Development

Papers
(The TQCC of Development is 10. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
The people behind the papers – Ya Min, Stephanie Conway and Elena Kramer118
Harnessing developmental cues for cardiomyocyte production107
MIG-23 is involved in sperm migration by modulating extracellular ATP levels in Ascaris suum101
The Forest of Biologists – for biologists, for biology79
The people behind the papers – Jake Turley76
Patterning on the move: the effects of Hh morphogen source movement on signaling dynamics76
The Excursion75
Developmental and evolutionary comparative analysis of a regulatory landscape in mouse and chicken74
The functional specificity of ERECTA-family receptors in Arabidopsis stomatal development is ensured by molecular chaperones in the endoplasmic reticulum67
Normal cell cycle progression requires negative regulation of E2F1 by Groucho during S phase and its relief at G2 phase66
Correction: Wt1 transcription factor impairs cardiomyocyte specification and drives a phenotypic switch from myocardium to epicardium63
The people behind the papers – Kelsey Brooks and Shawn Chavez63
In preprints: new insights into truncated radial glia62
PHLPP1 regulates CFTR activity and lumen expansion through AMPK61
Cdkn1c orchestrates a molecular network that regulates euploidy of male mouse germline stem cells58
Shared cis-regulatory modules control expression of the tandem paralogs midline and H15 in the follicular epithelium56
FOXC1 and FOXC2 regulate growth plate chondrocyte maturation towards hypertrophy in the embryonic mouse limb skeleton53
Notch-dependent DNAcis-regulatory elements and their dose-dependent control ofC. elegansstem cell self-renewal53
Sall4 regulates posterior trunk mesoderm development by promoting mesodermal gene expression and repressing neural genes in the mesoderm53
Interplay of SHH, WNT and BMP4 signaling regulates the development of the lamina propria in the murine ureter51
A low-sugar diet enhancesDrosophilabody size in males and females via sex-specific mechanisms49
Abscisic acid biosynthesis is necessary for full auxin effects on hypocotyl elongation45
Nup107 contributes to the maternal-to-zygotic transition by preventing the premature nuclear export of pri-miR42742
Destabilisation of bam transcripts terminates the mitotic phase of Drosophila female germline differentiation42
The combined action of Esrrb and Nr5a2 is essential for murine naïve pluripotency41
Cadherin adhesion complexes direct cell aggregation in the epithelial transition of Wnt-induced nephron progenitor cells41
Ccn2a-FGFR1-SHH signaling is necessary for intervertebral disc homeostasis and regeneration in adult zebrafish41
Testosterone acts through the membrane protein GPRC6A to cause cardiac edema in zebrafish embryos40
Live imaging of adult zebrafish cardiomyocyte proliferation ex vivo40
Aberrant centrosome biogenesis disrupts nephron and collecting duct progenitor growth and fate resulting in fibrocystic kidney disease38
The AKT1-FOXO4 axis reciprocally regulates hemochorial placentation38
Zasp52 strengthens whole embryo tissue integrity through supracellular actomyosin networks38
Approaches to benchmark and characterize in vitro human model systems37
Biased precursor ingression underlies the center-to-pole pattern of male sex determination in mouse37
Single-cell transcriptional and functional analysis of dopaminergic neurons in organoid-like cultures derived from human fetal midbrain36
Quantitative videomicroscopy reveals latent control of cell-pair rotations in vivo36
Pten inhibition dedifferentiates long-distance axon-regenerating intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and upregulates mitochondria-associated Dynlt1a and Lars235
Ernest Arenas (1962-2024): a legacy of advancing dopaminergic neurogenesis research35
Nutritional control of developmental processes35
Drosophilaembryos spatially sort their nutrient stores to facilitate their utilization33
Cerebellum lineage allocation, morphogenesis and repair: impact of interplay amongst cells32
The role of O-GlcNAcylation in development32
In preprints: retinoic acid degradation and tissue stiffness coordinate axolotl limb regeneration32
hnRNPH1 establishes Sertoli–germ cell crosstalk through cooperation with PTBP1 and AR, and is essential for male fertility in mice32
The genetic basis of natural variation in the timing of vegetative phase change inArabidopsis thaliana32
Alignment of the cell long axis by unidirectional tension acts cooperatively with Wnt signalling to establish planar cell polarity31
The people behind the papers – Stanley Strawbridge31
HCR spectral imaging: 10-plex, quantitative, high-resolution RNA and protein imaging in highly autofluorescent samples31
