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The paper examines how vertebral morphology evolves in Lake Malawi cichlids, finding strong integration between precaudal and caudal vertebrae shapes during body elongation.

The paper shows that phenotypic evolution in cichlid fishes can occur through changes in initial developmental conditions rather than modifications to the developmental process itself.

This study investigates how the zebrafish myotome forms a robust 3D structure through a structural transition involving cell rearrangement and mechanical plasticity.

This study shows that changes in vertebral regionalisation in African cichlids are driven by somite number changes, with homeotic effects as a by-product, and that intraspecific variation is canalised and decoupled from macroevolutionary patterns.

The paper examines macroevolutionary dynamics in African cichlid radiations, finding inverse correlation between vertebral count evolution rates and radiation age, but no early burst pattern within individual systems.

This paper introduces a framework to infer gene regulatory networks (GRNs) during tissue morphogenesis by integrating cell movement and gene expression data.

The paper investigates whether the segmentation clock and PSM morphogenesis exhibit developmental modularity in zebrafish, finding the clock is robust to morphogenetic variations.

The paper shows that zebrafish neuromesodermal progenitors undergo a critical state transition in vivo, marked by increased gene expression variability and heterogeneity before differentiation.

The paper shows cell rearrangement during mesoderm elongation generates gene expression patterns through temporal Wnt and FGF exposure.

This paper trains a CNN to stage zebrafish tail buds with small image datasets, achieving high accuracy without large data.

The paper shows that a developmental gene regulatory network, though not structurally modular, exhibits dynamical modules with different evolvability due to criticality states.

The paper shows that a damped oscillator mechanism drives posterior gap gene expression shifts in Drosophila, suggesting similarities between long- and short-germband segmentation.

The paper shows maternal morphogen decay controls timing and rate of gap gene expression in Drosophila embryos through dynamic regulatory effects.