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Kotrba M, Tröster M, Gensler H, Ruthensteiner B, Heß M. Morphology and ultrastructure of the spermatozoa of Lonchoptera lutea Panzer, 1809 (Diptera: Lonchopteridae). Arthropod Struct Dev 2021; 60:101004. [PMID: 33227643 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2020.101004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2020] [Revised: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Lonchoptera lutea males produce giant spermatozoa that are more than 2000 μm long and 1.4 μm wide. Unlike the typical brachyceran spermatozoon, they have a highly asymmetrical cross-section with only a single, albeit very large, mitochondrial derivative and a pair of massive accessory bodies, one of which extends throughout the entire length of the sperm tail. The accessory bodies consist of an electron-dense matrix in which numerous peculiar electron-lucid substructures are embedded. In the mated female, the giant spermatozoa are found inside two tubular spermathecae which are also extremely long, measuring 4000 μm or more.
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- Marion Kotrba
- SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstraße 21, D-81247 München, Germany.
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- SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstraße 21, D-81247 München, Germany
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- Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Biocenter, Großhaderner Straße 2, D-82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Biocenter, Großhaderner Straße 2, D-82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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Zhou X, Kambalame DM, Zhou S, Guo X, Xia D, Yang Y, Wu R, Luo J, Jia F, Yuen M, Xu Y, Dai G, Li L, Xie T, Puthiyakunnon S, Wei W, Xie L, Liang S, Feng Y, Huang S, Hu Y, Mo Q, Mai R, Zhang X, Spradbery P, Zhou X. Human Chrysomya bezziana myiasis: A systematic review. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2019; 13:e0007391. [PMID: 31618203 PMCID: PMC6821133 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2019] [Revised: 10/30/2019] [Accepted: 09/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background Myiasis due to Old World screw-worm fly, Chrysomya bezziana, is an important obligate zoonotic disease in the OIE-list of diseases and is found throughout much of Africa, the Indian subcontinent, southeast and east Asia. C. bezziana myiasis causes not only morbidity and death to animals and humans, but also economic losses in the livestock industries. Because of the aggressive and destructive nature of this disease in hosts, we initiated this study to provide a comprehensive understanding of human myiasis caused by C. bezziana. Methods We searched the databases in English (PubMed, Embase and African Index Medicus) and Chinese (CNKI, Wanfang, and Duxiu), and international government online reports to 6th February, 2019, to identify studies concerning C. bezziana. Another ten human cases in China and Papua New Guinea that our team had recorded were also included. Results We retrieved 1,048 reports from which 202 studies were ultimately eligible for inclusion in the present descriptive analyses. Since the first human case due to C. bezziana was reported in 1909, we have summarized 291 cases and found that these cases often occurred in patients with poor hygiene, low socio-economic conditions, old age, and underlying diseases including infections, age-related diseases, and noninfectious chronic diseases. But C. bezziana myiasis appears largely neglected as a serious medical or veterinary condition, with human and animal cases only reported in 16 and 24 countries respectively, despite this fly species being recorded in 44 countries worldwide. Conclusion Our findings indicate that cryptic myiasis cases due to the obligate parasite, C. bezziana, are under-recognized. Through this study on C. bezziana etiology, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology, prevention and control, we call for more vigilance and awareness of the disease from governments, health authorities, clinicians, veterinary workers, nursing homes, and also the general public. Chrysomya bezziana larvae are characterized by feeding aggressively on the living tissues and body fluids of the host. The dreadful feelings of patients suffering from myiases with severe tissue and bone destruction, even death, and the enormous economic losses in the livestock industries have been described previously. But our findings indicate that C. bezziana myiases still appear to be under-recognized as a serious medical or veterinary condition throughout the world. Both in China and the world at large, it is probable that C. bezziana distribution could well be greater than currently reported. Our study provides an opportunity for clinicians and health authorities to gain a comprehensive understanding of this disease from its etiology, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology, prevention and control. In addition, our findings will engage governments, health staff, veterinary workers, aged-care facilities, and also the general public, in efforts to recognize, prevent, and control such infestations.
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- Xianyi Zhou
- Department of Dermatology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Dermatology, Shenzhen Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- The School of Foreign Studies, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Institute of Entomology, Life Sciences School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Education Technique Center, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Dermatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- XCS Consulting, Yarralumla, Canberra, Australia
- * E-mail: (PS); (XZ)
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
- * E-mail: (PS); (XZ)
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Meade LC, Dinneen D, Kad R, Lynch DM, Fowler K, Pomiankowski A. Ejaculate sperm number compensation in stalk-eyed flies carrying a selfish meiotic drive element. Heredity (Edinb) 2019; 122:916-926. [PMID: 30467401 PMCID: PMC6781104 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-018-0166-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Revised: 10/19/2018] [Accepted: 11/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Meiotic drive genes cause the degeneration of non-carrier sperm to bias transmission in their favour. Males carrying meiotic drive are expected to suffer reduced fertility due to the loss of sperm and associated harmful side-effects of the mechanisms causing segregation distortion. However, sexual selection should promote adaptive compensation to overcome these deleterious effects. We investigate this using SR, an X-linked meiotic drive system in the stalk-eyed fly, Teleopsis dalmanni. Despite sperm destruction caused by drive, we find no evidence that SR males transfer fewer sperm to the female's spermathecae (long-term storage organs). Likewise, migration from the spermathecae to the ventral receptacle for fertilisation is similar for SR and wildtype male sperm, both over short and long time-frames. In addition, sperm number in storage is similar even after males have mated multiple times. Our study challenges conventional assumptions about the deleterious effects of drive on male fertility. This suggests that SR male ejaculate investment per ejaculate has been adjusted to match sperm delivery by wildtype males. We interpret these results in the light of recent theoretical models that predict how ejaculate strategies evolve when males vary in the resources allocated to reproduction or in sperm fertility. Adaptive compensation is likely in species where meiotic drive has persisted over many generations and predicts a higher stable frequency of drive maintained in wild populations. Future research must determine exactly how drive males compensate for failed spermatogenesis, and how such compensation may trade-off with investment in other fitness traits.
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- Lara C Meade
- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
- CoMPLEX, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
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Melicher D, Su KFY, Meier R, Bowsher JH. Comparative analysis reveals the complex role of histoblast nest size in the evolution of novel insect abdominal appendages in Sepsidae (Diptera). BMC Evol Biol 2018; 18:151. [PMID: 30314458 PMCID: PMC6186081 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1265-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The males of some sepsid species (Sepsidae: Diptera) have abdominal appendages that are remarkable in several ways. They are sexually dimorphic, have a complex evolutionary history of gain and loss, and can be jointed and thus highly mobile. The sternite brushes are used extensively in complex courtship behaviors that differ considerably between species and during mating. The abdominal appendages have a novel developmental pathway developing from histoblast nests rather than imaginal discs. RESULTS We focus on the evolution of cell number, nest area, and segment length in both sexes to understand how this tissue relates to the formation of novel abdominal appendages. We map histoblast nest size of wandering-phase larvae of 17 species across 10 genera to a phylogenetic tree of Sepsidae and demonstrate that abdominal appendages require significant increases of histoblast nest size and cell number in most species while one species produces small appendages even without such modifications. In species with particularly large appendages, not only the nests on the fourth, but nests in neighboring segments are enlarged (Themira biloba, Themira putris). The loss of abdominal appendages corresponds to the loss of an enlarged fourth histoblast nest, although one species showed an exception to this pattern. One species that constitutes an independent origin of abdominal appendages (Perochaeta dikowi) uses an unusual developmental mechanism in that the histoblast nest sizes are not sexually dimorphic. CONCLUSIONS The surprisingly high diversity in histoblast size and degree of sexual dimorphism suggests that the developmental mechanism used for abdominal appendage formation in sepsids is highly adaptable. The presence of appendages usually correlate with increased histoblast cell number and in most cases appendage loss results in a return to ancestral histoblast morphology. However, we also identify several exceptions that indicate the abdominal appendages have a malleable developmental origin that is responsive to selection.
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- Dacotah Melicher
- U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Station, Bioscience Research Laboratory, 1605 Albrecht Boulevard, Fargo, ND 58102 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Dr 4, Singapore, 117543 Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Dr 4, Singapore, 117543 Singapore
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University, 1340 Bolley Drive, 218 Stevens Hall, Fargo, ND 58102 USA
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Ament DC, Dos Santos TG. Taxonomy and First Records of Two Megaselia Rondani Species (Diptera: Phoridae) Preying upon Eggs of Phyllomedusa iheringii Boulenger (Anura: Phyllomedusidae). Neotrop Entomol 2017; 46:289-294. [PMID: 28247244 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-016-0462-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2016] [Accepted: 10/31/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Non-aquatic reproductive modes have evolved among frogs possibly favored by some advantages such as the avoidance of aquatic predators. These reproductive modes, however, make the egg clutches susceptible to terrestrial predators, among which Diptera larvae are some of the most harmful. The present work reports the predation by phorid flies of 22 egg clutches of Phyllomedusa iheringii Boulenger in the South of Brazil. Phorid specimens were identified as Megaselia bruchiana (Borgmeier & Schmitz) and Megaselia necrophaga (Enderlein), species that were reported previously to be associated with ants and dead beetles, respectively. Frog-feeding in these species is hypothesized to be use of an alternative seasonal food source. We amend the diagnoses of both Megaselia species and provide new illustrations to facilitate their identification. We also describe the male of M. bruchiana for the first time and associate males with females of both species.