A new cell culture resource for investigations of reptilian gene function31
The people behind the papers – Julia Grzymkowski and Nanette Nascone-Yoder31
Csf1rb regulates definitive hematopoiesis in zebrafish31
Transitions in development – an interview with Peng Du30
PPARG contributes to urothelial integrity in the murine ureter by activating the expression of Shh and superficial cell-specific genes30
PBAF chromatin remodeler complexes that mediate meiotic transitions in mouse30
Intrinsic positional memory guides target-specific axon regeneration in the zebrafish vagus nerve30
Transitions in development – an interview with Thibaut Brunet30
An interview with Scott Fraser29
The insulator BEAF32 controls the spatial-temporal expression profile of the telomeric retrotransposon TART in the Drosophila germline29
Wnt7b expressed by hypertrophic chondrocytes is a stimulatory factor for endochondral ossification that is regulated by Smad4 activity29
The people behind the papers – Yongjun Yin and David Ornitz29
In preprints: shrinking boundary cells reveal fluid flux in organogenesis29
PFN4 is required for manchette development and acrosome biogenesis during mouse spermiogenesis29
Huntingtin CAG expansion impairs germ layer patterning in synthetic human 2D gastruloids through polarity defects29
A lissencephaly-associated BAIAP2 variant causes defects in neuronal migration during brain development29
The H2Bub1-deposition complex is required for human and mouse cardiogenesis29
The extra-embryonic area opaca plays a role in positioning the primitive streak of the early chick embryo29
Ribosome biogenesis and function in development and disease29
Modeling mammalian spermatogonial differentiation and meiotic initiationin vitro29
Single-cell reconstruction with spatial context of migrating neural crest cells and their microenvironments during vertebrate head and neck formation28
Transitions in development – an interview with Antonio Scialdone28
In preprints: shaping the developing human brain28
Sequential and additive expression of miR-9 precursors control timing of neurogenesis28
mBeRFP: a versatile fluorescent tool to enhance multichannel live imaging and its applications27
The Blimp-1 transcription factor acts in non-neuronal cells to regulate terminal differentiation of the Drosophila eye27
Destabilization of mRNAs enhances competence to initiate meiosis in mouse spermatogenic cells27
Krüppel-like factor gene function in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi assessed by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing27
In preprints: new insights into root stem cells and their diversity27
Multi-view confocal microscopy enables multiple organ and whole organism live-imaging27
Parallels between oncogene-driven cardiac hyperplasia and heart regeneration in zebrafish27
SOX2 transcription factor binding and function27
Insights into the role of immune cells in development and regeneration27
Single-cell genomics revolutionizes plant development studies across scales27
Dynamic profiling and functional interpretation of histone lysine crotonylation and lactylation during neural development26
The impact of cell size on morphogen gradient precision26
rasa1-related arteriovenous malformation is driven by aberrant venous signalling26
Identification of disease-relevant modulators of the SHH pathway in the developing brain26
Distinct spatiotemporal contribution of morphogenetic events and mechanical tissue coupling during Xenopus neural tube closure26
Maf family transcription factors are required for nutrient uptake in the mouse neonatal gut26
TIE1-dependent lymphatic vascular remodeling is mediated by its second tyrosine kinase domain25
Real-time monitoring of an endogenous Fgf8a gradient attests to its role as a morphogen during zebrafish gastrulation25
An in vivo CRISPR screen in chick embryos reveals a role for MLLT3 in specification of neural cells from the caudal epiblast25
Microgel culture and spatial identity mapping elucidate the signalling requirements for primate epiblast and amnion formation25
The ERM-1 membrane-binding domain directs erm-1 mRNA localization to the plasma membrane in the C. elegans embryo25
Cell-type-specific interacting proteins collaborate to regulate the timing of Cyclin B protein expression in male meiotic prophase25
Prostate organogenesis25
The people behind the papers – Vahid Zadmajid and Daniel Gorelick25
Signalling pathway crosstalk stimulated by L-proline drives mouse embryonic stem cells to primitive-ectoderm-like cells24
A Drosophila toolkit for HA-tagged proteins unveils a block in autophagy flux in the last instar larval fat body24
