Embryology Publications

Embryology course publications by year, 2018-2023

*note: preprints listed in the year they were published, separately from final versions*

Bibliography up to date as of September 8th, 2023

2023

In the Spotlight—Established researcher. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.23190

First person – Vanessa Chong-Morrison. (2023). Biology Open, 12(6), bio060034. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.060034

Truchado-García, M., Perry, K. J., Cavodeassi, F., Kenny, N. J., Henry, J. Q., & Grande, C. (2023). A Small Change With a Twist Ending: A Single Residue in EGF-CFC Drives Bilaterian Asymmetry. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(2), msac270. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac270

Prahl, L. S., Viola, J. M., Liu, J., & Hughes, A. J. (2023). The developing murine kidney actively negotiates geometric packing conflicts to avoid defects. Developmental Cell, 58(2), 110-120.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2022.12.008

Marlétaz, F., de la Calle-Mustienes, E., Acemel, R. D., Paliou, C., Naranjo, S., Martínez-García, P. M., Cases, I., Sleight, V. A., Hirschberger, C., Marcet-Houben, M., Navon, D., Andrescavage, A., Skvortsova, K., Duckett, P. E., González-Rajal, Á., Bogdanovic, O., Gibcus, J. H., Yang, L., Gallardo-Fuentes, L., … Gómez-Skarmeta, J. L. (2023). The little skate genome and the evolutionary emergence of wing-like fins. Nature, 616(7957), Article 7957. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05868-1

2022

Unguez, G. A., Bennett, K. L., Domingo, C., & Chow, I. (2022). Increasing Diversity in Developmental Biology. Frontiers in Sociology, 6. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2021.762836

Smith, J. J., Kenny, I. W., Wolff, C., Cray, R., Kumar, A., Sherwood, D. R., & Matus, D. Q. (2022a). A light sheet fluorescence microscopy protocol for Caenorhabditis elegans larvae and adults (p. 2022.08.05.503008). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.05.503008

Smith, J. J., Kenny, I. W., Wolff, C., Cray, R., Kumar, A., Sherwood, D. R., & Matus, D. Q. (2022b). A light sheet fluorescence microscopy protocol for Caenorhabditis elegans larvae and adults. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 10. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2022.1012820

Seaver, E. C. (2022). Chapter Fourteen - Sifting through the mud: A tale of building the annelid Capitella teleta for EvoDevo studies. In B. Goldstein & M. Srivastava (Eds.), Current Topics in Developmental Biology (Vol. 147, pp. 401–432). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ctdb.2021.12.018

Pederson, T. (2022). Cellular identity (re)surfaces. The FASEB Journal, 36(12), e22624. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202201647

Newmark, P. A., & Sánchez Alvarado, A. (2022). Chapter Eleven - Schmidtea happens: Re-establishing the planarian as a model for studying the mechanisms of regeneration. In B. Goldstein & M. Srivastava (Eds.), Current Topics in Developmental Biology (Vol. 147, pp. 307–344). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ctdb.2022.01.002

Mauro, M. S., Celma, G., Zimyanin, V., Magaj, M. M., Gibson, K. H., Redemann, S., & Bahmanyar, S. (2022). Ndc1 drives nuclear pore complex assembly independent of membrane biogenesis to promote nuclear formation and growth. eLife, 11, e75513. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.75513

Martindale, M. Q. (2022). Chapter Four - Emerging models: The “development” of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis as useful experimental models. In B. Goldstein & M. Srivastava (Eds.), Current Topics in Developmental Biology (Vol. 147, pp. 93–120). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ctdb.2022.02.002

Marlétaz, F., Calle-Mustienes, E. de la, Acemel, R. D., Nakamura, T., Paliou, C., Naranjo, S., Martínez-García, P. M., Cases, I., Sleight, V. A., Hirschberger, C., Marcet-Houben, M., Navon, D., Andrescavage, A., Skvortsova, K., Duckett, P. E., González-Rajal, Á., Bogdanovic, O., Gibcus, J. H., Yang, L., … Gómez-Skarmeta, J. L. (2022). The little skate genome and the evolutionary emergence of wing-like fin appendages (p. 2022.03.21.485123). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.21.485123