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- D C Ament
- Depto de Biologia, Univ de São Paulo, Fac de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Av Bandeirantes 3900, 14040-901, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
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- Univ Federal do Pampa, Campus São Gabriel, São Gabriel, RS, Brasil
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Joy JE, Stephens CR. Sensory Trichites Associated With the Food Canal of Chrysops callidus (Diptera: Tabanidae). J Med Entomol 2016; 53:961-964. [PMID: 27099399 DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjw015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2016] [Accepted: 02/16/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Twelve pairs of putative sensory trichites (= sensilla) in the food canal of Chrysops callidus Osten Sacken are described. Eight paired trichites are located in the distal half of the food canal of all flies in the sample population (n = 26 females), but paired trichites 9 through 12 were found in variable numbers in the proximal half of the canal. Trichites were more closely spaced in the distal half of the food canal, and more widely spaced in the proximal half of the canal, indicating that monitoring blood flow is more critical in the distal region of the canal. Moreover, trichites were not precisely paired, with mean position for each right wall trichite 1 through 8 being slightly anterior to its counterpart in the left wall. A short, funnel-shaped vestibule was evident at the labrum terminus, opening distally to the outside and proximally into the food canal (the vestibule/food canal junction). There were two pairs of sensilla (one pair of basicone design, the other setiform) observed at the base of the vestibule just anterior to the junction of the vestibule with the food canal. These vestibular sensilla were constant in type, number and position, in every member of the sample population.
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- James E Joy
- Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755 (; ), and
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755 (; ), and
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Kotrba M, Heß M, Dallai R. Giant spermatozoa of Diasemopsis (Diopsidae, Diptera) - Structural, ultrastructural and functional aspects. Arthropod Struct Dev 2016; 45:42-56. [PMID: 26692211 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2015.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2015] [Revised: 11/23/2015] [Accepted: 11/24/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The spermatozoa of Diasemopsis comoroensis and Diasemopsis meigenii differ from the conventional brachyceran type in several respects. Not only are they very long but they are also extraordinarily wide, especially at the very end of the tail. The latter is effected by two cellular components: oversized mitochondrial derivatives and a prominent central band, which is a peculiar structure not known from any other spermatozoa. Based on its position with respect to the other organelles and its origin during early spermiogenesis, the central band is interpreted as a derivative of the centriolar adjunct material. Like the axoneme, the mitochondrial derivatives and the central band extend through the entire length of the spermatozoon tail. The spermatozoon tail is helical and can be coiled up into a tight cone-shaped spiral with a peculiar corkscrew shaped end portion. The potential adaptive significance of these features and their coevolution with the morphology of the female's multi-chambered ventral receptacle are discussed, as are sperm competition and cryptic female choice.
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- M Kotrba
- SNSB - Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Münchhausenstraße 21, 81247 München, Germany.
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- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtity, Biocenter, Großhaderner Straße 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, Via Aldo Moro 2, 53100 Siena, Italy.
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Caroti F, Urbansky S, Wosch M, Lemke S. Germ line transformation and in vivo labeling of nuclei in Diptera: report on Megaselia abdita (Phoridae) and Chironomus riparius (Chironomidae). Dev Genes Evol 2015; 225:179-86. [PMID: 26044750 PMCID: PMC4460289 DOI: 10.1007/s00427-015-0504-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2014] [Accepted: 05/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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To understand how and when developmental traits of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster originated during the course of insect evolution, similar traits are functionally studied in variably related satellite species. The experimental toolkit available for relevant fly models typically comprises gene expression and loss as well as gain-of-function analyses. Here, we extend the set of available molecular tools to piggyBac-based germ line transformation in two satellite fly models, Megaselia abdita and Chironomus riparius. As proof-of-concept application, we used a Gateway variant of the piggyBac transposon vector pBac{3xP3-eGFPafm} to generate a transgenic line that expresses His2Av-mCherry as fluorescent nuclear reporter ubiquitously in the gastrulating embryo of M. abdita. Our results open two phylogenetically important nodes of the insect order Diptera for advanced developmental evolutionary genetics.
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- Francesca Caroti
- Centre for Organismal Studies, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Organismal Studies, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Organismal Studies, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Organismal Studies, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Anan'ina TV, Kokhanenko AA, Stegniy VN. Cyst geometry in the egg chambers of Calliphora erythrocephala Mg. (Diptera: Calliphoridae) ovaries. Protoplasma 2014; 251:913-919. [PMID: 24318676 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-013-0593-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2013] [Accepted: 11/26/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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In the germarium of polytrophic ovarioles of Calliphora erythrocephala (Mg.) fly, four mitotic divisions of cystoblasts give rise to 16-cell germ-line cysts. One cell differentiates into an oocyte, while the remaining 15 cells become nurse cells. Concomitantly actin-rich ring canals are formed at the intercellular junctions. The present study considers a mutual arrangement of the ring canals formed after the second to fourth mitoses relative to the ring canal formed after the first mitotic division in different regions of the germarium and egg chambers. During the cyst formation and its movement to the posterior end of the germarium, the ring canals are displaced relative to one another, thereby giving different branching variants of the cyst. The pattern of cell interconnections becomes stable in germarium region 2b and does not change during the cyst movement along the ovariole despite the cyst polarizes and increases in size.
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- Tatjana V Anan'ina
- Scientific Research Institute of Biology and Biophysics Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin Prospekt, Tomsk, 634050, Russian Federation,
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Kind TV. [Cellular immune system of surgical maggots Lucilia sericata (Diptera, Calliphoridae)]. Tsitologiia 2014; 56:142-151. [PMID: 25509154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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In the hemolymph of surgical maggots Lucilia sericata seven types of hemocytes were revealed. These are prohemocytes, stable and unstable hyaline cells, thrombocytoids, spindle cells, larval plasmatocytes and plasmatocytes I-IV, which represent sequential stages of one cell line differentiation. In contrast to Calliphora hyaline cells, this type of hemocytes in cropemptying larvae of Lucilia is elongated or vermiform in shape. Hyaline cells may be transformed to both prothrombocytoids and unstable prophenoloxydase-producing cells. Appearance and differentiation of each hemocyte type is rigidly linked with a definite stage of development. In cellular defense the main role play juvenile plasmatocytes, plasmatocytes II and III and trombocytoides. Juvenile plasmatocytes are the most active ones. After charcoal particles injection they were instantly surrounded by the thick envelope of adhered alien particles and form uniform morules aggregations or conglomerates together with thrombocytoidal agglutinates. Plasmatocytes II and III during the early stages of differentiation may be involved in adhesion and phagocytosis of alien particles and during the last stages in the engulfing of apoptose desintegrated tissues. Thus the cellular defense reaction is assisted by 4 hemocyte types--prophenoloxydase-unstable hyaline cells, thrombocytoids, juvenile plasmatocytes and plasmatocytes I-IV.
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Kind TV. [Cellular defense system of some synanthropic dipterans inhabitant of bacterially aggressive environment]. Tsitologiia 2014; 56:152-164. [PMID: 25509155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The hemocytic count and defense reaction within 4 families of higher Diptera: Tabanidae, Syrphidae, Muscidae and Sarcophagidae, whose larvae inhabit bacterially aggressive environment, were investigated. The least hemocytes types (3) were revealed in Tabanidae and Syrphidae larvae--prohemocytes, plasmatocytes and prophenoloxydase-containing unstable hyaline cells (oenocytoids). In Sarcophaga crassipalpis and Musca domestica stable hyaline cells and thrombocytoids or podocytoid-like cells can be added to this set. At the time of pupariation in Sarcophaga, new generation of prohemocytes is segregated into the hemolymph, which form small round or spindle-shaped hyaline cells. So, the number of plasmatocyte types in Sarcophaga increase to six. Typical to Calliphoridae juvenile plasmatocytes in the members of investigated families are absent. Among the one hemocyte type morphology also can vary, especially in unstable prophenoloxydase hyaline cells. In Drosophila there are crystal cells containing in the cytoplasm paracrystalloidal inclusions. In Calliphoridae there are big hyaline cells with homogenous cytoplasm producing circumferential bubbles. Both in Sarcophaga and Tabanidae they contain in their cytoplasm big globules. However in Sarcophaga they rapidly disintegrate, while in Tabanidae are maintained unchanged during hours. In Muscidae and Syrphidae prophenoloxydase extrusion occurs very early and these cells obtain pycnotic nuclei and very liquid cytoplasm with strings of granules. Thrombocytoids in Musca larvae are represented by big flattened anucleated irregular cytoplasm and "naked" nuclei and cytoplasmic fragments often with fan-like projections. Plasmatocytes in all species studied are the cells with pronounced phylopodies. In larvae they contain cytoplasmic catabolic inclusions and in pupa--ragments of apoptotic tissues. Clearance of hemolymph from alien particles in Sarcophagidae and Muscidae occur by thrombocytoides, while in Tabanidae by plasmatocyte nodulation. A differing case is Syrphidae whe-e charcoal injection produce depletion of hemolymph both from particles and all types of hemocytes. So the specimen of different higher Diptera families can use different schemes of cellular defense reaction.
