Evaluating the Role of Wnt Signal Transduction in Promoting the Development of the Heart by Leonard M. Eisenberg, Carol A. Eisenberg

“…Wnts are a family of secreted signaling proteins that are encoded by 19 distinct genes in the vertebrate genome. These molecules initiate several signal transduction pathways: the canonical Wnt, Wnt/Ca2+, and Wnt/planar cell polarity pathways. …”
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Shaping the human gut microbiota: The role of canine companionship, lifestyle choices, and Blastocystis sp. by Zuzana Pavlíčková, Barbora Pafčo, Vladislav Ilík, Lee O'Brien Andersen, Milan Jirků, Kristýna Brožová, David Modrý, Oldřiška Kadlecová, Christen Rune Stensvold, Kateřina Jirků

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One Health: potential synergy between infectious and toxic agents. The case of COVID-19 by Jorge Herkovits

“…This potential synergy is illustrated with adverse effects acquired through bioassays performed with free-living vertebrate embryos indicating that their use as sentinel organisms for environmental contamination could be beneficial both for the ecosystem and human health.…”
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MicroRNAs in Development by Danielle Maatouk, Brian D. Harfe

“…This review will describe our current understanding of how miRNAs regulate gene expression and will focus on the roles these noncoding RNAs play during the development of both invertebrate and vertebrate species.…”
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Coupling Planar Cell Polarity Signaling to Morphogenesis by Jeffrey D. Axelrod, Helen McNeill

“…We then discuss how the vertebrate processes of convergent extension and cochlear hair-cell development may relate to Drosophila PCP signaling.…”
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Harmful Effects of Nanoparticles on Animals by Jean-Marie Exbrayat, Elara N. Moudilou, Emmanuel Lapied

“…We will examine successively the effects of NPs on terrestrial and semiaquatic and aquatic vertebrate and invertebrate animals.…”
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Identification and Characterization of Two Novel RNA Editing Sites in grin1b Transcripts of Embryonic Danio rerio by Pedro Pozo, Barry Hoopengardner

“…The zebrafish, Danio rerio, is an important vertebrate model system. We focused on the grin1b gene of zebrafish due to its important function in the nervous tissue as a glutamate receptor. …”
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Making Headway: The Roles of Hox Genes and Neural Crest Cells in Craniofacial Development by Paul A. Trainor

“…Understanding the mechanisms that control vertebrate head development is an important issue since craniofacial anomalies constitute nearly one third of all human congenital defects. …”
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A Robotic Brain Scheme: Proposal Originated by a Modular Robotic Control by J. Negrete-Martínez

“…Each of these five classes roughly corresponds to areas in a vertebrate’s brain and proved to be an effective robotic brain scheme as they assist in the development of greater complexity in robotic brains and a means to compare different implementations. …”
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Marsupial Genome Sequences: Providing Insight into Evolution and Disease by Janine E. Deakin

“…Marsupials (metatherians), with their position in vertebrate phylogeny and their unique biological features, have been studied for many years by a dedicated group of researchers, but it has only been since the sequencing of the first marsupial genome that their value has been more widely recognised. …”
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Coleopteran Antimicrobial Peptides: Prospects for Clinical Applications by Monde Ntwasa, Akira Goto, Shoichiro Kurata

“…Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are activated in response to septic injury and have important roles in vertebrate and invertebrate immune systems. AMPs act directly against pathogens and have both wound healing and antitumor activities. …”
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Protocol for automated tracking and quantification of adult zebrafish anxiety behavior using ZebraTrack by Atanu Pramanik, Shubham Nema, Yogesh Bhargava, Anamika Bhargava

“…Summary: The open-field tank test is a well-validated technique for evaluating anxiety behavior in vertebrate animal models. However, manual behavioral analysis can be subjective and time consuming. …”
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Primary Oral Myiasis: A Case Report by Nitin Bhola, Anendd Jadhav, Rajiv Borle, Nitin Adwani, Gaurav Khemka, Pretti Jadhav

“…Infestation of tissues of vertebrate species is pandemic but more frequently found in tropical and subtropical countries where poor hygiene, poor housing infrastructure, warm humid climate, and proximity with domestic animals prevail. …”
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Eye development under the control of SRp55/B52-mediated alternative splicing of eyeless. by Weronika Fic, François Juge, Johann Soret, Jamal Tazi

“…The genetic programs specifying eye development are highly conserved during evolution and involve the vertebrate Pax-6 gene and its Drosophila melanogaster homolog eyeless (ey). …”
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Hydrogen Peroxide in Inflammation: Messenger, Guide, and Assassin by C. Wittmann, P. Chockley, S. K. Singh, L. Pase, G. J. Lieschke, C. Grabher

“…Within haematology, this includes studies on blood cell development and function and the intricate regulatory mechanisms within vertebrate immunity. Here, we review recent studies on the immediate mechanisms mounting an inflammatory response by in vivo analyses using the zebrafish. …”
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A case of massive infestation of a male green lizard Lacerta viridis/bilineata by castor bean tick Ixodes ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) by Veronica Gomes, Anamarija Žagar, Miguel A. Carretero

“… Infestation by ticks affects several vertebrate groups, including reptiles. Castor bean tick Ixodes ricinus is the most widespread tick species. …”
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The Heart-Placenta Axis in the First Month of Pregnancy: Induction and Prevention of Cardiovascular Birth Defects by Kersti K. Linask

“…Using avian and mouse vertebrate models, we demonstrated that FA supplementation prevents CHD induced by alcohol, lithium, or elevation of the metabolite homocysteine, a marker for FA deficiency. …”
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Genomic data suggest parallel dental vestigialization within the xenarthran radiation by Emerling, Christopher A, Gibb, Gillian C, Tilak, Marie-Ka, Hughes, Jonathan J, Kuch, Melanie, Duggan, Ana T, Poinar, Hendrik N, Nachman, Michael W, Delsuc, Frédéric

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Dynamic assignment and maintenance of positional identity in the ventral neural tube by the morphogen sonic hedgehog. by Eric Dessaud, Vanessa Ribes, Nikolaos Balaskas, Lin Lin Yang, Alessandra Pierani, Anna Kicheva, Bennett G Novitch, James Briscoe, Noriaki Sasai

“…An example is Sonic hedgehog (Shh), which acts in several developing vertebrate tissues, including the central nervous system, to provide positional information during embryonic patterning. …”
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Meeting the Vitamin A Requirement: The Efficacy and Importance of β-Carotene in Animal Species by Alice S. Green, Andrea J. Fascetti

“…Vitamin A is essential for life in all vertebrate animals. Vitamin A requirement can be met from dietary preformed vitamin A or provitamin A carotenoids, the most important of which is β-carotene. …”
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