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BMC Developmental Biology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of cellular, tissue-level and organismal aspects of development.
BMC Developmental Biology (ISSN 1471-213X) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Zoological Record, Current Contents, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :105
Two key sites in the sox10 zebrafish gene regulate the spatiotemporal patterning of Sox10 in early neural crest induction and their conserved positions in mammals suggests they are the major sites of Sox10 regulation in vertebrates.
BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :104
Developmental expression of the Drosophila gene dSTIM, which regulates calcium entry into cells, indicates it has key functions in tissue patterning and cell fate in specific tissues and a potential role in cell signaling
BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :85
Early commitment of germ cells to meiosis in chicken embryos is dependent on retinoic acid signaling, as is already known to be the case for the equivalent process in mice.
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Gene expression profiles during early differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells. Fiona C Mansergh, Carl S Daly, Anna L Hurley, Michael A Wride, Susan M Hunter, Martin J Evans BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :5 (9 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Mosaic analysis of stem cell function and wound healing in the mouse corneal epithelium Richard L Mort, Thaya Ramaesh, Dirk A Kleinjan, Steven D Morley, John D West BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :4 (7 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Regeneration of the radial nerve cord in the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima Jose E. San Miguel-Ruiz, Angel R. Maldonado-Soto, Jose E. Garcia-Arraras BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :3 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Rac1 regulates pancreatic islet morphogenesis Thomas U Greiner, Gokul Kesavan, Anders Stahlberg, Henrik Semb BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :2 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Quantification of Fibronectin 1 (FN1) splice variants, including two novel ones, and analysis of integrins as candidate FN1 receptors in bovine preimplantation embryos Karen Goossens, Ann Van Soom, Alex Van Zeveren, Herman Favoreel, Luc J Peelman BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :1 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Inhibition of HMGCoA Reductase Reveals An Unexpected Role for Cholesterol During PGC Migration in the Mouse Jiaxi Ding, DeChen Jiang, Michael Kurczy, Jennifer Nalepka, Brian Dudley, Erin I Merkel, Forbes D Porter, Andrew G Ewing, Nicholas Winograd, James Burgess, Kathleen Molyneaux BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :120 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A simplified, robust, and streamlined procedure for the production of C. elegans transgenes via recombineering Yue Zhang, Lindsey Nash, Alfred L Fisher BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :119 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Pleiotropic effects in Eya3 knockout mice Torben Soker, Claudia Dalke, Oliver Puk, Thomas Floss, Lore Becker, Ines Bolle, Jack Favor, Wolfgang Hans, Sabine M. Hoelter, Marion Horsch, Magdalena Kallnik, Eva Kling, Corinna Morth, Anja Schrewe, Christian Stigloher, Stefanie Topp, Valerie Gailus-Durner, Beatrix Naton, Johannes Beckers, Helmut Fuchs, Boris Ivandic, Thomas Klopstock, Holger Schulz, Eckhard Wolf, Wolfgang Wurst, Laure Bally-Cuif, Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Jochen Graw BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :118 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Loss of Notch signalling induced by Delta-like 4 (Dll4) causes arterial calibre reduction by increasing endothelial cell response to angiogenic stimuli Rui Benedito, Alexandre Trindade, Masanori Hirashima, Domingos Henrique, Luis Lopes-da-Costa, Janet Rossant, Parkash S Gill, Antonio Duarte BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :117 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Patterning of palatal rugae through sequential addition reveals an anterior-posterior boundary in palatal development Sophie Pantalacci, Jan Prochazka, Arnaud Martin, Michaela Rothova, Anne Lambert, Laure Bernard, Cyril Charles, Laurent Viriot, Renata Peterkova, Vincent Laudet BMC Developmental Biology 2008, 8 :116 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Molecular evolution in Panagrolaimus nematodes: origins of parthenogenesis, hermaphroditism and the Antarctic species P. davidi Samantha C Lewis, Leslie A Dyal, Caroline F Hilburn, Stephanie Weitz, Wei-Siang Liau, Craig W LaMunyon, Dee R Denver BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :15 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Adenomatous polyposis coli is required for early events in the normal growth and differentiation of the developing cerebral cortex Uladzislau Ivaniutsin, Yijing Chen, John O Mason, David J Price, Thomas Pratt Neural Development 2009, 4 :3 (16 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Genic Regions of a Large Salamander Genome Contain Long Introns and Novel Genes Jeramiah J Smith, Srikrishna Putta, Wei Zhu, Gerald M Pao, Inder M Verma, Tony Hunter, Susan V Bryant, David M Gardiner, Timothy T Harkins, S. Randal Voss BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :19 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Comparative characterization of mesenchymal stem cells from eGFP transgenic and non-transgenic mice Cynthia B Ripoll, Bruce A Bunnell BMC Cell Biology 2009, 10 :3 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Microarray and cDNA sequence analysis of transcription during nerve-dependent limb regeneration James R Monaghan, Leonard G Epp, Srikrishna Putta, Robert B Page, John A Walker, Chris K Beachy, Wei Zhu, Gerald M Pao, Inder M Verma, Tony Hunter, Susan V Bryant, David M Gardiner, Timothy T Harkins, Stephen R Voss BMC Biology 2009, 7 :1 (13 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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In planta localisation patterns of MADS domain proteins during floral development in Arabidopsis thaliana Susan L Urbanus, Stefan DE Folter, Anna Shchennikova, Kerstin Kaufmann, Richard Immink, Gerco C Angenent BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9 :5 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Requirement of focal adhesion kinase in branching tubulogenesis Wei-Chun Wei, Anna K Kopec, Ming-Jer Tang Journal of Biomedical Science 2009, 16 :5 (12 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Simple allele-discriminating PCR for cost-effective and rapid genotyping and mapping Minh Bui, Zhongchi Liu Plant Methods 2009, 5 :1 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Transgenic mice exhibiting inducible and spontaneous Cre activities driven by a bovine keratin 5 promoter that can be used for the conditional analysis of basal epithelial cells in multiple organs Chih-Chia Liang, Li-Ru You, Junn-Liang Chang, Ting-Fen Tsai, Chun-Ming Chen Journal of Biomedical Science 2009, 16 :2 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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A gene expression signature shared by human mature oocytes and embryonic stem cells Said Assou, Doris Cerecedo, Sylvie Tondeur, Veronique Pantesco, Outi Hovatta, Bernard Klein, Samir Hamamah, John De Vos BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :10 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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