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Kokhanenko A, Anan'ina T, Stegniy V. Localization of rRNA genes in the nuclear space of Calliphora erythrocephala Mg. nurse cells during polytenization. Protoplasma 2014; 251:93-101. [PMID: 23873188 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-013-0529-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2013] [Accepted: 07/03/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Multicolor 3D fluorescence in situ hybridization was used to study arrangement of rRNA genes in Calliphora erythrocephala nurse cell nuclei with different levels of polyteny. It has been shown that the rRNA genes are exclusively localized to chromosome 6, suggesting that chromosome 6 is the only C. erythrocephala chromosome responsible for nucleolar formation. We have also described changes in localization of ribosomal genes within the chromosome territory during polytenization, namely, that rDNA signals are detected in the peripheral region of chromosome territory starting from the stage of polytene chromosomes. In addition, it has emerged that large nucleolus associated with chromosome 6 starts to develop in the central nuclear region in the C. erythrocephala nurse cell nuclei at the stage of a primary reticular structure. The central position and nucleolar structure are retained at the stages when chromosome 6 occupies the central position, that is, at the stages of polytene and bloblike chromosomes. When the nucleus restores a reticular structure but at a higher polyteny level, the displacement of chromosome 6 to the nuclear periphery is accompanied by disruption of the large nucleolus into micronucleoli. The micronucleoli are distributed in the nuclear space retaining their association with the nucleolar-organizing regions of chromosome 6. Thus, our data suggest that the large-scale alterations in the organization of chromosome 6 and the nucleolus during polytenization are the correlated processes directly dependent on the rRNA gene activity. The earlier described dynamics of nucleolar-organizing chromosome territory and nucleolus in the nuclear space is likely to be associated with the change in the total expression activity of the nucleus, which complies with the hypothesis on the correlation between spatial nuclear organization and expression regulation of genetic material.
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- Alina Kokhanenko
- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin Prospekt, Tomsk, 634050, Russian Federation,
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Forer A, Ferraro-Gideon J, Berns M. Distance segregation of sex chromosomes in crane-fly spermatocytes studied using laser microbeam irradiations. Protoplasma 2013; 250:1045-1055. [PMID: 23315093 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-013-0480-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2012] [Accepted: 01/03/2013] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Univalent sex chromosomes in crane-fly spermatocytes have kinetochore spindle fibres to each spindle pole (amphitelic orientation) from metaphase throughout anaphase. The univalents segregate in anaphase only after the autosomes approach the poles. As each univalent moves in anaphase, one spindle fibre shortens and the other spindle fibre elongates. To test whether the directionality of force production is fixed at anaphase, that is, whether one spindle fibre can only elongate and the other only shorten, we cut univalents in half with a laser microbeam, to create two chromatids. In both sex-chromosome metaphase and sex-chromosome anaphase, the two chromatids that were formed moved to opposite poles (to the poles to which their fibre was attached) at speeds about the same as autosomes, much faster than the usual speeds of univalent movements. Since the chromatids moved to the pole to which they were attached, independent of the direction to which the univalent as a whole was moving, the spindle fibre that normally elongates in anaphase still is able to shorten and produce force towards the pole when allowed (or caused) to do so.
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- Arthur Forer
- Biology Department, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3,
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Shribak M. Quantitative orientation-independent differential interference contrast microscope with fast switching shear direction and bias modulation. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis 2013; 30:769-82. [PMID: 23595339 PMCID: PMC3695724 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.30.000769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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We describe a quantitative orientation-independent differential interference contrast (DIC) microscope, which allows bias retardation to be modulated and shear directions to be switched rapidly without any mechanical movement. The shear direction is switched by a regular liquid-crystal cell sandwiched between two standard DIC prisms. Another liquid-crystal cell modulates the bias. Techniques for measuring parameters of DIC prisms and calibrating the bias are shown. Two sets of raw DIC images with the orthogonal shear directions are captured within 1 s. Then the quantitative image of optical path gradient distribution within a thin optical section is computed. The gradient data are used to obtain a quantitative distribution of the optical path, which represents the refractive index gradient or height distribution. Computing enhanced regular DIC images with any desired shear direction is also possible.
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- Michael Shribak
- Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA.
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Kokhanenko AA, Anan'ina TV, Stegniy VN. The changes in chromosome 6 spatial organization during chromatin polytenization in the Calliphora erythrocephala Mg. (Diptera: Calliphoridae) nurse cells. Protoplasma 2013; 250:141-149. [PMID: 22322965 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-012-0385-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2011] [Accepted: 01/30/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Localization of Calliphora erythrocephala chromosome 6 in a 3D nuclear space at different stages of nurse cell chromatin polytenization was analyzed by fluorescence in situ hybridization and 3D microscopy. The obtained results suggest a large-scale chromatin relocation in the C. erythrocephala nurse cell nuclei, which is accompanied by a change in the chromosome territory of chromosome 6 associated with the change in expression activity of the nucleus and formation of reticular chromatin structure. It was revealed that the relocation of chromosome 6 (nucleolus organizer chromosome) is accompanied by fragmentation of the single large nucleolus into micronucleoli, which are spread over the entire nuclear space being associated with their nucleolar organizer regions. Presumably, the chromosome 6 material during transition to a highly polytenized structure is redistributed in the nucleus so that the inactive pericentromeric regions are displaced to the nuclear periphery, while the chromosome regions carrying rDNA sequences loop out beyond the chromosome territory. Being dispersed over the entire nuclear space, rDNA sequences are likely to be amplified, thereby providing numerous small signals from the chromosome 6-specific DNA probe. Micronucleoli are formed around the actively transcribed nucleolar organizer regions.
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Foulk MS, Waggener JM, Johnson JM, Yamamoto Y, Liew GM, Urnov FD, Young Y, Lee G, Smith HS, Gerbi SA. Isolation and characterization of the ecdysone receptor and its heterodimeric partner ultraspiracle through development in Sciara coprophila. Chromosoma 2013; 122:103-19. [PMID: 23321980 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-012-0395-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2012] [Revised: 12/09/2012] [Accepted: 12/18/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Regulation of DNA replication is critical, and loss of control can lead to DNA amplification. Naturally occurring, developmentally regulated DNA amplification occurs in the DNA puffs of the late larval salivary gland giant polytene chromosomes in the fungus fly, Sciara coprophila. The steroid hormone ecdysone induces DNA amplification in Sciara, and the amplification origin of DNA puff II/9A contains a putative binding site for the ecdysone receptor (EcR). We report here the isolation, cloning, and characterizing of two ecdysone receptor isoforms in Sciara (ScEcR-A and ScEcR-B) and the heterodimeric partner, ultraspiracle (ScUSP). ScEcR-A is the predominant isoform in larval tissues and ScEcR-B in adult tissues, contrary to the pattern in Drosophila. Moreover, ScEcR-A is produced at amplification but is absent just prior. We discuss these results in relation to the model of ecdysone regulation of DNA amplification.
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- Michael S Foulk
- Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA
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Cruz M, Bello FJ. Establishment and characterization of an embryonic cell line from Sarconesiopsis magellanica. J Insect Sci 2013; 13:130. [PMID: 24766352 PMCID: PMC4014039 DOI: 10.1673/031.013.13001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2012] [Accepted: 02/27/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Sarconesiopsis magellanica (Le Guillou) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) is a necrophagous fly that is important in both human and veterinary medicines. This insect has been registered in Colombia as a biological indicator in estimating post-mortem interval. Insect cell cultures are an important biotechnological tool for basic and applied studies, and cell cultures derived from S. magellanica embryonic tissues are described in this study. S. magellanica embryonated eggs were taken for tissue explants. These were seeded in L-15, Grace/L-15, Eagle MEM, MM, VP12, MM/VP12, and Schneider culture media. The morphological, cytogenetic, biochemical, and molecular characteristics of the cell cultures were examined. Cell growth was achieved in the L15, Grace/L15, and Schneider culture media, and the confluent monolayers were obtained 8, 10, and 19 days after the embryonated eggs were explanted. However, the Schneider medium was the most efficient to develop the subcultures, and 21 passages have been maintained. The cell morphology of the primary cell cultures was initially heterogeneous, but in the confluent monolayer and in the subcultures there was greater cell morphology uniformity, fibroblastoid types being predominant. Cultured cells had a chromosomal number of 12, and the karyotypic complement consisted of five pairs of somatic chromosomes and one sexual pair. The cell culture isozyme patterns of S. magellanica coincided with adult samples from the same species. The molecular analysis, using RAPD-PCR, demonstrated the authentication of the cell cultures of this fly and their differentiation from other cultures derived from two sand flies species. This cell line is a new in vitro model that will be used in biomedical and biotechnological studies.
