Studying development processes, as they unfold over time, involves collecting repeated measures from individuals and modeling the changes time. One methodological challenge in this type of longitudinal data is separating retest effects, due to assessments, developmental processes such maturation or age. In article, we describe several specifications latent change score models using age underlyi...

Cold-induced mortality has historically been a key aspect of mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), population control, but little is known about the molecular basis for cold tolerance in this insect. We used RNA-seq analysis to monitor gene expression patterns of mountain pine beetle larvae at four time points during their overwintering period-early-...

The zebrafish has emerged as a valuable genetic model system for the study of developmental biology and disease. Zebrafish share a high degree of genomic conservation, as well as similarities in cellular, molecular, and physiological processes, with other vertebrates including humans. During early ontogeny, zebrafish embryos are optically transparent, allowing researchers to visualize the dynam...

The ability to decode and express emotions allows the developing child to assess and change many aspects of the environment. When emotional development is unfolding in a normative manner, the child’s early experience within his or her family context promotes increasing abilities to successfully adapt to environmental demands. This is a critical developmental process as difficulties in emotional...

Regulatory aspects of development can best be understood by research that conceptualizes relations between cognition and emotion. The neural mechanisms associated with regulatory processes may be the same as those associated with higher order cognitive processes. Thus, from a developmental cognitive neuroscience perspective, emotion and cognition are dynamically linked and work together to proc...