Welcome to Development’s 2020 Techniques and Resources collection
Here, we showcase some of the best Techniques and Resources papers published in the past 12 months, as well as some recent review-based articles that discuss newly-developed tools and resources in the field.
We launched our Techniques and Resources section in 2011, and it has since proved to be a huge success: our Techniques and Resources papers are consistently among the most read and most cited papers in the journal. Importantly, these papers cover a wide spectrum of animal and plant developmental and stem cell biology. We believe that this section serves an important function in promoting the dissemination of new techniques and resources throughout the community, and hopefully in fertilising new ideas.
We hope this collection gives you a flavour of the latest techniques that are driving developmental biology research, and we encourage you to visit our website to see more of these types of articles. We also encourage you to consider Development as the natural home for your best Techniques and Resources papers.
Primers and Reviews
Principles and applications of optogenetics in developmental biology
Daniel Krueger, Emiliano Izquierdo, Ranjith Viswanathan, Jonas Hartmann, Cristina Pallares Cartes and Stefano De Renzis
Mapping chromatin modifications at the single cell level
Connor H. Ludwig and Lacramioara Bintu
Recording development with single cell dynamic lineage tracing
Aaron McKenna and James A. Gagnon
Research Articles
Multi-sample SPIM image acquisition, processing and analysis of vascular growth in zebrafish
Stephan Daetwyler, Ulrik Günther, Carl D. Modes, Kyle Harrington and Jan Huisken
Single cell analysis of adult mouse skeletal muscle stem cells in homeostatic and regenerative conditions
Stefania Dell’Orso, Aster H. Juan, Kyung-Dae Ko, Faiza Naz, Jelena Perovanovic, Gustavo Gutierrez-Cruz, Xuesong Feng and Vittorio Sartorelli
Generating intravital super-resolution movies with conventional microscopy reveals actin dynamics that construct pioneer axons
Yide Zhang, Evan L. Nichols, Abigail M. Zellmer, Ian H. Guldner, Cody Kankel, Siyuan Zhang, Scott S. Howard and Cody J. Smith
Enhancer transcription identifies cis-regulatory elements for photoreceptor cell types
Carlos Perez-Cervantes, Linsin A. Smith, Rangarajan D. Nadadur, Andrew E. O. Hughes, Sui Wang, Joseph C. Corbo, Connie Cepko, Nicolas Lonfat and Ivan P. Moskowitz
A genetic system for tissue-specific inhibition of proliferation
Wenjuan Pu, Ximeng Han, Lingjuan He, Yan Li, Xiuzhen Huang, Mingjun Zhang, Zan Lv, Wei Yu, Qing-Dong Wang, Dongqing Cai, Jinjin Wang, Ruilin Sun, Jian Fei, Yong Ji, Yu Nie and Bin Zhou
To read more Techniques and Resources articles, see the full collection here.