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- Mónica Cruz
- Laboratorio de Entomología Médica y Forense, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de La Salud, Universidad Del Rosario, Calle 63D 24-31, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Laboratorio de Entomología Médica y Forense, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de La Salud, Universidad Del Rosario, Calle 63D 24-31, Bogotá, Colombia
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Teixeira Corrêa RF, Ardisson-Araújo DMP, Monnerat RG, Ribeiro BM. Cytotoxicity analysis of three Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis δ-endotoxins towards insect and mammalian cells. PLoS One 2012; 7:e46121. [PMID: 23029407 PMCID: PMC3448730 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2011] [Accepted: 08/29/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Three members of the δ-endotoxin group of toxins expressed by Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis, Cyt2Ba, Cry4Aa and Cry11A, were individually expressed in recombinant acrystalliferous B. thuringiensis strains for in vitro evaluation of their toxic activities against insect and mammalian cell lines. Both Cry4Aa and Cry11A toxins, activated with either trypsin or Spodoptera frugiperda gastric juice (GJ), resulted in different cleavage patterns for the activated toxins as seen by SDS-PAGE. The GJ-processed proteins were not cytotoxic to insect cell cultures. On the other hand, the combination of the trypsin-activated Cry4Aa and Cry11A toxins yielded the highest levels of cytotoxicity to all insect cells tested. The combination of activated Cyt2Ba and Cry11A also showed higher toxic activity than that of toxins activated individually. When activated Cry4Aa, Cry11A and Cyt2Ba were used simultaneously in the same assay a decrease in toxic activity was observed in all insect cells tested. No toxic effect was observed for the trypsin-activated Cry toxins in mammalian cells, but activated Cyt2Ba was toxic to human breast cancer cells (MCF-7) when tested at 20 µg/mL.
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- Embrapa – Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, C.P. 02373, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Celular, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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Zoephel J, Reiher W, Rexer KH, Kahnt J, Wegener C. Peptidomics of the agriculturally damaging larval stage of the cabbage root fly Delia radicum (Diptera: Anthomyiidae). PLoS One 2012; 7:e41543. [PMID: 22848525 PMCID: PMC3405134 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2012] [Accepted: 06/22/2012] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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The larvae of the cabbage root fly induce serious damage to cultivated crops of the family Brassicaceae. We here report the biochemical characterisation of neuropeptides from the central nervous system and neurohemal organs, as well as regulatory peptides from enteroendocrine midgut cells of the cabbage maggot. By LC-MALDI-TOF/TOF and chemical labelling with 4-sulfophenyl isothiocyanate, 38 peptides could be identified, representing major insect peptide families: allatostatin A, allatostatin C, FMRFamide-like peptides, kinin, CAPA peptides, pyrokinins, sNPF, myosuppressin, corazonin, SIFamide, sulfakinins, tachykinins, NPLP1-peptides, adipokinetic hormone and CCHamide 1. We also report a new peptide (Yamide) which appears to be homolog to an amidated eclosion hormone-associated peptide in several Drosophila species. Immunocytochemical characterisation of the distribution of several classes of peptide-immunoreactive neurons and enteroendocrine cells shows a very similar but not identical peptide distribution to Drosophila. Since peptides regulate many vital physiological and behavioural processes such as moulting or feeding, our data may initiate the pharmacological testing and development of new specific peptide-based protection methods against the cabbage root fly and its larva.
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- Judith Zoephel
- Department of Biology, Animal Physiology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Animal Physiology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Neurobiology and Genetics, Theodor Boveri Institute, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Mycology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Animal Physiology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Neurobiology and Genetics, Theodor Boveri Institute, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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Kind TV. [Functions of Calliphora vomitotia larval hemocytes in recognition and elimination from hemolymph human erythrocytes and charcoal particles]. Tsitologiia 2012; 54:244-250. [PMID: 22645989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Investigation of Calliphora vomitotia hemocyte defense reaction to human erythrocytes shows that erythrocytes are recognized mainly by thrombocytoids. Adhesion to plasmatocytes and subsequent phagocytosis also takes place, but in a less degree. Agglutination of erythrocytes by thrombocytoids is increased after feeding cessation and remains at a high level during all the period of crop emptying. Entrapped erythrocytes not later than after five to eight minutes show signs of destruction and disintegrate into fragments. Later structureless masses can arise. The results of secondary injections of charcoal particles reveal that both thrombocytoidal agglutinates and plasmatocytes can engulf additional abiotic invaders even after filling by erythrocytes. Meanwhile despite the changing morphology of agglutinates their capability to adhere new batches of aliens remains unchanged at enough high level. These agglutinates and plasmatocytes phagocytized the charcoal particles independently of previous erythrocyte exposition. Injection of charcoal and erythrocytes mixture leads to appearance of agglutinates with erythrocytes and charcoal mixed together. We guess that foreign receptors obtain wide spectrum of affinity to all kinds of invaders.
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Kind TV. [Response of Calliphora vicina larval hemocytes to abiotic and biotic foreign particles injection]. Tsitologiia 2012; 54:236-243. [PMID: 22645988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Human erythrocytes injection into the body cavity of Calliphora vicina postfeeding larvae results to their fast binding by thrombocytoidal fragments with agglutinates formation. There were almost none sites of lysis and degradation of erythrocytes in agglutinates even after shape modification and strands generation. Exceptions are zones of agglutinates with juvenile hemocytes, where destruction of erythrocytes is seen. The sequential injection of erythrocytes and charcoal particles leads to charcoal adhesion at first to agglutinates periphery and later to more deep stratum of cytoplasm between the erythrocytes. Under such conditions agglutinate formation period is accompanied with morphology variations which do not influence the intensity of agglutinating reaction. Juvenile plasmatocytes phagocytized the charcoal particles regardless of their concentration and duration of previous contact with erythrocytes. When mixture of abiotic and biotic particles was injected into post feeding larvae, crythrocytes and charcoal generate independent aggregations in the range of separate agglutinates. At the same time plasmatocytes form nodules consisting of temporary cell aggregations covered with cores of non phagocytized charcoal particles. These data testified that presumably lectin receptors responsible for foreign biotic and abiotic particles recognition are very near but not identical for different types of hemocytes. They may be specifical (for plasmatocytes) or integrated to different parts of cellular membrane (in thrombocytoids).
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Kind TV. [Functional morphology of blowfly Calliphora vicina hemocytes]. Tsitologiia 2012; 54:806-822. [PMID: 23401998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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In the hemolymph of Calliphora seven types of hemocytes were revealed. These are prohemocytes, which are the stem cells, stable and unstable hyaline cells, thrombocytoids, spindle cells, juvenile plasmatocytes and plasmatocytes I-IV, which represent sequential stages of one cell line differentiation were registered. The margin between them is completion of the crop emptying and beginning of wandering stage. In the feeding and crop emptying larvae take place rising of hyaline cells, thrombocytoids and hyaline cells amount with parallel growth of their defense function. The second wave of hemogenesis occur in the end of crop emptying period. It is accompanied by burst of plasmatocyte I production with their subsequent differentiation to plasmatocytes II-IV. Production of stable hyaline cells and respectively prothrombocytoids may be regulated not only by hormonal background but also by inorganic or organic particles invaded into the hemocel. Three types of hemocytes are involved in loosing of hemolymph from alien particles, notably thrombocytoids, juvenile plasmatocytes and plasmatocytes I and II. Thrombocytoids are responsible for parasitic eggs encapsulation. In addition they can phagocytize tiny organic and inorganic particles. Juvenile plasmatocytes respond to alien invasion almost as quickly as thrombocytoids at the onset of invasion. Plasmatocytes I and II start phagocytosis more slowly, hours post invasion, frequently accumulating the particles previously catched by thrombocytoids. Plasmatocytes I can absorb foreign particles and group in morules and can also surround filled thrombocytoids forming distinctive capsules. Both morules and capsules are temporary structures and disintegrate some hours lately. It is supposed the existence of three levels of immune defence: the fast response reaction of thrombocytoids and juvenile plasmatocytes and slow cellular reactions of plasmatocytes I. They are prerequisites for more extensive humoral response.
