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	DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY	
		
	
An official journal of the Society for Developmental Biology
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/Developmental Biology/ publishes original research on mechanisms of
development, differentiation, and growth in animals and plants at the
molecular, cellular, and genetic levels. Areas of particular emphasis
include transcriptional control mechanisms, embryonic patterning,
cell–cell interactions, growth factors and signal transduction, and
regulatory hierarchies.

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the general criteria or standards for publication in /Developmental
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review.

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*Original Research Papers*

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contribute new information to our understanding of developmental
mechanisms. Questions are frequently raised about "descriptive" papers.
Such papers are appropriate for DB if they provide important new
insights. This would not include, for example, a description of the
expression pattern of a gene in one species that has already been
described in another species, or an expression pattern with no obvious
link to a developmental process.

We require that manuscripts specifically address biological relevance.
While morpholino, microarray and RNAi studies may be acceptable, they
must contain adequate controls to be considered for publication.

Papers usually do not exceed 15,000 words. Prepare manuscripts according
to the guidelines given in the next section.

*Review Articles*

Review articles are intended to reach a broad audience of readers from
investigators in the field to new graduate students learning the
material for the first time. Review articles are subject to the same
review process as original papers, but may receive expedited
consideration. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the general
guidelines given below. The Materials and Methods, Results, and
Discussion sections may be replaced with appropriate alternatives; an
abstract is still required. The editor-in-chief and the reviews editor
invite inquiries and suggestions for timely and provocative review articles.

*Genomes and Developmental Control*

This new section is dedicated to papers that address analysis of
developmental cis-regulatory systems; developmental genomics;
transcriptional mechanisms in development, analysis of specific
developmental processes, and system-level approaches to such networks;
comparative analysis and evolution of regulatory systems; and
computational advances that illuminate the identification and the
structure/function relationships of developmental control systems.
Papers selected for this section will appear together on a monthly
basis. As always, we are dedicated to rapidly reviewing papers.

*Preparation of Manuscripts*

Pages should be numbered consecutively and organized as follows:

/The Title Page/ (p. 1) should contain the article title, authors' names
and complete affiliations, footnotes to the title, and the address for
manuscript correspondence (including e-mail address and telephone and
fax numbers).

/The Abstract/ (p. 2) must be a single paragraph that summarizes the
main findings of the paper in less than 200 words. After the abstract a
list of up to 10 keywords that will be useful for indexing or searching
should be included.

/The Introduction/ should be as concise as possible, without subheadings.

/Materials and methods/ should be sufficiently detailed to enable the
experiments to be reproduced.

The /Results /and /Discussion/ sections may be organized into
subheadings and may be combined.

/Acknowledgments/ should be brief and should precede the references.

/The References/ section should be alphabetized by first author's last
name. References should be cited in the text by name and date. Cite
papers with three or more authors using the first author's last name and
"et al." Only articles that have been published or are in press should
be included in the references. Unpublished results or personal
communications should be cited as such in the text. Please note the
following examples.

Harvey, R.P., Rosenthal, N. (Eds.), 1999. Heart Development. Academic
Press, San Diego.

Holleran, E.A., Karki, S., Holzbaur, E.L.F., The role of the dynactin
complex in intracellular motility. In: Jeon, K.W. (Ed.), International
Review of Cytology, Vol. 182. Academic Press, San Diego, 1998, pp. 69-109.

Milan, M., Cohen, S.M., 2000. Subdividing cell populations in the
developing limbs of /Drosophila/: do wing veins and leg segments define
units of growth control? Dev. Biol. 217, 1–9.

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Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in order of
appearance in the text. Give each table a short descriptive title typed
directly above it, with essential footnotes below.

*Figures*

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Additional pages of color will be published free of charge at the
discretion of the editor.

If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color
figures, then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these
figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other
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*Cover Submissions*

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by authors who are also submitting a manuscript for consideration. Such
illustrations do not need to relate to the manuscript being submitted
but should relate to the larger scope and focus of /Developmental
Biology/. A legend of 100 or fewer words should accompany each image.

*Materials *

Publication of a research article in Developmental Biology is taken to
imply that the authors are prepared to distribute all non-commercially
obtained materials used in the experiments (e.g. cells, DNA, antibodies,
primary data), to other academic researchers for their own use or for
verification. All nucleic acid and protein sequences must have been
deposited in the appropriate databases and the Accession Numbers cited
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underlined text. Letters in the accession number should always be
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will enable Elsevier's typesetters to recognize the relevant texts as
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/Example:/ GenBank accession nos. _ *AI631510* _, _ *AI631511* _, _
*AI632198* _, and _ *BF223228* _), a B-cell tumor from a chronic
lymphatic leukemia (GenBank accession no. _ *BE675048* _), and a T-cell
lymphoma (GenBank accession no. _ *AA361117* _).

Authors are encouraged to check accession numbers used very carefully.
An error in a letter or number can result in a dead link.

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will not appear bold or underlined. In the final version of the
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or before acceptance of the paper for publication. The editors
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