The pituitary gland is a central endocrine organ regulating basic physiological functions,
including growth, the stress response, reproduction, metabolic homeostasis, and lactation …

The hypothalamus, which regulates fundamental aspects of physiological homeostasis and
behavior, is a brain region that exhibits highly conserved anatomy across vertebrate …

Planarians are capable of regenerating any missing body part and present an attractive
system for molecular investigation of regeneration initiation. The gene activation program …

The inner ear is a structurally complex vertebrate organ built to encode sound, motion, and
orientation in space. Given its complexity, it is not surprising that inner ear dysfunction is a …

The inner ear is partitioned along its dorsal/ventral axis into vestibular and auditory organs,
respectively. Gene expression studies suggest that this subdivision occurs within the otic …

Sensory fibers of the peripheral nervous system carry sensation from specific sense
structures or use different tissues and organs as receptive fields, and convey this information …

Cranial placodes (which include the adenohypophyseal, olfactory, lens, otic, lateral line,
profundal/trigeminal, and epibranchial placodes) give rise to many sense organs and …

Gene expression is a heritable cellular phenotype that defines the function of a cell and can
lead to diseases in case of misregulation. In order to detect genetic variations affecting gene …

A long-standing question in evolutionary and developmental biology concerns the relative
contribution of cis-regulatory and protein changes to developmental evolution. Central to this …

Here we define the expression of∼ 100 transcription factors (TFs) in progenitors and
neurons of the developing mouse medial and caudal ganglionic eminences, anlage of the …