The chromatin source-sink hypothesis: a shared mode of chromatin-mediated regulations24
Galectin-3 promotes the adipogenic differentiation of PDGFRα+ cells and ectopic fat formation in regenerating muscle24
Hemocytes are essential for Drosophila melanogaster post-embryonic development, independent of control of the microbiota24
New wave theory24
Contribution of vasculature to stem integrity in Arabidopsis thaliana23
Disruption of placental ACKR3 impairs growth and hematopoietic development of offspring23
Integrated single-cell multiomics uncovers foundational regulatory mechanisms of lens development and pathology23
Cell-cell communication through FGF4 generates and maintains robust proportions of differentiated cell types in embryonic stem cells23
Traip controls mushroom body size by suppressing mitotic defects23
Cell division angle predicts the level of tissue mechanics that tune the amount of cerebellar folding22
Hydrostatic mechanical stress regulates growth and maturation of the atrioventricular valve22
The people behind the papers – Alfahdah Alsudayri and Lihua Ye22
GPR124 regulates murine brain embryonic angiogenesis and BBB formation by an intracellular domain-independent mechanism22
Celsr1 suppresses Wnt5a-mediated chemoattraction to prevent incorrect rostral migration of facial branchiomotor neurons22
The people behind the papers – Emily Bulger and Benoit Bruneau22
Hindbrain boundaries as niches of neural progenitor and stem cells regulated by the extracellular matrix proteoglycan chondroitin sulphate22
Keeping up with the Node22
The people behind the papers – Alyshia Scholl, Yihong Liu and Geraldine Seydoux22
Oxygen-sensing mechanisms in development and tissue repair21
A transit-amplifying progenitor with biphasic behavior contributes to epidermal renewal21
VitelloTag: a tool for high-throughput cargo delivery into oocytes21
Advancing stem cell technologies for conservation of wildlife biodiversity21
Anatomy and development of the pectoral fin vascular network in the zebrafish20
Single-cell transcriptomics identifies new blood cell populations in Drosophila released at the onset of metamorphosis20
Dynamic de novo adipose tissue development during metamorphosis in Drosophila melanogaster20
Correction: Zebrafish dazl regulates cystogenesis and germline stem cell specification during the primordial germ cell to germline stem cell transition20
Cranium growth, patterning and homeostasis20
The people behind the papers – Juan Yang and Xuanmao Chen20
Microglia refine developing retinal astrocytic and vascular networks through the complement C3/C3aR axis20
Srsf3 mediates alternative RNA splicing downstream of PDGFRα signaling in the facial mesenchyme20
Normal Table of Xenopus development: a new graphical resource20
Pleiotropy of autism-associated chromatin regulators20
The people behind the papers – Dennis de Bakker, Mara Bouwman and Jeroen Bakkers20
Unlocking the potential of SY-stem cells20
Transitions in development – an interview with Salah Elias20
The MEK-ERK signaling pathway promotes maintenance of cardiac chamber identity20
The Hox code responsible for the patterning of the anterior vertebrae in zebrafish20
In preprints: an evo-devo approach integrates multicellular shape diversity and active surface mechanics20
Transitions in development – an interview with Daniel Ríos Barrera20
Transitions in development – an interview with Kara McKinley20
Excess dietary sugar impairs Drosophila adult stem cells via elevated reactive oxygen species-induced JNK signaling20
Transitions in development – an interview with Evgeny Kvon19
An inducible germ cell ablation chicken model for high-grade germline chimeras19
FOXP4 differentially controls cold-induced beige adipocyte differentiation and thermogenesis19
Wnt9 directs zebrafish heart tube assembly via a combination of canonical and non-canonical pathway signaling19
The dynamics of tubulogenesis in development and disease19
In vivo profiling of the Zucchini proximal proteome in the Drosophila ovary19
LATS1/2 control TGFB-directed epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in the murine dorsal cranial neuroepithelium through YAP regulation19
A comparative analysis of TonEBP conditional knockout mouse models reveals inter-dependency between compartments of the intervertebral disc19
Drosophila CTP synthase regulates collective cell migration by controlling the polarized endocytic cycle19
In preprints: lifetime changes in leaf shape19
osr1couples intermediate mesoderm cell fate with temporal dynamics of vessel progenitor cell differentiation19
Correction: Transcriptional dynamics during karyogamy in rice zygotes19
