[PDF] Top 20 Development and Function of the Drosophila Tracheal System

... Class II mutations cause excessive dorsal trunk elongation. These mutations can be grouped into three subclasses. The first subclass causes excessive apical membrane biosynthesis. Shrub/Vps32 and the epithelial polarity ... See full document

... the development and function of ...TGC development, the functions of the different TGC subtypes remain very active areas of investigation and there are key open questions that should guide future ... See full document

... Interestingly, the expression patterns of both T b 10 and T b 4 just before matrix formation were quite different in this study. As shown in Fig. 2, a strong expression of T b 10 was observed in preodonto- blasts as well ... See full document

... of Drosophila melanogaster is a founding member of the ARID gene family, and of the eARID ...vivo function of retn/dri during embryonic development by showing that a mutant form of RETN/DRI, deleted ... See full document

... the function of these stem/germ cell genes in PGCs is little understood, it is possible that they use them for some germ-cell specific function, rather than for the regulation of ...normal ... See full document

... 26 function as a heterodimer within the V1 domain ...V0 function (Doherty & Kane, 1993; Tomashek, Graham, Hutchins, Stevens, & Klionsky, ...whether tracheal defects resulted from loss of ... See full document

... arrest development before cellularisation (not shown), suggesting that maternal mmy provides UDP-GlcNAc for basic cellular needs during early ...in tracheal cells just after they have invaginated as ... See full document

... free system indicate that this might indeed be the case since Tcf mediated transcription of Wnt targets appear not to correlate with the steady state levels of β catenin (Nelson and Gumbiner, ... See full document

... hh function (and, by extension, neither wg nor dpp; Gonzalez-Crespo and Morata, 1996), whereas al expression, although ultimately dependent on wg and dpp function, has not been shown to be directly ... See full document

... in Drosophila, the gene tra has a minor role in Sxl auto-regulation - probably a relic of the evolutionary transition from tra to Sxl as the master regulatory gene for sex determination (Siera and Cline 2008) – it ... See full document

... the function of each gene in the genome of a model organism such as Drosophila melanogaster is an important ...The development of improved methods for uncovering the mutant phenotypes of specific ... See full document

... in development, it is often difficult to decipher whether the phenotype is of primary or secondary ...normal development to a very severe embryonic ...of development, in isolation from confounding ... See full document

... We used RT-PCR to clone fragments of the vvl and trh homologues from Artemia franciscana and from Parhyale hawaiensis, representing two major divergent groups of crustaceans (members of the branchiopod and malacostracan ... See full document

... in Drosophila Melanogaster has shown that the product of a gene controls the sex-specific splicing of the pre-mRNA from the downstream gene in the genetic cascade (reviewed in Sánchez et ...sexual ... See full document

... of development, the cells of the DB are nearly identical and there is no predetermined leader; however, there are small diff erences in the expression level of ... See full document

... cancer development (Moreno, 2008; Baker and Li, 2008; Levayer and Moreno, ...mirroring Drosophila Minute ...in Drosophila) in Madin-Darby canine kidney epithelial cells and showed that ... See full document

... where accuracy, speed and reliability have a huge impact. Manual pen and paper work is going to be replaced by computerized systems for more efficient functioning. In the present scenario, it is difficult to keep track ... See full document

... We identified different tracheal requirements for Ttk. Interestingly, most of them depend on Ttk regulating events downstream of cell fate specification, at the level of cellular responses (see below). ... See full document

... DSRF. However, RNA and protein fade away during germ band extension (Affolter et al., 1994). In addition, the only DSRF protein detected at the stage of terminal cell specification derives from zygotic transcription ... See full document

... The tracheal system of Drosophila consists of a branched network of epithelial tubes that provides oxygen from the environ- ment to all tissues of the ...adjacent tracheal metameres, leading ... See full document