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Role and Function of Wnts in the Regulation of Myogenesis: When Wnt Meets Myostatin

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Comprehensive bioinformatic analysis of Wnt1 and Wnt1-associated diseases

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The WNT/β-catenin system in chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder syndrome

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Signaling Pathways in Trans-differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Recent Advances

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Porcupine inhibitors LGK-974 and ETC-159 inhibit Wnt/β-catenin signaling and result in inhibition of the fibrosis

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The organizing role of Wnt signaling pathway during arthropod posterior growth

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Optimized husbandry and targeted gene-editing for the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis

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Candidate stem cell isolation and transplantation in Hexacorallia

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The 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ and the evolution of complex integrative centers in animals

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Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling and Congenital Abnormalities of Kidney and Urinary Tract

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Involvement of clustered oyster Wnt genes in gut formation

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Endocrine‐Like Signaling in Corals

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Emergence of Immune System Components in Cnidarians

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β-catenin-dependent endomesoderm specification appears to be a Bilateria-specific co-optionPreprint

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Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Profiling of theWntGene Family in Three Rice Planthoppers:Sogatella furcifera,Laodelphax striatellus, andNilaparvata lugens

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Genome-wide identification and expression profiling of the Wnt gene family in three abalone species

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Self-organization of an organizer: Whole-body regeneration from reaggregated cells in cnidarians

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Somatic Expression Of Stemness Genes In Aquatic Invertebrates

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Evolutionary dynamics of the Wnt gene family: implications for lophotrochozoans

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Wnt signaling in C. elegans: New insights into the regulation of POP‐1/ TCF‐mediated activation and repression

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Immunoglobulin variable regions in molecules exhibiting characteristics of innate and adaptive immune receptors

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Whole body regeneration deploys a rewired embryonic gene regulatory network logic

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Notch signaling mediates between two pattern-forming processes during head regeneration in Hydra

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