Lyons, D. C., & Henry, J. Q. (2022). Slipper snail tales: How Crepidula fornicata and Crepidula atrasolea became model molluscs. In Current Topics in Developmental Biology (Vol. 147, pp. 375–399). Elsevier. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0070215321001034

Hirschberger, C., & Gillis, J. A. (2022). The pseudobranch of jawed vertebrates is a mandibular arch-derived gill. Development, 149(13), dev200184. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.200184

Goldstein, B. (2022). Chapter Seven—Tardigrades and their emergence as model organisms. In B. Goldstein & M. Srivastava (Eds.), Current Topics in Developmental Biology (Vol. 147, pp. 173–198). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ctdb.2021.12.008

Fulton, C. (2022). The Amazing Evolutionary Complexity of Eukaryotic Tubulins: Lessons from Naegleria and the Multi-tubulin Hypothesis. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2022.867374

DeGiorgis, J. A., Jang, M., & Bearer, E. L. (2022). The Giant Axon of the Squid: A Simple System for Axonal Transport Studies. In A. Vagnoni (Ed.), Axonal Transport: Methods and Protocols (pp. 3–22). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1990-2_1

2021

Scientist Spotlight: Kerry Bloom. (2021). Chromosome Research, 29(3), 241–244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10577-021-09672-3

First person – Rachael Norris. (2021). Journal of Cell Science, 134(1). https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.258328

Vieites-Prado, A., & Renier, N. (2021). Tissue clearing and 3D imaging in developmental biology. Development, 148(18). https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.199369

Valet, M., Siggia, E. D., & Brivanlou, A. H. (2021). Mechanical regulation of early vertebrate embryogenesis. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-021-00424-z

Truchado-Garcia, M., Caccavale, F., Grande, C., & D’Aniello, S. (2021). Expression Pattern of Nitric Oxide Synthase during Development of the Marine Gastropod Mollusc, Crepidula fornicata. Genes, 12(2), 314. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12020314

Swartz, S. Z., Tan, T. H., Perillo, M., Fakhri, N., Wessel, G. M., Wikramanayake, A. H., & Cheeseman, I. M. (2021a). Polarized Dishevelled dissolution and condensation drives embryonic axis specification in oocytes. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.17.444558

Swartz, S. Z., Tan, T. H., Perillo, M., Fakhri, N., Wessel, G. M., Wikramanayake, A. H., & Cheeseman, I. M. (2021b). Polarized Dishevelled dissolution and reassembly drives embryonic axis specification in sea star oocytes. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.10.022

Prahl, L. S., Viola, J. M., Liu, J., & Hughes, A. J. (2021). The developing kidney actively negotiates geometric packing conflicts to avoid defects (p. 2021.11.29.470441). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.29.470441

Pomerantz, A. F., Siddique, R. H., Cash, E. I., Kishi, Y., Pinna, C., Hammar, K., Gomez, D., Elias, M., & Patel, N. H. (2021). Developmental, cellular, and biochemical basis of transparency in clearwing butterflies. Journal of Experimental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.237917

Mayor, R. (2021). 20 years of the Practical Course of Developmental Biology in Latin America: From Santiago to Quintay, via Juquehy, Buenos Aires and Montevideo. The International Journal of Developmental Biology, 52. https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.200049rm

Mauro, M. S., Celma, G., Zimyanin, V., Gibson, K. H., Redemann, S., & Bahmanyar, S. (2021). NDC1 is necessary for the stable assembly of the nuclear pore scaffold to establish nuclear transport in early C. elegans embryos. bioRxiv, 2021.07.17.452264. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.17.452264

Lesoway, M. P., & Henry, J. Q. (2021). Retinoids promote penis development in sequentially hermaphroditic snails. Developmental Biology, 478, 122–132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2021.06.013

Komatsu, V., Doddihal, V., & Chang, C. (2021). Imaging of dynamic actin remodeling reveals distinct behaviors of head and trunk mesoderm in gastrulating Xenopus laevis. https://www.micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-000483/

