Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Development is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Fertile Encounter89
A Colourful Character85
Sorgvliet82
Loss of function of the maternal membrane oestrogen receptor ERα alters expansion of trophoblast cells and impacts mouse fertility77
A PDX1 cistrome and single-cell transcriptome resource of the developing pancreas74
Cyclic growth of dermal papilla and regeneration of follicular mesenchymal components during feather cycling70
Live imaging of adult zebrafish cardiomyocyte proliferation ex vivo68
AMPK activates the Nrf2-Keap1 pathway to govern dendrite pruning via the insulin pathway in Drosophila61
Regulation of UNC-40/DCC and UNC-6/Netrin by DAF-16 promotes functional rewiring of the injured axon58
PHLPP1 regulates CFTR activity and lumen expansion through AMPK56
An interview with James Wells54
The people behind the papers – Vincent Mouilleau, Célia Vaslin and Stéphane Nedelec53
Transitions in development – an interview with Noelia Urbán52
The people behind the papers – Kelsey Brooks and Shawn Chavez52
Transitions in development – an interview with Aissam Ikmi51
Patterning on the move: the effects of Hh morphogen source movement on signaling dynamics50
Correction: Spherical harmonics analysis reveals cell shape-fate relationships in zebrafish lateral line neuromasts50
Ets-1 transcription factor regulates glial cell regeneration and function in planarians46
Transitions in development – an interview with Chin-Min (Kimmy) Ho45
The role of O-GlcNAcylation in development45
Cadherin adhesion complexes direct cell aggregation in the epithelial transition of Wnt-induced nephron progenitor cells44
The combined action of Esrrb and Nr5a2 is essential for murine naïve pluripotency43
BF170 hydrochloride enhances the emergence of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells42
A multistep computational approach reveals a neuro-mesenchymal cell population in the embryonic hematopoietic stem cell niche42
ID1 and CEBPA coordinate epidermal progenitor cell differentiation41
Jeffrey G. Williams (1948-2022): a pioneer molecular biologist in development40
EHF is essential for epidermal and colonic epithelial homeostasis, and suppresses Apc-initiated colonic tumorigenesis38
The Tbx20-TLE interaction is essential for the maintenance of the second heart field38
In preprints: new insights into truncated radial glia38
Mammalian primordial germ cell specification37
Correction: MEIS-WNT5A axis regulates development of fourth ventricle choroid plexus35
Psi promotes Drosophila wing growth via direct transcriptional activation of cell cycle targets and repression of growth inhibitors35
Pathway to Independence: the future of developmental biology35
The people behind the papers – Kelsey Elliott and Samantha Brugmann34
Correction: The histone acetyltransferase HBO1 promotes efficient tip cell sprouting during angiogenesis34
The adult Drosophila testis lacks a mechanism to replenish missing niche cells34
Shared cis-regulatory modules control expression of the tandem paralogs midline and H15 in the follicular epithelium33
The people behind the papers – Ya Min, Stephanie Conway and Elena Kramer32
HoxD transcription factors define monosynaptic sensory-motor specificity in the developing spinal cord32
Isolation of a novel missense mutation in insulin receptor as a spontaneous revertant in ImpL2 mutants in Drosophila32
Gestational iron deficiency affects the ratio between interneuron subtypes in the postnatal cerebral cortex in mice32
Ccn2a-FGFR1-SHH signaling is necessary for intervertebral disc homeostasis and regeneration in adult zebrafish31
Approaches to benchmark and characterize in vitro human model systems31
TMEM132A regulates mouse hindgut morphogenesis and caudal development31
The Excursion30
David L. Stocum (1939-2023)30
The people behind the papers – Amber Cook, Taylor Bishop, Hannah Crowe and Andrew Lawton30
An interview with Purushothama Rao Tata30
An interview with Lydia Finley30
Arc1 and the microbiota together modulate growth and metabolic traits in Drosophila29
An interview with Michael Barresi29
The people behind the papers – Thomas Naert and Soeren Lienkamp29
Molecular profiling of the vestibular lamina highlights a key role for Hedgehog signalling28
Obituary: Friedrich Bonhoeffer (1932-2021)28
Anillin and the microtubule bundler PRC1 maintain myosin in the contractile ring to ensure completion of cytokinesis28
The people behind the papers – Tiffany Roach and Kari Lenhart28
A low-sugar diet enhancesDrosophilabody size in males and females via sex-specific mechanisms28
A unique miR775-GALT9 module regulates leaf senescence in Arabidopsis during post-submergence recovery by modulating ethylene and the abscisic acid pathway28
The people behind the papers – Anish Dattani and Ge Guo27
Advances in live imaging early mouse development: exploring the researcher's interdisciplinary toolkit26