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Mazurkiewicz-Kania M, Jędrzejowska I, Kubrakiewicz J. Differences in the relative timing of developmental events during oogenesis in lower dipterans (Nematocera) reveal the autonomy of follicular cells' differentiation program. Arthropod Struct Dev 2012; 41:65-70. [PMID: 21985902 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2011.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2011] [Revised: 07/05/2011] [Accepted: 07/06/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Although the ovaries of Nematocera are of the same meroistic-polytrophic type, they show significant differences in the activity of germ cells (oocytes, nurse cells) and their relative contribution to ribosome synthesis and storage during oogenesis. These different activities result in the different growth rate of the germ cells and may determine the life span of the nurse cells. Comparative analysis revealed that with reference to germ cell activity, two basic types of oogenesis in Nematocera can be distinguished. In the Tinearia type, the nurse cells grow considerably and are active until advanced stages of oogenesis, whereas the oocyte is transcriptionally inert. Conversely, in the Tipula type of oogenesis, the oocyte nucleus contains transcriptionally active multiple nucleoli, while nurse cells probably do not contribute to ribosome synthesis, remain relatively small and degenerate early in oogenesis. We studied and compared the process of somatic follicular cell differentiation in nematoceran species representing both types of oogenesis. Our observations indicate that morphogenesis of the follicular cells is at least partly independent of the nurse cell activity, while the execution of their differentiation does not require direct contacts between the follicular cells and the oocyte.
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- Marta Mazurkiewicz-Kania
- Department of Animal Developmental Biology, Zoological Institute, University of Wrocław, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Wrocław, Poland.
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Lemke S, Antonopoulos DA, Meyer F, Domanus MH, Schmidt-Ott U. BMP signaling components in embryonic transcriptomes of the hover fly Episyrphus balteatus (Syrphidae). BMC Genomics 2011; 12:278. [PMID: 21627820 PMCID: PMC3224130 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2011] [Accepted: 05/31/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In animals, signaling of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) is essential for dorsoventral (DV) patterning of the embryo, but how BMP signaling evolved with changes in embryonic DV differentiation is largely unclear. Based on the extensive knowledge of BMP signaling in Drosophila melanogaster, the morphological diversity of extraembryonic tissues in different fly species provides a comparative system to address this question. The closest relatives of D. melanogaster with clearly distinct DV differentiation are hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae). The syrphid Episyrphus balteatus is a commercial bio-agent against aphids and has been established as a model organism for developmental studies and chemical ecology. The dorsal blastoderm of E. balteatus gives rise to two extraembryonic tissues (serosa and amnion), whereas in D. melanogaster, the dorsal blastoderm differentiates into a single extraembryonic epithelium (amnioserosa). Recent studies indicate that several BMP signaling components of D. melanogaster, including the BMP ligand Screw (Scw) and other extracellular regulators, evolved in the dipteran lineage through gene duplication and functional divergence. These findings raise the question of whether the complement of BMP signaling components changed with the origin of the amnioserosa. RESULTS To search for BMP signaling components in E. balteatus, we generated and analyzed transcriptomes of freshly laid eggs (0-30 minutes) and late blastoderm to early germband extension stages (3-6 hours) using Roche/454 sequencing. We identified putative E. balteatus orthologues of 43% of all annotated D. melanogaster genes, including the genes of all BMP ligands and other BMP signaling components. CONCLUSION The diversification of several BMP signaling components in the dipteran linage of D. melanogaster preceded the origin of the amnioserosa.[Transcriptome sequence data from this study have been deposited at the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRP005289); individually assembled sequences have been deposited at GenBank (JN006969-JN006986).].
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- Steffen Lemke
- University of Chicago, Dept. of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, CLSC 921B, 920 E. 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Current Address: University of Heidelberg, Centre for Organismal Studies, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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- University of Chicago, Dept. of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, CLSC 921B, 920 E. 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Stavenga DG, Hardie RC. Metarhodopsin control by arrestin, light-filtering screening pigments, and visual pigment turnover in invertebrate microvillar photoreceptors. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2011; 197:227-41. [PMID: 21046112 PMCID: PMC3040812 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-010-0604-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2010] [Revised: 09/29/2010] [Accepted: 10/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The visual pigments of most invertebrate photoreceptors have two thermostable photo-interconvertible states, the ground state rhodopsin and photo-activated metarhodopsin, which triggers the phototransduction cascade until it binds arrestin. The ratio of the two states in photoequilibrium is determined by their absorbance spectra and the effective spectral distribution of illumination. Calculations indicate that metarhodopsin levels in fly photoreceptors are maintained below ~35% in normal diurnal environments, due to the combination of a blue-green rhodopsin, an orange-absorbing metarhodopsin and red transparent screening pigments. Slow metarhodopsin degradation and rhodopsin regeneration processes further subserve visual pigment maintenance. In most insect eyes, where the majority of photoreceptors have green-absorbing rhodopsins and blue-absorbing metarhodopsins, natural illuminants are predicted to create metarhodopsin levels greater than 60% at high intensities. However, fast metarhodopsin decay and rhodopsin regeneration also play an important role in controlling metarhodopsin in green receptors, resulting in a high rhodopsin content at low light intensities and a reduced overall visual pigment content in bright light. A simple model for the visual pigment-arrestin cycle is used to illustrate the dependence of the visual pigment population states on light intensity, arrestin levels and pigment turnover.
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- Doekele G Stavenga
- Department of Neurobiophysics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Panov AA. [Diversity in neuroblasts number forming mushroom bodies of the highest dipterans (Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera Cyclorrhapha)]. Izv Akad Nauk Ser Biol 2011:90-95. [PMID: 21442910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Neurogenesis in mushroom bodies is studied in 12 species of the highest dipterans. A substantial difference in the number of neuroblasts forming mushroom bodies is found. In the majority of species studied, Kenyon cells are formed by four single neuroblasts. Among six calliphorid species, the number of neuroblasts increases up to 10-15 (mean 12.6) in each mushroom body in Calliphora vicina only. In young pupae of Muscina stabulans and M. livida, four polyneuroblastic prolipherate centers formed instead of singular neuroblats. These centers disintegrate into numerous single neuroblasts. A hypothesis of the origin of the polyneuroblastic structure of mushroom bodies found in C. vicina and, earlier, in Musca domestica, is proposed.
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Hyslop A, Krapp HG, Humbert JS. Control theoretic interpretation of directional motion preferences in optic flow processing interneurons. Biol Cybern 2010; 103:353-364. [PMID: 20694561 DOI: 10.1007/s00422-010-0404-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2009] [Accepted: 07/22/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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In this article, we formalize the processing of optic flow in identified fly lobula plate tangential cells and develop a control theoretic framework that suggests how the signals of these cells may be combined and used to achieve reflex-like navigation behavior. We show that this feedback gain synthesis task can be cast as a combined static state estimation and linear feedback control problem. Our framework allows us to analyze and determine the relationship between optic flow measurements and actuator commands, which greatly simplifies the implementation of biologically inspired control architectures on terrestrial and aerial robotic platforms.
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- Andrew Hyslop
- Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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Kokhanenko AA, Anan'ina TV, Stegniĭ VN. [Intranuclear dynamics of chromosome 6 in nurse cells of Calliphora erythrocephala Mg. (Diptera: Calliphoridae)]. Genetika 2010; 46:1178-1180. [PMID: 21061612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Intranuclear dynamics of chromosome 6 in nurse cell nuclei of Calliphora erythrocephala Mg. (Diptera: Calliphoridae) was studied. The 3D FISH method was used for the first time to study chromosome territories in highly polyploid nuclei whose chromosomes undergo morphological changes. A considerable change in the intranuclear location of chromosome 6 and a morphological alteration of the chromosome territory in the course of chromatin polytenization were revealed.
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Masala C, Solari P, Sollai G, Crnjar R, Liscia A. Transduction mechanism(s) of Na-saccharin in the blowfly Protophormia terraenovae: evidence for potassium and calcium conductance involvement. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2009; 195:1141-51. [PMID: 19898825 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-009-0486-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2009] [Revised: 10/15/2009] [Accepted: 10/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The study on transduction mechanisms underlying bitter stimuli is a particularly intriguing challenge for taste researchers. The present study investigates, in the labellar chemosensilla of the blowfly Protophormia terraenovae, the transduction mechanism by which saccharin evokes the response of the "deterrent" cell, with particular attention to the contribution of K(+) and Ca(2+) current and the role of cyclic nucleotides, since second messengers modulate Ca(2+), Cl(-) and K(+) currents to different extents. As assessed by extracellular single-sensillum recordings, our results show that the addition of a Ca(2+) chelator such as EGTA or the Ca(2+) current blockers SK&F-96365, Mibefradil, Nifedipine and W-7 decrease the response of the "deterrent" cell to saccharin. A similar decreasing effect was also obtained following the addition of 4-aminopyridine, a K(+) current blocker. On the contrary, the membrane-permeable cyclic nucleotide 8-bromoguanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (8Br-cGMP) activates this cell and shows an additive effect when presented mixed with saccharin. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that in the labellar chemosensilla of the blowfly both Ca(2+) and K(+) ions are involved in the transduction mechanism of the "deterrent" cell in response to saccharin. Our results also suggest a possible pathway common to saccharin and 8Br-cGMP.