Hirschberger, C., & Gillis, J. A. (2021). The pseudobranch of jawed vertebrates is a mandibular arch-derived gill. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.09.459574

Hirschberger, C., Sleight, V. A., Criswell, K. E., Clark, S. J., & Gillis, J. A. (2021a). Conserved and unique transcriptional features of pharyngeal arches in the skate ( Leucoraja erinacea ) and evolution of the jaw. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(10), 4187–4204. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab123

Hirschberger, C., Sleight, V. A., Criswell, K. E., Clark, S. J., & Gillis, J. A. (2021b). Conserved and unique transcriptional features of pharyngeal arches in the skate (Leucoraja erinacea) and evolution of the jaw (p. 2021.01.12.426343). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.12.426343

Grewal, S. (2021). An interview with Scott Fraser. Development, 148(24), dev200393. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.200393

García-Arrarás, J. E. (2021). An Interview with Dr. Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado. The International Journal of Developmental Biology, 65, 137–141. https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.200043jg

Gainett, G., González, V. L., Ballesteros, J. A., Setton, E. V. W., Baker, C. M., Barolo Gargiulo, L., Santibáñez-López, C. E., Coddington, J. A., & Sharma, P. P. (2021). The genome of a daddy-long-legs (Opiliones) illuminates the evolution of arachnid appendages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1956), 20211168. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1168

Criswell, K. E., Roberts, L. E., Koo, E. T., Head, J. J., & Gillis, J. A. (2021). Hox gene expression predicts tetrapod-like axial regionalization in the skate, Leucoraja erinacea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(51), e2114563118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2114563118

Calvo, L., Ronshaugen, M., & Pettini, T. (2021). smiFISH and embryo segmentation for single-cell multi-gene RNA quantification in arthropods. Communications Biology, 4(1), 352. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01803-0

Caccavale, F., Annona, G., Subirana, L., Escriva, H., Bertrand, S., & D’Aniello, S. (2021). Crosstalk between nitric oxide and retinoic acid pathways is essential for amphioxus pharynx development. eLife, 10. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58295

Attix, H., George, A., Panchal, H., Cortez, A., Cho, M., Zarilla, K., Hastie, E., & Matus, D. (2021). Wild Caught Nematode Identification and Early Embryo Development: An accessible undergraduate research experience. microPublication Biology, 2021, 10.17912/micropub.biology.000447. https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000447

2020

Theodosiou, N. A., Choi, Y., & Freeman, E. A. (2020). Professional societies can play a vital role in career development. Developmental Biology, 459(1), 5–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2019.10.038

Steele, R. E. (2020). Gene Editing: A Tool for Tackling Cephalopod Biology. Current Biology, 30(17), r986–r988. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.094

Sleight, V. A., & Gillis, J. A. (2020). Embryonic origin and serial homology of gill arches and paired fins in the skate, Leucoraja erinacea. eLife, 9. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60635

Pomerantz, A. F., Siddique, R. H., Cash, E. I., Kishi, Y., Pinna, C., Hammar, K., Gomez, D., Elias, M., & Patel, N. H. (2020). Developmental, cellular, and biochemical basis of transparency in the glasswing butterfly Greta oto. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.02.183590

Neff, E. P. (2020). CRISPR in cephalopods yields the first knockout squid. Lab Animal, 49(10), 292. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-020-0655-5

McClay, D. (2020). Unlocking mechanisms of development through advances in tools (pp. 37–41). https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1112670048

Maartens, A. (2020). An interview with Roberto Mayor. Development, 147(3), dev187252. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.187252

Lyons, D. C., Perry, K. J., Batzel, G., & Henry, J. Q. (2020). BMP signaling plays a role in anterior-neural/head development, but not organizer activity, in the gastropod Crepidula fornicata. Developmental Biology, 463(2), 135–157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2020.04.008

Horne-Badovinac, S. (2020). The Drosophila micropyle as a system to study how epithelia build complex extracellular structures. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1809), 20190561. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0561

