In preprints – reading a cell in two tenses: the proteome holds the present, the transcriptome points to the future

Roshana Thambyrajah discusses a preprint by @mannlab.bsky.social & co, showing that the most complete picture of cellular identity may come from reading RNA and protein together.

Excellent summary of two preprints showing how extra-embryonic apical ECM ( #aECM ) shapes development.

Maybe this will finally connect the roles of the zona pellucida (ZP) protein family in fertilization with its roles in tissue morphogenesis!

@jovinelab.org @meera-sundaram.bsky.social

In preprints – not just a cage: vitelline membranes (VM) as scaffolds for tissue morphogenesis

@yosoyden.bsky.social & co discuss preprints by @cuencam15.bsky.social & co and @lakshmib02.bsky.social & co, positioning the VM as an essential structural player in early embryogenesis.

We're really entering a new era of lepidopteran developmental biology, and two great new papers highlight this. First, Ximena Ramos, Katie Reding and Leslie Pick investigate segmentation in V. cardui with RNAi, @dev-journal.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

To learn more about this work and the people behind it, we talked to Ximena Gutiérrez Ramos and Leslie Pick.

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Read the Research Article 'Segmentation gene expression and function in Vanessa cardui, an emerging model for Lepidoptera' here.

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Uncovering the evolution of body segmentation from flies to butterflies

This Research Highlight showcases work by Ximena Gutiérrez Ramos, Leslie Pick and colleagues.

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"On behalf of all authors, I would like to thank you for a positive and fair review process. Publishing our work in Development was a good experience, and I appreciate the strong editorial contribution as well."
– @mahjoublab.bsky.social, @washu.edu, USA

More reasons to publish:

Curated in celebration of the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel and Karl Deisseroth for their groundbreaking work in #optogenetics, this collection highlights recent optogenetics articles published in @dev-journal.bsky.social.

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@iamzico.bsky.social, @evhealy.bsky.social, @josepmercadal.bsky.social, @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social @jessperochon.bsky.social , @yamini-ravichan.bsky.social, @bellecmaelle.bsky.social & Margherita Zamboni.

This year's cohort of Pathway to Independence Fellows is visiting the @biologists.bsky.social building today for leadership and management skills training by hfp consulting. It is great for our team to get to meet them in person. Best of luck with this training!

Excited for the 15th biennial meeting on Germ Cells at @cshlnews.bsky.social, 6-10 October? #cshlgermcells

Our Editor and meeting organiser @swathiarur.bsky.social and Reviews Editor @katiepickup.bsky.social will be there - do chat with them about your next @dev-journal.bsky.social paper.

Meet our Preprint Editors

We are pleased to welcome Clarisse Brunet Avalos @clarissebrunet.bsky.social from @institutcurie.bsky.social to our first group of Preprint Editors to our editorial team, responsible for handling our 'In preprints' articles.

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If you're looking for a fun weekend read, I recommend @katiepickup.bsky.social's interview with the brilliant @nmoris.bsky.social in @dev-journal.bsky.social

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Also in Issue 18:

🔹 2 research highlights
🔹 3 'In preprints' articles
🔹 4 'Pathway to Independence' interviews
🔹 1 'People behind the paper' interview
🔹 Review on the curious case of the placental genome

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Issue 18 is now complete!

Cover: Confocal image of an eight-day-old microcolony cultured from a single #Arabidopsis leaf protoplast, with visualisation of the cell membrane (green) and the nuclei (magenta). See Research Article by Reed, @bas-bargmann.bsky.social et al.

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In preprints – when drift is not neutral: evidence from lifelong monitoring of #zebrafish spermatogenesis

Anwar & co discuss a recent #preprint by Weber, Gagnon & co, which repeatedly monitors the same spermatogonial stem cell clones throughout the lifetime of individual zebrafish.