Publication Date:
2013-03-16
Description:
Fossil insects living some 300 million years ago show winglike pads on all thoracic and abdominal segments, which suggests their serial homology. It remains unclear whether winglike structures in nonwinged segments have been lost or modified through evolution. Here, we identified a ventral lateral part of the body wall on the first thoracic segment, the hypomeron, and pupal dorsolateral denticular outgrowths as wing serial homologs in the mealworm beetle Tenebrio molitor. Both domains transform into winglike structures under Hox RNA interference conditions. Gene expression and functional analyses revealed central roles for the key wing selector genes, vestigial and scalloped, in the hypomeron and the denticular outgrowth formation. We propose that modification, rather than loss, of dorsal appendages has provided an additional diversifying mechanism of insect body plan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ohde, Takahiro -- Yaginuma, Toshinobu -- Niimi, Teruyuki -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Apr 26;340(6131):495-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1234219. Epub 2013 Mar 14.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23493422" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Biological Evolution
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Genes, Homeobox/genetics
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Genes, Insect/genetics/physiology
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Larva/anatomy & histology/genetics/growth & development
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Molecular Sequence Data
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RNA Interference
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Tenebrio/*anatomy & histology/genetics/*growth & development
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Wings, Animal/*anatomy & histology/*growth & development
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
