Identification of a novel polypeptide involved in the formation of DNA-containing vesicles during macronuclear development in Tetrahymena.

abstract：:Temperature sex determining species offer a model for investigating how environmental cues become integrated to the regulation of patterning genes and growth, among bipotential gonads. Manipulation of steroid hormones has revealed the important role of aromatase in the regulation of the estrogen levels involved in tem...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Díaz-Hernández V,Marmolejo-Valencia A,Merchant-Larios H

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated sensillum development in Drosophila embryos homozygous for mutations in the locus string (stg). In these embryos, cell division is blocked following blastoderm formation. This permits a study of the differentiative fate of undivided precursor cells, in particular those giving rise to the larval se...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Hartenstein V,Posakony JW

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a subtractive method to clone novel messages enriched in the heart. Here we show that one such message, bves (blood vessel/epicardial substance) is a novel protein that is highly conserved between chicken and mouse. The bves message is detected at high levels in early chick hearts. Using anti-Bves antibod...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Reese DE,Zavaljevski M,Streiff NL,Bader D

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematodes provide a useful experimental system with which to investigate the evolution of development at the cellular, genetic, and molecular levels. Building on an understanding of vulval development in Caenorhabditis elegans, analysis of vulval development has been extended to a number of other species in three fami...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Sommer RJ,Sternberg PW

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether spontaneous release of transmitter from the growth cones of neurons exhibits properties similar to the spontaneous release which occurs from the neurons at the neuromuscular junction, release of transmitter from the growth cones of Xenopus neurons in culture was monitored in salines containing var...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Young SH

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A follicular cDNA library from Bombyx mori (576 clones) was screened to obtain a representative sample of chorion sequences differentially expressed during the early period of choriogenesis. Ten selected sequences were characterized by Northern analysis and by dot blots of stage-specific RNA. Five of these sequences (...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Eickbush TH,Rodakis GC,Lecanidou R,Kafatos FC

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thoracic sensory neurons in bullfrog tadpoles can be induced to form connections typical of brachial sensory neurons by transplanting thoracic ganglia to the branchial level at stages when some thoracic sensory neurons already have formed connections. In order to find out how many postmitotic sensory neurons survive t...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Smith CL

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External genital development begins with formation of paired genital swellings, which develop into the genital tubercle. Proximodistal outgrowth and axial patterning of the genital tubercle are coordinated to give rise to the penis or clitoris. The genital tubercle consists of lateral plate mesoderm, surface ectoderm,...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Perriton CL,Powles N,Chiang C,Maconochie MK,Cohn MJ

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Xenopus oocytes to undergo insulin- or insulin-like growth factor 1-induced meiotic maturation develops during oogenesis, with cells 1.0 mm in diameter or larger responding in a size-dependent manner. Since insulin-induced oocyte maturation was shown previously to be p21 ras-dependent, experiments were ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Davis D,Sadler SE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metamorphosis in Drosophila melanogaster is orchestrated by the steroid hormone ecdysone, which triggers a cascade of primary-response transcriptional regulators and secondary effector genes during the third larval instar and prepupal periods of development. The early ecdysone-response Broad-Complex (BR-C) gene, a key...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Mugat B,Brodu V,Kejzlarova-Lepesant J,Antoniewski C,Bayer CA,Fristrom JW,Lepesant JA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activins are members of the TGF-ss superfamily of secreted growth factors that control a diverse array of processes in vertebrates including endocrine function, cell proliferation, differentiation, immune response and wound repair. In Drosophila, the Activin ligand Dawdle (Daw) has been shown to regulate several aspec...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Ellis JE,Parker L,Cho J,Arora K

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The eyes absent (eya) gene plays an essential role in the events that lead to formation of the Drosophila eye; without expression of eya in retinal progenitor cells, they undergo programmed cell death just prior to the morphogenetic furrow, leading to an eyeless or reduced eye phenotype. The eya gene has recently been...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Bonini NM,Leiserson WM,Benzer S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ line transformation has been used to map the cis regulatory DNA elements responsible for the precise and evolutionarily stable developmental expression of the s18 chorion gene. Constructs containing chimeric combinations of Drosophila melanogaster and D. grimshawi DNA regions, as well as D. grimshawi sequences al...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Swimmer C,Kashevsky H,Mao G,Kafatos FC

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported previously that sequence-specific adenylations and deadenylations accompany changes in the translation of maternal mRNA following fertilization of Spisula oocytes (E.T. Rosenthal, T.R. Tansey, and J.V. Ruderman, 1983, J. Mol. Biol. 166, 309-327). The data presented here confirm and extend those observ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Rosenthal ET,Ruderman JV

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specification of the primordial germ cells (PGCs) is essential for sexually reproducing animals. Although the mechanisms of PGC specification are diverse between organisms, the RNA binding protein Nanos is consistently required in the germ line in all species tested. How Nanos is selectively expressed in the germ line...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Oulhen N,Swartz SZ,Wang L,Wikramanayake A,Wessel GM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have performed a detailed analysis of the expression pattern of the three gnathostome Otx classes in order to gain new insights into their functional evolution. Expression patterns were examined in the developing eye of a chondrichthyan, the dogfish, and an amniote, the chick, and compared with the capacity of para...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Plouhinec JL,Leconte L,Sauka-Spengler T,Bovolenta P,Mazan S,Saule S

