Developmental Biology (DB) publishes original research on mechanisms of development, differentiation, and growth in animals and plants at the molecular, cellular, genetic and evolutionary levels. Areas of particular emphasis include transcriptional control mechanisms, embryonic patterning, cell-cell interactions, growth factors and signal transduction, and regulatory hierarchies in developing plants and animals. 
Research Areas Include: 
• Molecular genetics of development 
• Control of gene expression 
• Cell interactions and cell-matrix interactions 
• Mechanisms of differentiation 
• Growth factors and oncogenes 
• Regulation of stem cell populations 
• Evolution of developmental control 
• Gametogenesis and fertilization 

Original Research Papers
Resource Papers
Short Communications
Review Articles
Opinion papers (DB Perspectives)
Technique
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Editor-in-Chief
Marianne Bronner
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA Email Marianne Bronner
Editors
Blanche Capel
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA Email Blanche Capel
Claude Desplan
New York University, New York, New York, USA Email Claude Desplan
Denis Duboule
University of Geneva and Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, SwitzerlandEmail Denis Duboule
Matthew Gibson
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Email Matthew Gibson
Richard Harland
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA Email Richard Harland
Vivian Irish
Yale University, New Haven, USA Email Vivian Irish
Philippe Soriano
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA Email Philippe Soriano
Deborah Yelon
University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, USA Email Deborah Yelon
Past Editor
E.H. Davidson †
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Editorial Board
Markus Affolter
Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Detlev Arendt
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
Kristin Artinger
University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA
Hans Bode
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Bruce Bowerman
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Sarah Bray
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK
James Briscoe
The Francis Crick Institute, London, England, UK
Alan Burns
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, England, UK
Samantha Butler
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA
Yang Chai
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Ajay Chitnis
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Ken Cho
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Cheng Ming Chuong
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
David Clouthier
University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA
Frank Conlon
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Simon Conway
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Frank Costantini
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Karen Crawford
St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City
Peter Currie
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Jacqueline Deschamps
Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
Mary Dickinson
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Susanne Dietrich
King's College London, London, UK
Andrew Dingwall
Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA
Karen Downs
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Wolfgang Driever
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Gregg Duester
Sanford Burnham Prebys, La Jolla, California, USA
Jonathan Epstein
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Donna Fekete
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Richard Firtel
University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, USA
Scott Fraser
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Laura Gammill
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Andrew Groves
House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA
Anna Katerina Hadjantonakis
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
Christine Hartmann
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
Richard Harvey
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou
Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Lothar Hennighausen
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Oliver Hobert
Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Simon Hughes
King's College London, London, UK
Laurinda Jaffe
University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
Rulang Jiang
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Jane Johnson
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Randy Johnson
University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA
Keith Thomas Jones
University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Alexandra Joyner
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
Vesa Kaartinen
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Ryoichiro Kageyama
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
David Kimelman
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Hisato Kondoh
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Paul Krieg
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Robb Krumlauf
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Paul Kulesa
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Justin Kumar
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Kenro Kusumi
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Carole LaBonne
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Patrick Lemaire
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Montpellier cedex 5, France
Brian Link
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Melissa Little
Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Karen Liu
King’s College London, London, England, UK
Malcolm Logan
King's College London, London, UK
Suzanne Mansour
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Christophe Marcelle
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Ralph Marcucio
University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, USA
Benjamin Martin
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
James Martin
Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Mark Martindale
University of Florida, St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Robert Maxson
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Roberto Mayor
University College London (UCL), London, UK
David McClay
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Daniel Medeiros
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Cathy Mendelsohn
Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Alan Michelson
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Randall Moon
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Xavier Neto
LNBio-Laboratório Nacional de Biociências, Campinas-SP, Brazil
Jennifer Nichols
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Lee Niswander
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA
Elke Ober
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Michael O'Connor
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Guillermo Oliver
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
David Ornitz
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Nipam Patel
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Tatjana Piotrowski
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Steven Potter
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Olivier Pourquié
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Victoria Prince
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
David Raible
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Yi Rao
School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
Elizabeth Robertson
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Michael Rudnicki
OHRI, Ottawa, Canada
Gary Ruvkun
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Makoto Sato
Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
Nori Satoh
Okinawa Inst. of Science & Tech., Okinawa, Japan
Andreas Schedl
Universite Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
Alexander Schier
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Thomas Schilling
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Gerhard Schlosser
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Robert Schulz
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Ashley Seifert
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Lila Solnica-Krezel
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Beatriz Sosa-Pineda
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Michelle Southard-Smith
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Derek Stemple
The Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Claudio Stern
University College London (UCL), London, UK
Andrea Streit
King's College London, London, UK
Xin Sun
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Lori Sussel
University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
Cliff Tabin
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Yoshiko Takahashi
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Patrick Tam
The University of Sydney, Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia
Miguel Torres
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
Paul Trainor
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Mark Van Doren
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Jean-Paul Vincent
The Francis Crick Institute, London, England, UK
Talila Volk
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
John Wallingford
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Deneen Wellik
University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Carol Wicking
University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
David Wilkinson
The Francis Crick Institute, London, England, UK
Christopher Wright
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Joseph Yost
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Katherine Yutzey
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Yimin Zou
UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA