Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-01007-4Comparative functional genetics and genomics across Danio, Devario and Danionella species reveal molecular and cellular bases of phenotypic divergence, establishing danionin fishes as powerful model systems for understanding a wide range of evolutionary innovations.

Background Quantitative histological analysis of skeletal muscle morphometry provides critical insights into muscle physiology but remains labor-intensive and technically demanding. While recent devel...

The genomic regions regulating gene expression are often themselves transcribed into a variety of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). However, the regulatory roles of this noncoding transcription remain largely ...

Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-01007-4Comparative functional genetics and genomics across Danio, Devario and Danionella species reveal molecular and cellular bases of phenotypic divergence, establishing danionin fishes as powerful model systems for understanding a wide range of evolutionary innovations.

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An imaging system developed to record cellular activity throughout the whole body of zebrafish captures cellular organ dynamics and identifies multiple distributed circuits.

Summary: A guide to mechanics in development: unlock how forces, material properties and geometry shape the forms of life.

Cavanaugh et al. show that embryos from aged mice have increased contractility and tissue viscosity on embryonic day 4.5, which leads to poor spreading and attachment. Similar age-associated mechanica...

Nature Physics - Zebrafish can regenerate amputated fins back to their original size. It is now shown that gradients in extracellular signal-regulated kinase activity act as rulers during fin bone...

Single-cell omics methods promise to revolutionize our understanding of gene regulatory processes during cell differentiation, but analysis of such data continues to pose a major challenge. Apart from...

Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41576-026-00995-7Hybridization, the exchange of genes between divergent lineages, is now recognized as widespread across eukaryotes and essential to understanding genome evolution. In this Review, Schumer and Rieseberg overview methodological advances facilitating recent progress, reassess the frequency, causes and consequences of hybridization, and highlight key open questions.

Nickase and nuclease Prime Editors offer complementary routes for precise zebrafish genome editing, balancing accuracy for substitutions with efficiency for short insertions.

This study reveals how muscle diversity arises in flies, enabling the complex movements that drive animal behavior.

Thalamocortical projections shape the functional regionalization and parallel sensory computations across the mammalian cortex. However, the principles of thalamocortical computations in non-mammalian...

Neural crest evolution reassembled ancient programs in pigment cell lineage, resulting in vertebrate innovations.

During embryogenesis, cell types arise in a predictable order because developmental regulators act sequentially. But how evolutionary changes in morphogenesis reshape the signaling environments that a...

Summary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology ...

Nature - Single-cell transcriptomics combined with morphological and ecological data show that the rapid evolutionary radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika was accompanied by dietary...

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Gene expression patterns underlie development, but their systematic detection in whole embryos has remained elusive. We introduce a whole-embryo imaging platform using multiplexed error-robust fluores...

Nature Ecology & Evolution - This Review discusses recent advances in the molecular evolution of vertebrate organs, including rates of evolution of organs and cell types, molecular mechanisms...