourne MT, Kim SH. (2020). Ptch2/Gas1 and Ptch1/Boc differentially regulate Hedgehog signalling in murine primordial germ cell migration. Nat Commun 11, 1994.


2020/5/27　Shibata-san's selection:

Tsai SL, Baselga-Garriga C, Melton DA. (2019). Blastemal progenitors modulate immune signaling during early limb regeneration. Development 146, dev169128.


2020/4/30　Hou-san's selection:

Dubuc TQ, Schnitzler CE, Chrysostomou E, McMahon E, Febrimarsa, Gahan JM, Buggie T, Gornik SG, Hanley S, Barreira SN, Gonzalez P, Baxevanis AD, Frank U. (2020). Transcription factor AP2 controls cnidarian germ cell induction. Science 367, 757-762.


2020/3/5　Miyazawa-san's selection:

Zhu X, Shi C, Zhong Y, Liu X, Yan Q, Wu X, wang Y, Li G. (2020). Cilia-driven asymmetric Hedgehog signaling determines the amphioxus left-right axis by controling Dand5 expression. Dev 147, dev 182469.


2020/1/29　Shibata-san's selection:

Tewari AG, Stern SR, Oderberg IM, Reddien PW. (2018). Cellular and molecular responses unique to major injury are dispensable for planarian regeneration. Cell rep25, 2577-2590.


2019/12/24　Kumano's selection:

Poon, J, Fries A, Wessel GM, Yajima M. (2019). Evolutionary modification of AGS protein contributes to formation of micromeres in sea urchins. Nat Commun 10, 3779.


2019/11/21　Yamaguchi-san's selection:

Qin Z, Fisher GJ, Voorhees JJ, Quan T. (2018). Actin cytoskeleton assembly regulates collagen production via TGF-beta type II receptor in human skin fibroblasts. J Cell Mol Med 22, 4085-4096.


2019/10/23　Hou-san's selection:

Sznurkowska MK, Hannezo E, Azzarelli R, Rulands S, Nestorowa S, Hindley CJ, Nichols J, Gottgens B, Huch M, Philpott A. (2018). Defining lineage potential and fate behavior of precursors during pancreas devevlopment. Dev Cell 46, 360-375.


2019/6/26　Nakamoto-san's selection:

Wong MM, Belew MD, Kwieraga A, Nhan JD, Matthew Michael W. (2018). Programmed DNA breaks activate the germline genome in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev Cell 46, 302-315.


2019/5/27　Tao-san's selection:

Yu D, Oda-Ishii I, Kubo A, Satou Y. (2019). The regulatory pathway from genes directly activated by maternal factors to muscle structural genes in ascidian embryos. Developmentat 146, dev173104.


2019/4/22, 5/7　Zhu-san's selection:

Vogg MC, Beccari L, Olle LI, Rampon C, Vriz S, Perruchoud C, Wenger Y, Galliot B. (2019). An evolutionarily-conserved Wnt3/beta-catenin/Sp5 feedback loop restricts head organizer activity in Hydra. Nat Commun 10, 312.


2019/3/15　Shibata-san's selection:

Abe G, Lee SH, Li IJ, Ota KG. (2018). An alternative evolutionary pathway for the twin-tail goldfish via szl gene mutation. J Exp Zool 330, 234-241.


2019/2/22　Hou-san's selection:

Yan L, Chen J, Zhu X, Sun J, Wu X, Shen W, et al. (2018). Maternal Huluwa dictates the embryonic body axis through b-catenin in vertebrates. Science 362. pii: eaat1045.


2019/1/18　Tao-san's selection:

Shin Y, Chang YC, Lee DSW, Berry J, Sanders DW, Ronceray P, et al. (2018). Liquid nuclear condensates mechanically sense and restructure the genome. Cell 175, 1481-1491.


2018/12/21　Kumano's selection:

Zakas C, Deutscher JM, Kay AD, Rockman MV. (2018). Decoupled maternal and zygotic genetic effects shape the evolution of development. eLife 7, e37143.


2018/11/9　Negishi-san's selection:

Sivakumar A, Mahadevan A, Lauer ME, Narvaez RJ, Ramesh S, et al. (2018). Midgut laterality is driven by hyaluronan on the right. Dev Cell 46, 533-551.


2018/7/19, 8/29　Hou-san's selection:

Cheng D, Yan X, Qui G, Zhang J, Wang H, Feng T, et al. (2018). Contraction of basal filopodia controls periodic feather branching via Notch and FGF signaling. Nat Commun 9, 1345.


2018/5/24　Tao-san's selection:

Shan Y, Liang Z, Xing Q, Zhang T, Wang B, et al. (2017). PRC2 specifies ectoderm lineages and maintains pluripotency in primed but not naive ESCs. Nat Commun 8, 672.