Evans, J. P. (2020). Preventing polyspermy in mammalian eggs—Contributions of the membrane block and other mechanisms. Molecular Reproduction and Development, 87(3), 341–349. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrd.23331

Criswell, K. E., & Gillis, A. (2020). Resegmentation is an ancestral feature of the gnathostome vertebral skeleton. eLife, 9. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.51696

Concha, M. L. (2020). A tale of turns and cycles guiding to neural crest migration. An Interview with Prof. Roberto Mayor. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.200026mc

Calvo, L., Ronshaugen, M., & Pettini, T. (2020, March). smiFISH and embryo segmentation for single-cell multi-gene RNA quantification in arthropods. https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1125330021 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2020/03/02/2020.02.29.971390.full.pdf

Caccavale, F., Annona, G., Subirana, L., Escriva, H., Bertrand, S., & D’Aniello, S. (2020). Crosstalk between Nitric Oxide and Retinoic Acid pathways is essential for amphioxus pharynx development. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.22.164632

2019

Wallingford, J. B., & Sater, A. K. (2019). Commentary and tribute to Antone Jacobson: The pioneer of morphodynamics. Developmental Biology, 451(2), 97–133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2019.04.019

Munro, C., Vue, Z., Behringer, R. R., & Dunn, C. W. (2019). Morphology and development of the Portuguese man of war, Physalia physalis. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 15522. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51842-1

Kuspa, A., & Shaulsky, G. (2019). (Auto)Biographical reflections on the contributions of William F. Loomis (1940-2016) to Dictyostelium biology. International Journal of Developmental Biology, 63(8-9–10), Article 8-9–10. https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.190224ak

Edgar, A., Byrne, M., & Wray, G. A. (2019). Embryo microinjection of the lecithotrophic sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma. Journal of Biological Methods, 6(3), e119. https://doi.org/10.14440/jbm.2019.292

Criswell, K. E., & Gillis, J. A. (2019). Resegmentation is an ancestral feature of the gnathostome vertebral skeleton. https://doi.org/10.1101/779710

Burgess, D. R. (2019). Echinoderm eggs as a model for discoveries in cell biology (pp. 29–36). https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0091679X19300263

2018

Truchado-Garcia, M., Harland, R. M., & Abrams, M. J. (2018). 3D-printable tools for developmental biology: Improving embryo injection and screening techniques through 3D-printing technology. https://doi.org/10.1101/376657

Pennisi, E. (2018). The power of many. Science, 360(6396), 1388–1391. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.360.6396.1388

Osborne, C. C., Perry, K. J., Shankland, M., & Henry, J. Q. (2018). Ectomesoderm and EMT-related genes in spiralian development. Developmental Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.24667

McGreevy, K. M., Heikes, K. L., Kult, S., Tharp, M. E., & Goldstein, B. (2018). Fluorescent Cell Staining Methods for Living Hypsibius exemplaris Embryos. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, 2018(11), pdb.prot106021. https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.prot106021

Lorente-Sorolla, J., Truchado-Garcia, M., Perry, K. J., Henry, J. Q., & Grande, C. (2018). Molecular, phylogenetic and developmental analyses of Sall proteins in bilaterians. EvoDevo, 9(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13227-018-0096-z

Kwok, R. (2018). Raw data videos offer a glimpse into laboratory research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(37), 9048–9050. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1813373115

Jinson, S. T., Liebich, J., Senft, S. L., & Mäthger, L. M. (2018). Retinal specializations and visual ecology in an animal with an extremely elaborate pupil shape: The little skate Leucoraja (Raja) erinacea Mitchell, 1825. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 526(12), 1962–1977. https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.24465

Hutchins, E. J., Kunttas, E., Piacentino, M. L., Howard, A. G. A., Bronner, M. E., & Uribe, R. A. (2018). Migration and diversification of the vagal neural crest. Developmental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2018.07.004

Bonatto Paese, C. L., Leite, D. J., Schönauer, A., McGregor, A. P., & Russell, S. (2018). Duplication and expression of Sox genes in spiders. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18(1), 205. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1337-4