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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

A molecular timer couples organism-wide temporal identity to developmental checkpoints.

Peipei Wu, Jing Wang, Brett Pryor, Isabella Valentino, David F Ritter, Kaiser Loel, Olya Yarychkivska, Shai Shaham, Justin Kinney, Sevinc Ercan and 2 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Peipei WuCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724.ORCID 0009-0003-3724-7322
Jing WangCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724.
Brett PryorCold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724.
Isabella ValentinoCold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724.
David F RitterDepartment of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003.ORCID 0009-0004-5449-0698
Kaiser LoelSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724.
Olya YarychkivskaLaboratory of Developmental Genetics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.ORCID 0000-0002-0048-1006
Shai ShahamLaboratory of Developmental Genetics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.
Justin KinneySimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724.ORCID 0000-0003-1897-3778
Sevinc ErcanDepartment of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003.ORCID 0000-0001-7297-1648
Leemor Joshua-TorCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724.ORCID 0000-0001-8185-8049
Christopher M HammellCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724.ORCID 0000-0002-5961-0976

Funding

Glial Control of Neuron Development and Function - Administrative SupplementR35NS105094 · NINDS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI SHAHAM, SHAI · 2018 to 2025
$8.9M
A unified quantitative modeling strategy for multiplex assays of variant effectR01HG011787 · NHGRI · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI JUSTIN B. KINNEY · 2022 to 2026
$4.1M
OSCILLATORY GENE EXPRESSION AND THE MAINTENANCE OF TEMPORAL PATTERNINGR01GM117406 · NIGMS · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI HAMMELL, CHRISTOPHER MARTIN · 2016 to 2025
$4.0M
Mechanisms of condensin-mediated gene regulation in C. elegansR35GM130311 · NIGMS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI Sevinc Ercan · 2019 to 2026
$3.3M
Linker cell death regulation in C. elegansR01HD103610 · NICHD · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI SHAHAM, SHAI · 2021 to 2025
$1.8M
Molecular timekeeping and temporal cell fate specification in C. elegansR01GM155806 · NIGMS · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI HAMMELL, CHRISTOPHER MARTIN, JOSHUA-TOR, LEEMOR · 2024 to 2025
$1.3M
Nuclear and chromatin aberrations during non-apoptotic cell death in C. elegans and mammalsK99GM151467 · NIGMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI YARYCHKIVSKA, OLGA · 2023 to 2024
$250k
HHS | NIH | National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) R01HG011787HHS | NIH (NIH) K99GM151467HHS | NIH (NIH) R01GM117406HHS | NIH (NIH) R01GM155806HHS | NIH (NIH) R01HD103610HHS | NIH (NIH) R35GM130311HHS | NIH (NIH) R35NS105094NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117406NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM155806NSF (NSF) 2217560
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coordinated development requires that growth and cell-fate transitions occur in a defined temporal order across tissues, yet how multicellular organisms generate and synchronize developmental timing information remains unclear. In

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Caenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalTranscription FactorsAnimalsMicroRNAsCaenorhabditis elegans Proteinslet-7 microRNA, C elegansLIN-42 protein, C elegansMicroRNAsTranscription Factorscheckpointdevelopmental ClockheterochronicmicroRNAtemproal patterning

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PMID42090252
PMCPMC13167726

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