• The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster offers the most powerful means of studying embryonic development in eukaryotes. (cshlpress.org)
  • In this study, we identified both temporal and localization changes in expression of DmFKBP12, a translational and transcriptional regulator of Drosophila RyR (DmRyR) and FKBP12, through embryonic development. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Using the model of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, for which many tools are readily available, we investigated how different concentrations of Cd and Hg in single and combined exposures impact post-embryonic development. (sorbonne-universite.fr)
  • Its importance for human health was recognised more recently by the award of the Nobel prize for medicine in 1995, for work on the genetic control of early embryonic development. (animalresearch.info)
  • Bicoid morphogen is among the earliest triggers of differential spatial pattern of gene expression and subsequent cell fate determination in the embryonic development of Drosophila melanogaster. (soton.ac.uk)
  • Wnt signaling is critical for normal embryonic development of the skin, bones, and other structures. (medscape.com)
  • Since Wnt signaling proteins cannot be released without the PORCN protein, and Wnt signaling is important for normal embryonic development, the defects found in this disorder are related to lack of Wnt signaling. (medscape.com)
  • Wnt proteins are key regulators of embryonic development. (medscape.com)
  • Normal development requires a precise and integrated pattern of expression of all these genes, though how this is achieved is unclear. (biologists.com)
  • Much is known about the genes that regulate the biochemical synthesis of pigments in D. melanogaster and the genes that control the temporal and spatial distribution of this biosynthesis. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, many of the genes known to affect D. melanogaster pigmentation do not form part of this pathway or any parallel pathway. (wikipedia.org)
  • Time-series analysis of whole-genome expression data during Drosophila melanogaster development indicates that up to 86% of its genes change their relative transcript level during embryogenesis. (nih.gov)
  • For example, 34% of the transiently expressed genes fall into three groups, with increased transcript levels between 2.5-12, 11-20, and 15-20 h of development, respectively. (nih.gov)
  • Development genes and evolution, Vol. 221. (unibas.ch)
  • We investigated to what extent the cuticle inward barrier function depends on the genotype, comprising mitochondrial and nuclear genes in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, and investigated the contribution of interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear genotypes (mito-nuclear interactions) on this function. (peerj.com)
  • Early in development the expression of the first patterning genes broadly sets up embryonic regions. (elifesciences.org)
  • Researchers have demonstrated that genes activated during metastasis are also able to initiate primary tumor development, and they explain the molecular mechanism involved. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In cancer research, there has been a tendency to differentiate between the genes responsible for tumour development and those that give rise to metastasis and to study these processes separately since the cell functions required for these two mechanisms differ radically. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Researchers headed by Jordi Casanova at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) now demonstrate that genes activated during metastasis are also able to initiate primary tumour development, and they explain the molecular mechanism involved. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This overlap made us question whether the so-called epithelial-mesenchymal factors -- which activate genes associated with cell movement and migration, which are common in embryo development and are also present in metastasis -- play a role in tumour initiation," says Casanova. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Jordi Casanova's team examined various genes, among them Serpent (homologue of GATA in Drosophila), and demonstrated that the overexpression of this gene is indeed sufficient to drive tumour growth. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Once again, studies on Drosophila have contributed to our basic understanding of the behaviour of genes involved in cancer and metastasis, knowledge that will allow cancer researchers to pursue this line further," says the scientist. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A precise mathematical model of the gap genes in Drosophila melanogaster was obtained from quantitative spatio-temporal expression data and used to study the dynamics of pattern formation. (kli.ac.at)
  • The researchers first analysed the expression of six genes involved in the development of wings in normal conditions of growth, i.e. at a temperature of 25ºC, and generated a detailed staging scheme. (sciencedaily.com)
  • We applied RNAi in Drosophila to 260 unknown genes that are conserved between flies and humans. (biorxiv.org)
  • Although arthropods represent the largest and most diverse animal group, most other Fox genes have not been investigated in detail, not even in the arthropod model species Drosophila melanogaster. (lu.se)
