Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29533180›Full record

ArticleeLife2018

Large, long range tensile forces drive convergence during

David R Shook, Eric M Kasprowicz, Lance A Davidson, Raymond Keller

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Article in eLife, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Functional genomics iniScience · 2026
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  8. Conserved physical mechanisms of cell and tissue elongation.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2024
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  17. Mechanical regulation of early vertebrate embryogenesis.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

David R ShookDepartment of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0131-1834
Eric M KasprowiczDepartment of Internal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, United States.
Lance A DavidsonDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2956-0437
Raymond KellerDepartment of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States.

Funding

The Biomechanics of morphogenesis in the frogR01HD044750 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI DAVIDSON, LANCE A. · 2005 to 2020
$3.8M
CELL MOTILITY AND CELL INTERACTIONS DURING NEURULATIONR37HD025594 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI KELLER, RAYMOND E · 1998 to 2011
$3.3M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD044750NICHD NIH HHS R37 HD025594NIH HHS NICHD R37 HD025594 MERIT AWARD
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Indirect evidence suggests that blastopore closure during gastrulation of anamniotes, including amphibians such as

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Biological EvolutionAnimalsEctodermGastrulaGastrulationMesodermMorphogenesisTensile StrengthXenopusXenopus laevisbiomechanicsblastopore closureconvergent extensionconvergent thickeningdevelopmental biologyforcegastrulationmolecular biophysicsstem cellsstructural biologyxenopus

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PMID29533180
PMCPMC5896886

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