The skin barrier is essential to protect animals from the external environment. The proper establishment of the skin barrier during embryogenesis and its maintenance during adult homeostasis is ...

The evolutionary developmental biology of feathers and epidermal structures encompasses the intricate interplay of genetic regulation, biochemical signalling and mechanical forces that together drive ...

When sea creatures first began crawling and slithering onto land about 385 million years ago, they carried with them their body armor: scales. Fossil evidence shows that the earliest land animals ...

Hair follicle (yellow arrow) and epidermis were derived from EGFP-labeled PSC. p63: stem cell marker, DAPI: nucleus, KRT14: differentiated keratinocyte marker Scale bars, 20 µm.