  • The proteins produced from most of the genes involved in Cornelia de Lange syndrome contribute to the structure or function of the cohesin complex, a group of proteins with an important role in directing development before birth. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The cohesin complex also regulates the activity of certain genes that guide the development of the face, limbs, and other parts of the body. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Other genes that are involved in rare cases of Cornelia de Lange syndrome also control gene activity and are likely important during development. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Variants in the NIPBL , SMC1A , HDAC8 , RAD21 , and SMC3 genes cause Cornelia de Lange syndrome by impairing the function of the cohesin complex, which disrupts gene regulation during critical stages of early development. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Variants in other genes are also thought to disrupt the regulation of genes important for development. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Used with the highly versatile genetic model organism Drosophila melanogaster , it provides a powerful means of gaining new insights into regulatory mechanisms of food intake. (jove.com)
  • We are primarily working with the genetic model organism Drosophila melanogaster , aka the vinegar fly. (lu.se)
  • Drosophila melanogaster porcupine and its mouse homologue PORCN gene encode transmembrane bound endoplasmic reticulum proteins needed for the secretion of Wnt (Wingless and INT-1) proteins. (medscape.com)
  • The model organism Drosophila melanogaster , with its great variety of genetically traceable tools for labeling and manipulating single neurons, allows mapping of neuronal networks and identification of molecular signaling cascades involved in the regulation of food intake. (jove.com)
  • 2021. Reducing the expression of the Numb adaptor protein in neurons increases the searching behavior of Drosophila larvae . (truman.edu)
  • 2007. Temperature-Dependent Developmental Plasticity of Drosophila Neurons: Cell-Autonomous Roles of Membrane Excitability, Ca Influx, and cAMP Signaling . (truman.edu)
  • For most animals, feeding is an essential behavior for securing survival, and it influences development, locomotion, health and reproduction. (jove.com)
  • Research in our lab uses the genetic tool kit of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) to identify molecular mechanisms of synapse formation, animal behavior, and neurodegeneration. (truman.edu)
  • We study how mutations alter development of the larval neuromuscular junction and how they affect distinct aspects of larval crawling behavior. (truman.edu)
  • However, genetic approaches in relatively simple model organisms are yielding additional insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying cell movements and their regulation during development. (johnshopkins.edu)
  • Calcium signaling are conserved from invertebrates to vertebrates and plays critical roles in many molecular mechanisms of embryogenesis and postnatal development. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Using whole-genome quantitative gene expression as a model, here we study how the genetic architecture of regulatory variation in gene expression changed in a population of fully sequenced inbred Drosophila melanogaster strains when flies developed in different environments (25 °C and 18 °C). We find a substantial fraction of the transcriptome exhibited genotype by environment interaction, implicating environmentally plastic genetic architecture of gene expression. (nature.com)
  • Within a quantitative genetic framework, we sequenced RNA from Drosophila melanogaster at different developmental stages to examine sex-biased gene expression and how selection acts upon it. (biorxiv.org)
  • Methylated DNA can prevent transcription factors from binding to it, resulting in low or no gene expression, which is an important alteration in the early initiation and development of malignant neoplastic diseases [ 7 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • [ 2 ] The development of musculoskeletal structures associated with the trunk of the human body is a multistep process involving differential gene expression as well as cell interactions and cell signaling between precursor tissues. (medscape.com)
  • By correlating dynamic patterns of transcription factor expression with rigorous, quantitative analyses of cell behaviors across the salivary gland primordium in Drosophila , their results suggest Hkb and Fkh transcription factor patterning induces switches in cell behaviors at fixed positions to promote continued morphogenesis of the tubular structure. (elifesciences.org)
  • The results strengthen the notion that was already being put forward in cancer research," explains Jordi Casanova, head of the Development and Morphogenesis in Drosophila lab and CSIC professor. (sciencedaily.com)
  • 2020. Drosophila enabled promotes synapse morphogenesis and regulates active zone form and function . (truman.edu)
  • Drosophila CIAPIN1 homologue is required for follicle cell proliferation and survival. (nih.gov)
  • Forkhead box (Fox) transcription factors evolved early in animal evolution and represent important components of conserved gene regulatory networks (GRNs) during animal development. (lu.se)
  • In the placodes of the forming tubes of the salivary glands in the Drosophila embryo, we previously identified spatially defined cell behaviors of cell wedging, tilting, and cell intercalation that are key to the initial stages of tube formation. (elifesciences.org)
  • We developed Drosophila genetic assays for rapid, inexpensive functionalization of human PTEN variants with unknown significance (VUS) in order to learn if individual mutations play a role in development of disease. (sfu.ca)
  • The reader is guided through possible limitations of the assay, and advantages and disadvantages of the method compared to other feeding assays in D. melanogaster are evaluated. (jove.com)
  • Heart development was assessed in adult flies by immunological methods and videomicroscopy. (ed.ac.uk)
