The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum has emerged as an important insect model system for a variety of topics. With respect to studying gene function, it is second only to the vinegar …
SJ Brown, TD Shippy, S Miller… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2009 - cshprotocols.cshlp.org
Tribolium castaneum is a small, low-maintenance beetle that has emerged as a sophisticated model system for studying the evolution of development and that complements …
For more than a century, the origin and evolution of the arthropod head and brain have eluded a unifying rationale reconciling divergent morphologies and phylogenetic …
Gene expression has been employed for homologizing body regions across bilateria. The molecular comparison of vertebrate and fly brains has led to a number of disputed homology …
Gene duplication generates new genetic material that can contribute to the evolution of gene regulatory networks and phenotypes. Duplicated genes can undergo subfunctionalization to …
E Clark, AD Peel - Development, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
Long-germ insects, such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, pattern their segments simultaneously, whereas short-germ insects, such as the beetle Tribolium castaneum …
MS Hakeemi, S Ansari, M Teuscher, M Weißkopf… - BMC biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Most of the known genes required for developmental processes have been identified by genetic screens in a few well-studied model organisms, which have been …
N Posnien, J Schinko, D Grossmann… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2009 - cshprotocols.cshlp.org
Tribolium castaneum is exceptionally amenable to gene knockdown by RNA interference (RNAi) which, in this insect, is systemic (spreading throughout the organism and to the next …
Several highly conserved genes play a role in anterior neural plate patterning of vertebrates and in head and brain patterning of insects. However, head involution in Drosophila has …