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Gastrulation

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    McFann S, Shvartsman S, Toettcher J. Putting in the Erk: Growth factor signaling and mesoderm morphogenesis. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2022;149:263–310. PMID: 35606058
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    Stern T, Shvartsman S, Wieschaus E. Deconstructing gastrulation at single-cell resolution. Curr Biol. 2022;32(8):1861–1868.e7. PMCID: PMC9221752
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    McFann S, Dutta S, Toettcher J, Shvartsman S. Temporal integration of inductive cues on the way to gastrulation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021;118(23). PMCID: PMC8201965
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    Kinoshita N, Hashimoto Y, Yasue N, Suzuki M, Cristea I, Ueno N. Mechanical Stress Regulates Epithelial Tissue Integrity and Stiffness through the FGFR/Erk2 Signaling Pathway during Embryogenesis. Cell Rep. 2020;30(11):3875–3888.e3. PMID: 32187556
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    Chan M, Smith Z, Grosswendt S, Kretzmer H, Norman T, Adamson B, Jost M, Quinn J, Yang D, Jones M, Khodaverdian A, Yosef N, Meissner A, Weissman J. Molecular recording of mammalian embryogenesis. Nature. 2019;570(7759):77–82. PMCID: PMC7229772
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    Streichan S, Lefebvre M, Noll N, Wieschaus E, Shraiman B. Global morphogenetic flow is accurately predicted by the spatial distribution of myosin motors. Elife. 2018;7. PMCID: PMC5843464
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    Doubrovinski K, Swan M, Polyakov O, Wieschaus E. Measurement of cortical elasticity in Drosophila melanogaster embryos using ferrofluids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017;114(5):1051–1056. PMCID: PMC5293093
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    Weng M, Wieschaus E. Myosin-dependent remodeling of adherens junctions protects junctions from Snail-dependent disassembly. J Cell Biol. 2016;212(2):219–29. PMCID: PMC4738385
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