NPG Library
Below is a selection of recent Research Highlights, Reviews, Research Articles and Commentaries that have been published by Nature Publishing Group journals on the topic of the body plan.
Reviews
Compartments and their boundaries in vertebrate brain development
Clemens Kiecker & Andrew Lumsden
doi: 10.1038/nrn1702
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 6, 553-564 (2005)
A simple plan − cnidarians and the origins of developmental mechanisms
Eldon E. Ball, David C. Hayward, Robert Saint & David J. Miller
doi: 10.1038/nrg1402
Nature Reviews Genetics 5, 567-577 (2004)
Research Articles
Brief Communication
Homozygous HOXA1 mutations disrupt human brainstem, inner ear, cardiovascular and cognitive development
Max A Tischfield, Thomas M Bosley, Mustafa A M Salih, Ibrahim A Alorainy, Emin C Sener, Michael J Nester, Darren T Oystreck, Wai-Man Chan, Caroline Andrews, Robert P Erickson & Elizabeth C Engle
doi:10.1038/ng1636
Nature Genetics 37, 1035-1037 (2005)
Letter
Inversion-induced disruption of the Hoxd cluster leads to the partition of regulatory landscapes
Fran�ois Spitz, Carole Herkenne, Michael A Morris & Denis Duboule
doi:10.1038/ng1597
Nature Genetics 37, 889-893 (2005)
Letter
Early developmental arrest of mammalian limbs lacking HoxA/HoxD gene function
Marie Kmita, Basile Tarchini, Jozsef Zàkàny, Malcolm Logan, Clifford J. Tabin & Denis Duboule
doi:10.1038/nature03648
Nature 435, 1113-1116 (2005)
Article
Lineage infidelity of epithelial ovarian cancers is controlled by HOX genes that specify regional identity in the reproductive tract
Wenjun Cheng, Jinsong Liu, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Daniel Rosen & Honami Naora
doi:10.1038/nm1230
Nature Medicine 11, 531-537 (2005)
Letter to Nature
Ultrabithorax is required for membranous wing identity in the beetle Tribolium castaneum
Yoshinori Tomoyasu, Scott R. Wheeler & Robin E. Denell
doi:10.1038/nature03272
Nature 433, 643-647 (2005)
Letter to Nature
Direct integration of Hox and segmentation gene inputs during Drosophila development
Brian Gebelein, Daniel J. McKay & Richard S. Mann
doi:10.1038/nature02946
Nature 431, 653-659 (2004)
Letter
MicroRNA-responsive 'sensor' transgenes uncover Hox-like and other developmentally regulated patterns of vertebrate microRNA expression
Jennifer H Mansfield, Brian D Harfe, Robert Nissen, John Obenauer, Jalagani Srineel, Aadel Chaudhuri, Raphael Farzan-Kashani, Michael Zuker, Amy E Pasquinelli, Gary Ruvkun, Phillip A Sharp, Clifford J Tabin & Michael T McManus
doi:10.1038/ng1421
Nature Genetics 36, 1079-1083 (2004)
Letter to Nature
Hox cluster disintegration with persistent anteroposterior order of expression in Oikopleura dioica
Hee-Chan Seo, Rolf Brudvik Edvardsen, Anne Dorthea Maeland, Marianne Bjordal, Marit Flo Jensen, Anette Hansen, Mette Flaat, Jean Weissenbach, Hans Lehrach, Patrick Wincker, Richard Reinhardt & Daniel Chourrout
doi:10.1038/nature02709
Nature 431, 67-71 (2004)
Letter to Nature
Dynamic control of positional information in the early Drosophila embryo
Johannes Jaeger, Svetlana Surkova, Maxim Blagov, Hilde Janssens, David Kosman, Konstantin N. Kozlov, Manu, Ekaterina Myasnikova, Carlos E. Vanario-Alonso, Maria Samsonova, David H. Sharp & John Reinitz
doi:10.1038/nature02678
Nature 430, 368-371 (2004)
Letter to Nature
Antero-posterior tissue polarity links mesoderm convergent extension to axial patterning
Hiromasa Ninomiya, Richard P. Elinson & Rudolf Winklbauer
doi:10.1038/nature02620
Nature 430, 364-367 (2004)
Brief Communication
Evolutionary biology: Lamprey Hox genes and the evolution of jaws
Yoko Takio, Massimo Pasqualetti, Shigehiro Kuraku, Shigeki Hirano, Filippo M. Rijli & Shigeru Kuratani
doi:10.1038/nature02616
Nature 429, (2004)
Letter to Nature
The cell-cycle regulator geminin inhibits Hox function through direct and polycomb-mediated interactions
Lingfei Luo, Xiaoping Yang, Yoshihiro Takihara, Hendrik Knoetgen & Michael Kessel
doi:10.1038/nature02305
Nature 427, 749-753 (2004)
Commentaries
Book Review
Switching on evolution
Jerry A. Coyne
doi:10.1038/4351029a
Nature 435, 1029-1030 (2005)
Jerry A. Coyne reviews Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. Carroll
News and Views
Developmental biology: Reproduction in clusters
François Spitz & Denis Duboule
doi:10.1038/434715a
Nature 434, 715-716 (2005)
News and Views
Tracing microRNA patterns in mice
John Cobb & Denis Duboule
doi:10.1038/ng1004-1033
Nature Genetics 36, 1033-1034 (2005)
News and Views
Evolutionary biology: Time, space and genomes
Nipam H. Patel
doi:10.1038/431028a
Nature 431, 28-29 (2004)
News and Views
Developmental biology: Heading away from the rump
Ray Keller
doi:10.1038/430305a
Nature 430, 305-306 (2004)
Opinion
Different strategies for midline formation in bilaterians
Hans Meinhardt
doi:10.1038/nrn1410
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 5, 502-510 (2004)
News and Views
Specifying motor neurons: up and down and back to front
William A Harris
doi:10.1038/nn1203-1247
Nature Neuroscience 6, 1247-1249 (2003)