  • In contrast, the silencing of Fit2 in the cardiomyocytes of Fit1 null flies disrupted syncytium development, leading to severe cardiomyopathy. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Using histone H2AvD-RFP and protamineB-eGFP expressing flies the development of isolated cysts through meiosis and the H-P switch was observed in in vivo-time-lapse fluorescence microscopy. (uni-marburg.de)
  • The development of wings in fruit flies does not progress synchronously with the organism's development, according to new research. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A research group led by Christen Mirth at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal) uncovered that the development of wings in fruit flies does not progress synchronously with the organism's development. (sciencedaily.com)
  • However, the researchers observed that the development of the wings was slower at 29ºC, compared to flies growing in normal conditions or flies growing at 18ºC. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Her research focused what occurs when fruit flies are subjected to different metabolic conditions- for example a very sugary diet- and she measured how this affects their body symmetry during development. (longwood.edu)
  • The cochaperone shutdown defines a group of biogenesis factors essential for all piRNA populations in Drosophila. (oeaw.ac.at)
  • This monograph, written by the most distinguished workers in the field, is the most authoritative and comprehensive synthesis of Drosophila developmental biology available and emphasizes the insights gained by molecular and genetic analysis. (cshlpress.org)
  • The importance of Drosophila as an animal model was realised by Thomas Hunt Morgan, who was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine after demonstating that genetic information is carried on chromosomes using drosophila. (animalresearch.info)
  • Throughout these changes in distribution, in situ DmFKBP12 mRNA monitoring detected equal distribution of DmFKBP12 mRNA, once again indicating that regulation of DmFKBP12 occurs at the translational level in Drosophila development. (biomedcentral.com)
  • G-protein coupled Phospholipase-C-β (PLCβ) signaling and its various components are vital to the regulation of development and behaviour of Drosophila. (isgpb.org)
  • In recent years, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has become a valuable model system for unraveling basic mechanistic insights into the regulation of metabolism 7 , 8 , 9 . (jove.com)
  • The CApillary FEeder (CAFE) assay for Drosophila melanogaster was established in the lab of Seymour Benzer in 2007 inspired by an earlier work by Dethier in blowfly 10 , 11 . (jove.com)
  • The CAFE assay made it possible to directly measure food intake in Drosophila melanogaster . (jove.com)
  • The CAFE assay is one of several behavioral paradigms used to measure feeding in Drosophila melanogaster and researchers have to choose the most appropriate one for their specific question. (jove.com)
  • Mutations of the segment polarity group in Drosophila melanogaster produce additional denticles with reversed polarity in every segment of the larval cuticle. (biologists.com)
  • To date, all of these investigations have been carried out on adults but none of the studies addressed the development of the nervous system during the larval and pupal stages in mosquitoes. (unibas.ch)
  • We then use the identified antibodies in immunolabeling studies to characterize general neuroanatomical features of the developing brain and compare them with the well-studied model system, Drosophila melanogaster, in larval, pupal, and adult stages. (unibas.ch)
  • 2019. Target-Dependent Retrograde Signaling Mediates Synaptic Plasticity at the Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction . (truman.edu)
  • Using mosaic analysis and RNAi in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster, we show that Dystroglycan is required cell-autonomously for cellular polarity in two different cell types, the epithelial cells (apicobasal polarity) and the oocyte (anteroposterior polarity). (lu.se)
  • It has been used as a model for understanding the development and evolution of morphological phenotypes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, this model was now tested in the Drosophila background. (uni-marburg.de)
  • The results of this work were used in the assembly of a working model for the molecular mechanism of the H-P switch in Drosophila. (uni-marburg.de)
  • Drosophila represents a useful model for monitoring the toxicity of substances in polluted environments. (sorbonne-universite.fr)
  • Drosophila melanogaster, known colloquially as the fruit fly, remains one of the most commonly used model organisms for biomedical science. (greatgreenwedding.com)
  • The research was conducted on the fruit fly Drosophila, an established model for studying epithelial tumours. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Christen Mirth and colleagues proposed to study how organ and whole-body development is coordinated, using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster , as a model organism. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Her independent research project focused on investigating developmental stability using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. (longwood.edu)
  • At late gastrulation, DmFKBP12 expression begins to decline until it reaches homeostasis, which it then maintains throughout the rest of development. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To achieve robustness, the processes that generate individual organs must, at some level, be integrated across the whole body to ensure that a correctly patterned and proportioned adult is produced at the end of development. (sciencedaily.com)
  • We assayed the ability of PTEN variants to suppress phenotypes observed when the oncogenic phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signalling pathway is activated in the developing Drosophila wing. (sfu.ca)
  • The genetic makeup of the Drosophila piRNA pathway. (oeaw.ac.at)