An interview with Aimee Jaramillo-Lambert26
Nutritional control of developmental processes25
Gastric epithelial stem cells in development, homeostasis and regeneration24
Segmentation and patterning of the vertebrate hindbrain24
Gata6 functions in zebrafish endoderm to regulate late differentiating arterial pole cardiogenesis24
Translational control by maternal Nanog promotes oogenesis and early embryonic development24
Germ granules in development24
TBX3 is essential for establishment of the posterior boundary of anterior genes and upregulation of posterior genes together with HAND2 during the onset of limb bud development23
Estrogens regulate early embryonic development of the olfactory sensory system via estrogen-responsive glia23
The people behind the papers – Lisa Conrad, Steve Runser, Roman Vetter and Dagmar Iber23
WASp controls oriented migration of endothelial cells to achieve functional vascular patterning23
Aberrant centrosome biogenesis disrupts nephron and collecting duct progenitor growth and fate resulting in fibrocystic kidney disease23
Mapping the adult human esophagus in vivo and in vitro23
Understanding the development of oral epithelial organs through single cell transcriptomic analysis23
Taste papilla cell differentiation requires the regulation of secretory protein production by ALK3-BMP signaling in the tongue mesenchyme23
Convertase-dependent regulation of membrane-tethered and secreted ligands tunes dendrite adhesion23
The people behind the papers – Zoe Grant, Tim Thomas, Anne Voss and Leigh Coultas23
An interview with Eugenia del Pino23
Cyclin A participates in the TSO1-MYB3R1 regulatory module to maintain shoot meristem size and fertility in Arabidopsis22
Roles of developmentally regulated KIF2A alternative isoforms in cortical neuron migration and differentiation22
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals PDGFRα+ stromal cell subpopulations that promote proacinar cell differentiation in embryonic salivary gland organoids22
Local protein synthesis of neuronal MT1-MMP for agrin-induced presynaptic development22
Symbiosis of disciplines: how can developmental biologists join conservationists in sustaining and restoring earth's biodiversity?22
Uncovering developmental diversity in the field22
Lmo7 recruits myosin II heavy chain to regulate actomyosin contractility and apical domain size inXenopusectoderm22
Mosaic CRISPR-stop enables rapid phenotyping of nonsense mutations in essential genes22
CIARA: a cluster-independent algorithm for identifying markers of rare cell types from single-cell sequencing data22
Feedforward regulatory logic controls the specification-to-differentiation transition and terminal cell fate during Caenorhabditis elegans endoderm development22
The people behind the papers – Jake Turley22
SmcHD1 underlies the formation of H3K9me3 blocks on the inactive X chromosome in mice22
Environmental oxygen regulates astrocyte proliferation to guide angiogenesis during retinal development21
Development of a 3D atlas of the embryonic pancreas for topological and quantitative analysis of heterologous cell interactions21
Correction: Microtubule-associated ROP interactors affect microtubule dynamics and modulate cell wall patterning and root hair growth21
MIG-23 is involved in sperm migration by modulating extracellular ATP levels in Ascaris suum21
The journey of a generation: advances and promises in the study of primordial germ cell migration21
The growth and expansion of meningeal lymphatic networks are affected in craniosynostosis21
Global proteomic analyses of human cytotrophoblast differentiation/invasion21
In toto imaging of glial JNK signaling during larval zebrafish spinal cord regeneration21
Divergent evolution of developmental timing in the neocortex revealed by marsupial and eutherian transcriptomes21
Correction: Wt1 transcription factor impairs cardiomyocyte specification and drives a phenotypic switch from myocardium to epicardium21
Two distinct motifs for Zic-r.a drive specific gene expression in two cell lineages21
Early-onset tufting enteropathy in HAI-2-deficient mice is independent of matriptase-mediated cleavage of EpCAM20
Notch-dependent DNAcis-regulatory elements and their dose-dependent control ofC. elegansstem cell self-renewal20
Promoting developmental diversity in a changing world20
Tracking and measuring local protein synthesis in vivo20
Pax4-Ghrelin mediates the conversion of pancreatic ε-cells to β-cells after extreme β-cell loss in zebrafish20
Pathway to Independence – an interview with Polina Kameneva20
The people behind the papers – Jason Ko and Daniel Lobo20
David Ish-Horowicz FRS (1948-2024): outstanding scientific discovery, with a unique touch of selfless humanity20
Pinch2 regulates myelination in the mouse central nervous system20
Quantitative videomicroscopy reveals latent control of cell-pair rotations in vivo20
