[PDF] Top 20 A major role for zygotic hunchback in patterning the Nasonia embryo

... of zygotic hunchback result in more severe consequences in Nasonia than in Drosophila, despite graded maternal Hunchback expression in both species? We hypothesized that because of the longer ... See full document

... plausible. patterning functions, or patterning functions may be An important consideration for comparative genetic carried out in Nasonia by genes that do not function investigations is the cost of ... See full document

... early zygotic gene expression is reproducibly altered at the gastrula stage, and the effects of Mixer-depletion are gene specific rather than germ layer ...a major biological role of Mixer is to ... See full document

... a major role in supporting gene patterning and initiating ...gene patterning in the early ...initiate zygotic transcription when the short nuclear cycle intervals no longer inhibit ... See full document

... why patterning along the AP axis is highly sensitive at early cycles (cycle 9 and cycle 10) and much less sensitive at later cycles (cycle 11 to cycle 13) to environmental perturbations induced by micro- fluidics ... See full document

... FoxH1 (Fast1) was first characterized as the transcriptional partner for Smad proteins forming the activin response factor (ARF) binding to the Mix.2 promoter in Xenopus embryos (Chen et al., 1996). Foxh1 family members ... See full document

... Our experiments reveal that knockdown of lef1 leads to early developmental defects in the derivatives of the mesoderm and ectoderm in Xenopus, as expected from the expression pattern of lef1. In the mouse, targeted ... See full document

... terminal patterning, which in Diptera such as Drosophila melanogaster occurs via the localized activation of the receptor tyrosine kinase ...its role in Drosophila terminal patterning, is instead ... See full document

... Axon guidance is usually considered at two levels. First, in pathway selection, wherein the axons travel along a route that leads them to a particular region of the embryo. The model systems used for this study ... See full document

... The epidermal phenotype of these deficiency homozygotes generally did not indicate grossly abnormal numbers of lateral epidermal cells, and it therefore seems more likely th[r] ... See full document

... Immature Zygotic Embryo Explant: When evaluating the performance of immature zygotic embryo explant for direct organogenesis, the morphogenic response obtained from each culture medium was the ... See full document

... embryo is a specialised extra-embryonic tissue that is essential for anterior patterning of the embryo. It is characterised by the expression of anterior markers such as Hex, Cerberus-like and Lhx1. ... See full document

... a major task of molecular ...anterior patterning is established at the beginning of gastrulation by the anterior visceral endoderm, while maintenance and refinement of the early specification is under the ... See full document

... The quality of the resulting sequences was checked using fastQC and the sequences were then processed for entry into the Cufflinks package. The procedure outlined in [23] was followed with slight alterations, including ... See full document

... developing embryo, we designed miR-31 target protector morpholino antisense oligonucleotides (miR-31 TPs) to competitively block endogenous miR-31 suppression of Alx1 or VegfR7 (Staton and Giraldez, 2011; ... See full document

... (32±0.02) of shoots per explant was developed at 3.0 mg/L TDZ followed by 4.0 mg/L TDZ. MS medium fortified with BAP alone showed superiority over KIN for the induction of maximum frequency number of multiple shoots. ... See full document

... diverge, depending on all or some of the sources of variation. Several variants of fixed models were, for this reason, prepared to prove magnitude of defence reactions in mycelium in response to embryo type and ... See full document

... an embryo recovers from experimental ...or embryo that relies on the relative and not the absolute concentration of a ...the embryo itself or its environment can be adopted as spatial cues to ... See full document

... zebrafish embryo, three genes encoding Bmps, bmp2b, bmp7 and bmp4, are expressed at blastula and gastrula stages (Kishimoto et ...the zygotic genome, whereas bmp4 transcripts become detectable about 1 hour ... See full document

... Over the past 5 years, the usefulness of the Xenopus model organism has grown considerably as a result of the Xenopus Genome Initiative (see www.xenbase.org/). This endeavor has provided a quantum increase in the amount ... See full document