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicastrin is a recently identified member of high-molecular weight complexes containing presenilin. The Caenorhabditis elegans homolog of nicastrin, aph-2, was shown to be required for GLP-1/Notch signaling in the early embryo. In addition to the maternal-effect embryonic lethal phenotype, aph-2 mutant animals also di...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Levitan D,Yu G,St George Hyslop P,Goutte C

更新日期：2001-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The nervous system development of the sea cucumber Stichopus japonicus was investigated to explore the development of the bilateral larval nervous system into the pentaradial adult form typical of echinoderms. The first nerve cells were detected in the apical region of epidermis in the late gastrula. In the auriculari...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Nakano H,Murabe N,Amemiya S,Nakajima Y

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigment cells of the zebrafish, Danio rerio, offer an exceptionally tractable system for studying the genetic and cellular bases of cell fate decisions. In the zebrafish, neural crest cells generate three types of pigment cells during embryogenesis: yellow xanthophores, iridescent iridophores and black melanophores. I...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Curran K,Lister JA,Kunkel GR,Prendergast A,Parichy DM,Raible DW

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multipotent, self-renewing neural stem cells reside in the embryonic mouse telencephalic germinal zone. Using an in vitro neurosphere assay for neural stem cell proliferation, we demonstrate that FGF-responsive neural stem cells are present as early as E8.5 in the anterior neural plate, but EGF-responsive neural stem ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Tropepe V,Sibilia M,Ciruna BG,Rossant J,Wagner EF,van der Kooy D

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the intermediate filament protein nestin is expressed in myogenic cells and that multiple mechanisms regulate nestin expression at different stages of myogenesis. Cultured embryonic, fetal, and neonatal mouse limb myoblasts initially expressed nestin in the absence of the four muscle regulatory factors (M...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Kachinsky AM,Dominov JA,Miller JB

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Notch signaling is involved in a large range of developmental processes, and has been functionally implicated in body plan segmentation in two of the three diverse segmented taxa, the vertebrates and arthropods. Here we investigate expression of Notch, Delta, and hes gene homologues during larval and juvenile developm...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Thamm K,Seaver EC

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized a phosphoprotein protein with a death effector domain that has a novel bifunctional role in programmed cell death. The 15-kDa phosphoprotein enriched in astrocytes (PEA-15) inhibits Fas-mediated apoptosis and increases tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 (TNF-R1)-mediated apoptosis in the same cell ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Estellés A,Charlton CA,Blau HM

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transcription mediates many vital aspects of mammalian embryonic development. A comprehensive characterization and analysis of the dynamics of gene transcription in the embryo is therefore likely to provide significant insights into the basic mechanisms of this process. We used microarrays to map transcription in...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Wagner RA,Tabibiazar R,Liao A,Quertermous T

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gr16 (chromosome 2, 6.9 cM) is a dominant, grey egg mutation of the domestic silkmoth, Bombyx mori, which produces an opaque instead of a translucent chorion. To determine the underlying cause of this defect, we examined the effects of the mutation on chorion ultrastructure, protein accumulation, and biosynthesis patt...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Gautreau D,Zetlan SR,Mazur GD,Goldsmith MR

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Missense mutations in the MYH3 gene encoding myosin heavy chain-embryonic (MyHC-embryonic) have been reported to cause two skeletal muscle contracture syndromes, Freeman Sheldon Syndrome (FSS) and Sheldon Hall Syndrome (SHS). Two residues in MyHC-embryonic that are most frequently mutated, leading to FSS, R672 and T17...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Das S,Kumar P,Verma A,Maiti TK,Mathew SJ

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:LIM-Kinase (LIMK), including LIMK1 and LIMK2, is the only known catalytic protein among LIM-family molecules. It is well known that LIMK phosphorylates and inactivates cofilin, an actin-depolymerizing factor regulating actin reorganization, while in vivo functions have remained to be elucidated. In the present study, ...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Takahashi H,Koshimizu U,Miyazaki J,Nakamura T

更新日期：2002-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Repair and regeneration of adult skeletal muscle are mediated by satellite cells. In healthy muscle these rare mononucleate muscle precursor cells are mitotically quiescent. Upon muscle injury or degeneration, members of this self-renewing pool are activated to proliferate and then differentiate. Here we analyzed in s...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Cornelison DD,Wold BJ

更新日期：1997-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of cell cycle rate is essential for the correct timing of proliferation and differentiation during development. Changes to cell cycle rate can have profound effects on the size, shape and cell types of a developing organ. We previously identified a zebrafish mutant ceylon (cey) that has a severe reducti...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Hutchinson SA,Tooke-Locke E,Wang J,Tsai S,Katz T,Trede NS

更新日期：2012-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular mechanisms underlying the amazing ability of sea cucumbers to regenerate their autotomized intestines have been widely described by us and others. However, the signaling pathways that control these mechanisms are unknown. Previous studies have shown that Wnt homologs are upregulated during early intestina...

journal_title：Developmental biology

authors： Bello SA,Torres-Gutiérrez V,Rodríguez-Flores EJ,Toledo-Román EJ,Rodríguez N,Díaz-Díaz LM,Vázquez-Figueroa LD,Cuesta JM,Grillo-Alvarado V,Amador A,Reyes-Rivera J,García-Arrarás JE

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00