Lethal Giant Disc is a target of Cdk1 and regulates ESCRT-III localization during germline stem cell abscission20
GATA6 is a crucial factor for Myocd expression in the visceral smooth muscle cell differentiation program of the murine ureter20
hnRNPH1 establishes Sertoli–germ cell crosstalk through cooperation with PTBP1 and AR, and is essential for male fertility in mice20
Optical coherence tomography-guided Brillouin microscopy highlights regional tissue stiffness differences during anterior neural tube closure in the Mthfd1l murine mutant19
Fluorescent cytoskeletal markers reveal associations between the actin and microtubule cytoskeleton in rice cells19
Revisiting the lineage contribution of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells19
Correction: Wnt9 directs zebrafish heart tube assembly via a combination of canonical and non-canonical pathway signaling19
Regulation of ROP GTPase cycling between active and inactive states is essential for vegetative organogenesis in Marchantia polymorpha19
Regenerative neurogenesis: the integration of developmental, physiological and immune signals19
Brain vascular damage-induced lymphatic ingrowth is directed by Cxcl12b/Cxcr4a19
Calcium signals tune AMPK activity and mitochondrial homeostasis in dendrites of developing neurons19
Cerebellum lineage allocation, morphogenesis and repair: impact of interplay amongst cells19
Eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E-5 is required for spermiogenesis inDrosophila melanogaster19
Dual role of Ovol2 on the germ cell lineage segregation during gastrulation in mouse embryogenesis19
The Forest of Biologists – for biologists, for biology19
Zasp52 strengthens whole embryo tissue integrity through supracellular actomyosin networks19
Transdifferentiation is temporally uncoupled from progenitor pool expansion during hair cell regeneration in the zebrafish inner ear18
Dissecting the dynamic cellular transcriptional atlas of adult teleost testis development throughout the annual reproductive cycle18
An interview with Marysia Placzek18
NANOGP1, a tandem duplicate of NANOG, exhibits partial functional conservation in human naïve pluripotent stem cells18
Hippo pathway inactivation through subcellular localization of NF2/merlin in outer cells of mouse embryos18
A lineage-specific requirement for YY1 Polycomb Group protein function in early T cell development18
The H3.3 chaperone Hira complex orchestrates oocyte developmental competence18
The people behind the papers – Matt Matrongolo and Max Tischfield18
RNA profiling of laser microdissected human trophoblast subtypes at mid-gestation reveals a role for cannabinoid signaling in invasion18
Identification of maternal-effect genes in zebrafish using maternal crispants18
The role of a ciliary GTPase in the regulation of neuronal maturation of olfactory sensory neurons18
Mural Wnt/β-catenin signaling regulates Lama2 expression to promote neurovascular unit maturation18
CHIP inhibits odontoblast differentiation through promoting DLX3 polyubiquitylation and degradation18
Harnessing developmental cues for cardiomyocyte production18
Ciliopathic micrognathia is caused by aberrant skeletal differentiation and remodeling18
MafB-dependent neurotransmitter signaling promotes β cell migration in the developing pancreas18
An integrated atlas of human placental development delineates essential regulators of trophoblast stem cells17
The future of conferences17
Characterization and staging of outer plexiform layer development in human retina and retinal organoids17
The Arabidopsis stomatal polarity protein BASL mediates distinct processes before and after cell division to coordinate cell size and fate asymmetries17
Ultrabithorax modifies a regulatory network of genes essential for butterfly eyespot development in a wing sector-specific manner17
The transcription factors Foxf1 and Foxf2 integrate the SHH, HGF and TGFβ signaling pathways to drive tongue organogenesis17
A mechanogenetic role for the actomyosin complex in branching morphogenesis of epithelial organs17
Adhesion and shrinkage transform the rounded pupal horn into an angular adult horn in Japanese rhinoceros beetle17
Kpna6 deficiency causes infertility in male mice by disrupting spermatogenesis17
Loss of plac8 expression rapidly leads pluripotent stem cells to enter active state during planarian regeneration17
Coordinated activities of Myosin Vb isoforms and mTOR signaling regulate epithelial cell morphology during development17
Hbxip is essential for murine embryogenesis and regulates embryonic stem cell differentiation through activating mTORC117
The people behind the papers – Denis Faerberg and Ilya Ruvinsky17
Combinatorial patterns of graded RhoA activation and uniform F-actin depletion promote tissue curvature16
Paternally inherited H3K27me3 affects chromatin accessibility in mouse embryos produced by round spermatid injection16