2018/4/26　Nakamoto-san's selection:

Gross-Thebing T, Yigit S, Pfeiffer J, Reichman-Fried M, Bandemer J, Ruckert C, Rathmer C, Goudarzi M, Stehling M, Tarbashevich K, Seggewiss J, Raz E. (2017). The vertebrate protein Dead end maintains primordial germ cell fate by inhibiting somatic differentiation. Dev Cell 43, 704-715.


2018/3/1　Negishi-san's selection:

Li J,Wang Z, Chu Q, Jiang K, Li J, Tang N. (2018). The strength of mechanical forces determines the differentiation of alvelor epithelial cells. Dev Cell 44, 297-312.


2018/2/9　Hou-san's selection:

Buzgariu W, Wenger N, Tcaciuc N, Catunda-Lemos AP, Galliot B. (2018). Impact of cycling cells and cell cycle regulation on Hydra regeneration. Dev Biol 433, 240-253.


2018/1/18　Tao-san's selection:

Rodriguez J, Peglion F, Martin J, Hubatsch L, Reich J, Hirani N, Gubieda AG, Roffey J, Fernandes AR, St Johnston D, Ahringer J, Goehring NW. (2017). aPKC cycles between functionally distinct PAR protein assemblies to drive cell polarity. Dev Cell 42, 400-415.


2017/12/14　Miyaoku-san's selection:

Zhao BS, Wang X, Beadell AV, Lu Z, Shi H, Kuuspalu A, Ko RK, He C. (2017). m6A-dependent maternal mRNA clearance facilitates zebrafish maternal-to-zygotic transition. Nature 542, 475-478.


2017/11/16　Fujiki-san's selection:

Gahan JM, Schnitzler CE, DuBuc TQ, Doonan LB, Kanska J, Gornik SG, Barreira S, Thompson K, Schiffer P, Baxevanis AD, Frank U. (2017). Functional studies on the role of Notch signaling in Hydractinia development. Dev Biol 428, 224-231.


2017/10/26　Tao-san's selection:

Owens DA, Butler AM, Aguero TH, Newman KM, Van Booven D, King ML. (2017). High-throughput analysis reveals novel maternal germline RNAs crucial for primordial germ cell preservation and proper migration. Development 144, 292-304.


2017/8/31　Miyaoku-san's selection:

Hayashi M, Shinozuka Y, Shigenobu S, Sato M, Sugimoto M, Ito S, Abe K, Kobayashi S. (2017). Conserved role of Ovo in germline development in mouse and Drosophila. Sci Rep 7, 40056.


2017/6/22　Fujiki-san's selection:

Miao G, Hayashi S. (2016). Escargot controls the sequential specification of two tracheal tip cell types by suppressing FGF signaling in Drosophila. Development 143, 4261-4271.


2017/5/25　Nakamoto-san's selection:

Slaidina M, Lehmann R. (2017). Quantitative differences in a single maternal factor determine survival probabilities among Drosophila germ cells. Curr. Biol. 27, 291-297.


2017/2/17　Nakamoto-san's selection:

Kraus Y, Aman A, Technau U, Genikhovich G. (2016). Pre-bilaterian origin of the blastoporal axial organizer. Nat. Commun. 7, 11694.


2017/1/20　Kumano's selection:

Abdu Y, Maniscalco C, Heddleston JM, Chew T-L, Nance J. (2016). Developmentally programmed germ cell remodelling by enodermal cell cannibalism. Nat. Cell Biol. 18, 1302-1310.


2016/12/1　Tao-san's selection:

Peng JC, Valouev A, Liu N, Lin H. (2016). Piwi maintains germline stem cells and oogenesis in Drosophila through negative regulation of Polycomb group proteins. Nat. Genet. 48, 283-291.


2016/10/27　Miyaoku-san's selection:

Sekinaka T, Hayashi Y, Noce T, Niwa H, Matsui Y. (2016). Selective de-repression of germ cell-specific genes in mouse embryonic fibroblasts in a permissive epigenetic environment. Sci. Rep. 6, 32932.


2016/8/25　Fujiki-san's selection:

Kim HY, Pang M-F, Varner VD, Kojima L, Miller E, Radisky DC, Nelson CM. (2015). Localized smooth muscle deifferentiation is essential for epithelial bifurcation during branching morphogenesis of the mammalian lung. Dev. Cell 34, 719-726.


2016/6/23　Dr. Nakamoto's selection:

Jevtic P, Levy DL. (2015). Nuclear size scaling durig Xenopus early development contributes to midblastula transition timing. Curr. Biol. 25, 45-52.


2016/6/23　Kumano's selection:

Bosveld F, Markova O, Guirao B, Martin C, Wang Z, Pierre A, Balakireva M, Gaugue I, Ainslie A, Christophorou N, Lubensky D, Minc N, Bellaiche Y. (2016). Epithelial tricellular junctions act as interphase cell shape sensors to orient mitosis. Nature 530, 495-502.


