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Biology Open has strong credentials and publishing with us is easy and fast. BiO aims to provide rapid publication for scientifically sound observations and valid conclusions in cell biology, developmental biology and experimental biology. Submit your paper here; you’ll be in good company.

Recent developmental biology research highlights in Biology Open

Meningeal retinoic acid contributes to neocortical lamination and radial migration during mouse brain development
Carole Haushalter, Brigitte Schuhbaur, Pascal Dollé and Muriel Rhinn

Constitutively active Notch1 converts cranial neural crest-derived frontonasal mesenchyme to perivascular cells in vivo
Sophie R. Miller, Surangi N. Perera and Clare V. H. Baker

Cardiomyocyte­-specific expression of the nuclear matrix protein, CIZ1, stimulates production of mono-nucleated cells with an extended window of proliferation in the postnatal mouse heart
Sumia A. Bageghni, Georgia A. Frentzou, Mark J. Drinkhill, William Mansfield, Dawn Coverley and Justin F. X. Ainscough

Cover article: Arabidopsis TOP1α is required for adaptive response to light and flower development

The June cover shows scanning electron microscopy of elongated and fragmented apical meristem of an Arabidopsis plant with fas5 mutation in the DNA topoisomerase TOP1α. In the related article, Kupriyanova et al. uncover a new function for TOP1α connected with response to light signal. 

Featured article: Alteration of swing leg work and power during human accelerated sprinting

In our most-read article in May, Nagahara et al. report that the roles of respective swing leg joints intricately change with increases in running speed during accelerated sprinting.

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