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- Carla Masala
- Department of Experimental Biology, Section of General Physiology, University of Cagliari, Cittadella Universitaria di Monserrato, 09042 Monserrato, CA, Italy
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Wertz A, Haag J, Borst A. Local and global motion preferences in descending neurons of the fly. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2009; 195:1107-20. [PMID: 19830435 PMCID: PMC2780676 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-009-0481-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2009] [Revised: 09/08/2009] [Accepted: 09/20/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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For a moving animal, optic flow is an important source of information about its ego-motion. In flies, the processing of optic flow is performed by motion sensitive tangential cells in the lobula plate. Amongst them, cells of the vertical system (VS cells) have receptive fields with similarities to optic flows generated during rotations around different body axes. Their output signals are further processed by pre-motor descending neurons. Here, we investigate the local motion preferences of two descending neurons called descending neurons of the ocellar and vertical system (DNOVS1 and DNOVS2). Using an LED arena subtending 240° × 95° of visual space, we mapped the receptive fields of DNOVS1 and DNOVS2 as well as those of their presynaptic elements, i.e. VS cells 1–10 and V2. The receptive field of DNOVS1 can be predicted in detail from the receptive fields of those VS cells that are most strongly coupled to the cell. The receptive field of DNOVS2 is a combination of V2 and VS cells receptive fields. Predicting the global motion preferences from the receptive field revealed a linear spatial integration in DNOVS1 and a superlinear spatial integration in DNOVS2. In addition, the superlinear integration of V2 output is necessary for DNOVS2 to differentiate between a roll rotation and a lift translation of the fly.
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- Adrian Wertz
- Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.
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Jurcek O, Wimmer Z, Svobodová H, Bennettová B, Kolehmainen E, Drasar P. Preparation and preliminary biological screening of cholic acid-juvenoid conjugates. Steroids 2009; 74:779-85. [PMID: 19394354 DOI: 10.1016/j.steroids.2009.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2009] [Revised: 04/15/2009] [Accepted: 04/16/2009] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Steroidal compounds have been utilized as carriers and for modification of physico-chemical properties of model biologically active secondary alcohols - juvenoids. Juvenoids are juvenile hormone analogues - environmentally safe insecticides, possessing significant biological activity towards different arthropods groups in focus on insect pest species. Structure modification of juvenoids plays important role to control the rate of liberation and decomposition of juvenoid in digestive system and can also play important role in the mode of action towards selected insect. This study presents an approach to the synthesis of steroidal monomers and dimers carrying one and two molecules of a juvenoid in their structures. The prepared compounds were tested for their inhibition activity on reproduction of the blowfly Neobellieria (Sarcophaga) bullata. These steroid-juvenoid conjugates showed promising possibilities in synthesis of new unique biochemical insecticides. Preliminary biological test results of prepared compounds are presented.
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- Ondrej Jurcek
- Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Dendrite morphology, a neuron's anatomical fingerprint, is a
neuroscientist's asset in unveiling organizational principles in the
brain. However, the genetic program encoding the morphological identity of a
single dendrite remains a mystery. In order to obtain a formal understanding of
dendritic branching, we studied distributions of morphological parameters in a
group of four individually identifiable neurons of the fly visual system. We
found that parameters relating to the branching topology were similar throughout
all cells. Only parameters relating to the area covered by the dendrite were
cell type specific. With these areas, artificial dendrites were grown based on
optimization principles minimizing the amount of wiring and maximizing synaptic
democracy. Although the same branching rule was used for all cells, this yielded
dendritic structures virtually indistinguishable from their real counterparts.
From these principles we derived a fully-automated model-based neuron
reconstruction procedure validating the artificial branching rule. In
conclusion, we suggest that the genetic program implementing neuronal branching
could be constant in all cells whereas the one responsible for the dendrite
spanning field should be cell specific. Neural computation has been shown to be heavily dependent not only on the
connectivity of single neurons but also on their specific dendritic
shape—often used as a key feature for their classification. Still,
very little is known about the constraints determining a neuron's
morphological identity. In particular, one would like to understand what cells
with the same or similar function share anatomically, what renders them
different from others, and whether one can formalize this difference
objectively. A large number of approaches have been proposed, trying to put
dendritic morphology in a parametric frame. A central problem lies in the wide
variety and variability of dendritic branching and function even within one
narrow cell class. We addressed this problem by investigating functionally and
anatomically highly conserved neurons in the fly brain, where each neuron can
easily be individually identified in different animals. Our analysis shows that
the pattern of dendritic branching is not unique in any particular cell, only
the features of the area that the dendrites cover allow a clear classification.
This leads to the conclusion that all fly dendrites share the same growth
program but a neuron's dendritic field shape, its “anatomical
receptive field”, is key to its specific identity.
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- Hermann Cuntz
- Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Physiology, University College London, London, UK.
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Drosophila neuroblasts are similar to mammalian neural stem cells in their ability to self-renew and to produce many different types of neurons and glial cells. In the past two decades, great advances have been made in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying embryonic neuroblast formation, the establishment of cell polarity and the temporal regulation of cell fate. It is now a challenge to connect, at the molecular level, the different cell biological events underlying the transition from neural stem cell maintenance to differentiation. Progress has also been made in understanding the later stages of development, when neuroblasts become mitotically inactive, or quiescent, and are then reactivated postembryonically to generate the neurons that make up the adult nervous system. The ability to manipulate the steps leading from quiescence to proliferation and from proliferation to differentiation will have a major impact on the treatment of neurological injury and neurodegenerative disease.
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Kind TV. [Differentiation of the stable hyaline cells in response to foreign particles injections into the larvae of blowfly calliphora vomitoria]. Tsitologiia 2008; 50:765-772. [PMID: 18959188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Injection of foreign particles (charcoal and human erythrocytes) into the larvae of Calliphora vomitoria provokes the complex immune response including their phagocytosis, nodulation and encapsulation by plasmatocytes and thrombocytoids. Precursors of thrombocytoids and analogs of Drosophila lamellocytes are very frequent during the periods of feeding and crop emptying, but fully disappear in wandering larvae. Injection of charcoal or erythrocytes into crop emptying larvae leads also to a dramatic increase in the number of stable hyaline cells, precursors of thrombocytoids. The hyaline cells differentiate from prohaemocytes and, quite possibly, from young weakly-specialized plasmatocytes in a day after injection. Later they are transformed to prothrombocytoids and thrombocytoids. The number of hyaline cells and young plasmatocytes in the crop emptying larvae of C. vomitoria is far greater than that in the same age larvae of C. vicina. Presumably it accounts for significantly increasing rate of stable hyaline cells differentiation in the injected larvae of C. vomitoria. Their part after injection of charcoal particles or erythrocytes may reach 40-50 % of the main haemocyte number compared to 20-25% in C. vicina. After completion of the crop emptying, the rate of hyaline cells differentiation in response to the foreign particles injection is evidently reduced but remains to be distinctly visible. Injections of saline also stimulate the differentiation of the stable hyaline cells from prohaemocytes but elevation of their amount is more weak and gradual. The bacterial immunization and needle prick show no effect. The treatments, inducing the rising of hyaline cells differentiation, lead also to pupariation delay. This correlation suggests involvement of the endocrine system into this process.
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Kind TV. [The foreign particles injection induces stable hyaline cells differentiation in the hemolymph of the blowfly Calliphora vicina larvae]. Tsitologiia 2008; 50:757-764. [PMID: 18959187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The stable hyaline cells (thrombocytoids precursors) are prevailing haemocytes type in young larvae of Calliphora vicina. Their concentration decreased significantly during the crop emptying and became completely absent in wandering larvae. However, the injection of foreign particles into the haemocoel induced evident increase in the number of stable hyaline cells by means of transformation from prohaemocytes within 24 h after the treatment. Maximum of hyaline cells concentration is achieved on the 2-3 day when the part of them starts to transform into prothrombocytoids. Injection of both abiotic (charcoal) and biotic (human erythrocytes) foreign particles exerts an identical effect. Puncture of the body wall, bacterial immunization and injection of saline did not induce hyaline cells appearance. In crop emptying larvae, the stable hyaline cells originate within the clusters of undifferentiated steam cells, i. e. prohaemocytes. After the completion of crop emptying in wandering and diapausing larvae, preliminary dedifferentiation of very young plasmatocytes may be also observed. It is suggested that specification of the stable hyaline cells is induced by thrombocytoids after engulfing of the injected foreign particles and forming of their agglutinates.
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Forer A, Spurck T, Pickett-Heaps JD. Actin and myosin inhibitors block elongation of kinetochore fibre stubs in metaphase crane-fly spermatocytes. Protoplasma 2007; 232:79-85. [PMID: 18094930 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-007-0265-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2006] [Accepted: 02/12/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We used an ultraviolet microbeam to cut individual kinetochore spindle fibres in metaphase crane-fly spermatocytes. We then followed the growth of the "kinetochore stubs", the remnants of kinetochore fibres that remain attached to kinetochores. Kinetochore stubs elongate with constant velocity by adding tubulin subunits at the kinetochore, and thus elongation is related to tubulin flux in the kinetochore microtubules. Stub elongation was blocked by cytochalasin D and latrunculin A, actin inhibitors, and by butanedione monoxime, a myosin inhibitor. We conclude that actin and myosin are involved in generating elongation and thus in producing tubulin flux in kinetochore microtubules. We suggest that actin and myosin act in concert with a spindle matrix to propel kinetochore fibres poleward, thereby causing stub elongation and generating anaphase chromosome movement in nonirradiated cells.