Interaction of Gαi2 with EB1 controls microtubule dynamics and Rac1 activity in Xenopus neural crest cell migration19
In preprints: the extracellular matrix influences primordial germ cell behavior19
Confinement promotes nematic alignment of spindle-shaped cells during Drosophila embryogenesis19
Cleaved Delta like 1 intracellular domain regulates neural development via Notch signal-dependent and -independent pathways19
Elevated numbers of infiltrating eosinophils accelerate the progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy pathology in mdx mice19
Single-minded 2 is required for left-right asymmetric stomach morphogenesis19
Conserved roles of ETT and ARF4 in gynoecium development in Brassicaceae with distinct fruit shapes19
Duplicated antagonistic EPF peptides optimize grass stomatal initiation19
BET activity plays an essential role in control of stem cell attributes in Xenopus19
Pathway to Independence – an interview with Clémentine Villeneuve19
Reduction of cortical parvalbumin-expressing GABAergic interneurons in a rodent hyperoxia model of preterm birth brain injury with deficits in social behavior and cognition18
Multiple cis-regulatory elements control prox1a expression in distinct lymphatic vascular beds18
Quantitative live imaging of floral organ initiation and floral meristem termination in Aquilegia18
Direct force measurement and loading on developing tissues in intact avian embryos18
Different temporal requirements for tartan and wingless in the formation of contractile interfaces at compartmental boundaries18
Mammalian DNA methylome dynamics: mechanisms, functions and new frontiers18
Loss of perinuclear theca ACTRT1 causes acrosome detachment and severe male subfertility in mice18
Mesenchymal Wnts are required for morphogenetic movements of calvarial osteoblasts during apical expansion18
Tubb4b is required for multi-ciliogenesis in the mouse18
Control of dynamic cell behaviors during angiogenesis and anastomosis by Rasip118
Lineage-based scaling of germline intercellular bridges during oogenesis18
Suppression of YAP safeguards human naïve pluripotency18
Development's 2023 Outstanding Paper Prize18
Epha1 is a cell-surface marker for the neuromesodermal competent population18
E93 is indispensable for reproduction in ametabolous and hemimetabolous insects18
Compensation of gene dosage on the mammalian X18
The brain on time: links between development and neurodegeneration18
Tissue-specific RNA-seq defines genes governing male tail tip morphogenesis in C. elegans18
Msl3 promotes germline stem cell differentiation in female Drosophila18
Notch signaling in neurogenesis18
PUF-8, a C. elegans ortholog of the RNA-binding proteins PUM1 and PUM2, is required for robustness of the cell death fate17
Adipose triglyceride lipase promotes prostaglandin-dependent actin remodeling by regulating substrate release from lipid droplets17
Dissecting pleiotropic functions of the wheat Green Revolution gene Rht-B1b in plant morphogenesis and yield formation17
Control of fate specification within the dorsal head of Drosophila melanogaster17
Expanding the evo-devo toolkit: generation of 3D mammary tissue from diverse mammals17
Systematic expression profiling of Dpr and DIP genes reveals cell surface codes in Drosophila larval motor and sensory neurons17
regeneration factors expressed on myeloid expression in macrophage-like cells is required for tail regeneration in Xenopus laevis tadpoles17
The RNA ligase RNA terminal phosphate cyclase B regulates mRNA alternative splicing and is required for mouse oocyte development and maintenance17
An ancient testis-specific IQ motif-containing H gene regulates specific transcript isoform expression during spermatogenesis17
A conserved role of the Hippo signalling pathway in initiation of the first lineage specification event across mammals17
De novo PAM generation to reach initially inaccessible target sites for base editing17
The cellular function of ROP GTPase prenylation is important for multicellularity in the moss Physcomitrium patens17
Pivotal role of STIP in ovule pattern formation and female germline development in Arabidopsis thaliana17
Pathway to Independence – an interview with Marcella Birtele17
Exploring the principles of embryonic mammary gland branching morphogenesis17
A constitutively expressed fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell-cycle indicator (FUCCI) in axolotls for studying tissue regeneration17
A renaissance for developmental biology driven by new in vitro platforms17
Motor neurons in the tunicate caudal central nervous system reveal homology to the vertebrate spinal cord17
The exocyst complex regulates C. elegans germline stem cell proliferation by controlling membrane Notch levels17
