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ArticleScientific reports2017

A new A-P compartment boundary and organizer in holometabolous insect wings.

Roohollah Abbasi, Jeffrey M Marcus

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Roohollah AbbasiDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3073-190X
Jeffrey M MarcusDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. marcus@cc.umanitoba.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-6605-3437
University of Manitoba · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Decades of research on the highly modified wings of Drosophila melanogaster has suggested that insect wings are divided into two Anterior-Posterior (A-P) compartments separated by an axis of symmetry. This axis of symmetry is created by a developmental organizer that establishes symmetrical patterns of gene expression that in turn pattern the A-P axis of the wing. Butterflies possess more typical insect wings and butterfly wing colour patterns provide many landmarks for studies of wing structure and development. Using eyespot colour pattern variation in Vanessa butterflies, here we show an additional A-P axis of symmetry running between wing sectors 3 and 4. Boundaries of Drosophila mitotic clones suggest the existence of a previously undetected Far-Posterior (F-P) compartment boundary that coincides with this additional A-P axis. A similar compartment boundary is evident in butterfly mosaic gynandromorphs. We suggest that this additional compartment boundary and its associated developmental organizer create an axis of wing colour pattern symmetry and a gene expression-based combinatorial code, permitting each insect wing compartment to acquire a unique identity and allowing for the individuation of butterfly eyespots.

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AnimalsButterfliesDrosophila melanogasterModels, BiologicalMosaicismPhylogenyPigmentationWings, Animal

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