Article
Patterning of the adult mandibulate mouthparts in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum.
Genetics - 1 Feb 2012
Angelini David R, Smith Frank W, Aspiras Ariel C, Kikuchi Moto, Jockusch Elizabeth L
Abstract excerpt
Specialized insect mouthparts, such as those of Drosophila, are derived from an ancestral mandibulate state, but little is known about the developmental genetics of mandibulate mouthparts. Here, we study the metamorphic patterning of mandibulate mouthparts of the beetle Tribolium castaneum, using RNA interference to deplete the expression of 13 genes involved in mouthpart patterning. These data were used to test...
Topics
- Animals
- Body Patterning
- ErbB Receptors
- Genes, Insect
- Homeodomain Proteins
- Ligands
- Mandible
- Maxilla
- Metamorphosis, Biological
- Nuclear Proteins
- Phenotype