New year, new developments: a look back and a look ahead17
FAM71F1 binds to RAB2A and RAB2B and is essential for acrosome formation and male fertility in mice17
Orb-dependent polyadenylation contributes to PLP expression and centrosome scaffold assembly16
Environmental and molecular control of tissue-specific ionocyte differentiation in zebrafish16
Development of the mammalian main olfactory bulb16
Gibberellin and miRNA156-targeted SlSBP genes synergistically regulate tomato floral meristem determinacy and ovary patterning16
Cyclical endometrial repair and regeneration16
Correction: A single-plasmid approach for genome editing coupled with long-term lineage analysis in chick embryos16
IL7Rα, but not Flk2, is required for hematopoietic stem cell reconstitution of tissue-resident lymphoid cells16
The DOT1L-MLLT10 complex regulates male fertility and promotes histone removal during spermiogenesis16
Cre recombinase microinjection for single-cell tracing and localised gene targeting16
Transplanted human intestinal organoids: a resource for modeling human intestinal development16
Enhancer RNAs step forward: new insights into enhancer function16
A high-sugar diet, but not obesity, reduces female fertility in Drosophila melanogaster16
NHR-23 activity is necessary for C. elegans developmental progression and apical extracellular matrix structure and function16
An end-to-end pipeline based on open source deep learning tools for reliable analysis of complex 3D images of ovaries16
Sculpting with stem cells: how models of embryo development take shape16
The miR156 juvenility factor and PLETHORA 2 form a regulatory network and influence timing of meristem growth and lateral root emergence16
PLETHORA transcription factors promote early embryo development through induction of meristematic potential16
Evolution of the regulation of developmental gene expression in blind Mexican cavefish16
The people behind the papers – Masaki Kinoshita, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Hiroshi Nagashima, Ramiro Alberio and Austin Smith16
The Nasonia pair-rule gene regulatory network retains its function over 300 million years of evolution15
Female meiosis II and pronuclear fusion require the microtubule transport factor Bicaudal D15
Sensory nerve regulates progenitor cells via FGF-SHH axis in tooth root morphogenesis15
A method for stabilising the XX karyotype in female mESC cultures15
Induced regeneration of articular cartilage – identification of a dormant regeneration program for a non-regenerative tissue15
The class VIII myosin ATM1 is required for root apical meristem function15
The people behind the papers – Alexandre Dumoulin and Esther Stoeckli15
Thymic epithelial organoids mediate T-cell development15
The people behind the papers – Wendy Duan and Meghan Riddell15
Intercellular contact and cargo transfer between Müller glia and to microglia precede apoptotic cell clearance in the developing retina15
Defining the Hoxb8 cell lineage during murine definitive hematopoiesis15
An interview with Mayssa Mokalled15
blf and the drl cluster synergistically regulate cell fate commitment during zebrafish primitive hematopoiesis15
H4K20me3 marks distal intergenic and repetitive regions in human mature spermatozoa15
The people behind the papers – Masahito Irie, Fumitoshi Ishino and Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino15
Immune cell-stem cell interactions in regeneration and repair: who's calling the shots?15
The people behind the papers – Jonas Malkmus, Rushikesh Sheth and Rolf Zeller15
The matrix glycoprotein Papilin maintains the haematopoietic progenitor pool in Drosophila lymph glands15
Adaxial-abaxial bipolar leaf genes encode a putative cytokinin receptor and HD-Zip III, and control the formation of ectopic shoot meristems in rice15
Human developmental biology – a global perspective15
TAF4b transcription networks regulating early oocyte differentiation15
The fetal lineage is susceptible to Zika virus infection within days of fertilization15
Constructive Critics: Development's approach to peer review15
An elastic proteinaceous envelope encapsulates the early Arabidopsis embryo15
Transitions in development – an interview with Amy Shyer and Alan Rodrigues15
Abrupt-mediated control of ninjurins regulates Drosophila sessile haemocyte compartments15
A Rad50-null mutation in mouse germ cells causes reduced DSB formation, abnormal DSB end resection and complete loss of germ cells15
Gut microbiota regulate maturation and mitochondrial function of the nutrient-sensing enteroendocrine cell15
Human stem cell models to study placode development, function and pathology15
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