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In the Special Issue "Uncovering Developmental Diversity", Vanessa Barone, Antonio Tagua, Luis Escudero and colleagues use the sea star embryogenesis as a model of a proliferating epithelium to highlight how cell division induces 3D cell rearrangements during development.

This video shows a confocal time-lapse video of the vegetal vide of a Patiria miniata wild type embryo. The embryo is expressing a membrane marker (mYFP, yellow) and a nuclear marker (n-CFP, cyan) imaged between the 32- and 2000-cell stages.

For the full Research Article, visit: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/151/20/dev202362/347141/Local-and-global-changes-in-cell-density-induce