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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.
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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Analyses of zebrafish and Xenopus oocyte maturation reveal conserved and diverged features of translational regulation of maternal cyclin B1 mRNA Yan Zhang, Michael D. Sheets BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :7 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Notch signalling in the paraxial mesoderm is most sensitive to reduced Pofut1 levels during early mouse development Karin Schuster-Gossler, Belinda Harris, Kenneth R Johnson, Jurgen Serth, Achim Gossler BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :6 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 St BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9 :2 (6 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [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 HMG CoA 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 ] [Full text ] [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 ] [Full text ] [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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Conditional embryonic lethality to improve the sterile insect technique in Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) Marc F Schetelig, Carlos Caceres, Antigone Zacharopoulou, Gerald Franz, Ernst A. Wimmer BMC Biology 2009, 7 :4 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Upregulation of prolylcarboxypeptidase (PRCP) in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treated endothelium promotes inflammation My-Linh Ngo, Fakhri Mahdi, Dhaval Kolte, Zia Shariat-Madar Journal of Inflammation 2009, 6 :3 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Characterization of taxonomically-restricted genes in a phylum-restricted cell type Sabine Milde, Georg Hemmrich, Friederike Anton-Erxleben, Konstantin Khalturin, Jorg Wittlieb, Thomas CG Bosch Genome Biology 2009, 10 :R8 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Generation and analysis of expressed sequence tags from six developing xylem libraries in Pinus radiata D. Don Xinguo Li, Harry X Wu, Shannon K Dillon, Simon G Southerton BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :41 (21 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Impact of steroid hormone signals on Drosophila cell cycle during development Nicola Cranna, Leonie Quinn Cell Division 2009, 4 :3 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Domain duplication, divergence, and loss events in vertebrate Msx paralogs reveal phylogenomically informed disease markers John R. Finnerty, Maureen E. Mazza, Peter A. Jezewski BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9 :18 (20 [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 ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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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 ] [Full text ] [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 ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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