Summary: This Review discusses how, in Drosophila embryos, the morphogenetic signaling ligand Hedgehog moonlights as a chemoattractant for migrating germ cells via a noncanonical signal transduction p...

Maintaining the germline fate requires tight post-transcriptional control of RNA function. Here, we investigate how primordial germ cell (PGC) identity is maintained in zebrafish and reveal that the c...

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Experimental and comparative studies suggest that the striped coats of zebras can prevent biting fly attacks. Biting flies are serious pests of livestock that cause economic losses in animal productio...

Over the past 30 years, the zebrafish has emerged as a powerful model system for the study of vertebrate development and disease. This course will focus on the development and genetics of zebrafish an...

Summary: Migratory cells that participate in organ development lose motility upon arrival at their target. This study presents mechanisms governing this process during the early stages of gonad format...

Summary: This Perspective discusses how the discipline of evolutionary cell biology, by integrating evolutionary theory, comparative physiology and modern molecular approaches, works to understand how...

Hoffmann et al. study how cells change their migration direction. They find that transitions between polar and apolar phases in germ cells are regulated by pulses in Rac1 activity and actin polymeriza...

Directed migration of single cells is central to a large number of processes in development and adult life. Corrections to the migration path of cells…

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Tools enabling mechanistic studies of protein function are important for furthering developmental and cell biology research. Here, Tarbashevich et al. develop molecules that are activated by light to ...

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A key regulatory step in protein synthesis is the initiation of mRNA translation. We developed an efficient, robust, and broadly applicable system for light-induced protein translation to control the ...

Directed migration of single cells is central to a large number of processes in development and adult life. Corrections to the migration path of cells are often characterized by periodic loss of polar...

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