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ReviewSeminars in cell & developmental biology2025

Dynamical systems of fate and form in development.

Alex M Plum, Mattia Serra

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Review in Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Positional information and information flows in dynamic tissues.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  3. Bridging developmental and statistical approaches to variation and evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Generative epigenetic landscapes map the topology and topography of cell fates.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Alex M PlumUniversity of California San Diego, Department of Physics, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Mattia SerraUniversity of California San Diego, Department of Physics, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. Electronic address: mserra@ucsd.edu.

Funding

Training Program in Quantitative Integrative BiologyT32GM127235 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HWA, TERENCE · 2018 to 2022
$1.3M
Flows, Fates and Forces: A Biophysical Framework for Data-Driven Discovery in DevelopmentR35GM156889 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Mattia Serra · 2025 to 2026
$654k
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM156889NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM127235NIH HHS T32-GM127235
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Developmental biology has long drawn on dynamical systems to understand the diverging fates and the emerging form of the developing embryo. Cell differentiation and morphogenesis unfold in high-dimensional gene-expression spaces and position spaces. Yet, their stable and reproducible outcomes suggest low-dimensional geometric structures-e.g., fixed points, manifolds, and dynamic attracting and repelling structures-that organize cell trajectories in both spaces. This review surveys the history and recent advances in dynamical systems frameworks for development. We focus on techniques for extracting the organizing geometric structures of cell fate decisions and morphogenetic movements from experiments, as well as their interconnections. This unifying, dynamical systems perspective aids in rationalizing increasingly complex experimental datasets, facilitating principled dimensionality reduction and an integrated understanding of development, bridging typically distinct domains.

Indexed as

Cell DifferentiationEmbryonic DevelopmentMorphogenesisAnimalsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHumansModels, BiologicalCell differentiationDynamical systemsMorphogenesisPattern formation

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PMID40466493
PMCPMC13050240

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