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Plant adaptation and speciation studied by population genomic approaches
We review recent studies on adaptation and speciation using population genomics —the analysis of whole‐genome polymorphism data from large population samples. Population genomics datasets enable us to (a) perform genome‐wide association studies to find genes underlying adaptive phenotypic variations, (b) scan the footprints of selection across the genome to pinpoint loci under selection, and (c) infer the demographic history of populations by coalescent‐based statistical modeling. Ever since Darwin, one of the major challenges in evolutionary biology is to unravel the process and mechanisms of adaptation and specia...
Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - November 25, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Masaru Bamba, Yawako W. Kawaguchi, Takashi Tsuchimatsu Tags: INVITED REVIEW Source Type: research

Juvenile hormone as a physiological regulator mediating phenotypic plasticity in pancrustaceans
In phenotypic plasticity and polyphenism, in which phenotypes can be changed depending on environmental conditions, similar endocrine mechanisms using juvenile hormone (JH) are used to coordinate the flexible developmental processes. This review discusses accumulated knowledge on the caste polyphenism in social insects, the wing and the reproductive polyphenisms in aphids, the nutritional polyphenism and sexual dimorphism in stag beetles, and the inducible defense (and reproductive polyphenism) in daphnids. In all the cases, JH plays a central role in mediating environmental stimuli with morphogenetic processes, to constru...
Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - November 23, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Toru Miura Tags: INVITED REVIEW ARTICLE Source Type: research

Photoperiod –temperature phase lag: A universal environmental context of seasonal developmental plasticity
Although temperature and photoperiod are the two major seasonal cues for organismal responses, the importance of phase lag between annual oscillations of the two signals has been unexplored, despite its universal nature in the context of seasonal environments. In this article, the phase ‐lag calendar hypothesis, especially the one between temperature and photoperiod, is explained using meteorological data obtained from central Japan as an example. Seasonal developmental plasticity, which consists of season ‐dependent alternations of developmental processes, has evolved to produce optimal phenotypes depending on specifi...
Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - November 22, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Hiroshi Kudoh Tags: REVIEW ARTICLE Source Type: research

Multi ‐tasking epidermal stem cells: Beyond epidermal maintenance
The importance of epidermal stem cell heterogeneity has been understood as a key feature in epidermal homeostasis. However, recent studies have revealed that these heterogeneous stem cells themselves act as a niche for neighboring cells. Over the past decade, multiple stem cell compartments have been identified within the epidermis. These stem cell pools have different transcriptional properties, proliferative modes and anatomical locations, and they maintain distinct epidermal compartments. The importance of this stem cell heterogeneity and compartmentalization has been understood as a key feature in epidermal homeostasis...
Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - November 18, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Hironobu Fujiwara, Ko Tsutsui, Ritsuko Morita Tags: REVIEW ARTICLE Source Type: research

Open niche regulation of mouse spermatogenic stem cells
This review has summarized the recent findings about the nature and regulation of spermatogenic stem cells in the seminiferous tubules of the mouse testis. The niche microenvironment looks quite different with that of authentic “definitive” stem cell niche, representing the “open” niche. In mammalian testes, robust stem cell functions ensure the continual production of sperm. In testicular seminiferous tubules, spermatogenic stem cells (SSCs) are highly motile and are interspersed between their differentiating progeny, while undergoing self ‐renewal and differentiation. In such an “open niche” microenvironmen...
Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - November 15, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Shosei Yoshida Tags: REVIEW ARTICLE Source Type: research

Cell competition: Emerging mechanisms to eliminate neighbors
Cell competition is a context ‐dependent cell elimination through short‐range cell–cell interaction, in which cells with higher fitness eliminate neighboring less‐fit or oncogenic cells. In this review, we summarize recent progresses on the mechanisms and roles of cell competition and discuss outstanding questions, newly emerged questions, and future perspectives. AbstractCell competition is a context ‐dependent cell elimination through short‐range cell–cell interaction, in which cells with higher fitness eliminate neighboring less‐fit or oncogenic cells within the growing tissue. Cell competition can be tr...
Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - November 15, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Rina Nagata, Tatsushi Igaki Tags: REVIEW ARTICLE Source Type: research

On the origin of leeches by evolution of development
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Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - November 5, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Dian ‐Han Kuo, Yi‐Te Lai Source Type: research

Parallel transcriptome evolution in stream threespine sticklebacks
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Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - November 4, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Jun Kitano, Asano Ishikawa, Makoto Kusakabe Source Type: research

Statistical theory of branching morphogenesis
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Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - October 25, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Edouard Hannezo, Benjamin D. Simons Source Type: research

Experience ‐dependent transcriptional regulation in juvenile brain development
Development, Growth&Differentiation,Volume 60, Issue 8, Page 473-482, October 2018. (Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation)
Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - October 19, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Akiko Sakai, Sayaka Sugiyama Source Type: research

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Development, Growth&Differentiation,Volume 60, Issue 8, Page 461-462, October 2018. (Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation)
Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - October 19, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: research

Mouse gastrulation: Attributes of transcription factor regulatory network for epiblast patterning
Development, Growth&Differentiation,Volume 60, Issue 8, Page 463-472, October 2018. (Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation)
Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - October 19, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Guizhong Cui, Shengbao Suo, Ran Wang, Yun Qian, Jing ‐Dong J. Han, Guangdun Peng, Patrick P. L. Tam, Naihe Jing Source Type: research

Proteasome activity determines pupation timing through the degradation speed of timer molecule Blimp ‐1
Development, Growth&Differentiation,Volume 60, Issue 8, Page 502-508, October 2018. (Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation)
Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - October 19, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Hamdy Aly, Kazutaka Akagi, Hitoshi Ueda Source Type: research

Embryonic development of thecate hydrozoan Gonothyraea loveni (Allman, 1859)
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Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - September 27, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Yulia A. Burmistrova, Boris V. Osadchenko, Fedor V. Bolshakov, Yulia A. Kraus, Igor A. Kosevich Source Type: research

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Development, Growth&Differentiation,Volume 60, Issue 7, Page 409-410, September 2018. (Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation)
Source: Development, Growth and Differentiation - September 11, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: research