BACKGROUND Classic embryological studies showed that diffusible factors (morphogens)
influence cell fate during dorsal-ventral (DV) axis patterning. Subsequently, mathematical …

Insects possess a cuticle that covers all tissues exposed to the outside world including the
body, the fore-and hindgut and the luminal side of the tracheae. The cuticle is a …

Background One of the major problems concerning dengue transmission is that embryos of
its main vector, the mosquito Aedes aegypti, resist desiccation, surviving several months …

Extraembryonic development is familiar to mouse researchers, but the term is largely
unknown among insect developmental geneticists. This is not surprising, as the model …

Given their medical importance, mosquitoes have been studied as vectors of parasites since
the late 1800's. However, there are still many gaps concerning some aspects of their …

It is fascinating that the amnion and serosa/chorion, two extraembryonic (EE) tissues that are
characteristic of the amniote vertebrates (mammals, birds and reptiles), have also …

During the evolution of the Diptera there is a dramatic modification of the embryonic
ectoderm, whereby mosquitoes contain separate amnion and serosa lineages while higher …

Blood-feeding mosquitoes, including the dengue and yellow fever vector Aedes aegypti,
transmit many of the world's deadliest diseases. Such diseases have resurged in developing …

Annotation of newly sequenced genomes frequently includes genes, but rarely covers
important non-coding genomic features such as the cis-regulatory modules—eg, enhancers …

Sex chromosomes induce potentially deleterious gene expression imbalances that are
frequently corrected by dosage compensation (DC). Three distinct molecular strategies to …