Measuring the Energetic Costs of Embryonic Development

What are the thermodynamic costs of development? In this issue of Developmental Cell, Rodenfels et al. (2019) Rodenfels J. Neugebauer K.M. Howard J. Heat oscillations driven by the embryonic cell cycle reveal the energetic costs of signaling. Dev. Cell. 2019; 48 ( this issue) : 646-658 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (1) Google Scholar demonstrate that the high energetic cost of coordinated cell division that is regulated by phospho-signaling gives rise to a measurable periodicity in the heat dissipated during zebrafish embryogenesis