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Development, Growth & Differentiation
Official Journal of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists
Edited by:
Harukazu Nakamura
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 97/157 Cell Biology; 22/37 Developmental Biology
Impact Factor: 2.317
Development, Growth & Differentiation is a multidisciplinary journal dealing with developmental phenomena in animals, plants and microorganisms. Molecular, biophysical, biochemical and morphological analyses on growth, morphogenesis, genetics, differentiation and cellular processes of delevelopment will be considered.
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Call for Paper for the special issue on 'Epigenetics'
Recent progress in genome-wide analyses and bioinformatics has been clearly locating "Developmental biology" under the umbrella of "Epigenetics". In last decade, cell differentiation, embryonic patterning and organ development have been mainly dissected in the aspects of transcriptional regulation and signal transduction. Mostly thanks to the extensive study of various Stem cells" that include iPS cells, "Epigenetics" is again shed lights as a good partner of "Developmental Biology", due to not only technical but also conceptual implications as clearly suggested by Conrad Waddington. He actually deeply thought about development and inheritance in terms of the cross talk between genetic information and the environment and coined the term "Epigenetics". Last few years, we have started to accumulate notions that links epigenetic regulations with various developmental processes in the molecular view and understood the importance to adjust these notions and obtain perspectives. This circumstance prompted us to publish a special issue of Development, Growth & Differentiation, focusing on epigenetic influence on differentiation and patterning. Original and review papers on epigenetics are welcome. The deadline of submission will be the end of January 2010.
Haruhiko Koseki, Editor of the issue
Harukazu Nakamura, Editor in Chief, Development, Growth & Differentiation, Official journal of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists
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Announcing the winners of the 2009 DGD Awards
The editorial board and The Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists would like to announce the 2009 winners for Editor-in-Chief Prize or 'Most Highly Cited Paper in 2006' and Wiley-Blackwell Prize or 'Most Downloaded Paper in 2008 Volume'.
Time-lapse analysis reveals different modes of primordial germ cell migration in the medaka Oryzias latipes
Hiromi Kurokawa, Yumiko Aoki, Shuhei Nakamura, Youko Ebe, Daisuke Kobayashi, Minoru Tanaka
Non-conventional Frizzled ligands and Wnt receptors
Marijke Hendrickx, Luc Leyns
Winners received a certificate and prize of a Yen 20,000 book voucher for Wiley-Blackwell books. Congratulations to all!
50th Anniversary
Development Growth & Differentiation celebrated its 50th year in publication in 2008.
To commemorate this outstanding achievement, a special memorial issue was released, as well as a FREE Virtual Issue containing one top cited paper from every year. Download this Virtual Issue for FREE online.
Free Access to Digitised Back Files Now Available!
All issues of Development Growth and Differentiation, published from 1950 (Volume 1) to 2005 (Volume 47), are now fully digitised and FREELY AVAILABLE to view online.
Digitisation of the backfiles has been supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Special Purposes provided by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as part of their Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research.
Special Issues
Phylogeny and Ontogeny of the Nervous System
Volume 51, Issue 3
April 2009
Innovative techniques for the study of development
Volume 50, Issue 6
August 2008
Special FREE ISSUE for the 50th Volume: History and Current Highlights of Developmental Biology
Volume 50, Issue S1
June 2008
Signaling in organogenesis and regeneration
Volume 50, Issue 4
May 2008
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TopHighlights
Highly Cited Articles published in 2009
Resources and transgenesis techniques for functional genomics in Xenopus
Hajime Ogino, Haruki Ochi
Inhibition of stored Ca2+ release disrupts convergence-related cell movements in the lateral intermediate mesoderm resulting in abnormal positioning and morphology of the pronephric anlagen in intact zebrafish embryos
Pui Ying Lam, Sarah E. Webb, Catherine Leclerc, Marc Moreau, Andrew L. Miller
Evolution and regeneration of the planarian central nervous system [FREE to view]
Yoshihiko Umesono, Kiyokazu Agata
Continuous neurogenesis in the adult brain [FREE to view]
Itaru Imayoshi, Masayuki Sakamoto, Toshiyuki Ohtsuka, Ryoichiro Kageyama
Spatio-temporal control of neural epithelial cell migration and epithelium-to-mesenchyme transition during avian neural tube development [FREE to view]
Jean-Loup Duband, Cédrine Blavet, Artem Jarov, Claire Fournier-Thibault
Highly Cited Articles published in 2008 [FREE TO VIEW]
Roles of Hes genes in neural development
Ryoichiro Kageyama, Toshiyuki Ohtsuka, Taeko Kobayashi
Non-conventional Frizzled ligands and Wnt receptors
Marijke Hendrickx, Luc Leyns
Targeted gene expression by the Gal4-UAS system in zebrafish
Kazuhide Asakawa, Koichi Kawakami
Regulation of oocyte maturation in fish
Yoshitaka Nagahama, Masakane Yamashita
