Animal Physiology and Development Insects –3 JCS Lecture Outcome: By the end of this lecture student should have: a)Become aware of the early processes.
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Animal Physiology and Development Insects –3 JCS
Lecture Outcome:
By the end of this lecture student should have:
a) Become aware of the early processes in insect embryogenesis following fertilisation
b) Understood the evidence for maternal information in the specification of the blastoderm
c) Appreciated the roles of this information in producing the ant.-post. axis of the embryo
d) Seen how this information leads to the segmentation of the embryo and the overall specification of the insect body plan.
JCS 6/11/02
Actual genotype:
+/+ (P = wild-type)
e mwh (Y = ebony body, mult. wing-hair)
y w sn3 (G = yellow body, white eyes, singed
bristles)
Evidence that pole plasm determines pole cells
Evidence for determination of the blastoderm - 3
Early effect female sterile mutations
Major developmental question:
What is put into the egg by way of information for development ?
i.e what is the maternal contribution to the egg ?
_________________________________________One way to look is to search for female-sterile (fs) mutations which arrest normal development at the earliest possible stages with major effects on development.
Christiana Nusslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus – Nobel Winners in 1995!
Cross to show a recessive female sterile mutation (fs)
+ / fs female X + / fs male
+ / + + / fs fs / fs
(fs/fs are female sterile but for many different reasons;
some – e.g. bicoid, nanos, oskar, torso - produce eggs which develop with major aberrations of the embryonic body plan)
Rescue of bicoid and oskar by cytoplasmic transplantation.
(oskar is a gene which interacts with nanos, (nos) to form the posterior determinant)
bicoid RNA is localised/fixed to the ant. pole. bicoid protein diffuses to form a gradient.
bcd = bicoid
hb = hunchback
hunchback RNA is through out the egg;
nanos RNA is localised to post. pole; nanos protein diffuses and represses hunchback protein synth. creating two gradients.
nos = nanos
Maternal RNA and protein gradients
How maternal product gradients specify gap gene expression
T¦A shows how gradient specifies thorax/abdomen boundary
Expression patterns and/or domains of action of the various maternal, gap and pair rule genes
md: mandibular segment; ma: maxillary segment; la: labial segment; proct: proctodeum
Antennapedia homeotic mutant transformation
Wild type Antp
Bithorax, Bx
Bithorax homeotic mutant transformation
Segments form in embryo
(germ band extension)
Segmentation and insect development
Segment positions on the blastoderm fate-map
Dorsal closure
(germ band retraction)
Adult segment pattern – embryonic pattern is retained
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