A hydraulic feedback loop between mesendoderm cell migration and interstitial fluid relocalization promotes embryonic axis formation in zebrafish
K. Huljev, S. Shamipour, D.C. Nunes Pinheiro, F. Preusser, I. Steccari, C.M. Sommer, S. Naik, C.-P.J. Heisenberg, Developmental Cell 58 (2023) 582–596.e7.

Morphogen gradient orchestrates pattern-preserving tissue morphogenesis via motility-driven unjamming
D.C. Nunes Pinheiro, R. Kardos, E.B. Hannezo, C.-P.J. Heisenberg, Nature Physics 18 (2022) 1482–1493.

Zebrafish embryonic explants undergo genetically encoded self-assembly
A. Schauer, D.C. Nunes Pinheiro, R. Hauschild, C.-P.J. Heisenberg, ELife 9 (2020).

Zebrafish gastrulation: Putting fate in motion
D.C. Nunes Pinheiro, C.-P.J. Heisenberg, in:, Gastrulation: From Embryonic Pattern to Form, Elsevier, 2020, pp. 343–375.