2016/5/26　Tao-san's selection:

Mainpal R, Nance J, Yanowitz JL. (2015). A germ cell determinant reveals parallel pathways for germ line deveopment in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development 142, 3571-358


2016/4/28　Miyaoku-san's selection:

Nishimura T, Sato T, Yamamoto Y, Watakabe I, Ohkawa Y, Suyama M, Koyayashi S, Tanaka M. (2015). foxl3 is a germ cell-intrinsic factor involved in sperm-egg fate decision in medaka. Science 349, 328-331.


2016/3/17　Nakamoto-san's selection:

Nakamura T, Extavour CG.. (2015). The transcriptional repressor Blimp-1 acts downstream of BMP signaling to generate primordial germ cells in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus. Development 143, 255-263.


2016/2/4　Kumano's selection:

Klomp J, Athy D, Kwan CW, Bloch NI, Sandmann T, Lemke S, Schmidt-Ott U. (2015). Embryo development. A cysteine-clamp gene drives embryo polarity in the midge Chironomus. Science 348, 1040-1042.


2016/1/21　Minokawa-san's selection:

Martik ML, McClay D. (2015). Deployment of a retinal determination gene network drives directed cell migration in the sea urchin embryo. Elife 4, e08827.


2015/5/14　Nakamoto-san's selection:

Umetsu D, Aigouy B, Aliee, M, Sui L, Eaton S, Frank J, Dahmann C. (2014). Local increases in mechanical tension shape compartment boundaries by biasing cell intercalations. Curr. Biol. 24, 1798-1805.


2015/4/2　Kumano's selection:

Ellis RE, Lin SY. (2014). The evolutionary origins and consequences of self-fertility in nematodes. F1000Prime Rep. 6, 62.


2015/2/26　Minokawa-san's selection:

McCauley BS, Akyar E, Saad HR, Hinman VF. (2015). Dose-dependent nuclear β-catenin response segregates endomesoderm along the sea star primary axis. Development 142, 207-217.


2015/1/22　Miyaoku-san's selection:

Donoughe S, Nakamura T, Ewen-Campen B, Green DA 2nd, Henderson L, Extavour CG. (2014). BMP signaling is required for the generation of primordial germ cells in an insect. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111, 4133-4138.


2014/12/19　Nakamoto-san's selection:

Watanabe H, Schmidt HA, Kuhn A, Hoger SK, Kocagoz Y, Laumann-Lipp N, Ozbek S, Holstein TW. (2014). Nodal signalling determines biradial asymmetry in Hydra. Nature 515, 112-115.


2014/11/13　Kumano's selection:

Anani S, Bhat S, Honma-Yamanaka N, Krawchuk D, Yamanaka Y. (2014). Initiation of Hippo signaling is linked to polarity rather than to cell position in the pre-implantation mouse embryo. Development 141, 2813-2824.


2014/10/9　Minokawa-san's selection:

Campanale JP, Gokirmak T, Espinoza JA, Oulhen N, Wessel GM, Hamdoun A. (2014). Migration of sea urchin primordial germ cells. Dev Dyn. 243, 917-927.


2014/7/17　Miyaoku-san's selection:

Nishimiya-Fujisawa C, Kobayashi S. (2012). Germline stem cells and sex determination in Hydra. Int J Dev Biol. 56, 499-508.


2014/6/19　Nakamoto-san's selection:

Updike DL, Knutson AK, Egelhofer TA, Campbell AC, Strome S. (2014). Germ-granule components prevent somatic development in the C. elegans germline. Curr Biol. 24, 970-5.


2014/5/15　Kumano's selection:

Wang J, Garrey J, Davis RE. (2014). Transcription in pronuclei and one- to four-cell embryos drives early development in a nematode. Curr Biol. 24, 124-33.


2014/4/10　Minokawa-san's selection:

Coffman JA, Wessels A, DeSchiffart C, Rydlizky K. (2014). Oral-aboral axis specification in the sea urchin embryo, IV: hypoxia radializes embryos by preventing the initial spatialization of nodal activity. Dev Biol. 386, 302-7.


2014/3/4　Miyaoku-san's selection:

Bowman EA, Bowman CR, Ahn JH, Kelly WG. (2013). Phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II is independent of P-TEFb in the C. elegans germline. Development 140, 3703-13.

2014/1/30　Kumano's selection:

Garfield DA, Runcie DE, Babbitt CC, Haygood R, Nielsen WJ, Wray GA. (2013). The impact of gene expression variation on the robustness and evolvability of a developmental gene regulatory network. PLoS Biol. 11, e1001696.


2014/1/17　Minokawa-san's selection:

Adomako-Ankomah A, Ettensohn CA. (2013). Growth factor-mediated mesodermal cell guidance and skeletogenesis during sea urchin gastrulation. Development 140, 4214-25.


2013/12/5　Miyaoku-san's selection:

Leclere L, Jager M, Barreau C, Chang P, Le Guyader H, Manuel M, Houliston E. (2012) Maternally localized germ plasm mRNAs and germ cell/stem cell formation in the cnidarian Clytia. Dev Biol. 364, 236-48.