  • In insect, Drosophila melanogaster ryanodine receptor ( DmRyR ) cDNA was cloned from lava and the physical features of DmRyR single channel were characterized with in vitro overexpression system [ 16 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Somewhat surprisingly, screens for mutations that affect primordial germ cell migration in Drosophila have revealed that enzymes involved in lipid metabolism play a role in guiding cell migration in vivo, possibly by producing and/or degrading lipid chemoattractants or chemorepellents. (johnshopkins.edu)
  • Yolk provides an important source of nutrients during the early development of oviparous organisms. (harvard.edu)
  • Much of the understanding of human embryology has been elucidated from extensive experimental manipulations of organisms such as Drosophila melanogaster, chick, and mouse. (medscape.com)
  • Here, we first screen a set of 30 antibodies, which have been used to study brain development in Drosophila, and identify 13 of them cross-reacting and labeling epitopes in the developing brain of Aedes. (unibas.ch)
  • Furthermore, we use immunolabeling to document the development of specific components of the Aedes brain, namely the optic lobes, the subesophageal neuropil, and serotonergic system of the subesophageal neuropil in more detail. (unibas.ch)
  • The results also uncover interesting similarities and marked differences in brain development of Aedes as compared to Drosophila. (unibas.ch)
  • Taken together, this investigation forms the basis for future cellular and molecular investigations of brain development in this important disease vector. (unibas.ch)
  • The development of the human blood-CSF-brain barrier. (cdc.gov)
  • The research team focused on these so-called developmental events to study how the development of wings is coordinated with the whole body of the fruit fly larvae. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Next, the researchers changed the temperature to affect the growth conditions of the larvae and analyzed the rate of wing development compared to the whole-body development. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This result surprised us, as we could clearly observe a delay in the development of these wings in wandering stage larvae, but their progression accelerated towards the stage of pupariation. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The present study establishes the role of stmA in olfaction, pupal development and synaptic vesicle recycling in Drosophila. (isgpb.org)
  • Tissue specificity of cyclin B expression in D. melanogaster]. (nih.gov)
  • We show that homing in Drosophila responds to increased expression of HEGs specifically during the spermatogonia stage and this could be achieved through improved construct design. (plos.org)
  • It therefore remains unclear whether cardiomyocyte Kind2 expression is required for cardiomyocyte junction formation and the development of normal cardiac function. (ed.ac.uk)
  • To address this question, the expression of Fermitin 1 and Fermitin 2 (Fit1, Fit2), the two Drosophila orthologs of Kind2, was silenced in Drosophila cardiomyocytes. (ed.ac.uk)
  • In addition to temporal changes in expression, dynamic expression profiles during Drosophila development also revealed DmFKBP12 localization. (biomedcentral.com)
  • As a critical regulator of the DmRyR-FKBP complex, DmFKBP12 expression in Drosophila fluctuates temporally and geographically with the formation of organ systems. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Increased expression and methylation level of GRHL2 are closely associated with the prognosis and malignant phenotype of acute leukemia patients and play an irreplaceable role in the occurrence and development of patients with acute leukemia. (hindawi.com)
  • During organ development, tubular organs often form from flat epithelial primordia. (elifesciences.org)
  • Dystroglycan is required for polarizing the epithelial cells and the oocyte in Drosophila. (lu.se)
  • The purpose of this review is to provide the reader with an understanding of the development of the structural components of the trunk. (medscape.com)
  • Since Rcd-1 is a regulator of differentiation in other species, it suggests that Rcd-1r may serve a similar role during spermatogonial differentiation in Drosophila . (plos.org)
  • Chan Y-S, Huen DS, Glauert R, Whiteway E, Russell S (2013) Optimising Homing Endonuclease Gene Drive Performance in a Semi-Refractory Species: The Drosophila melanogaster Experience. (plos.org)
  • Similar to the temperature manipulations, when they altered the timing of ecdysone synthesis, they found that the wings developed slowly at first, but accelerated their development to achieve coordination at the stage of pupariation. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Cyclin B Export to the Cytoplasm via the Nup62 Subcomplex and Subsequent Rapid Nuclear Import Are Required for the Initiation of Drosophila Male Meiosis. (nih.gov)
  • Fertilized egg, through the profile as under-membrane cortex distribution concentering onto basement at cellular blastoderm, to the profile as three-gem layer localization in primitive neuronal and digestion architecture of early Drosophila gastrula. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Drosophila helped in the development of drugs to combat pathogens responsible for a range of diseases from skin infections to pneumonia and meningitis. (animalresearch.info)
  • Insects use two main modes of segment determination during development: the ancestral short-germband mode (eg. (kli.ac.at)
  • Although DmFKBP12 is distributed evenly between the anterior to posterior poles of the blastoderm egg, the protein is expressed more strongly in the cortex of the early Drosophila gastrula with the highest concentration found in the basement membrane of the cellular blastoderm. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. (lu.se)