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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2025

Progress in understanding the vertebrate segmentation clock.

Akihiro Isomura, Ryoichiro Kageyama

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cycles upon cycles-Temperature scaling of medaka development.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  5. A bittersweet relationship between the cell cycle, circadian clock, and diurnal fluctuations in taste.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Akihiro IsomuraInstitute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. aisomura@infront.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
Ryoichiro KageyamaInstitute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (KUIAS-iCeMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. ryoichiro.kageyama@riken.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5985-1120

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The segmentation clock is a molecular oscillator that regulates the periodic formation of somites from the presomitic mesoderm during vertebrate embryogenesis. Synchronous oscillatory expression of a Hairy homologue or Hairy-related basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcriptional repressor in presomitic mesoderm cells regulates periodic expression of downstream factors that control somite segmentation with a periodicity that varies across species. Although many of the key components of the clock have been identified and characterized, less is known about how the clock is synchronized across cells and how species-specific periodicity is achieved. Advances in live imaging, stem cell and organoid technologies, and synthetic approaches have started to uncover the detailed mechanisms underlying these aspects of somitogenesis, providing insight into how morphogenesis is coordinated in space and time during embryonic development.

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Biological ClocksBody PatterningEmbryonic DevelopmentSomitesVertebratesAnimalsBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHumansMesodermBasic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins

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