... McMillan; Michael W. Perry; Arnaud Martin ABSTRACT Butterfly color patterns provide visible and biodiverse phenotypic readouts of the patterning processes. Although the secreted ligand WntA has been shown to instruct the color pattern formation in butterflies, its mode of reception remains elusive...

...Christopher F. Thomas; Dakota Y. Hawkins; Viktoriya Skidanova; Simone R. Marrujo; Janay Gibson; Ziqing Ye; Cynthia A. Bradham ABSTRACT Defining pattern formation mechanisms during embryonic development is important for understanding the etiology of birth defects and to inform tissue engineering...

... compartmentalization. Xenopus egg extract Pattern formation Non-equilibrium Self-organization Foam Hyperuniformity Volkswagen Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001663 Az. 92738 Elitenetzwerk Bayern http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008848 A hallmark of living...

.... ( 2005 ). Diffusion and scaling during early embryonic pattern formation . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102 , 18403 - 18407 . 10.1073/pnas.0509483102 Gregor , T. , Tank , D. W. , Wieschaus , E. F. and Bialek , W. ( 2007 ). Probing the limits to positional information...

.... Eye development Follistatin Pattern formation Pax6 Self-organisation TGFβ Positional cues that govern cell fate decisions in the embryo may arise at multiple organisational levels: cell intrinsically (e.g. asymmetric cell divisions), tissue intrinsically (e.g. reaction-diffusion...

...Caitlin McQueen; Matthew Towers ABSTRACT The vertebrate limb continues to serve as an influential model of growth, morphogenesis and pattern formation. With this Review, we aim to give an up-to-date picture of how a population of undifferentiated cells develops into the complex pattern of the limb...

... process. BMP Limb regeneration Pattern formation Axolotl LDN193189 Canadian Institutes of Health Research 10.13039/501100000024 MOP: 111013 The ability of salamanders to regenerate their tissues (limbs, skin, spinal cord, etc.) has been studied for over 250 years...

.... This Review discusses scaling mechanisms from a molecular and mathematical perspective. French Flag model Morphogens Pattern formation Positional information Regeneration Scaling Max-Planck-Gesellschaft European Research Council 10.13039/100010663 QUANTPATTERN...

...Mingxi Deng; Ying Wang; Lina Zhang; Yang Yang; Shengshuo Huang; Jiguang Wang; Hao Ge; Toyotaka Ishibashi; Yan Yan ABSTRACT Organ formation relies on the orchestration of pattern formation, proliferation and growth during development. How these processes are integrated at the individual cell level...

... an important effect of the tissue environment on pigment cell behaviour and, thereby, on pattern formation. * Present address: Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, 61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany. ‡ Present address: Fish & Richardson, 89897 München, Germany. § Author...

... Pattern formation Synthetic biology Synthetic morphology Validation Biological Sciences Research Council 10.13039/501100000268 BB/G016658/1 BB/M018040/1 Leverhulme Trust 10.13039/501100000275 RPG-2012-558 For most of its history, developmental biology has been...

... and BMP signals play a role in setting up DV polarity in mouse ESC-derived optic cups. Morphogenesis Organoid culture Pattern formation Retinal development RIKEN 10.13039/501100006264 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 10.13039/501100001691 24680037...

.... and Timmermans , M. C. P. ( 2010 ). Small RNAs are on the move . Nature   467 , 415 - 419 . 10.1038/nature09351 Chitwood , D. H. , Nogueira , F. T. S. , Howell , M. D. , Montgomery , T. A. , Carrington , J. C. and Timmermans , M. C. P. ( 2009 ). Pattern formation via...

.... Arabidopsis Embryogenesis Pattern formation Cell specification Asymmetric cell division Cell-cell communication Auxin Plants can grow for many centuries and new organs, such as leaves, branches, flowers and roots, are continuously added to build elaborate and complex post-embryonic structures...

.... Periodic patterning Reaction-diffusion Turing Mathematical biology Pattern formation Pigment pattern Periodic patterns – most commonly stripes or spots – arise in a variety of organisms and tissues across a wide range of length scales ( Marcon and Sharpe, 2012 ). Well-studied examples include...

... use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. Mouse Gastrulation Self-organisation Symmetry breaking Polarisation Axial elongation Endoderm Mesoderm Neural ectoderm Pattern formation Live cell imaging The emergence...

... The authors declare no competing financial interests. 10 9 2013 7 8 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Pattern formation Morphogenesis Signaling Drosophila Hedgehog (Hh) proteins are secreted morphogens that are essential for many events...

... on scaling mechanisms in several systems, including Drosophila and Xenopus. Here, we investigate the underlying principles needed for understanding the mechanisms that can produce scale invariance in spatial pattern formation and discuss examples of systems that scale during development. * Authors...

... ( Smith et al., 2000 ) as they are displaced from the body column into the tentacles. Cnidaria Hydra Pattern formation Pyridone Regeneration Small molecule © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 23 1 2013 5 9 2013 Competing interests...

... statement The authors declare no competing financial interests. 18 7 2012 © 2012. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2012 Lateral inhibition Inner ear Delta-like 1 Notch Pattern formation Cis-inhibition Lateral inhibition is a key mechanism for cell...