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A staging scheme for the development of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita.
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- The dynamic evolution of panarthropod germ cell specification mechanisms.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- Genomic resources for the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita: a model organism for comparative developmental studies in flies.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- A two-level staging system for the embryonic morphogenesis of the Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly) Ceratitis capitata.PloS one · 2024Article
- Twenty-seven ZAD-ZNF genes of Drosophila melanogaster are orthologous to the embryo polarity determining mosquito gene cucoid.PloS one · 2023Article
- How two extraembryonic epithelia became one: serosa and amnion features and functions ofPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- In toto light sheet fluorescence microscopy live imaging datasets of Ceratitis capitata embryonic development.Scientific data · 2022Article
- Decoupling from yolk sac is required for extraembryonic tissue spreading in the scuttle flyeLife · 2018Article
- Two consecutive microtubule-based epithelial seaming events mediate dorsal closure in the scuttle flyeLife · 2018Article
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- Gap Gene Regulatory Dynamics Evolve along a Genotype Network.Molecular biology and evolution · 2016Article
- Germ line transformation and in vivo labeling of nuclei in Diptera: report on Megaselia abdita (Phoridae) and Chironomus riparius (Chironomidae).Development genes and evolution · 2015Article
- Maternal co-ordinate gene regulation and axis polarity in the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita.PLoS genetics · 2015Article
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- SuperFly: a comparative database for quantified spatio-temporal gene expression patterns in early dipteran embryos.Nucleic acids research · 2015Article
- High-resolution gene expression data from blastoderm embryos of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita.Scientific data · 2015Article
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Abstract
Model organisms, such as Drosophila melanogaster, provide powerful experimental tools for the study of development. However, approaches using model systems need to be complemented by comparative studies for us to gain a deeper understanding of the functional properties and evolution of developmental processes. New model organisms need to be established to enable such comparative work. The establishment of new model system requires a detailed description of its life cycle and development. The resulting staging scheme is essential for providing morphological context for molecular studies, and allows us to homologise developmental processes between species. In this paper, we provide a staging scheme and morphological characterisation of the life cycle for an emerging non-drosophilid dipteran model system: the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita. We pay particular attention to early embryogenesis (cleavage and blastoderm stages up to gastrulation), the formation and retraction of extraembryonic tissues, and the determination and formation of germ (pole) cells. Despite the large evolutionary distance between the two species (approximately 150 million years), we find that M. abdita development is remarkably similar to D. melanogaster in terms of developmental landmarks and their relative timing.
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