The GTPase Rab8 differentially controls the long- and short-range activity of the Hedgehog morphogen gradient by regulating Hedgehog apico-basal distribution16
EGFR signal transduction is downregulated in C. elegans vulval precursor cells during dauer diapause16
Open-source, high-throughput targeted in situ transcriptomics for developmental and tissue biology16
Biased precursor ingression underlies the center-to-pole pattern of male sex determination in mouse16
In preprints: new insights into proximodistal limb patterning and differentiation16
Generation of functional human oligodendrocytes from dermal fibroblasts by direct lineage conversion16
The genetic basis of natural variation in the timing of vegetative phase change inArabidopsis thaliana16
Developmental and evolutionary comparative analysis of a regulatory landscape in mouse and chicken16
Generation of rat-derived lung epithelial cells in Fgfr2b-deficient mice retains species-specific development16
Both entry to and exit from diapause arrest in Caenorhabditis elegans are regulated by a steroid hormone pathway16
PCMD-1 bridges the centrioles and the pericentriolar material scaffold in C. elegans16
Drosophilaembryos spatially sort their nutrient stores to facilitate their utilization16
The people behind the papers – Alejandro Berrio and David McClay15
Conserved roles of engrailed: patterning tissues and specifying cell types15
Alignment of the cell long axis by unidirectional tension acts cooperatively with Wnt signalling to establish planar cell polarity15
A single-plasmid approach for genome editing coupled with long-term lineage analysis in chick embryos15
OptIC-Notch reveals mechanism that regulates receptor interactions with CSL15
Developing Future Biologists: developmental biology for undergraduates from underserved communities15
Csf1rb regulates definitive hematopoiesis in zebrafish15
Robust axis elongation by Nodal-dependent restriction of BMP signaling15
Cellular retinoic acid-binding proteins regulate germ cell proliferation and sex determination in zebrafish15
Testosterone acts through the membrane protein GPRC6A to cause cardiac edema in zebrafish embryos15
Admp regulates tail bending by controlling ventral epidermal cell polarity via phosphorylated myosin localization in Ciona15
Dysregulation of the endoplasmic reticulum blocks recruitment of centrosome-associated proteins resulting in mitotic failure15
Seven-up acts in neuroblasts to specify adult central complex neuron identity and initiate neuroblast decommissioning15
Feedback control of the Gpr161-Gαs-PKA axis contributes to basal Hedgehog repression in zebrafish15
Primordial germ cells adjust their protrusion type while migrating in different tissue contexts in vivo15
The ACE inhibitor captopril inhibits ACN-1 to control dauer formation and aging15
In vitro modelling of anterior primitive streak patterning with human pluripotent stem cells identifies the path to notochord progenitors15
Piezo1 and Piezo2 collectively regulate jawbone development15
Actin-capping protein regulates actomyosin contractility to maintain germline architecture in C. elegans15
Barcoding Notch signaling in the developing brain15
The people behind the papers – Sangeeta Ghuwalewala, David Shalloway and Tudorita (Doina) Tumbar15
HCR spectral imaging: 10-plex, quantitative, high-resolution RNA and protein imaging in highly autofluorescent samples15
A new experimental evidence-weighted signaling pathway resource in FlyBase15
Sall4 regulates posterior trunk mesoderm development by promoting mesodermal gene expression and repressing neural genes in the mesoderm15
In preprints: exciting new insights into the lives of our closest relatives14
Macrophages play a crucial role in vascular smooth muscle cell coverage14
Sox2-Evf2 lncRNA-mediated mechanisms of chromosome topological control in developing forebrain14
Revisiting the role of Notch in nephron segmentation confirms a role for proximal fate selection during mouse and human nephrogenesis14
A large-scale CRISPR screen reveals context-specific genetic regulation of retinal ganglion cell regeneration14
The AKT1-FOXO4 axis reciprocally regulates hemochorial placentation14
Stable germline transgenesis using the Minos Tc1/mariner element in the sea urchin Lytechinus pictus14
FOXC1 and FOXC2 regulate growth plate chondrocyte maturation towards hypertrophy in the embryonic mouse limb skeleton14
The pseudobranch of jawed vertebrates is a mandibular arch-derived gill14
Macrophages play a nutritive role in post-metamorphic maturation in Drosophila14
Mechanical forces remodel the cardiac extracellular matrix during zebrafish development14
Genome-wide identification of notochord enhancers comprising the regulatory landscape of the brachyury locus in mouse14
Uncoupling transcription and translation through miRNA-dependent poly(A) length control in haploid male germ cells14
