Download or read book Drosophila Eye Development written by Kevin Moses and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 Kevin Moses It is now 25 years since the study of the development of the compound eye in Drosophila really began with a classic paper (Ready et al. 1976). In 1864, August Weismann published a monograph on the development of Diptera and included some beautiful drawings of the developing imaginal discs (Weismann 1864). One of these is the first description of the third instar eye disc in which Weismann drew a vertical line separating a posterior domain that included a regular pattern of clustered cells from an anterior domain without such a pattern. Weismann suggested that these clusters were the precursors of the adult ommatidia and that the line marks the anterior edge of the eye. In his first suggestion he was absolutely correct - in his second he was wrong. The vertical line shown was not the anterior edge of the eye, but the anterior edge of a moving wave of patterning and cell type specification that 112 years later (1976) Ready, Hansen and Benzer would name the "morphogenetic furrow". While it is too late to hear from August Weismann, it is a particular pleasure to be able to include a chapter in this Volume from the first author of that 1976 paper: Don Ready! These past 25 years have seen an astonishing explosion in the study of the fly eye (see Fig.
Download or read book The Development of Drosophila Melanogaster written by Michael Bate and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster offers the most powerful means of studying embryonic development in eukaryotes. New information from many different organ systems has accumulated rapidly in the past decade. 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. In two volumes, it is a lavishly illustrated, elegantly designed reference work illustrating principles of genetic regulation of embryogenesis that may apply to other eukaryotes.
Download or read book Drosophila Eye Development written by Kevin Moses and published by . This book was released on 2002-03-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compound eye of "Drosophila" is used as a model for human disease and homology to eyes in other taxa. This book covers the major discoveries on the development of the compound eye of "Drosophila melanogaster" over the last 25 years. These include aspects of the biological mechanisms of pattern formation in the nervous system, the specification of neuronal cell types, unexpected phylogenetic conservation and many new insights into the function of several signal transduction pathways. All chapters in this book have been written by leading experts in this field who have made significant contributions to our understanding of fly eye development.
Download or read book Eye Development in Drosophila Melanogaster written by Carrie L. Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behavioral Genetics of the Fly Drosophila Melanogaster written by Josh Dubnau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive portrayal of the behaviour genetics of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and the methods used in these studies.
Download or read book Molecular Genetics of Axial Patterning Growth and Disease in Drosophila Eye written by Amit Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) is a highly versatile model with a genetic legacy of more than a century. It provides powerful genetic, cellular, biochemical and molecular biology tools to address many questions extending from basic biology to human diseases. One of the most important questions in biology is how a multi-cellular organism develops from a single-celled embryo. The discovery of the genes responsible for pattern formation has helped refine this question and has led to other questions, such as the role of various genetic and cell biological pathways in regulating the process of pattern formation and growth during organogenesis. The Drosophila eye model has been extensively used to study molecular genetic mechanisms involved in patterning and growth. Since the genetic machinery involved in the Drosophila eye is similar to humans, it has been used to model human diseases and homology to eyes in other taxa. This updated second edition covers current progress in the study of molecular genetic mechanisms of pattern formation, mutations in axial patterning, genetic regulation of growth, and more using the Drosophila eye as a model.
Download or read book Molecular Dynamics in the Developing Drosophila Eye written by Daisuke Yamamoto and published by Landes Bioscience. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Molecular Genetics of Axial Patterning Growth and Disease in the Drosophila Eye written by Amit Singh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undoubtedly, Drosophila melanogaster, fruit fly, has proved to be one of the most popular invertebrate model organisms, and the work horse for modern day biologists. Drosophila, a highly versatile model with a genetic legacy of more than a century, provides powerful genetic, cellular, biochemical and molecular biology tools to address many questions extending from basic biology to human diseases. One of the most important questions in biology focuses on how does a multi-cellular organism develop from a single-celled embryo. The discovery of the genes responsible for pattern formation has helped refine this question, and led to other questions, such as the role of various genetics and cell biological pathways in regulating the crucial process of pattern formation and growth during organogenesis. Drosophila eye model has been extensively used to study molecular genetic mechanisms involved in patterning and growth. Since the genetic machinery involved in the Drosophila eye is similar to humans, it has been used to model human diseases and homology to eyes in other taxa. This book will discuss molecular genetic mechanisms of pattern formation, mutations in axial patterning, Genetic regulation of growth in Drosophila eye, and more. There have been no titles in the past ten years covering this topic, thus an update is urgently needed.
