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ReviewCurrent opinion in genetics & development2009

Network design principles from the sea urchin embryo.

Eric H Davidson

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Review in Current opinion in genetics & development, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. LampreyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. A nomenclature for echinoderm genes.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2021
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  13. Developmental control of transcriptional and proliferative potency during the evolutionary emergence of animals.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2015
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  15. Knowing one's place: a free-energy approach to pattern regulation.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2015
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  17. From blastocyst to gastrula: gene regulatory networks of embryonic stem cells and early mouse embryogenesis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2014
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  18. Gene regulatory network of renal primordium development.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Eric H DavidsonDivision of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. davidson@caltech.edu

Funding

Transcriptional Casualty in Embryonic Morphogenesis: from the Specifications GRNP01HD037105 · NICHD · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI DAVIDSON, ERIC H · 1999 to 2018
$27.1M
COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF GENE REGULATORY PROGRAMR01GM061005 · NIGMS · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI DAVIDSON, ERIC H · 2000 to 2011
$4.5M
NICHD NIH HHS HD37105NICHD NIH HHS P01 HD037105NIGMS NIH HHS GM61005NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM061005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As gene regulatory network models encompass more and more of the specification processes underlying sea urchin embryonic development, topological themes emerge that imply the existence of structural network 'building blocks'. These are subcircuits which perform given logic operations in the spatial control of gene expression. The various parts of the sea urchin gene regulatory networks offer instances of the same subcircuit topologies accomplishing the same developmental logic functions but using different genes. These subcircuits are dedicated to specific developmental functions, unlike simpler 'motifs', and may indicate a repertoire of specific devices of which developmental gene regulatory networks are composed.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalAnimalsEmbryonic DevelopmentFeedback, PhysiologicalModels, GeneticSea Urchins

Identifiers

PMID19913405
PMCPMC3428372

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