Insects determine their body segments in two different ways. Short-germband insects, such as the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, use a molecular clock to establish segments sequentially. In contrast, long-germband insects, ...
Developmental processes are robust, or canalised: dynamic patterns of gene expression across space and time are regulated reliably and precisely in the presence of genetic and environmental perturbations. It remains unclear ...
Background: Comparative studies of developmental processes are one of the main approaches to evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). Over recent years, there has been a shift of focus from the comparative study of ...
Karl R., Wotton; Jiménez Guri, Eva; Crombach, Anton; Janssens, Hilde; Alcaine Colet, Anna, 1992-; Lemke, Steffen; Schmidt Ott, Urs; Jaeger, Johannes, 1973-(eLife, 2015)
The segmentation gene network in insects can produce equivalent phenotypic outputs despite differences in upstream regulatory inputs between species. We investigate the mechanistic basis of this phenomenon through a ...