Pten inhibition dedifferentiates long-distance axon-regenerating intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and upregulates mitochondria-associated Dynlt1a and Lars214
Pathway to Independence – an interview with Lydia Djenoune14
Calcium waves facilitate and coordinate the contraction of endfeet actin stress fibers in Drosophila interommatidial cells14
Core conserved transcriptional regulatory networks define the invasive trophoblast cell lineage14
Mesenchymal Vangl1 and Vangl2 facilitate airway elongation and widening independently of the planar cell polarity complex14
Pathway to Independence – an interview with Eirini Maniou14
Deletion of the Ebf1, a mouse deafness gene, causes a dramatic increase in hair cells and support cells of the organ of Corti14
Generation of a homozygous mutant drug transporter (ABCB1) knockout line in the sea urchinLytechinus pictus13
Y705 and S727 are required for the mitochondrial import and transcriptional activities of STAT3, and for regulation of stem cell proliferation13
CFI-1 functions unilaterally to restrict gap junction formation in C. elegans13
Endothelial deletion of Wt1 disrupts coronary angiogenesis and myocardium development13
New mouse models for high resolution and live imaging of planar cell polarity proteins in vivo13
Normal cell cycle progression requires negative regulation of E2F1 by Groucho during S phase and its relief at G2 phase13
Common modes of ERK induction resolve into context-specific signalling via emergent networks and cell-type-specific transcriptional repression13
Immunity priming uncouples the growth–defense trade-off in tomato13
Shared retinoic acid responsive enhancers coordinately regulate nascent transcription of Hoxb coding and non-coding RNAs in the developing mouse neural tube13
Avian auditory hair cell regeneration is accompanied by JAK/STAT-dependent expression of immune-related genes in supporting cells13
Hybridization chain reaction enables a unified approach to multiplexed, quantitative, high-resolution immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization13
CXCL12 defines lung endothelial heterogeneity and promotes distal vascular growth13
Tango6 regulates HSPC proliferation and definitive haematopoiesis via Ikzf1 and Cmyb in caudal haematopoietic tissue13
Aldh2 is a lineage-specific metabolic gatekeeper in melanocyte stem cells13
Single-molecule tracking technologies for quantifying the dynamics of gene regulation in cells, tissue and embryos13
A Mesp1-dependent developmental breakpoint in transcriptional and epigenomic specification of early cardiac precursors13
The people behind the papers – Saya Furukawa, Akira Satoh and Yoshihiro Morishita13
A cornichon protein controls polar localization of the PINA auxin transporter in Physcomitrium patens13
In preprints: releasing the brakes on neuronal maturation13
ERK signalling eliminates Nanog and maintains Oct4 to drive the formative pluripotency transition13
4931414P19Rik, a microglia chemoattractant secreted by neural progenitors, modulates neuronal migration during corticogenesis13
The road to generating transplantable organs: from blastocyst complementation to interspecies chimeras13
Selective Cdk9 inhibition resolves neutrophilic inflammation and enhances cardiac regeneration in larval zebrafish13
IGF2 interacts with the imprinted gene Cdkn1c to promote terminal differentiation of neural stem cells13
Cell trajectory modeling identifies a primitive trophoblast state defined by BCAM enrichment13
The protamines of the spider Steatoda sp. provide an example of liquid–liquid phase separation chromatin transitions during spermiogenesis13
Beyond energy and growth: the role of metabolism in developmental signaling, cell behavior and diapause13
Ernest Arenas (1962-2024): a legacy of advancing dopaminergic neurogenesis research13
Signalling pathways and transcriptional regulators orchestrating liver development and cancer13
Characterization of an eye field-like state during optic vesicle organoid development13
The Caenorhabditis elegans anchor cell transcriptome: ribosome biogenesis drives cell invasion through basement membrane12
Single-cell transcriptional and functional analysis of dopaminergic neurons in organoid-like cultures derived from human fetal midbrain12
Fatty acid-binding proteins and fatty acid synthase influence glial reactivity and promote the formation of Müller glia-derived progenitor cells in the chick retina12
Defective mesothelium and limited physical space are drivers of dysregulated lung development in a genetic model of congenital diaphragmatic hernia12
Optimal BR signalling is required for adequate cell wall orientation in the Arabidopsis root meristem12
SCARECROW is deployed in distinct contexts during rice and maize leaf development12
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