Sexually reproducing metazoans establish a cell lineage during development that is
ultimately dedicated to gamete production. Work in a variety of animals suggests that a …

How do animals regenerate specialised tissues or their entire body after a traumatic injury,
how has this ability evolved and what are the genetic and cellular components underpinning …

During development, coordinated cell behaviors orchestrate tissue and organ
morphogenesis. Detailed descriptions of cell lineages and behaviors provide a powerful …

The amphipod crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis is a blossoming model system for studies of
developmental mechanisms and more recently regeneration. We have sequenced the …

Crustaceans possess a diverse array of specialized limbs. Although shifts in Hox gene
expression domains have been postulated to play a role in generating this limb diversity …

For over a century the relationships between the four major groups of the phylum Arthropoda
(Chelicerata, Crustacea, Hexapoda and Myriapoda) have been debated. Recent molecular …

Studying the relationship between development and evolution and its role in the generation
of biological diversity has been reinvigorated by new techniques in genetics and molecular …

Studying development in diverse taxa can address a central issue in evolutionary biology:
how morphological diversity arises through the evolution of developmental mechanisms …

The digestive system of the malacostracan crustaceans, namely the decapods, isopods,
amphipods and mysids, is among the most complex organ systems of the animal kingdom …

In early embryogenesis of spiders, the cumulus is characteristically observed as a cellular
thickening that arises from the center of the germ disc and moves centrifugally. This cumulus …