10th Anniversary of JDB—Recent Advances in Wnt Signaling in Development and Regeneration

Dear Colleagues,

The year 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the Journal of Developmental Biology (JDB) (ISSN 2221-3759), which is a peer-reviewed, open access journal on the development of multicellular organisms at the molecule, cell, tissue, organ, and whole-organism levels. JDB has published over 299 papers by more than 935 authors, and nearly 515 reviewers have submitted at least one review report. We would like to express our sincerest thanks to our readers, innumerable authors, anonymous peer reviewers, editors, and all the people working in some way for the journal who have made substantial contributions over the years. Without your support, we would not be where we are today.

To mark this important milestone, a Special Issue entitled “10th Anniversary of JDB—Recent Advances in Wnt Signaling in Development and Regeneration” is being launched. For over forty years, research on Wnt signaling has played an instrumental role in our understanding of many critical processes controlling embryonic development, as well as adult tissue maintenance and regeneration. Wnt signaling is an ancient signaling pathway that is critical for the development of all metazoans, and research using diverse vertebrate and invertebrate developmental model systems has helped define the essential components of these complex signaling pathways. However, our knowledge of Wnt signaling is still incomplete. This Special Issue will highlight the new research that is expanding our understanding of this fundamental signaling pathway. We will collect research articles and high-quality review papers in the research fields relating to Wnt Signaling in Development and Regeneration. Additionally, research groups working in various areas of this subject are encouraged to make contributions to this Special Issue.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Mechanisms of Wnt signal transduction.
• Wnt signaling in cell embryonic specification and patterning.
• Wnt signaling in regeneration.
• Morphogenesis and Wnt signaling.
• Wnt signaling in stem cells.
• The role of Wnt signaling in the evolution of metazoans.

Dr. Ryan C. Range
Guest Editor

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• Wnt signaling
• Morphogenesis
• stem cells
• regeneration
• cell embryonic specification and patterning
• evolution