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Evolutionary origin of the amnioserosa in cyclorrhaphan flies correlates with spatial and temporal expression changes of zen.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Jan 2008
Rafiqi Ab Matteen, Lemke Steffen, Ferguson Sean, Stauber Michael, Schmidt-Ott Urs
Abstract excerpt
Higher cyclorrhaphan flies including Drosophila develop a single extraembryonic epithelium (amnioserosa), which closes the germband dorsally. In most other insects two extraembryonic epithelia, serosa and amnion, line the inner eggshell and the ventral germband, respectively. How the two extraembryonic epithelia evolved into one is unclear. Recent studies have shown that, in the flour beetle Tribolium and in the...
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