Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Lineage-specific, fast-evolving GATA-like gene regulates zygotic gene activation to promote endoderm specification and pattern formation in the Theridiidae spider.

  PMID 36203191 · PMC9535882 · BMC biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative RNA-seq of cells isolated from central, intermediate, and peripheral regions of stage-3 embryos identifies genes with locally restricted expression genome-wide

  tepidariorum drosophila rna-seq whole-mount parental

• Extrusion fountains are hallmarks of chromosome organization emerging upon zygotic genome activation.

  PMID 41690937 · PMC13018191 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Fountains are a distinct class of Hi-C chromatin feature, different from TADs/stripes/compartments, that emerge as the earliest hallmark of chromosome organization shortly after ZGA in zebrafish

  danio zebrafish medaka xenopus hi-c chip-seq atac-seq

• miR-203 facilitates timely cell fate transitions via epigenetic modulation during early embryogenesis.

  PMID 41811946 · PMC12978216 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  miR-203 is required for a timely totipotency-to-pluripotency transition during early mouse embryogenesis

  preimplantation 8-cell mice mir-203 qrt-pcr genotyping time-lapse

• A chromosome-scale genome assembly and karyotype of the ctenophore Hormiphora californensis.

  PMID 34545398 · PMC8527503 · G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A chromosome-scale genome assembly of H. californensis spans 110 Mb in 44 scaffolds, with 99.47% of bases in 13 scaffolds

  californensis chromosome pacbio illumina

• Feed-forward loops by NR5A2 ensure robust gene activation during pre-implantation development.

  PMID 41355514 · PMC12848575 · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NR5A2 chromatin binding is dynamic, changing genome-wide from the 2-cell to the morula stage, with peak numbers and target regions (e.g. SINE B1/Alu) shifting over developmental time

  2-cell embryonic 8-cell zygotes cut&tag chip-seq h3k27ac

• Exonic remnants of whole-genome duplication reveal cis-regulatory function of coding exons.

  PMID 19969543 · PMC2831330 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  38 candidate cis-regulatory coding exons (RCEs) with predicted target genes were identified genome-wide

  hg18 zebrafish bystander human-mouse comparative synteny orthologous

• Sequencing mRNA from cryo-sliced Drosophila embryos to determine genome-wide spatial patterns of gene expression.

  PMID 23951250 · PMC3741199 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cryosectioning single blastoderm-stage D. melanogaster embryos along the A–P axis and sequencing mRNA from each slice yields reliable genome-wide spatial expression patterns.

  single methanol-fixed reads slice mrna-seq light-microscopy read

• E3RC: A step-by-step computational protocol for exploring enhancer RNA expression and regulation using conventional RNA-seq data.

  PMID 40716058 · PMC12318280 · STAR protocols · 2025 · 6 claims · 3 setups

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  E3RC is a computational framework for identifying and quantifying eRNAs and characterizing their expression and transcriptional regulation using conventional RNA-seq data.

  preimplantation genome erna bulk computational motif

• SETDB1 enables development beyond cleavage stages by extinguishing the MERVL-driven two-cell totipotency transcriptional program in the mouse embryo.

  PMID 41697236 · PMC12908936 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Maternal SETDB1 is required for mouse preimplantation development beyond the eight-cell stage

  2-cell single-embryo degs embryo single-embryo principal

• A global change in RNA polymerase II pausing during the Drosophila midblastula transition.

  PMID 23951546 · PMC3743134 · eLife · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Massive de novo recruitment of Pol II (and TBP) with widespread pausing occurs during the Drosophila midblastula transition, at 4007 promoters (~one third of all genes).

  hand-sorted drosophila chip-seq immunostaining dapi

• Cycloheximide-resistant ribosomes reveal adaptive translation dynamics in C. elegans.

  PMID 40929375 · PMC12477835 · Genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A P55Q substitution in ribosomal protein RPL-36A confers strong resistance to cycloheximide in C. elegans

  elegans crispr-cas9 larval rna-seq

• Phagosome maturation: going through the acid test.

  PMID 18813294 · PMC2908392 · Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Maturation of apoptotic cell-containing phagosomes proceeds via machinery mechanistically distinct from receptor-mediated endocytosis

  caenorhabditis elegans swiss phagosomes rnai genetic acridine

• Major transitions in early coral development: novel insights enabled by visualisation of a comprehensive transcriptomic dataset for Acropora millepora.

  PMID 41612263 · PMC12924552 · BMC biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Profiling gene expression across 26 life stages of A. millepora and building an interactive Shiny-based tool (DEView) enables comprehensive visualisation of developmental transcriptomic data.

  acropora millepora bulk differential pca

• Toward a Consensus in the Repertoire of Hemocytes Identified in Drosophila.

  PMID 33748138 · PMC7969988 · Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Comparative analysis of three scRNAseq studies identifies eight common, robust hemocyte subgroups associated with distinct functions (proliferation, immune response, phagocytosis, secretion)

  wandering feeding stage type single scenic immunolabeling

• Characterization, expression profiles, intracellular distribution and association analysis of porcine PNAS-4 gene with production traits.

  PMID 18588709 · PMC2464599 · BMC genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Porcine PNAS-4 encodes a 194-amino-acid protein that localizes to the Golgi complex

  chinese tissues skeletal pk15 full-length real-time gfp

• Oxidative stress and GPX2 control pancreatic vs. non-pancreatic cell fate in human endoderm.

  PMID 41484137 · PMC12881361 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  GPX2 is a critical regulator of human posterior foregut differentiation, with oxidative stress acting as a key determinant of pancreatic vs. non-pancreatic cell fate

  hpsc-derived hpsc fetal bulk immunofluorescence flow

• Protocol for single-cell optimization objective and trade-off inference.

  PMID 41790544 · PMC12992945 · STAR protocols · 2026 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  SCOOTI is a computational framework that integrates bulk and single-cell omics data with genome-scale metabolic modeling to infer metabolic objectives and trade-offs

  mcf10a serum-starved contact-inhibited zygote bulk scrna-seq genome-scale

• Genomic and proteomic techniques applied to reproductive biology.

  PMID 11574051 · PMC138959 · Genome biology · 2001 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Knockout of the E6-AP (UBE3A) gene reduces testis and prostate size in male mice and compromises estradiol action in females

  e6-ap fgf9-deficient jsd one-cell gene germ-cell interference

• Sox8 remodels the cranial ectoderm to generate the ear.

  PMID 35867760 · PMC9282420 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Sox8 sits at the top of a core transcriptional circuit (Sox8, Pax2, Lmx1a, Zbtb16) that determines otic identity

  chick bulk single-cell chipseq

• auts2 Features and Expression Are Highly Conserved during Evolution Despite Different Evolutionary Fates Following Whole Genome Duplication.

  PMID 36078102 · PMC9454499 · Cells · 2022 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  auts2a and auts2b originate from the teleost-specific whole genome duplication (TGD)

  fish genomic auts2 tissues comparative tblastn phylogenetic