The invariant cleavage pattern displayed by ascidian embryos depends on spindle positioning along the cell's longest axis in the apical plane and relies on asynchronous cell divisions

A set of simple cell processes is sufficient to model spiral cleavage

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Generic Theoretical Models to Predict Division Patterns of Cleaving Embryos

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Epithelial tricellular junctions act as interphase cell shape sensors to orient mitosis

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Mechanical Strain Determines the Axis of Planar Polarity in Ciliated Epithelia

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Distinct modes of mitotic spindle orientation align cells in the dorsal midline of ascidian embryos

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Emergence of homeostatic epithelial packing and stress dissipation through divisions oriented along the long cell axis

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From Egg to Gastrula: How the Cell Cycle Is Remodeled During the Drosophila Mid-Blastula Transition

(2014) Jeffrey A. Farrell et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Interplay of Cell Shape and Division Orientation Promotes Robust Morphogenesis of Developing Epithelia

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Cell division and the maintenance of epithelial order

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Shaping up to divide: Coordinating actin and microtubule cytoskeletal remodelling during mitosis

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Divergent mechanisms regulate conserved cardiopharyngeal development and gene expression in distantly related ascidians

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β-Catenin-Driven Binary Fate Specification Segregates Germ Layers in Ascidian Embryos

(2013) Clare Hudson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Beta-catenin patterns the cell cycle during maternal-to-zygotic transition in urochordate embryos

(2013) Rémi Dumollard et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Epithelial junctions maintain tissue architecture by directing planar spindle orientation

(2013) Yu-ichiro Nakajima et al.   NATURE

Tension-oriented cell divisions limit anisotropic tissue tension in epithelial spreading during zebrafish epiboly

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Predicting division plane position and orientation

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Influence of Cell Geometry on Division-Plane Positioning

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A Maternal Factor Unique to Ascidians Silences the Germline via Binding to P-TEFb and RNAP II Regulation

(2011) Gaku Kumano et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ci-Pem-1 localizes to the nucleus and represses somatic gene transcription in the germline of Ciona intestinalis embryos

(2011) M. Shirae-Kurabayashi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Cell shape and Wnt signaling redundantly control the division axis of C. elegans epithelial stem cells

(2011) M. Wildwater et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Mitotic Spindle Orientation in Asymmetric and Symmetric Cell Divisions during Animal Development

(2011) Xavier Morin et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Dual mechanism controls asymmetric spindle position in ascidian germ cell precursors

(2010) F. Prodon et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Spiralian quartet developmental potential is regulated by specific localization elements that mediate asymmetric RNA segregation

(2010) J. S. Rabinowitz et al.   DEVELOPMENT

LGN regulates mitotic spindle orientation during epithelial morphogenesis

(2010) Zhen Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

The apicobasal polarity kinase aPKC functions as a nuclear determinant and regulates cell proliferation and fate during Xenopus primary neurogenesis

(2009) N. Sabherwal et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Unfolding a chordate developmental program, one cell at a time: Invariant cell lineages, short-range inductions and evolutionary plasticity in ascidians

(2009) Patrick Lemaire   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Spindle orientation during asymmetric cell division

(2009) Karsten H. Siller et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Ascidians and the Plasticity of the Chordate Developmental Program

(2008) Patrick Lemaire et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ephrin signaling establishes asymmetric cell fates in an endomesoderm lineage of the Ciona embryo

(2008) W. Shi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Get round and stiff for mitosis

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