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- A Forer
- Biology Department, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Mittapalli O, Shukle RH. Molecular characterization and responsive expression of a defender against apoptotic cell death homologue from the Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2007; 149:517-23. [PMID: 18249019 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2007.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2007] [Revised: 12/05/2007] [Accepted: 12/05/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Apoptosis or programmed cell death is an active process occurring in multicellular organisms to maintain growth and development. The Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor, is rapidly emerging as a model insect species to study insect-plant interactions and to decipher some exceptional physiological phenomena. In this study, we report the characterization and expression profiles of a putative Hessian fly defender against apoptotic cell death (DAD1) homologue designated MdesDAD1. The deduced amino acid sequence of MdesDAD1 revealed significant similarity (75% identity, 9e-42) to other insect and non-insect DAD1 sequences. Phylogenetic analysis grouped MdesDAD1 within a sub-clade consisting of other insect DAD1 homologues. Quantitative analysis indicated constitutive levels of MdesDAD1 mRNA in all the tissues examined but an altered expression pattern during development, wherein the highest mRNA levels observed were prior to pupation. Most interestingly, MdesDAD1 transcript was found to be up-regulated during incompatible (larvae reared on resistant wheat) Hessian fly/wheat interactions compared to compatible (larvae reared on susceptible wheat) interactions. These results suggest MdesDAD1 to have a putative role in the inhibition of unwanted apoptosis triggered during development and in incompatible Hessian fly/wheat interactions. The results obtained provide clues to plausible insect and host-plant factors that could be responsible for the induction of MdesDAD1.
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- Omprakash Mittapalli
- Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department of Molecular Ecology, Jena, Germany.
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Strausfeld NJ, Sinakevitch I, Okamura JY. Organization of local interneurons in optic glomeruli of the dipterous visual system and comparisons with the antennal lobes. Dev Neurobiol 2007; 67:1267-88. [PMID: 17638381 DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The lateral protocerebrum of the fly's brain is composed of a system of optic glomeruli, the organization of which compares to that of antennal lobe glomeruli. Each optic glomerulus receives converging axon terminals from a unique ensemble of optic lobe output neurons. Glomeruli are interconnected by systems of spiking and nonspiking local interneurons that are morphologically similar to diffuse and polarized local interneurons in the antennal lobes. GABA-like immunoreactive processes richly supply optic glomeruli, which are also invaded by processes originating from the midbrain and subesophageal ganglia. These arrangements support the suggestion that circuits amongst optic glomeruli refine and elaborate visual information carried by optic lobe outputs, relaying data to long-axoned neurons that extend to other parts of the central nervous system including thoracic ganglia. The representation in optic glomeruli of other modalities suggests that gating of visual information by other sensory inputs, a phenomenon documented from the recordings of descending neurons, could occur before the descending neuron dendrites. The present results demonstrate that future studies must consider the roles of other senses in visual processing.
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- Nicholas J Strausfeld
- Division of Neurobiology, Arizona Research Laboratories, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
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Abdominal appendages in male sepsid flies are a complex novel structure of unknown developmental and evolutionary origin. Although these abdominal appendages superficially resemble serially homologous insect appendages, they do not develop from imaginal discs like other dipteran appendages. Cauterization of the genital disc and ventral abdominal histoblasts in Themira biloba (Sepsidae, Diptera) revealed that these abdominal appendages develop from the ventral histoblast nests of the fourth abdominal segment. Cell counts of the histoblasts in males and females revealed that the ventral histoblast nests on the fourth abdominal segment in males were significantly larger than other histoblast nests, indicating that the specification of that segment as the location of the abdominal appendages occurs before the last larval instar. The recruitment of histoblasts to produce appendages has not been documented before, and implies a developmental and evolutionary potential for histoblasts that was previously unknown.
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- Julia H Bowsher
- Department of Biology, Box 90338, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
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Hamanaka Y, Tanaka S, Numata H, Shiga S. Peptide immunocytochemistry of neurons projecting to the retrocerebral complex in the blow fly, Protophormia terraenovae. Cell Tissue Res 2007; 329:581-93. [PMID: 17549518 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-007-0433-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2007] [Accepted: 04/26/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Antisera against a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate neuropeptides were used to characterize neurons with somata in the pars intercerebralis (PI), pars lateralis (PL), and subesophageal ganglion (SEG), designated as PI neurons, PL neurons, and SEG neurons, respectively, all of which project to the retrocerebral complex in the blow fly, Protophormia terraenovae. Immunocytochemistry combined with backfills through the cardiac-recurrent nerve revealed that at least two pairs of PI and SEG neurons for each were FMRFamide-immunoreactive. Immunoreactivity against [Arg7]-corazonin, beta-pigment-dispersing hormone (beta-PDH), cholecystokinin8, or FMRFamide was observed in PL neurons. Immunoreactive colocalization of [Arg7]-corazonin with beta-PDH, [Arg7]-corazonin with cholecystokinin8, or beta-PDH with FMRFamide was found in two to three somata in the PL of a hemisphere. Based on their anatomical and immunocytochemical characteristics, PI neurons were classified into two types, PL neurons into six types, and SEG neurons into two types. Fibers in the retrocerebral complex showed [Arg7]-corazonin, beta-PDH, cholecystokinin8, and FMRFamide immunoreactivity. Cholecystokinin8 immunoreactivity was also detected in intrinsic cells of the corpus cardiacum. The corpus allatum was densely innervated by FMRFamide-immunoreactive varicose fibers. These results suggest that PI, PL, and SEG neurons release [Arg7]-corazonin, beta-PDH, cholecystokinin8, or FMRFamide-like peptides from the corpus cardiacum or corpus allatum into the hemolymph, and that some PL neurons may simultaneously release several neuropeptides.
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- Yoshitaka Hamanaka
- Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
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Gilbert C. Visual neuroscience: hypercomplex cells in the arthropod visual system. Curr Biol 2007; 17:R412-4. [PMID: 17550766 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.03.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Newly described visual interneurons in flies have sophisticated receptive field properties reminiscent of neurons in the mammalian visual cortex. The cells are well-suited to compute motion of conspecific females that male flies aerially intercept.
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- Cole Gilbert
- Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
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Oestergaard J, Ehlers RU, Martínez-Ramírez AC, Real MD. Binding of Cyt1Aa and Cry11Aa toxins of Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis to brush border membrane vesicles of Tipula paludosa (Diptera: Nematocera) and subsequent pore formation. Appl Environ Microbiol 2007; 73:3623-9. [PMID: 17416690 PMCID: PMC1932698 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01056-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis (B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis) produces four insecticidal crystal proteins (ICPs) (Cry4A, Cry4B, Cry11A, and Cyt1A). Toxicity of recombinant B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis strains expressing only one of the toxins was determined with first instars of Tipula paludosa (Diptera: Nematocera). Cyt1A was the most toxic protein, whereas Cry4A, Cry4B, and Cry11A were virtually nontoxic. Synergistic effects were recorded when Cry4A and/or Cry4B was combined with Cyt1A but not with Cry11A. The binding and pore formation are key steps in the mode of action of B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis ICPs. Binding and pore-forming activity of Cry11Aa, which is the most toxic protein against mosquitoes, and Cyt1Aa to brush border membrane vesicles (BBMVs) of T. paludosa were analyzed. Solubilization of Cry11Aa resulted in two fragments, with apparent molecular masses of 32 and 36 kDa. No binding of the 36-kDa fragment to T. paludosa BBMVs was detected, whereas the 32-kDa fragment bound to T. paludosa BBMVs. Only a partial reduction of binding of this fragment was observed in competition experiments, indicating a low specificity of the binding. In contrast to results for mosquitoes, the Cyt1Aa protein bound specifically to the BBMVs of T. paludosa, suggesting an insecticidal mechanism based on a receptor-mediated action, as described for Cry proteins. Cry11Aa and Cyt1Aa toxins were both able to produce pores in T. paludosa BBMVs. Protease treatment with trypsin and proteinase K, previously reported to activate Cry11Aa and Cyt1Aa toxins, respectively, had the opposite effect. A higher efficiency in pore formation was observed when Cyt1A was proteinase K treated, while the activity of trypsin-treated Cry11Aa was reduced. Results on binding and pore formation are consistent with results on ICP toxicity and synergistic effect with Cyt1Aa in T. paludosa.
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- Jesko Oestergaard
- Institute for Phytopathology, Department of Biotechnology and Biological Control, Christian Albrechts University, Hermann-Rodewald Str. 9, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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Sakai H, Howlader MTH, Ishida Y, Nakaguchi A, Oka K, Ohbayashi K, Yamagiwa M, Hayakawa T. Flexibility and strictness in functional replacement of domain III of cry insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis. J Biosci Bioeng 2007; 103:381-3. [PMID: 17502282 DOI: 10.1263/jbb.103.381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2006] [Accepted: 01/19/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Cry1C, one of the lepidopteran-specific insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis, exhibits potent cytotoxicity against Sf9, an insect cell line. Cry1Aa and Cry4A, which are lepidopteran- and dipteran-specific insecticidal proteins, respectively, show no cytotoxicity against Sf9. When domain III of Cry1C was replaced with that of Cry1Aa or Cry4A, the hybrid Cry1C protein retained the cytotoxicity. These results suggest that domain III of Cry1C is not crucial in determining the cytocidal specificity of Cry1C against Sf9.