Download or read book A Genetic Analysis of Retinal Development in Drosophila Melanogaster written by David Landreth Van Vactor and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Using Transcriptomics to Identify Targets of Eyeless and Signaling Pathways in Drosophila Eye Development written by Nfsonsam Landry Ewongkem and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tissue-specific transcription factors cooperate with signaling pathways to promote specification, in part by co-regulating transcription. The Drosophila melanogaster Pax6 homolog Eyeless forms a complex, incompletely understood regulatory network with signaling pathways to control eye-specific gene expression. I employed mRNAseq and microarray approaches to identify targets co-regulated by Eyeless and Hedgehog, Decapentaplegic or Notch signals, to further understand the Drosophila eye network. The gene encoding the neprilysin family peptidase 'Abnormally blistered and morphologically misshapen eyes', Abams and the Drosophila class II 'Myosin heavy chain' protein, Mhc, were expressed at higher levels in the eye tissues versus wing tissues, and were highly expressed in eye tissues in response to Ey+N. Thus, both abams and Mhc were predicted to have roles in eye development. Whereas wild type eyes have a regular array of ommatidia interspersed with regularly occurring sensory bristles, using RNA interference (RNAi), I showed that reduction of abams function resulted in smaller eyes that consisted of patches of individual ommatidia surrounded by numerous bristles. Photoreceptor development was disrupted when abams function was reduced in eye precursors. Loss of function analyses and RNAi of Mhc revealed disruptions in the eye lattice and the mispositioning of photoreceptor nuclei within the eye precursor epithelium. My results suggest that Abams is involved in cell-cell signaling while Mhc regulates cell morphology and/or cell-cell adhesion during eye development. Transcription factor binding site (BS) analyses using computational modeling revealed [greater than or equal to] 94 other candidate genes as potential direct targets of Ey or Ey+Hh, Dpp or N. These included genes with already known roles in Drosophila eye development, as well as genes with unknown function, thus providing potential new directions to pursue to further understand the mechanism of interaction between Ey and Hh, Dpp or Notch during Drosophila eye development. Given the similarity between D. melanogaster and vertibrate eye development, further study of Abams and Mhc in Drosophila eye development will provide novel insights into our understanding of eye development in D. melanogaster and humans.
Download or read book Genes Development and Cancer written by Howard D. Lipshitz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - For the first time, Nobel Prize winner, Edward B. Lewis' research papers are published within one volume - Papers are organized into sections that reflect the focus of the research - Commentaries by Howard Lipshitz highlight key methods and results by explaining the science so it is accessible to upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and professional researchers
Download or read book Investigating the Co regulatory Role of Midline and Extramacrochaetae in Regulating Eye Development and Vision in Drosophila Melanogaster written by Lillian M. Forstall and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Honors thesis research focused on the roles of extramacrochaetae and midline in regulating eye development and the vision of Drosophila melanogaster. It is known from previous studies that extramacrochaetae (emc) and midline (mid) independently regulate the formation of ommatidial units in the Drosophila compound eye. However, the thesis focuses on the interaction of these two genes and their co-dependent roles in regulating eye development. This study also attempts to explain the recovered formation of ommatidial units and interommatidial bristles when the expression of both of these genes is reduced and whether flies doubly mutant for these genes have recovered phototactic ability. Specific genotypes of flies were subjected to larval and adult phototaxis assays to assay their phototactic ability. A Western analysis was performed on extramacrochaetae mutants, midline mutants, and wild-type flies to determine whether the Emc and Mid proteins interacted in a co-regulatory fashion within developing larval tissues. The larval phototaxis assays revealed a slight decrease in photoreception in the mid- RNAi larvae when compared to the wild-type larvae. However the data was not conclusive to definitively determine if the mid-RNAi mutants displayed a significant decrease in photoreceptive ability. The adult phototaxis assays were more definitive than the larval assays. The emc1 flies displayed a slight decrease in photoreceptive ability. Both the mid- RNAi and the flies doubly mutant for midGA174 and emc1 displayed a significant decrease in photoreceptive ability. The Western blot and immunofluorescence studies revealed an interaction between mid and emc, and the future nature of this interaction will be resolved in greater detail. --Page iv.
Download or read book Analyzing Nuclear Receptor Activation and Repression written by Nora Jamaleddin Ghbeish and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Animal Models in Eye Research written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eye is a complex sensory organ, which enables visual perception of the world. Thus the eye has several tissues that do different tasks. One of the most basic aspects of eye function is the sensitivity of cells to light and its transduction though the optic nerve to the brain. Different organisms use different ways to achieve these tasks. In this sense, eye function becomes a very important evolutionary aspect as well. This book presents the different animal models that are commonly used for eye research and their uniqueness in evaluating different aspects of eye development, evolution, physiology and disease. Presents information on the major animal models used in eye research including invertebrates and vertebrates Provides researchers with information needed to choose between model organisms Includes an introductory chapter on the different types of eyes, stressing possible common molecular machinery
Download or read book Development of the Compound Eye of Drosophila Melanogaster and Its Bar eyed Mutant written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genetics Morphology and Development of Homoeotic Wing Tissue in the Eye of Drosophila Melanogaster written by Willem Johannes Ouweneel and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of the Eye and Optic Tract in Drosophila Melanogaster and Its eyeless Mutant written by Grace Ethel Derrick and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
