ReviewBiochimica et biophysica acta2009
Heads and tails: evolution of antero-posterior patterning in insects.
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- Patterning with clocks and genetic cascades: Segmentation and regionalization of vertebrate versus insect body plans.PLoS genetics · 2021Review
- Homology of process: developmental dynamics in comparative biology.Interface focus · 2021Article
- Annotation of segmentation pathway genes in the Asian citrus psyllid,GigaByte (Hong Kong, China) · 2021Article
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- The mlpt/Ubr3/Svb module comprises an ancient developmental switch for embryonic patterning.eLife · 2019Article
- A damped oscillator imposes temporal order on posterior gap gene expression in Drosophila.PLoS biology · 2018Article
- Conservation and variation in pair-rule gene expression and function in the intermediate-germ beetleDevelopment (Cambridge, England) · 2017Article
- Embryo development. A cysteine-clamp gene drives embryo polarity in the midge Chironomus.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2015Article
- A dynamical phyllotaxis model to determine floral organ number.PLoS computational biology · 2015Article
- Divergent RNA Localisation Patterns of Maternal Genes Regulating Embryonic Patterning in the Butterfly Pararge aegeria.PloS one · 2015Article
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- Evidence for deep regulatory similarities in early developmental programs across highly diverged insects.Genome biology and evolution · 2014Article
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Abstract
In spite of their varied appearances, insects share a common body plan whose layout is established by patterning genes during embryogenesis. We understand in great molecular detail how the Drosophila embryo patterns its segments. However, Drosophila has a type of embryogenesis that is highly derived and varies extensively as compared to most insects. Therefore, the study of other insects is invaluable for piecing together how the ancestor of all insects established its segmented body plan, and how this process can be plastic during evolution. In this review, we discuss the evolution of Antero-Posterior (A-P) patterning mechanisms in insects. We first describe two distinct modes of insect development - long and short germ development - and how these two modes of patterning are achieved. We then summarize how A-P patterning occurs in the long-germ Drosophila, where most of our knowledge comes from, and in the well-studied short-germ insect, Tribolium. Finally, using examples from other insects, we highlight differences in patterns of expression, which suggest foci of evolutionary change.
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