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- Hiroshi Sakai
- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-Naka, Okayama-shi, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
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Whether sexually selected traits are sex linked can have profound effects on their evolution. In the diopsid stalk-eyed fly, Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni, sperm length and female reproductive tract morphology have coevolved across species, postcopulatory sexual selection is known to occur, and X-linked genes affect female ventral sperm receptacle size. Here, we estimate the location of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for spermatocyst tail length by using F2 progeny segregating for an X-linked factor that causes sex-ratio meiotic drive. We found two QTL, including a major X-linked QTL responsible for 25% of the variation in spermatocyst tail length 2.1 cM from the sex-ratio element and 0.8 cM from a major eye span QTL. Sex-ratio males produce shorter spermatocyst tails and shorter eye spans. Thus, X-linked factors affect both pre- and postcopulatory traits, and linkage between the alleles for short eye span and short spermatocyst tail length allow pre- and postcopulatory sexual selection to potentially act in concert against the transmission bias caused by the sex-ratio chromosome.
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- P M Johns
- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
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Schlurmann M, Hausen K. Motoneurons of the flight power muscles of the blowflyCalliphora erythrocephala: Structures and mutual dye coupling. J Comp Neurol 2007; 500:448-64. [PMID: 17120285 DOI: 10.1002/cne.21182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The morphologies of the motoneurons of the dorsolongitudinal and the three dorsoventral flight power muscles (DLM, DVM 1-3) of Calliphora were investigated by means of cobalt backfills and intracellular biocytin stainings. The DLM is innervated by four prothoracic motoneurons supplying the four ventral muscle fibers and one mesothoracic motoneuron supplying the two dorsal fibers. The three fibers of the DVM 1 and the two fibers of the DVM 2 are innervated by five mesothoracic motoneurons, whereas the two fibers of the DVM 3 are innervated by two prothoracic motoneurons. In general, the motoneurons of each muscle have a common ventral soma cluster located in a characteristic position on the ipsilateral side of the thoracic ganglion, show similar dendritic arborizations in the mesothoracic wing neuropil, and have the same axon pathway. Only the soma of the common motoneuron of two dorsal fibers of the DLM is situated dorsally in the contralateral hemiganglion. The motoneurons of each muscle were found to be strongly dye coupled with each other, indicating that they are connected by gap junctions. In addition, the motoneurons of each muscle establish characteristic coupling patterns with the motoneurons of the other flight power muscles on both sides of the thorax and with two bilateral groups of local mesothoracic interneurons. The revealed coupling patterns are assumed to be of major relevance for the generation the characteristic, rhythmic flight activity of the motoneurons described in previous studies.
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- M Schlurmann
- Zoologisches Institut, Universität Köln, 50923 Köln, Germany.
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The mitotic spindle is the cellular scaffold that facilitates proper segregation of genetic material during cell division. Far from being static, the spindle is a dynamically regulated tool that can alter its size, shape and position during mitosis. Work in both insect and vertebrate systems has shown that regulation of this structure involves an array of highly conserved proteins. Moreover, it is now clear that tight regulation of the spindle during the process of neurogenesis is paramount to proper cell division and generation of the nervous system as a whole.
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- Joshua J Buchman
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Fiorini A, de Gouveia FS, de Soares MAM, Stocker AJ, Ciferri RR, Fernandez MA. DNA bending in the replication zone of the C3 DNA puff amplicon of Rhynchosciara americana (Diptera: Sciaridae). Mol Biol Rep 2007; 33:71-82. [PMID: 16636920 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-006-0009-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/18/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Intrinsic bent DNA sites were identified in the 4289 bp segment encompassing the replication zone which directs DNA amplification and transcription of the C3-22 gene of Rhynchosciara americana. Restriction fragments showed reduced electrophoretic mobility in polyacrylamide gels. The 2D modeling of the 3D DNA path and the ENDS ratio values obtained from the dinucleotide wedge model of Trifonov revealed the presence of four major bent sites, positioned at nucleotides -6753, -5433, -5133 and -4757. Sequence analysis showed that these bends are composed of 2-6 bp dA.dT tracts in phase with the DNA helical repeat. The circular permutation analysis permitted the verification that the fragments containing the bending sites promote curvature in other sequence contexts. Computer analyses of the 4289 bp sequence revealed low helical stability (DeltaG values), negative roll angles indicating a narrow minor groove and a putative matrix attachment region. The data presented in this paper add to information about the structural features involved in this amplified segment.
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- Adriana Fiorini
- Departamento de Biologia Celular e Genética, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo, 5790, 87020-900, Maringá, Paraná, Brasil
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Bogolyubov D, Stepanova I. Interchromatin granule clusters in vitellogenic oocytes of the flesh fly, Sarcophaga sp. Folia Histochem Cytobiol 2007; 45:401-403. [PMID: 18165182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023] Open
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Insect oocyte nuclei contain different extrachromosomal nuclear bodies including Cajal bodies and interchromatin granule clusters (IGCs). In the present study, we describe IGC equivalents in the vitellogenic oocytes of the flesh fly, Sarcophaga sp. These structures were found to consist of 20-40-nm granules and also include the fibrillar areas of high and low electron density. Immunogold labeling electron microscopy revealed IGC marker protein SC35, Sm proteins, and trimethylguanosine cap of small nuclear (sn) RNAs in these bodies. Antibody against the non-phosphorylated RNA polymerase II selectively labeled the fibrillar areas of low electron density located inside the IGCs.
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- Dmitry Bogolyubov
- Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Boyapalle S, Pal N, Miller WA, Bonning BC. A glassy-winged sharpshooter cell line supports replication of Rhopalosiphum padi virus (Dicistroviridae). J Invertebr Pathol 2006; 94:130-9. [PMID: 17113099 DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2006.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2006] [Revised: 09/18/2006] [Accepted: 09/26/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Rhopalosiphum padi virus (RhPV) (family Dicistroviridae; genus Cripavirus) is an icosahedral aphid virus with a 10kb positive-sense RNA genome. To study the molecular biology of RhPV, identification of a cell line that supports replication of the virus is essential. We screened nine cell lines derived from species within the Lepidoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera for susceptibility to RhPV following RNA transfection. We observed cytopathic effects (CPE) only in cell lines derived from hemipterans, specifically GWSS-Z10 cells derived from the glassy winged sharp shooter, Homalodisca coagulata and DMII-AM cells derived from the corn leaf hopper, Dalbulus maidis. Translation and appropriate processing of viral gene products, RNA replication and packaging of virus particles in the cytoplasm of GWSS-Z10 cells were examined by Western blot analysis, Northern blot hybridization and electron microscopy. Infectivity of the GWSS-Z10 cell derived-virus particles to the bird cherry-oat aphid, R. padi, was confirmed by RT-PCR and Western blot. The GWSS-Z10 cell line provides a valuable tool to investigate replication, structure and assembly of RhPV.
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- Sandhya Boyapalle
- Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, 418 Science II, Ames, IA 50011-3222, USA
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Straw AD, Warrant EJ, O'Carroll DC. A `bright zone' in male hoverfly (Eristalis tenax) eyes and associated faster motion detection and increased contrast sensitivity. J Exp Biol 2006; 209:4339-54. [PMID: 17050849 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Eyes of the hoverfly Eristalis tenax are sexually dimorphic such that males have a fronto-dorsal region of large facets. In contrast to other large flies in which large facets are associated with a decreased interommatidial angle to form a dorsal `acute zone' of increased spatial resolution, we show that a dorsal region of large facets in males appears to form a `bright zone' of increased light capture without substantially increased spatial resolution. Theoretically, more light allows for increased performance in tasks such as motion detection. To determine the effect of the bright zone on motion detection, local properties of wide field motion detecting neurons were investigated using localized sinusoidal gratings. The pattern of local preferred directions of one class of these cells, the HS cells, in Eristalis is similar to that reported for the blowfly Calliphora. The bright zone seems to contribute to local contrast sensitivity; high contrast sensitivity exists in portions of the receptive field served by large diameter facet lenses of males and is not observed in females. Finally, temporal frequency tuning is also significantly faster in this frontal portion of the world, particularly in males, where it overcompensates for the higher spatial-frequency tuning and shifts the predicted local velocity optimum to higher speeds. These results indicate that increased retinal illuminance due to the bright zone of males is used to enhance contrast sensitivity and speed motion detector responses. Additionally, local neural properties vary across the visual world in a way not expected if HS cells serve purely as matched filters to measure yaw-induced visual motion.
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- Andrew D Straw
- Discipline of Physiology, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
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