A revised understanding of Tribolium morphogenesis further reconciles short and long germ development.
A revised understanding of Tribolium morphogenesis further reconciles short and long germ development.
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10.1371/journal.pbio.2005093
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2018-07
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影响因子:
9.8
通讯作者:
Benton MA
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Benton MA
In Drosophila melanogaster, the germband forms directly on the egg surface and solely consists of embryonic tissue. In contrast, most insect embryos undergo a complicated set of tissue rearrangements to generate a condensed, multilayered germband. The ventral side of the germband is embryonic, while the dorsal side is thought to be an extraembryonic tissue called the amnion. While this tissue organisation has been accepted for decades and has been widely reported in insects, its accuracy has not been directly tested in any species. Using live cell tracking and differential cell labelling in the short germ beetle Tribolium castaneum, I show that most of the cells previously thought to be amnion actually give rise to large parts of the embryo. This process occurs via the dorsal-to-ventral flow of cells and contributes to germband extension (GBE). In addition, I show that true ‘amnion’ cells in Tribolium originate from a small region of the blastoderm. Together, my findings show that development in the short germ embryos of Tribolium and the long germ embryos of Drosophila is more similar than previously proposed. Dorsal-to-ventral cell flow also occurs in Drosophila during GBE, and I argue that the flow is driven by a conserved set of underlying morphogenetic events in both species. Furthermore, the revised Tribolium fate map that I present is far more similar to that of Drosophila than the classic Tribolium fate map. Lastly, my findings show that there is no qualitative difference between the tissue structure of the cellularised blastoderm and the short/intermediate germ germband. As such, the same tissue patterning mechanisms could function continuously throughout the cellularised blastoderm and germband stages, and easily shift between them over evolutionary time. In many animals, certain groups of cells in the embryo do not directly contribute to the formation of adult structures. Instead, these so-called ‘extraembryonic tissues’ that support and facilitate development are discarded and degenerate prior to birth/hatching. Embryos of most insect species are thought to have two types of extraembryonic tissues: the serosa, which encapsulates the entire embryo and yolk, and the amnion, which covers only half of the embryo. Descriptions of the amnion have been widely reported for over a century, but detailed studies of this tissue are lacking. Here I used imaging and tracking techniques to investigate amnion development in the beetle Tribolium castaneum embryo. In contrast to our current understanding, I show that most cells previously thought to be part of the amnion constitute large regions of the embryo. In addition, I show that these cells ‘flow’ as a whole tissue and contribute to the elongation of the embryo, and only a relatively small number of cells form the actual amnion. This resemblance to the well-studied germband in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, shows that despite exhibiting substantial differences in the overall structure, embryos of beetles and flies share a conserved set of morphogenetic processes.
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